I hope you don't mean me. I'm on the Apple Fan Boy List. I loathe Microsoft. I gave up on Windows for personal use the second I got out of college a year and a half ago and didn't have to have use it for projects. I'll be giving up on Windows at work as soon as I can convince my Mac using boss to get me a Mac as well.
That said, I never mentioned Microsoft. I was operating system agnostic in my complaint. Apple is releasing Spotlight, which is a database-filesystem like app. I think it would be just another nice extra feature, too, if users would organize their "virtual space" in the same way they organized their actual space. After all, you can't blame the file cabinet for a user's bad organization.
Then I guess the average corporate employee is either dim-witted, computer illiterate, or a poor organizer.
Dim-witted: I just don't remember where I put that file. I guess I'll have to look in every folder for it.
Computer Illiterate: When I click File>Save I just click OK when the dialog pops up. I don't bother renaming it or putting it somewhere that is accessible. Now it's really hard to determine where I save that Really Important Document, and if it is Untitled-1.doc or Untitled-72.doc.
Poor Organizer: I just save everything into My Documents. I know where to go to find it, but I have 3,000 files in there to scroll through just to find the one I want.
If corporations would train users how to use and organize their files, this database-filesystem shit would only be a nice extra feature, not a must-have killer app.
"The greatest problem are submarine patents which do not even exist as widespread software products"
I often sit around drinking bottles of water while working on my submarine and think quietly to myself: "I wonder what patents would I be infringing upon if I made this a consumer product? This submarine patent problem is the greatest problem in the world today."
If I have one of these files and share the hell out of it, I better not be contacted by RIAA. If this spreads, not only will it make sharing difficult, it will make tracking legitimate (haha) piracy more difficult to detect. This (sort of) reminds me of a more high tech version of the time everyone started changing the name of their tracks to things like "Br1tn3y Sp34rs" to evade blocked searches.
Not many people bitch about the legislators not reviewing papers. So, why does everybody on/. bitch when Taco doesn't review a submission? If we could move/. administrator criteria to legislators, and get/. folks to care, we could maybe inact change in our government system.
BUT, knowing WHEN they expire, I would squat on them with a service like godaddy provides. You pay 18$. They buy it for you when it expires. Not sure how safe it is, but if you are going to lose them anyway...
>>when I usually listen to hard-rock and black metal
If you were listening to regular rock, you might try Trile J. There are some great bands brewing in.au. It's only a matter of time before the rest of them catch up with Jet, AC/DC, Mars Volta, SpiderBait, etc... It's only a matter of time.
I don't think so. Google Answers a) costs money, and b) queries humans instead of a database (and that takes time).
AskJeeves is free and quickly queries a database.
What Google Answers provides should be more accurate, since humans can determine what you mean better; however, pay-per-"search" would out price simple questions like "Who wrote House of Leaves?" AND make them pointless to ask since, by the time you recieved an answer, it probably isn't pertanant. Google Answers is for those more-difficult-to-answer worth-the-time-it-takes-to-find-an-answer questions.
Technically, I pay a subscription to my cable company get on the Internet. If I go to an Starbucks, say, I might be getting on for free, but they are paying the subscription. This can be narrowed down to "paying to download websites." So, every page I download should be taxed.
What the guy needs to address is what KIND of file can be taxed and what it means to buy something. If he means any file you pay for, there is trouble. If he only means certain kinds of files (say, MP3, for example), every time I download a demo from my friend's site, I would get taxed for that. Alternativly, my friend could swap formats (say, to.wav) to escape the tax. If the kind of file is described as "audio files", then that could be zipped and it is now a zip file, which may be tax-free. If the file is "anything other than text and images", then we can start converting audio, etc., to images then convert them back later.
If by purchase, he merely means something you pay for above and beyond costs to access the file, then we may be getting somewhere, but we still have a problem, as the parent mentioned, with subscription based news sites. But that might be more like having a subscription to the NY Times. I don't buy news papers, so I don't know what sort of taxes are included in those types of purchase.
