So what happens when that Snickers wrapper gets blown out your car window by accident. Right now, a cop isn't going to give you trouble over such a thing because he'd have to see you to fine you, and he's not likely to fine you over a simple mistake.
If a Snickers wrapper blows out of your car window by accident, you SHOULD be fined. It is your fault this wrapper polluted the environment.
See also New York citing J-walkers as a start with "cleaning up the city". A program that seems to have worked.
Now, after making my handwriting unreadable to anyone/anything but a Graffiti capable palm, the next generation devices won't be able to read what I write either. keyboards from here out, I guess.
What I don't understand is why there is still no plugin for OmniWeb to do the same thing (or have I missed it?). Not to mention the various Navigator/Chimera spinoffs.
Yeah, my general feeling is that iPhoto is terribly engineered. Nice UI, and some really nice features, but the QA should be shot (or the manager for not listening to QA).
then just fire up iPhoto and reimport the photos from these folders using File > Import in iPhoto then navigating through the folders to the pictures
Yeah, and all your thumbnails, slight modifications, crops, original from crops, rotation, original from rotation, etc. Then sort through all 501xN (where N is some number > 2) of them one at a time and figure out which ones are the image you want, and which are the thumbs/rotated/whatever.
I don't use iPhoto anymore because it suffers from catastrophic failure if you lose the index file (like if your drive fills while using iPhoto). Then you're totally screwwed. Now I just use the software Canon ships with their camera (which leaves the damn files in a simple directory structure and does not save thumbs, etc.
Yeah, this burned me TWICE...
Re:This sounds complete bullshit to me.
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If I'd had mod points, I'd just have piled them on here.
Since slavery was abolished (and some labor laws were put into place), nobody gets to chain you to your desk anymore. If your 8 hours are up, walk away (if you like). It turns out that most folks who fail to balance work and life burn out at their job (some sooner than others).
Come on, what are they going to do? Fire you? For not working for free? In America we call that "grounds for lawsuit", and most companies won't risk that.
And really, if you're doing a good job the hours that you're there, why WOULD they fire you?
The last thing to note, though, is that if it's a good company/manager they won't even try to make you work free overtime. But it sounds like they probably are not a good company.
Take the job, leave at 5pm, and keep looking for a good job.
Price has everything to do with it. Directly. How much do you think it actually costs to print and distribute a book? How many books did you buy last year? How much does it cost to buy an ebook reader (don't tell me your computer can do it - people don't read books on computers. And don't tell me that YOU do, nobody cares about a market of one unless they only have one to sell)? How many literate people are there IN THE WORLD? How many of them have power? How much are you limiting your potential market by only shipping ebooks? Hell, how much does it cost to ship an ebook? All those things are monetary factors, and nearly all of them count against ebooks.
With any new product.. convenience is decided by many things, including price. With many products, it's more convenient for me to pay a little more oney to get something that will break down 1/10th as much, for instance.
I remember hearing a quote from the era in which the US military was talking about various nuclear powered vehicles. The Navy wanted subs. The Airforce wanted planes. A Navy officer said that it was foolish to try to power a plane with nuclear energy, as planes were far too prone to failure. The Airfoce officer replied that failures happened on subs, too.
To which the Navy officer replied: "I'll bet you any amount you like that a nuclear powered plane will crash in the ocean before a nuclear power sub crashes into the air."
Like I said: They will buy when it's more convenient, cheaper, and they have gotten out of the habit of reading regular books.
Remember, there are better mousetraps. It turns out that people don't come after all.
People purchase crossword puzzle books. It would be a copyright violation for them to make a photocopy and preserve the original, and besides, they would say 'are you nuts?'
That's because crossword puzzles are a consumable, and always have been. They are a single use item.
It would be a copyright violation for them to make a photocopy and preserve the original
Actually, I doubt it would be. Or, if so, I doubt it would hold up in court. If you xerox'd it and handed it out, however, that'd be a no-no (just like any book).
DIVX was an 'early attempt' at a marketing concept. It was attempted by a single store chain, years before most people were comfortable with watching film on little plastic disks. If you told the average consumer "this is a DVD you can rent from us, but you don't have to return it when you're through watching it. Just throw it away" and promoted it properly, it would sell.
OK, I just had to laugh at that statement. I think it's historically obvious that it failed. What's more, I think it was foolish for anyone to think it would not fail.
That particular scheme failed. Who's to say a scheme that isn't single-vendor and 'leading edge' would fail?
Me. Kurt Werle. I say it will fail. Go ahead, quote me. I haven't even heard of it yet, and I still say it will fail. By rights, that makes me a fool, but I'll wager money that I'm a fool who is right.
I can't think of any consumer product where you purchase the right/ability to do something once and then pay for it again - not one that you take home. That's why we rent movies. We'll eventually do pay-per-view (and some do now), but we won't have to buy the material to do it - we'll download or just play on demand. There is a difference.
