Blind people can use Lynx along with a speech synthesizer which reads the text on the screen. I'm not blind (nor do I know any blind people) so I don't have specific details, but do a search for "Web Accessible" or even "Lynx Friendly" and you'' be sure to find some info.
With many Lynx-unfriendly sites, such a combination would probably sound something like this:
"Image. Image. Inline. Inline. Image."
"Banner. Gif. One X One. Gif. Bullet. Gif. Customer Service. Bullet. Gif. Contact us." (etc)
Some people should be ashamed of their shoddy web design.
On one hand, I think government should keep the hell away from Web design issues. Hooray for liberty!
On the other hand, I'm a hardcore Lynx user and it would be hilarious to see all these corporations who design Lynx-unfriendly sites have to change their ways.
Of course the best solution would be if everyone voluntarily made their pages Lynx-friendly and the government restricted itself to, say, what it's empowered to do by the Consititution (though I suppose a case can be made with the Interstate Commerce Clause if there were money changing hands). (I am talking about the US Federal government here.)
[Hollywood] Today SKG Dreamworks announced the upcoming sequel to the successful movie The Blair Witch Project. Director Steven Spielberg was on hand to provide some tantalizing clues about the movie but left the gathering of entertainment reporters with many unanswered questions. Certain sources suggested that the sequel would star Leonardo DiCarpio and Grynneth Paltrow, but Spielberg refused to confirm or deny these rumors. He did, however, announce that the sequel would feature spectacular special effects by George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic, the visual powerhouse behind such movies as Star Wars. Further speculation features the main characters possessing psychic powers, and a quest into the underworld to battle demons and rescue the lost souls of the characters of the original Blair Witch Project. This also was neither confirmed nor denied by Spielberg, but he did indicate that there would be a talking anthropomorphic dog whose clumsiness and unfamiliarity with human society would provide comic relief for the otherwise grim and scary motion picture.
Heroes III is exactly the sort of game I'd like to see for Linux. I'm kind of a strategy game freak. HOWEVER... I already own the Windows version, so I probably won't buy the Linux port.
I might have waited if I had known that there was going to be a Linux port. I do, after all, have a stack of games that I haven't quite gotten around to for lack of time, and so Heroes III could have waited for a while.
I guess my wish is that the Linux ports, or at least announcements thereof, would come more quickly after (or even before (grin)) the Windows version.
At first I cried, "Such a thing would be useless to me! I like building things from the ground up!" I'm the sort of person who reinvents the wheel a lot. This is good for (1) educating myself about hard-core low-level details, and (2) building things that do exactly what I need, no more, no less.
Then I realized that I could in fact use such a repository after all. Lately I've been thinking about looking into writing device drivers. I've never done such a thing before, and wouldn't know where to start (except searching for some basic knowledge on the topic). If I could go to this hypothetical repository and grab a few device driver templates, that would go a long way towards my education. I'd probably still end up building them from the ground up, but at least I'd have some training wheels to use before reaching that stage.
That's that I think would be most promising about the repository idea. Not being a source of code that I can rip and put into my own projects, but rather a source of examples to learn from. The more I think about it, the more I like it.
I'm not sure that "It's Funny, Laugh." would have been appropriate. I read it, and not once did I come anywhere close to laughing, or even grinning. The whole thing seemed pretty lame as far as quality goes. What did appeal to me was the fact that there was some MS-bashing in a mainstream news source (no, I don't count SlashDot as mainstream.... yet).
Disclaimer: I hate Microsoft and its products as much as the next guy.
I used to be into Atari 8-Bits, and quite a while after it became obvious that that platform was dead, my mother bought me a Packard Bell as a sort of graduation present. Man, did it suck.
The hard drive was constantly developing bad sectors. I ended up placing read-only files over the areas where the bad sectors tended to accumulate so that the real files wouldn't become corrupted. Eventually I put in a new drive.
The monitor desynced at anything better than 640x480x256 unless I specified really weird refresh rates.
I was never able to use more than one IDE device with the (single) on-board port.
Let's not even get into the funny-shaped motherboard and case.
Let's face it, Packard Bell sucks, and the company deserves to die a painful death.
I don't know about the calendar thing yet, but I can tell you why I like TeX. Before becoming a software engineer, I was a mathematician. As such I used all sorts of crazy notation that would have been extremely painful to do with a GUI interface such as you find in those half-assed extensions to WYSIWYG editors like MSWord.
Also I have developed a writing style in which I put sentence fragments on separate lines which is good for organizing language but looks like hell in a WYSIWYG editor and something like TeX will process my strange style quite nicely without my having to reformat manually.
Even in my programming job, I find TeX very comforting, and I just can't go back to WYSIWYG and a GUI interface for text processing.
I've wondered about this myself, and while I'm still pretty ignorant of what actually happens, I have made some guesses. It seems to me that the best use of such bank accounts is for money that is gained through non-standard means which the government does not monitor. Suspicion would be raised if your account with a regular US bank were to get large infusions which weren't compatible with any reported income. Note that US banks are required by law to inform the government about transactions over US$10,000. If the government notices this discrepency, they may very well start investigating you, and you may be subject to such inconveniences as assessment of taxes, prosecution, etc.
I figure I'll have at least one offshore bank account eventually, but I haven't developed a need for one yet. Or maybe I'm lying about that.
I wonder if "Reciprocity" is the word for which they are looking. Then again maybe they wanted some made-up-not-quite-right word. I'm not in a position to know. I do, however, know that "reciprocity" is a cool word. Everyone say it out loud.