But it's all BS anyway, as TFA says that there would be no internet tax police... that it would be on the honor system. That doesn't really give us a reason to comply. Not that I live in or plan to live in Wisconsin.
It's what you get used to. At first I was pretty pissed home and end didn't work like Linux / Windows. Then I started using the modifyer keys plus left and right keys. This ended up being much easier, as I didn't have to move as far to do like things (skip over words or skip to the end of a line is a similar stroke in mac, but in PC they are totally different). And if I'm doing some odd editing (like adding the same sting to the end of 10 different lines), CMD+Right Arrow, CMD+V, and down Arrow is easier to manage than End, Ctrl+v, down arrow.
But like I said, I had to use it for awhile to appreciate it. Now I like it better than PC's home and end... kinda like changing from Pico / Nano to VI, I am told.
I think it was Steve Jobs who said Apple has contracts with the record labels to sell songs at.99. These contracts, if I remember correctly, were for at least 5 years. The same rumors happened last year in may. But, I guess we'll see what happens.
That's a great idea until you have to use a CERTAIN program to do a SPECIFIC job. If that specific job happens to be your only job, then Wine isn't a crutch, it's a way out of using Windows. Until "plenty of great alternatives" turns into "at least one great alternative for every program that runs on Windows", Wine will be pertinent.
But I do agree: Ditch Windows apps on Wine for native Linux apps if at all possible.
Because graphics are just bloat-ware. Nobody want's a graphical user interface when a text-based interface will be just fine. That's why NCurses is so much more popular than X Windows on desktop systems. Javascript is bloatware, too. It's not like you can do anything cool with it.
Comparing a simple terminal solution to a full-featured browser isn't a fair comparison. To me, IE is the least "bloated" browser out right now (as far as things users can do with it), and everyone HATES it. They all WANT tabs and pop-up blockers and good javascript support and flash support, etc. etc. Most people use lynx as a fall back if they ONLY have a terminal, not as their preferred browser.
Don't be naive in your attempts to get first post (which you missed by a relatively long shot). How many hackers turned into security consultants? Plenty. People who invade privacy should know how to counter their own tricks, and figure out other ways that it could be done and prevent those.
What I want to know is why should I / we trust him when he has done wrong to a very large portion of the US population.
We need to have a new moderator option "-1 I am a Scientologist"... All the Scientology jokes I make inevitably get 1) modded really highly, then 2) modded down a day or so later in a very passive-aggressive manner. With the "-1 I am a Scientologist" mod option, I would at least KNOW I'm offending a Scientologist instead of just educated-guessing. That would bring a little warmth back into this otherwise cold and bleak world.;)
The someone better hurry and write a "white-hat" worm that installs an update that patches the exploit. Then we could patch "90% of the world" in a couple hours.
Well, you kinda found a problem. I can say the following and still be compliant with W3's validator (e.g. give the appearance of compliance) and not be compliant at all for final ouput:
--------------INDEX.HTML--------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd "> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US"> <head> <title> Title </title> </head> <body> <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- document.write("<"+"b"+"><"+"i"+">This is invalid</"+"b"+"><"+"/i"+">"); //--> </script> </body> </html>
--------------/INDEX.HTML--------------
The final output would be invalid because I misused tag nesting by closing the parent element before closing its child. This shows as valid on the W3C Validator, however, since it doesn't check final output (e.g. post JavaScript document.write).
Be wary of any site with tons of JS that document.write tags in the HTML that claim W3 compliance. I'm not saying that MSN is doing this, and I'm not saying that I've gone through all their JS code, but I did find the following on their site inside an img tag inside a JavaScript document.write:
ID="GTrkImg_56"
The problem? All attributes and tags are to be lower case. The site has more problems than the validator lets on BECAUSE JS has nothing to do with valid XHTML.
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I hope you don't mean me. I'm on the Apple Fan Boy List. I loathe Microsoft. I gave up on Windows for personal use the second I got out of college a year and a half ago and didn't have to have use it for projects. I'll be giving up on Windows at work as soon as I can convince my Mac using boss to get me a Mac as well.