Finally, I don't believe this will ever work for books. They are too variable from a vender standpoint - no telling how long it will take one person to read it, nor whether they'll want to start over half way through, etc. Reading is the only medium I can think of whose speed is still dictated entirely by the consumer.
Folks will buy e-books when the convenience is more than that of a book.
Nope - they will buy when it's more convenient, cheaper, and they have gotten out of the habit of reading regular books.
By that time, I think that folks will be out of the habit of reading, and ebooks will fail to sell because nobody reads anymore. I think we're nearing that point now...
in today's world, the author doesn't receive a royalty everytime someone reads a book from the library. Will they in the future?
Nope. This was tried with new-fangled technology - the pay-per-view DVDs. It failed because folks aren't (quite) that dumb.
If you think that folks will 'buy that' for the written word - a technology that has been around for a long time, you're a fool. Hell, folks won't even buy e-books that they can re-read.
benzene% open location http://www.apple.com/ 2002-12-04 17:55:40.175 open[24496] No such file:/home/kwerle/location 2002-12-04 17:55:40.176 open[24496] No such file:/home/kwerle/http:/www.apple.com
Hmmm. This entire discussion appears to be the result of another inconsistency in Apple's Tools...
They just added that functionality to Jaguar. Cool with me!
Explain to me how your script is better than typing open http://www.apple.com/. You don't even need aliases.
benzene% open http://apple.com 2002-12-04 17:18:20.586 open[23213] No such file:/home/kwerle/http:/apple.com
benzene% openurl http://apple.com... Browser of choice opens page.
That was the point about it working, as opposed to not working. I'm using 10.1 - maybe you're using Jaguar and they included that functionality. Can you type open http://www.apple.com and have it work?
You sure do excel at taking things out of context!
OK, help me put a little context on the statement "Filtering is bad, PERIOD."
I thought I'd covered just about all the angles. I guess the only one I left out is "China filtering outgoing web request is bad, PERIOD" , but I got the feeling that was not what the original author meant. Maybe I'm wrong.
It turns out that I think our speech is a little too unfettered, as well, so I'd probably disagree with that assertion too. See also cases of the French government banning/blocking/whatever Nazi sites...
Are you in politics?
No; I tend to state my mind. It also bothered me that TE's 2 line post with no seeming thought to the content was rated "Insightful".
1: it's "foes list" not "enemies." All the "dot" settings start with an F. (Friend/Fan/Foe/Freak)
Fair enough. Though I suppose that Foes is a pretty good synonym for Enemies.
2: It's not a killfile. It's a non-anonymous automatic user-indictaed moderation setting with notification of jounrals of those you add to the "friend" list. You can set whatever value you want for it in your settings.
Hmmm. Will have to look into that. Thanks for the tip.
Why is adapting a Windows standard a "great win for linux?"
Leading is not done by following.
You're right. But standing still is even worse than following (as MacOS proved for years and years). It seems clear to me that linux is not leading in many respects - gaming APIs being one, market position being another. Even if they had the best damn gaming APIs in the world, unless those APIs were ported to Windows, it would still be a losing proposition.
Providing software compatability is a great win for linux. OpenOffice is a great example of that. SAMBA is another.
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The only wedding favor I still have is a yoyo. Much fun was had by all...
So what happens when that Snickers wrapper gets blown out your car window by accident. Right now, a cop isn't going to give you trouble over such a thing because he'd have to see you to fine you, and he's not likely to fine you over a simple mistake.
If a Snickers wrapper blows out of your car window by accident, you SHOULD be fined. It is your fault this wrapper polluted the environment.
See also New York citing J-walkers as a start with "cleaning up the city". A program that seems to have worked.
Now, after making my handwriting unreadable to anyone/anything but a Graffiti capable palm, the next generation devices won't be able to read what I write either. keyboards from here out, I guess.
Dvorak? Qwerty? Standard? Split? V? Light sensor?
And WHERE IS THE CONTROL KEY?
We're all screwwed!!!
Good news - thanks for the tip.
I'm very much looking forward to their next release (I don't care to do the nightly dance).
What I don't understand is why there is still no plugin for OmniWeb to do the same thing (or have I missed it?). Not to mention the various Navigator/Chimera spinoffs.
Great response.
It seems to me, though, that you could set up an mDNS entry for other subnets now using commandline tools.
Yeah, my general feeling is that iPhoto is terribly engineered. Nice UI, and some really nice features, but the QA should be shot (or the manager for not listening to QA).
then just fire up iPhoto and reimport the photos from these folders using File > Import in iPhoto then navigating through the folders to the pictures
Yeah, and all your thumbnails, slight modifications, crops, original from crops, rotation, original from rotation, etc. Then sort through all 501xN (where N is some number > 2) of them one at a time and figure out which ones are the image you want, and which are the thumbs/rotated/whatever.
