Check out the Gorilla icons for GNOME as well. There's a video demonstrating the hotness. (The video's not that great-quality, but it's an adequate demonstration.) (More information about SVG themes available at Spheres and Crystals SVG theme.)
Coming as well: themed colors; SVG graphics can refer to a color from a system or user stylesheet instead of having them hardcoded. Lots of possibilities. Vector graphics rock.
Agreed. Getting decent-quality images on Wikipedia is frequently a pain. If there's ever a print version of a subset of the articles, it will most likely resemble crap when it comes to the images.
Oh well. Sooner they have SVG support for diagrams, the better...
Bought an early-90s Chevy Cavalier last winter. It crapped out on me, and had to have the "modgule" (as my mechanic wrote it) replaced. Mileage leapt from 18-20 to 28-30. No joke. I have no idea what could have been making that change, but I'm damn happy about it.
There was some discussion about video policy for Wikipedia. The conclusion was that they were waiting on a workable streaming free and open codec... so this should be pretty big news for them.
Here's the real and true account of my attempt to put Firefox on a friend's machine when I did a clean reinstall (at her request):
I: Okay, now, this is Firefox--- She: WHAT HAPPENED TO MY INTERNET EXPLORER?! I: This is better. Here, let me show you--- She: PUT IT BACK PUT IT BACK!! I: Really, it does everything IE does; if you'll just look at it--- She: YOU KILLED IT! AAAAHHH!!
I ended up leaving IE as her default browser. True frickin' story. People fear change.
Sounds a mite like Kings of the High Frontier. 'Cept that revolved around a gigantic private cash prize being presented, much like the X-prize, but larger and more ambitious. Still, the amateurish feel of the efforts described is similar.
Well... on Apollo 1, it was initially reported that the astronauts "died instantly", not clawing at the sealed hatch while being gradually immolated. The truth came out a bit later. So NASA wasn't entirely honest about that.
Oh, and NASA was entirely full of shit on their assertions that the shuttle would be reusable. Technically, it's salvageable. It was never even expected to do half of what was promised. That was pretty disingenuous too.
Do you know of any good summary of bad or stupid design decisions made in the construction of the Space Shuttle, either by Not Invented Here syndrome, Congressional bloat, or whatnot? I'd never heard of the desire for a low-altitude flyby of Russian airspace. (I'd heard of, for instance, the rejection of the space activity suit in favor of bulky, less-safe pressurized suits.)
Any info or links you could provide in this direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Do you really think folks care if a committee gets together to decide whether something may or may not be a word? I don't.
Neither do I. I do care that it's an ugly word, constructed for no good reason. A better one already exists.
If a word is used often enough by people, then it's a valid construction as a fait accompli.
And yet using the word still makes you sound retarded. I really don't care how many people say 'bling-bling' either, for instance---it's a retarded word.
How can you encourage one to "figure out your own scoring system", and then claim that there's no "point", no meaning to life? What meaning there is is what we put in. It's what we make of it---like anything of value.
What else would you want? If some sort of meaning were handed to you, you'd piss on it. (As well you should.) Hell, various churches try to do it all the time.
We have a blank slate from which to construct ourselves. Our success or failure in the process of that construction is entirely our own fault or triumph. What, exactly, is the problem? What other way would you have it? Do you have anything to say, other than spitting adolescent angst?
TENACITY! It's called tenacity! I swear, the next grade-school teacher who I hear use the word "stick-to-it-ive-ness" is getting a swift and painful English lesson.
Seriously! It's a syllable shorter! Let's do a comparison! (In list form, because Slashdot's support for preformatted text is bad.)
Is it a real word?
Tenacity: Yes, and a good one as well!
Sticktoitiveness: No, and it never will be.
How many syllables does it have?
Tenacity: Four. Rolls right off the tongue.
Sticktoitiveness: Five. It's an ungainly hippo-in-a-tutu of a word.
Does it make you sound like a Special Ed teacher when you use it?
Tenacity: Not in the least.
Sticktoitiveness: Yes, if not straight-up retarded.
Stamp out sticktoitiveness wherever you see it. It's the red-headed stepchild of the English language....
This has gotten really, really offtopic. I have a pet peeve; this was a point onto which I could latch. I don't really have an issue with you, just with the word.
It ain't astroturfing. If you'd, y'know, read the article, you'd notice that local chapters of the LWV are up in arms about this, and there's a very real chance that this issue is gonig to cause a change in leadership.
This is a case of Diebold buying the president of a nonprofit, and the members becoming outraged that their views aren't represented. Luckily, they can change that, and that's just what they're doing now.
Two people have pointed it out at the same time. Clearly, Galois has his place in the 'tragic mathematician' pantheon.... and holy green gargleblaster, is your UID seventy-one? Do you get, like, a t-shirt for that?