That said, I never mentioned Microsoft. I was operating system agnostic in my complaint. Apple is releasing Spotlight, which is a database-filesystem like app. I think it would be just another nice extra feature, too, if users would organize their "virtual space" in the same way they organized their actual space. After all, you can't blame the file cabinet for a user's bad organization.
Then I guess the average corporate employee is either dim-witted, computer illiterate, or a poor organizer.
Dim-witted: I just don't remember where I put that file. I guess I'll have to look in every folder for it.
Computer Illiterate: When I click File>Save I just click OK when the dialog pops up. I don't bother renaming it or putting it somewhere that is accessible. Now it's really hard to determine where I save that Really Important Document, and if it is Untitled-1.doc or Untitled-72.doc.
Poor Organizer: I just save everything into My Documents. I know where to go to find it, but I have 3,000 files in there to scroll through just to find the one I want.
If corporations would train users how to use and organize their files, this database-filesystem shit would only be a nice extra feature, not a must-have killer app.
"The greatest problem are submarine patents which do not even exist as widespread software products"
;) :)
I often sit around drinking bottles of water while working on my submarine and think quietly to myself: "I wonder what patents would I be infringing upon if I made this a consumer product? This submarine patent problem is the greatest problem in the world today."
If I have one of these files and share the hell out of it, I better not be contacted by RIAA. If this spreads, not only will it make sharing difficult, it will make tracking legitimate (haha) piracy more difficult to detect. This (sort of) reminds me of a more high tech version of the time everyone started changing the name of their tracks to things like "Br1tn3y Sp34rs" to evade blocked searches.
Not many people bitch about the legislators not reviewing papers. So, why does everybody on /. bitch when Taco doesn't review a submission? If we could move /. administrator criteria to legislators, and get /. folks to care, we could maybe inact change in our government system.
Or not.
I would find a lawyer first.
BUT, knowing WHEN they expire, I would squat on them with a service like godaddy provides. You pay 18$. They buy it for you when it expires. Not sure how safe it is, but if you are going to lose them anyway...
Mod parent "-1 flamebait"!
>>when I usually listen to hard-rock and black metal If you were listening to regular rock, you might try Trile J. There are some great bands brewing in .au. It's only a matter of time before the rest of them catch up with Jet, AC/DC, Mars Volta, SpiderBait, etc... It's only a matter of time.
"You mean like Google Answers?"
I don't think so. Google Answers a) costs money, and b) queries humans instead of a database (and that takes time).
AskJeeves is free and quickly queries a database.
What Google Answers provides should be more accurate, since humans can determine what you mean better; however, pay-per-"search" would out price simple questions like "Who wrote House of Leaves?" AND make them pointless to ask since, by the time you recieved an answer, it probably isn't pertanant. Google Answers is for those more-difficult-to-answer worth-the-time-it-takes-to-find-an-answer questions.
So, no, not like Google Answers.
Innovate means they will break new ground and offer something you haven't seen before.
;)
I've NEVER seen a Microsoft-released browser with tabs, or a secure Microsoft-released browser, or a Microsoft-released browser with full PNG support.
They'll probably be quite innovative within their company...
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: No.
Technically, I pay a subscription to my cable company get on the Internet. If I go to an Starbucks, say, I might be getting on for free, but they are paying the subscription. This can be narrowed down to "paying to download websites." So, every page I download should be taxed.
.wav) to escape the tax. If the kind of file is described as "audio files", then that could be zipped and it is now a zip file, which may be tax-free. If the file is "anything other than text and images", then we can start converting audio, etc., to images then convert them back later.
What the guy needs to address is what KIND of file can be taxed and what it means to buy something. If he means any file you pay for, there is trouble. If he only means certain kinds of files (say, MP3, for example), every time I download a demo from my friend's site, I would get taxed for that. Alternativly, my friend could swap formats (say, to
If by purchase, he merely means something you pay for above and beyond costs to access the file, then we may be getting somewhere, but we still have a problem, as the parent mentioned, with subscription based news sites. But that might be more like having a subscription to the NY Times. I don't buy news papers, so I don't know what sort of taxes are included in those types of purchase.