I don't use iPhoto anymore because it suffers from catastrophic failure if you lose the index file (like if your drive fills while using iPhoto). Then you're totally screwwed. Now I just use the software Canon ships with their camera (which leaves the damn files in a simple directory structure and does not save thumbs, etc.
Yeah, this burned me TWICE...
If I'd had mod points, I'd just have piled them on here.
Since slavery was abolished (and some labor laws were put into place), nobody gets to chain you to your desk anymore. If your 8 hours are up, walk away (if you like). It turns out that most folks who fail to balance work and life burn out at their job (some sooner than others).
Come on, what are they going to do? Fire you? For not working for free? In America we call that "grounds for lawsuit", and most companies won't risk that.
And really, if you're doing a good job the hours that you're there, why WOULD they fire you?
The last thing to note, though, is that if it's a good company/manager they won't even try to make you work free overtime. But it sounds like they probably are not a good company.
Take the job, leave at 5pm, and keep looking for a good job.
Price has nothing to do with it; not directly.
Price has everything to do with it. Directly. How much do you think it actually costs to print and distribute a book? How many books did you buy last year? How much does it cost to buy an ebook reader (don't tell me your computer can do it - people don't read books on computers. And don't tell me that YOU do, nobody cares about a market of one unless they only have one to sell)? How many literate people are there IN THE WORLD? How many of them have power? How much are you limiting your potential market by only shipping ebooks? Hell, how much does it cost to ship an ebook? All those things are monetary factors, and nearly all of them count against ebooks.
With any new product.. convenience is decided by many things, including price.
With many products, it's more convenient for me to pay a little more oney to get something that will break down 1/10th as much, for instance.
I remember hearing a quote from the era in which the US military was talking about various nuclear powered vehicles. The Navy wanted subs. The Airforce wanted planes. A Navy officer said that it was foolish to try to power a plane with nuclear energy, as planes were far too prone to failure. The Airfoce officer replied that failures happened on subs, too.
To which the Navy officer replied: "I'll bet you any amount you like that a nuclear powered plane will crash in the ocean before a nuclear power sub crashes into the air."
Like I said: They will buy when it's more convenient, cheaper, and they have gotten out of the habit of reading regular books.
Remember, there are better mousetraps. It turns out that people don't come after all.
People purchase crossword puzzle books. It would be a copyright violation for them to make a photocopy and preserve the original, and besides, they would say 'are you nuts?'
That's because crossword puzzles are a consumable, and always have been. They are a single use item.
It would be a copyright violation for them to make a photocopy and preserve the original
Actually, I doubt it would be. Or, if so, I doubt it would hold up in court. If you xerox'd it and handed it out, however, that'd be a no-no (just like any book).
DIVX was an 'early attempt' at a marketing concept. It was attempted by a single store chain, years before most people were comfortable with watching film on little plastic disks. If you told the average consumer "this is a DVD you can rent from us, but you don't have to return it when you're through watching it. Just throw it away" and promoted it properly, it would sell.
Nope - I don't buy it.
It's shortsighted to say 'it failed.'
OK, I just had to laugh at that statement. I think it's historically obvious that it failed. What's more, I think it was foolish for anyone to think it would not fail.
That particular scheme failed. Who's to say a scheme that isn't single-vendor and 'leading edge' would fail?
Me. Kurt Werle. I say it will fail. Go ahead, quote me. I haven't even heard of it yet, and I still say it will fail. By rights, that makes me a fool, but I'll wager money that I'm a fool who is right.
I can't think of any consumer product where you purchase the right/ability to do something once and then pay for it again - not one that you take home. That's why we rent movies. We'll eventually do pay-per-view (and some do now), but we won't have to buy the material to do it - we'll download or just play on demand. There is a difference.
Finally, I don't believe this will ever work for books. They are too variable from a vender standpoint - no telling how long it will take one person to read it, nor whether they'll want to start over half way through, etc. Reading is the only medium I can think of whose speed is still dictated entirely by the consumer.
Folks will buy e-books when the convenience is more than that of a book.
Nope - they will buy when it's more convenient, cheaper, and they have gotten out of the habit of reading regular books.
By that time, I think that folks will be out of the habit of reading, and ebooks will fail to sell because nobody reads anymore. I think we're nearing that point now...
in today's world, the author doesn't receive a royalty everytime someone reads a book from the library. Will they in the future?
Nope. This was tried with new-fangled technology - the pay-per-view DVDs. It failed because folks aren't (quite) that dumb.
If you think that folks will 'buy that' for the written word - a technology that has been around for a long time, you're a fool. Hell, folks won't even buy e-books that they can re-read.
Yet another reason that this site will not make it past 2003.
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Woah. You have grossly overestimated the masses.