You're right; I'd never heard his story, but he looks pretty tragic: father dies, he flunks his entrance exams, and eventually dies at twenty after being left in a field with a bullet wound at the losing end of a duel. That is tragic.
I remember learning about his life and death some years ago, when I was new to the field, just starting school. How many geniuses died early or tragically? Niels Henrik Abel, Oliver Heaviside, Srinivasa Ramanujan...
What enraged me even more than the injustice of it all, the stupid, pointless unfairness, was the fact that he was well in the middle of his most productive years. Who knows what he would have come up with if he hadn't been hounded to death?
It is as if Isaac Newton had been struck down in the middle of his life---how much would physics have lost? How dare they! I believe that we shall not see his like again.
Literally? Holy shit! They put one of those ancient-egypt style hooks up into your brain and draw out the precious, precious gray matter as remuneration for their all-to-ephemeral hardware?
My friend, I believe that price is a mite high for me.
Seriously, I'm not kidding. For too long has the internet been beset by would-be amateur pornstars who think that the problem of 'proper lighting' is solved by turning on the flash. I go to the trouble of making sure that my amateur porn is reasonably well produced and encoded. Everyone else should do the similar.
It'd be funnier if you said "FOR INFINITE JUSTICE". Because, you know, that was the name of our recent Crusade. (Didn't the Christians lose the Crusades? Why do they keep bringing them up?
You didn't need to get MP9. The WM9 codecs are available for download directly from MS. Works on either Media Player 7-series or 6.4. (Which means Media Player Classic.)
I dunno; I've done a lot of writing over the years. I suppose it falls under your definition of navel-gazing, but the thought of the 1.1MB of journalling I did in my senior year of high school flying into the bit bucket is... distressing. Journals from commoners back in the day provided valuable historic insight. Who knows; maybe some history professor will someday pore over my stuff.
Yeah, I know. Not bloody likely. At least the picture of my navel lint I took for Wikipedia will live on.
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Good article on this is SVG and its Path into the Linux Desktop. Some games in GNOME 2.6 already run in SVG; all (supposedly) will by GNOME 2.8.
Check out the Gorilla icons for GNOME as well. There's a video demonstrating the hotness. (The video's not that great-quality, but it's an adequate demonstration.) (More information about SVG themes available at Spheres and Crystals SVG theme.)
Coming as well: themed colors; SVG graphics can refer to a color from a system or user stylesheet instead of having them hardcoded. Lots of possibilities. Vector graphics rock.
--grendel drago
Agreed. Getting decent-quality images on Wikipedia is frequently a pain. If there's ever a print version of a subset of the articles, it will most likely resemble crap when it comes to the images.
Oh well. Sooner they have SVG support for diagrams, the better...
--grendel drago
Bought an early-90s Chevy Cavalier last winter. It crapped out on me, and had to have the "modgule" (as my mechanic wrote it) replaced. Mileage leapt from 18-20 to 28-30. No joke. I have no idea what could have been making that change, but I'm damn happy about it.
--grendel drago
There was some discussion about video policy for Wikipedia. The conclusion was that they were waiting on a workable streaming free and open codec... so this should be pretty big news for them.
Now to find video illustrations for the articles on the sixty-nine and the reverse cowgirl...
--grendel drago
Here's the real and true account of my attempt to put Firefox on a friend's machine when I did a clean reinstall (at her request):
I: Okay, now, this is Firefox---
She: WHAT HAPPENED TO MY INTERNET EXPLORER?!
I: This is better. Here, let me show you---
She: PUT IT BACK PUT IT BACK!!
I: Really, it does everything IE does; if you'll just look at it---
She: YOU KILLED IT! AAAAHHH!!
I ended up leaving IE as her default browser. True frickin' story. People fear change.
--grendel drago
According to wikipedia, he's still alive.
--grendel drago
Sounds a mite like Kings of the High Frontier. 'Cept that revolved around a gigantic private cash prize being presented, much like the X-prize, but larger and more ambitious. Still, the amateurish feel of the efforts described is similar.
--grendel drago
Well... on Apollo 1, it was initially reported that the astronauts "died instantly", not clawing at the sealed hatch while being gradually immolated. The truth came out a bit later. So NASA wasn't entirely honest about that.
Oh, and NASA was entirely full of shit on their assertions that the shuttle would be reusable. Technically, it's salvageable. It was never even expected to do half of what was promised. That was pretty disingenuous too.
--grendel drago
Do you know of any good summary of bad or stupid design decisions made in the construction of the Space Shuttle, either by Not Invented Here syndrome, Congressional bloat, or whatnot? I'd never heard of the desire for a low-altitude flyby of Russian airspace. (I'd heard of, for instance, the rejection of the space activity suit in favor of bulky, less-safe pressurized suits.)
