It's even bad at 1600x1200, which I've been using since 1999, so I'm sortof used to it.
I set the DPI correctly, but the fonts are still small, so I have to give the default fontsizes a boost (in KDE & gtk). Even then, in Opera I scale the images+text up by 120% and sometimes more (the fonts scale fine, but the images aren't aliased), and in FireFox I use an extension to increase the default text zoom.
I figured SVG and similar resolution independent tech would be here sooner... which reminds me of this: http://www.rasterman.com/files/e17_movie-02.avi
I thought the hubbub about IE7 was that they weren't going to support CSS2 because... they were considering CSS2.1 or 3 instead.
In any case, if you don't want to think much about IE-only CSS hacks, you can always use "ie7" javascript, then only those who disable javascript in IE will look fugly.
I know of people with a 12 year old, and they won't let her use the internet for any reason, and when she watches tv, it has to be pre-approved. She is not allowed to date, and she wears clothing her parents buy her. She is also enrolled in a private school, and the parents review the curriculum, to ensure they approve.
Sooo... she'll be a rebellious stripper in about 6 more years?
Best case I've used, and I've had a few. It's aluminum, not beige, but the selling point is the easily removable motherboard "plate" and drive cages and the filtered front intake fans to cool the drives. The blue power LED is a little annoying, but it's nothing a piece of tape can't mask.
And if you run a web-caching squid server with enough traffic, then there can be - and often is - "unacceptable" content present on the server. But are you going to delete, or block, all the encrypted content for fear of not knowing whether it violates your moralcode or not?
I just find it hard to understand your viewpoint - It's throwing the baby (no pun intended) out with the bathwater.
And bet if you asked the morons who raised their hands if they actually understood what their "civil liberties" were, they couldn't answer. Taking freedom for granted is dangerous.
If the make-anything machine uses a high enough amount of energy...
How much energy does it take nature to grow a potato using only sunlight and the available nutrients in soil and air? How much energy for it to be broken down in some animals stomach and eventually return to Earth? Ideally a make-anything replicator shouldn't be that much less efficient except for objects with molecular bonds that take much more energy to make and break, and even then, it only makes sense to break the object down into reusable-sized chunks vs component atoms.
In fact, garbage dumps might become valuable mines of material.
Well, there would certainly be a high concentration of the rarer elements like gold in a garbage dump, but the bread and butter construction material will be Carbon, and we currently burn most of that. We have a problem with too much CO2 greenhouse gas, but one day we might have the opposite problem if people are lazy and siphon off carbon from the atmosphere to manufacture their warez'd Hummer to go with their GPL'd castle in the middle of some cheap Canadian tundra realestate.
I don't know how the copyright cartels would react if a machine could make illegal copies of itself.
As molecular manufacturing(1) matures, I'd venture to guess that the new artificial scarcity cartels that emerge will be MUCH nastier. Something scary, like the MANWO (Manufacturers Association of the New World Order):-)
Right now the means of digital [re]production is available to all, and it's got a few copyright-extending control-freaks pissed about losing their empire. When you get to thinking about the implications of the means of physical [re]production being democratized, then you start getting dizzy wondering how society and the scarcity-based trade economy will reorganize itself (hopefully without much chaos).
((1)Note that this ultimate goal is now called "molecular manufacturing", since the previous general term of "nanotechology" has been co-opted by buzzword PR people to mean whatever they want it to mean.)
Call me cold, but putting everything else aside, it's better that a retard die than a productive member of society. *gasp!*
I'm no cleansing nazi (godwin!), but if someone had a gun to my head and forced me to choose between the suicide bombing of 100 "average" people, or 200 mental retards, I'd choose the latter. *gasp!* Not until the ratio got up to around 20:1 would I rationally favor the murder of the normal group. *GASP!!!* (At this point my empathy for the familys of the larger retard group outweighs the rational reasons for the smaller group of productive people to continue living.)
It's nice to pretend that everyone has an equal right to life-- even to the point of selfishly keeping your vegetable relatives alive -- but it's not that simple.
(not posting anonymously)
I'm sure somebody's just appalled by my line of thinking.:)
Because kazaa-lite (for windows) REMOVED the spyware, and that's a Good Thing. Or are you talking about GiFT?
And about your new sig -- If copyright infringement isn't theft, than CherryOS isn't stolen code -- there are some things much worse than copyright infringement: plagiarism. It's only "stolen" code in that context; not in the context of fake property.
I once researched good ways to kill myself too, and they had to meet a few conditons:
Had to be near-painless.
Had to be easy.
Could not be rude by leaving behind a mess for someone else to clean up, so that excludes the ideal of instantaneus braindeath from a shaped charge explosive vaporizing the greymatter substrate or your existence.