Have you never watched prime-time TV? If you have managed to avoid it, then the only question is: who do you think reads
benzene% open location http://www.apple.com/ /home/kwerle/location /home/kwerle/http:/www.apple.com
2002-12-04 17:55:40.175 open[24496] No such file:
2002-12-04 17:55:40.176 open[24496] No such file:
Hmmm. This entire discussion appears to be the result of another inconsistency in Apple's Tools...
They just added that functionality to Jaguar. Cool with me!
Explain to me how your script is better than typing open http://www.apple.com/. You don't even need aliases.
/home/kwerle/http:/apple.com
...
benzene% open http://apple.com
2002-12-04 17:18:20.586 open[23213] No such file:
benzene% openurl http://apple.com
Browser of choice opens page.
That was the point about it working, as opposed to not working. I'm using 10.1 - maybe you're using Jaguar and they included that functionality. Can you type open http://www.apple.com and have it work?
Here are the big advantages to my script:
Here's the disadvantage to using aliases:
Oh, crap - I should have previewed!
l >' > temp.html ; open temp.html; rm temp.html
l /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFI /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME
echo '<html><head><META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.apple.com"></head></htm
And here is the shell script:
--- openurl ---
#!/bin/sh
TEMPURLFILENAME=$LOGNAME.temp.htm
echo '<html>' >>
echo '<head>' >>
echo " <META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT=\"0;URL=$1\">" >>
LENAME
echo '<title>Not Here</title>' >>
echo '</head>' >>
echo '<body>' >>
echo '<h1>Hang on!!!</h1>' >>
echo '</body>' >>
echo '</html>' >>
open
sleep 10
rm
echo bye
---
open location "http://apple.slashdot.org/"
l /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFI /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME /tmp/$TEMPURLFILENAME
echo '' > temp.html ; open temp.html; rm temp.html
Done.
Write a shell script if you want to just type
openurl blah.
Oh, look, I already did it some time ago. Cut and enjoy:
--- openurl ---
#!/bin/sh
TEMPURLFILENAME=$LOGNAME.temp.htm
echo '' >>
echo '' >>
echo " " >>
LENAME
echo 'Not Here' >>
echo '' >>
echo '' >>
echo 'Hang on!!!' >>
echo '' >>
echo '' >>
open
sleep 10
rm
echo bye
---
In all honesty, I thought he/sh needed the beating.
I admire the Taiwanese justice system for continuing the use of public humiliation as a punishment/deterrent for crime.
I'm probably a bad person.
You sure do excel at taking things out of context!
OK, help me put a little context on the statement
"Filtering is bad, PERIOD."
I thought I'd covered just about all the angles. I guess the only one I left out is
"China filtering outgoing web request is bad, PERIOD"
, but I got the feeling that was not what the original author meant. Maybe I'm wrong.
It turns out that I think our speech is a little too unfettered, as well, so I'd probably disagree with that assertion too. See also cases of the French government banning/blocking/whatever Nazi sites...
Are you in politics?
No; I tend to state my mind. It also bothered me that TE's 2 line post with no seeming thought to the content was rated "Insightful".
1: it's "foes list" not "enemies." All the "dot" settings start with an F. (Friend/Fan/Foe/Freak)
Fair enough. Though I suppose that Foes is a pretty good synonym for Enemies.
2: It's not a killfile. It's a non-anonymous automatic user-indictaed moderation setting with notification of jounrals of those you add to the "friend" list. You can set whatever value you want for it in your settings.
Hmmm. Will have to look into that. Thanks for the tip.
Filtering of taiwanese sites 'understandable'?
Never mind that you can't understand why China would block taiwanese sites.
Filtering is bad, PERIOD.
I don't have children, but if I did, you'd better believe I'd set up a mandatory web filter until they reached a reasonable age.
Filtering is bad, PERIOD.
I *do* have a proxy that blocks ads.
Filtering is bad, PERIOD.
I have an email spam filter.
Filtering is bad, PERIOD.
My browser does not display ads when they're obvious.
Filtering is bad, PERIOD.
I use google with the lowest level of filter (that isn't off) just to avoid the crap.
Filtering is bad, PERIOD.
I use killfiles when reading usenet.
Filtering is bad, PERIOD.
Finally, I imagine I'll add you to my "enemies list" (hate that term - it's just a kill file) here at slashdot.
If I drank coffee, I'd use a filter there, too. Have a nice life - look out for the grinds...
Why is adapting a Windows standard a "great win for linux?"
Leading is not done by following.
You're right. But standing still is even worse than following (as MacOS proved for years and years). It seems clear to me that linux is not leading in many respects - gaming APIs being one, market position being another. Even if they had the best damn gaming APIs in the world, unless those APIs were ported to Windows, it would still be a losing proposition.
Providing software compatability is a great win for linux. OpenOffice is a great example of that. SAMBA is another.