You are making the classic mistake of confusing one group of people with another group of people. One group says "P", the other says "not P", and then (to both groups at once) "oh you guys are so hypocritical".
My advice is to deal with people on an individual basis.
If you look closely you'll see a very distinct humanoid face in that picture. I'm surprised that NASA would be careless enough to allow evidence of life on Io to be released like that.
Well, I'm sure they'll replace it with another picture soon enough. Could someone please mirror the original picture before they change it?
"Shut up about this Echelon thing or else we'll launch congressional investigations and media crusades to make you look like a big national security threat, like we did with the militias after the Waco operation."
"We" being "THEM" -- the sinister conspiracy that seeks to complete their domination of the world from beyond the shadows.
You just gotta read (and possibly write) between the lines.
I wonder how much of this image of a custodial vision is just the result of an attempt by Bill Gates to spin his responses according to the marketing strategy to which he subscribes.
I like music with nice complex rhythms. This serves to energize my brain without distracting it. Or perhaps it distracts those parts which need distracting. There can be vocals and melody, but they should not be dominant as that would distract the wrong parts of my brain.
Some favorite examples include Frank Zappa, Phish, Metallica, Rush. Although some of the more vocal-oriented Zappa is overly distracting.
I'm sure the spooks in the USA have a bunch of people hacking into Russian computers, and Thailand has people hacking into Ecuador's computers, etc etc.
I guess they needed something to do with all that money they raised.
Frankly I don't think that the growth of Red Hat is sustainable if all they do is increase their market penetration. They should probably branch out into areas other than distributing and supporting Linux. Well, maybe they are already. Does anyone know what else they are doing?
My guess is that some moderators have such a strong anti-gun bias that they will down-moderate any pro-gun message regardless of whether the moderation is truly justified.
For example, in the "ask the questions" phase of this cycle, I asked what ESR's favorite firearm models were. This was down-moderated as "redundant" even though noone had asked before.
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With many Lynx-unfriendly sites, such a combination would probably sound something like this:
"Image. Image. Inline. Inline. Image."
"Banner. Gif. One X One. Gif. Bullet. Gif. Customer Service. Bullet. Gif. Contact us." (etc)
Some people should be ashamed of their shoddy web design.
On the other hand, I'm a hardcore Lynx user and it would be hilarious to see all these corporations who design Lynx-unfriendly sites have to change their ways.
Of course the best solution would be if everyone voluntarily made their pages Lynx-friendly and the government restricted itself to, say, what it's empowered to do by the Consititution (though I suppose a case can be made with the Interstate Commerce Clause if there were money changing hands). (I am talking about the US Federal government here.)
I might have waited if I had known that there was going to be a Linux port. I do, after all, have a stack of games that I haven't quite gotten around to for lack of time, and so Heroes III could have waited for a while.
I guess my wish is that the Linux ports, or at least announcements thereof, would come more quickly after (or even before (grin)) the Windows version.
Where can I get a tarball for Netscape?
Then I realized that I could in fact use such a repository after all. Lately I've been thinking about looking into writing device drivers. I've never done such a thing before, and wouldn't know where to start (except searching for some basic knowledge on the topic). If I could go to this hypothetical repository and grab a few device driver templates, that would go a long way towards my education. I'd probably still end up building them from the ground up, but at least I'd have some training wheels to use before reaching that stage.
That's that I think would be most promising about the repository idea. Not being a source of code that I can rip and put into my own projects, but rather a source of examples to learn from. The more I think about it, the more I like it.
Disclaimer: I hate Microsoft and its products as much as the next guy.
- The hard drive was constantly developing bad sectors. I ended up placing read-only files over the areas where the bad sectors tended to accumulate so that the real files wouldn't become corrupted. Eventually I put in a new drive.
- The monitor desynced at anything better than 640x480x256 unless I specified really weird refresh rates.
- I was never able to use more than one IDE device with the (single) on-board port.
- Let's not even get into the funny-shaped motherboard and case.
Let's face it, Packard Bell sucks, and the company deserves to die a painful death.Also I have developed a writing style
in which I put sentence fragments
on separate lines
which is good for organizing language
but looks like hell
in a WYSIWYG editor
and something like TeX
will process my strange style quite nicely
without my having to reformat manually.
Even in my programming job, I find TeX very comforting, and I just can't go back to WYSIWYG and a GUI interface for text processing.
In your dreams.
I figure I'll have at least one offshore bank account eventually, but I haven't developed a need for one yet. Or maybe I'm lying about that.
My advice is to deal with people on an individual basis.
Well, I'm sure they'll replace it with another picture soon enough. Could someone please mirror the original picture before they change it?
"Shut up about this Echelon thing or else we'll launch congressional investigations and media crusades to make you look like a big national security threat, like we did with the militias after the Waco operation."
"We" being "THEM" -- the sinister conspiracy that seeks to complete their domination of the world from beyond the shadows.
You just gotta read (and possibly write) between the lines.
Some favorite examples include Frank Zappa, Phish, Metallica, Rush. Although some of the more vocal-oriented Zappa is overly distracting.
Frankly I don't think that the growth of Red Hat is sustainable if all they do is increase their market penetration. They should probably branch out into areas other than distributing and supporting Linux. Well, maybe they are already. Does anyone know what else they are doing?
P.S. Note spelling of "whose". "Who's" means "who is" which doesn't fit well in this context.
For example, in the "ask the questions" phase of this cycle, I asked what ESR's favorite firearm models were. This was down-moderated as "redundant" even though noone had asked before.
Lame.