I determined that the two best methods are:
Freezing - Once you get over the crybaby hump of "I'm cooold", hypothermia feels like going to sleep. As an added bonus, if you freeze in the right location, then your body is left behind for future archaeologists to find.:)
Carbon monoxide - Oxygen deprevation. Painless braindeath (but your body will rot if not found soon, so make sure you'll be found, or do it where the animals can recycle your biomass). Every year, hundreds of people accidentally die in their sleep due to CO leaks.
I know people with rattlesnakes in their backyard who would disagree with your calling hunting with a handgun "bullshit"
I'm "pro-gun", but, uh, use a fucking shovel if you want kill a snake. As a bonus, when the snake's dead, you've already got the shovel handy to bury it without getting your hands dirty.
I get notice that my web-site thing is "wrong" but I can no longer reach the guy that made it? What do I do??????
You have someone develop or customize a CMS solution for you so that YOU can easily update the site *content* yourself (or delegate the updates to someone else if you can't handle a simple webbrowser interface). The days of annoying-to-update static sites should be overwith.
Yeah, it's just too bad that MS no longer makes their original MS natural pro. It's USB, includes the "internet" buttons at the top (which I use lineakd to map to xmms), and has very handy USB HUB built-in to the back of the keyboard. I paid $100 for it a couple years ago and can't find anything better.
Likewise, the NEW MS Intellimouse Explorer mouse has an annoying scrollwheel. The old one (which I still use) has a little bit of tactile feedback, but the one feels like you're pushing a sleeve around on greese. I'm guessing somebody complained about the "noise" of the old design.
I'm constantly aware of my own evolutionary psychology, which kind of screws up what is supposed to be driving me.
I'm already "wealthy", but I'm supposed to want to be "richer" than the next monkey so that the females will desire my more-powerful genes, but I've never wanted kids (or power) anyway, so I'm a biological failure.
Achieving Utopia would require rewiring the brain, otherwise our selfish genes just fuck everything up.
Nanotech will be a great investment until molecular manufacturing is democratized, at which point it will do for bits of matter what the computer did for bits of data.
The "Napsterization" of food, clothing, diamond, INSERT_ANY_OBJECT_HERE, etc, turns scarcity-based economics on its head. Nobody'll get "rich" starting a company (like, say, Wal-Mart) that sells copies of objects anymore. At this point everything is open source and everybody can live self-sufficiently; just add energy (who 'owns' the sun?) and recycled molecules.
you asked for a page, you got served a page, and the fact that the content isn't what you were expecting is impossible to detect
Not impossible.
Most sites that would implement such an "inbetweener" ad-page would be using a backend script to generate it and include the reallink to the next page. This could easily be detected by an ad proxy live privoxy and automatically redirect you to the next page.
e.g. games.yahoo.com does this, and it would be relatively simple to automatically redirect to the "Click Here to Continue" link. Currently, I don't have privoxy set to skip these adpages (because the adpage itself is blank), but should it become more pervasive...
Slashdot Mirror
I set the DPI correctly, but the fonts are still small, so I have to give the default fontsizes a boost (in KDE & gtk). Even then, in Opera I scale the images+text up by 120% and sometimes more (the fonts scale fine, but the images aren't aliased), and in FireFox I use an extension to increase the default text zoom.
I figured SVG and similar resolution independent tech would be here sooner... which reminds me of this: http://www.rasterman.com/files/e17_movie-02.avi
In any case, if you don't want to think much about IE-only CSS hacks, you can always use "ie7" javascript, then only those who disable javascript in IE will look fugly.
Sooo... she'll be a rebellious stripper in about 6 more years?
Best case I've used, and I've had a few. It's aluminum, not beige, but the selling point is the easily removable motherboard "plate" and drive cages and the filtered front intake fans to cool the drives. The blue power LED is a little annoying, but it's nothing a piece of tape can't mask.
I usually just take some representative artwork or branding and crop & resize it down to 16x16 before converting. A pixel artist I ain't.
Well, since you didn't mention any constraints, give BitTorrent + BitMe.org a go. The site's a little bogged down, but the torrents aren't.
I've found more lecture, speeches, and misc audio there than I can listen to in a lifetime (even at my usual "mplayer -speed 1.5" chipmunk speed).
I just find it hard to understand your viewpoint - It's throwing the baby (no pun intended) out with the bathwater.
And bet if you asked the morons who raised their hands if they actually understood what their "civil liberties" were, they couldn't answer. Taking freedom for granted is dangerous.
And men travelling faster than horse-drawn carriages?! Or flying through the air like birds?! Or getting energy from atoms?! Ridiculous!
Thanks for the laugh, present day naysayer. :)
How much energy does it take nature to grow a potato using only sunlight and the available nutrients in soil and air? How much energy for it to be broken down in some animals stomach and eventually return to Earth? Ideally a make-anything replicator shouldn't be that much less efficient except for objects with molecular bonds that take much more energy to make and break, and even then, it only makes sense to break the object down into reusable-sized chunks vs component atoms.