But it's all BS anyway, as TFA says that there would be no internet tax police... that it would be on the honor system. That doesn't really give us a reason to comply. Not that I live in or plan to live in Wisconsin.
It's what you get used to. At first I was pretty pissed home and end didn't work like Linux / Windows. Then I started using the modifyer keys plus left and right keys. This ended up being much easier, as I didn't have to move as far to do like things (skip over words or skip to the end of a line is a similar stroke in mac, but in PC they are totally different). And if I'm doing some odd editing (like adding the same sting to the end of 10 different lines), CMD+Right Arrow, CMD+V, and down Arrow is easier to manage than End, Ctrl+v, down arrow.
But like I said, I had to use it for awhile to appreciate it. Now I like it better than PC's home and end... kinda like changing from Pico / Nano to VI, I am told.
I think it was Steve Jobs who said Apple has contracts with the record labels to sell songs at .99. These contracts, if I remember correctly, were for at least 5 years. The same rumors happened last year in may. But, I guess we'll see what happens.
That's a great idea until you have to use a CERTAIN program to do a SPECIFIC job. If that specific job happens to be your only job, then Wine isn't a crutch, it's a way out of using Windows. Until "plenty of great alternatives" turns into "at least one great alternative for every program that runs on Windows", Wine will be pertinent.
But I do agree: Ditch Windows apps on Wine for native Linux apps if at all possible.
"This is the key for browsers like Lynx etc"
Because graphics are just bloat-ware. Nobody want's a graphical user interface when a text-based interface will be just fine. That's why NCurses is so much more popular than X Windows on desktop systems. Javascript is bloatware, too. It's not like you can do anything cool with it.
Comparing a simple terminal solution to a full-featured browser isn't a fair comparison. To me, IE is the least "bloated" browser out right now (as far as things users can do with it), and everyone HATES it. They all WANT tabs and pop-up blockers and good javascript support and flash support, etc. etc. Most people use lynx as a fall back if they ONLY have a terminal, not as their preferred browser.
Don't be naive in your attempts to get first post (which you missed by a relatively long shot). How many hackers turned into security consultants? Plenty. People who invade privacy should know how to counter their own tricks, and figure out other ways that it could be done and prevent those.
What I want to know is why should I / we trust him when he has done wrong to a very large portion of the US population.
Span in the Emergency Room:
;)
Sperm.
I win
We need to have a new moderator option "-1 I am a Scientologist"... All the Scientology jokes I make inevitably get 1) modded really highly, then 2) modded down a day or so later in a very passive-aggressive manner. With the "-1 I am a Scientologist" mod option, I would at least KNOW I'm offending a Scientologist instead of just educated-guessing. That would bring a little warmth back into this otherwise cold and bleak world. ;)
The someone better hurry and write a "white-hat" worm that installs an update that patches the exploit. Then we could patch "90% of the world" in a couple hours.
Must have been running the server on the projector...
Nuck Nuck Nuck... When will we get rid of these damn memes.
"Taking a Sharpie to the Mona Lisa"
Marcel Duchamp did it, and called it LHOOQ. Along with Fountain, it's one of his major claims-to-fame.
"I can't wait to see drafts, but I do also want it done right, so that the new GPL is strong enough to shove right up Darl McBride's ass."
If my sneaking suspicion (that he's got similar qualities to the goat.cx guy) is correct, it won't have to be very strong.
--------------INDEX.HTML----------------------------/INDEX.HTML--------------
The final output would be invalid because I misused tag nesting by closing the parent element before closing its child. This shows as valid on the W3C Validator, however, since it doesn't check final output (e.g. post JavaScript document.write).
Be wary of any site with tons of JS that document.write tags in the HTML that claim W3 compliance. I'm not saying that MSN is doing this, and I'm not saying that I've gone through all their JS code, but I did find the following on their site inside an img tag inside a JavaScript document.write:
ID="GTrkImg_56"
The problem? All attributes and tags are to be lower case. The site has more problems than the validator lets on BECAUSE JS has nothing to do with valid XHTML.
If I didn't post the grandparent, I'd mod you up...