Any info or links you could provide in this direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
--grendel drago
Do you really think folks care if a committee gets together to decide whether something may or may not be a word? I don't.
Neither do I. I do care that it's an ugly word, constructed for no good reason. A better one already exists.
If a word is used often enough by people, then it's a valid construction as a fait accompli.
And yet using the word still makes you sound retarded. I really don't care how many people say 'bling-bling' either, for instance---it's a retarded word.
--grendel drago
How can you encourage one to "figure out your own scoring system", and then claim that there's no "point", no meaning to life? What meaning there is is what we put in. It's what we make of it---like anything of value.
What else would you want? If some sort of meaning were handed to you, you'd piss on it. (As well you should.) Hell, various churches try to do it all the time.
We have a blank slate from which to construct ourselves. Our success or failure in the process of that construction is entirely our own fault or triumph. What, exactly, is the problem? What other way would you have it? Do you have anything to say, other than spitting adolescent angst?
--grendel drago
TENACITY! It's called tenacity! I swear, the next grade-school teacher who I hear use the word "stick-to-it-ive-ness" is getting a swift and painful English lesson.
Seriously! It's a syllable shorter! Let's do a comparison! (In list form, because Slashdot's support for preformatted text is bad.)
Stamp out sticktoitiveness wherever you see it. It's the red-headed stepchild of the English language.
This has gotten really, really offtopic. I have a pet peeve; this was a point onto which I could latch. I don't really have an issue with you, just with the word.
--grendel drago
It ain't astroturfing. If you'd, y'know, read the article, you'd notice that local chapters of the LWV are up in arms about this, and there's a very real chance that this issue is gonig to cause a change in leadership.
This is a case of Diebold buying the president of a nonprofit, and the members becoming outraged that their views aren't represented. Luckily, they can change that, and that's just what they're doing now.
--grendel drago
Two people have pointed it out at the same time. Clearly, Galois has his place in the 'tragic mathematician' pantheon. ... and holy green gargleblaster, is your UID seventy-one? Do you get, like, a t-shirt for that?
--grendel drago
You're right; I'd never heard his story, but he looks pretty tragic: father dies, he flunks his entrance exams, and eventually dies at twenty after being left in a field with a bullet wound at the losing end of a duel. That is tragic.
--grendel drago
I remember learning about his life and death some years ago, when I was new to the field, just starting school. How many geniuses died early or tragically? Niels Henrik Abel, Oliver Heaviside, Srinivasa Ramanujan...
What enraged me even more than the injustice of it all, the stupid, pointless unfairness, was the fact that he was well in the middle of his most productive years. Who knows what he would have come up with if he hadn't been hounded to death?
It is as if Isaac Newton had been struck down in the middle of his life---how much would physics have lost? How dare they! I believe that we shall not see his like again.
By Turing's death, we are all diminished.
--grendel drago
you literally pay through your nose.
Literally? Holy shit! They put one of those ancient-egypt style hooks up into your brain and draw out the precious, precious gray matter as remuneration for their all-to-ephemeral hardware?
My friend, I believe that price is a mite high for me.
--grendel drago
Seriously, I'm not kidding. For too long has the internet been beset by would-be amateur pornstars who think that the problem of 'proper lighting' is solved by turning on the flash. I go to the trouble of making sure that my amateur porn is reasonably well produced and encoded. Everyone else should do the similar.
--grendel drago
Sheesh. Nobody likes my navel. Maybe this means someone's going to post a better picture of it.
I'll wait until I have good navel lint again, and then get a picture take with more flattering lighting.
As if everyone else has pornstar navels...
--grendel drago
It'd be funnier if you said "FOR INFINITE JUSTICE". Because, you know, that was the name of our recent Crusade. (Didn't the Christians lose the Crusades? Why do they keep bringing them up?
--grendel drago
I thought you were kidding about those prices. Holy damn, that's an expensive disk.
--grendel drago
You didn't mention that any download page for it would be in Japanese. Sheesh...
--grendel drago
You didn't need to get MP9. The WM9 codecs are available for download directly from MS. Works on either Media Player 7-series or 6.4. (Which means Media Player Classic.)
--grendel drago
Well, maybe not automatically downloaded. But you can fetch them here for MP7 or MP6.4.
--grendel drago
I dunno; I've done a lot of writing over the years. I suppose it falls under your definition of navel-gazing, but the thought of the 1.1MB of journalling I did in my senior year of high school flying into the bit bucket is... distressing. Journals from commoners back in the day provided valuable historic insight. Who knows; maybe some history professor will someday pore over my stuff.
Yeah, I know. Not bloody likely. At least the picture of my navel lint I took for Wikipedia will live on.
--grendel drago