In fact, garbage dumps might become valuable mines of material.
Well, there would certainly be a high concentration of the rarer elements like gold in a garbage dump, but the bread and butter construction material will be Carbon, and we currently burn most of that. We have a problem with too much CO2 greenhouse gas, but one day we might have the opposite problem if people are lazy and siphon off carbon from the atmosphere to manufacture their warez'd Hummer to go with their GPL'd castle in the middle of some cheap Canadian tundra realestate.
As molecular manufacturing(1) matures, I'd venture to guess that the new artificial scarcity cartels that emerge will be MUCH nastier. Something scary, like the MANWO (Manufacturers Association of the New World Order) :-)
Right now the means of digital [re]production is available to all, and it's got a few copyright-extending control-freaks pissed about losing their empire. When you get to thinking about the implications of the means of physical [re]production being democratized, then you start getting dizzy wondering how society and the scarcity-based trade economy will reorganize itself (hopefully without much chaos).
((1)Note that this ultimate goal is now called "molecular manufacturing", since the previous general term of "nanotechology" has been co-opted by buzzword PR people to mean whatever they want it to mean.)
Yeah, but it will be "pre-announced", so that you don't get the right to bitch about the profiteering.
I'm no cleansing nazi (godwin!), but if someone had a gun to my head and forced me to choose between the suicide bombing of 100 "average" people, or 200 mental retards, I'd choose the latter. *gasp!* Not until the ratio got up to around 20:1 would I rationally favor the murder of the normal group. *GASP!!!* (At this point my empathy for the familys of the larger retard group outweighs the rational reasons for the smaller group of productive people to continue living.)
It's nice to pretend that everyone has an equal right to life-- even to the point of selfishly keeping your vegetable relatives alive -- but it's not that simple.
(not posting anonymously)
I'm sure somebody's just appalled by my line of thinking. :)
And about your new sig -- If copyright infringement isn't theft, than CherryOS isn't stolen code -- there are some things much worse than copyright infringement: plagiarism. It's only "stolen" code in that context; not in the context of fake property.
- Had to be near-painless.
- Had to be easy.
- Could not be rude by leaving behind a mess for someone else to clean up, so that excludes the ideal of instantaneus braindeath from a shaped charge explosive vaporizing the greymatter substrate or your existence.
I determined that the two best methods are:"I'm feeling much better now."
If "Don't be evil" means anything, it also means "Don't be a fucking hypocrite"!
Either everyone, or no one, should be able to pollute their title tag with crap like:
I'm "pro-gun", but, uh, use a fucking shovel if you want kill a snake. As a bonus, when the snake's dead, you've already got the shovel handy to bury it without getting your hands dirty.
Who shoots (and misses) snakes? What a waste.
You have someone develop or customize a CMS solution for you so that YOU can easily update the site *content* yourself (or delegate the updates to someone else if you can't handle a simple webbrowser interface). The days of annoying-to-update static sites should be overwith.
And if slashdot would use CSS, they could simply put each comment in it's own div block that auto-scrolled the overflow (horizontally).
Likewise, the NEW MS Intellimouse Explorer mouse has an annoying scrollwheel. The old one (which I still use) has a little bit of tactile feedback, but the one feels like you're pushing a sleeve around on greese. I'm guessing somebody complained about the "noise" of the old design.
It's not just todays culture. People throughout history have been mostly crisis motivated.
I'm already "wealthy", but I'm supposed to want to be "richer" than the next monkey so that the females will desire my more-powerful genes, but I've never wanted kids (or power) anyway, so I'm a biological failure.
Achieving Utopia would require rewiring the brain, otherwise our selfish genes just fuck everything up.
Nanotech will be a great investment until molecular manufacturing is democratized, at which point it will do for bits of matter what the computer did for bits of data.
The "Napsterization" of food, clothing, diamond, INSERT_ANY_OBJECT_HERE, etc, turns scarcity-based economics on its head. Nobody'll get "rich" starting a company (like, say, Wal-Mart) that sells copies of objects anymore. At this point everything is open source and everybody can live self-sufficiently; just add energy (who 'owns' the sun?) and recycled molecules.
Not impossible.
Most sites that would implement such an "inbetweener" ad-page would be using a backend script to generate it and include the reallink to the next page. This could easily be detected by an ad proxy live privoxy and automatically redirect you to the next page.
e.g. games.yahoo.com does this, and it would be relatively simple to automatically redirect to the "Click Here to Continue" link. Currently, I don't have privoxy set to skip these adpages (because the adpage itself is blank), but should it become more pervasive...
Like a CPU with 3 dimensions instead of 2! Nanotech to save the daaay. heh.