Fortunately, and unlike your assertion, most sites do not do this, and adapt quite well already. In fact, quite a lot of sites (nytimes.com, for example) look distincty better once you overrride their font choices.
every site looks better when I choose the font. Since 9-11 I have liked comic book style handwriting fonts for my news articles. It just seemed to take the edge off, usually in an ironic way.
Well, it seems that after some 50 years or so, we wont be able to use any shape, image, saying, metaphor or the like without consulting an intellectual property expert and acquiring appropriate rights, the way things going.
That's unfettered free market libertarianism for you: feudalism in disguise. swear fealty to your corporate masters. they believe in the common good, it's just that they measure "common" with dollars.
Oh, what a horrible grip their educational programs have on me!
heh
that reminds me - some dvd I have had a History channel show as a special feature, one of those history ("reality") versus fiction and man was it awful. I think it was Kingdom of Heaven, and 90% of the show was all about how knights could defend a castle with MTV camera angles and OMG look how sharp these pikes are!!1! The interesting historical questions and their relationship to current events were pretty much entirely ignored - that whole Christian versus Muslim thing (it was a big deal in the press at the time). So sad. oh well.
One wonders what.exe installers will do, or the auto run crap on Windows CDs/DVDs.
I think virtualization is the only answer for geeks.
but regular people will be totally confused: I have enough trouble explaining the concept of quitting an application and RAM versus hard drive to gramma. Even somewhat experienced regular people are confused by the.dmg files on their macs.
Until my TV comes with a EULA stating that I am not buying the hardware, and that I'm just licensed to use the hardware however Fox network sees fit. And that is the day I stop buying TV's.
Take pre-emptive action! Put your TV in the OFF state, unplug it, then post to your local freecycle.org group and have some other sucker come and take it away for you. You'll have more time to post to slashdot.
I gave up TV in 1996 except for that day in September 2001. I have never touched a Tivo, I have never seen Survivor. You can do it, too. Only when you've been free from it for so long can you see the grip that it has on people.
I think the linux snob attitude is actually a defensive reaction against the holes pointed out by the newbies that the snob just doesn't want to see. A libertarian attitude common among geeks doesn't exactly help, either, nor does the quasi-aspergers interpersonal communication style that is also common (and they are hand-in-hand I might point out). Not that it bothers me - I don't mind a sink-or-swim environment, but it's obviously the great barrier to entry.
My guess is that only a "whole widget" approach like the Mac hardware + OS X + cultural support will have a low barrier to entry to the n00b. The cultural component is critical.
most people don't know about their dvd player's bookmark feature which you can usually use to skip all that crap at hte beginning. for instance, the apple dvd player has a preference to set what happens when you play a DVD you have already played- whether to start from the beginning, start from where you stopped last time, or play from the default bookmark. if you set the bookmark for the beginning of the main title or for the main menu, then you might never have to watch that stuff again (on that disc).
I have to say, I'd be one of them. Regardless of how safe the waste storage is, I don't want to be a home owner who lives near a waste storage facility. I'd be afraid that I'd never be able to sell the house.
Funny thing is, the NIMBY group is pretty much universal, including strong nuke supporters. So it ends up in the BYs of the poor and/or politically weak.
I interviewed a deaf person once. We just sat in front of my computer and shared a keyboard, typing into a word processor. Funny thing is being geeks and used to doing the IM thing even in the same room, it felt kind of normal.
We made him an offer, but he took a different job.
Duplication shows possibility. If we can duplicate an evolutionary process, we will be able to show that theoretically it could have happened that way.
Well that's true. I'm mostly speaking of the process itself rather than the specifics of what happened on earth. What I mean is that our understanding of evolutionary processes and biology are incomplete until we can make it happen ourselves. It's like believing in and having some evidence in support of parabolic projectile trajectories without actually being able to verify the theory by shooting actual projectiles.
Well, the problem is that you can't prove evolution. While this discovery certainly bridges the gap and piles on more evidence for and in favor of evolution.
It leaves open the door for dispute, no matter how flimsy. It's something that we have to deal with, and will have to deal with forever.
we'll know and we'll have final proof when we can duplicate the processes ourselves, and then later when we can make our own biology.
I'm 34. I just got a guitar for the first time since I was 16. It's great. I play it for my kids, 5 and 3. they love it and don't care that I suck (so far).
As for the violin, it's probably too hard. But maybe you could play a fiddle.
After the bubble, much of the early innovation on the web slowed almost to a halt. there was a big lull. Nothing much happened for a few years, and we were pretty distracted by 9-11.
But lots of interesting and new things have been happening lately. It's like the early days of the web again in a lot of ways, but we're more mature and we have a better sense of what works on the web and what doesn't. And there is a huge user base now. It helps to put a term around this, and web 2.0 is as good as anything for me.
I liked the virtual desktop setup that I had back in about 1995 I think. was it fvwm? Nothing since then has worked for me, including (especially) the various ones for OS 9 and X. I'm too much of a visual guy to hide stuff too much though, and as much as I'd hate to admit it, I think virtual desktops would work better for me with animated switching between them that gave a sense of space.
I happen to be just terrible at managing my email. hundreds of emails in my inbox, and frequently quit Mail with email message windows open. So I could solve this specific problem with better user habits, it's true. Though the general point of windows of background apps barging in on my quality time in another application still happens. But not nearly to the extent the OP describes.
Use two monitors, and do your real work on the secondary screen.
I assume you're talking about Windows. This happens on the Mac to some extent, usually when launching apps - eg when I launch Mail then switch back to the app I was using, of course, new windows in Mail throw themselves on the top. This was not a problem in classic Mac OS which enforced application level window layers, which - to be perfectly honest - I prefer for this very reason.
But if the hair is standing up on the back of her neck, her teeth are barred, ears back, tail between her legs, then she's probably to be avoided. Don't make eye contact.
I think that on the whole, theater owners are unhappy about the existence of DVD, not to mention home theater. It's just natural. My brother lives in LA (in the biz of course) and theaters there are so much more interesting than pretty much everywhere else in the country. From round-the-clock viewings to constant showings of classic movies, it makes my local theaters about as interesting by comparison as a blank wall.
I'm thinking it's time to ditch the megamultiplex, and do smaller, more targeted theaters. I'd consider building a set of really small but nice theaters for projecting HD (not many people will be able to afford 1080p projectors). make it a co-op so it is technically not public viewings. I'd have a kid-scale theater with an adjoining bookstore/starbucks for the adults. or a laundromat - bring your clothes, watch a movie while they're cleaned. (I have heard of gym/laundromat combos) lots of room for innovation here.
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that's positive for the new guy, not a negative against the old guy.
Without price I prefered new ones, because they DIDN'T have markings- the previous owner tended to be a moron way more than not.
Yes - the endless pink and blue hiliting. my eyes!
Fortunately, and unlike your assertion, most sites do not do this, and adapt quite well already. In fact, quite a lot of sites (nytimes.com, for example) look distincty better once you overrride their font choices.
every site looks better when I choose the font. Since 9-11 I have liked comic book style handwriting fonts for my news articles. It just seemed to take the edge off, usually in an ironic way.
Well, it seems that after some 50 years or so, we wont be able to use any shape, image, saying, metaphor or the like without consulting an intellectual property expert and acquiring appropriate rights, the way things going.
That's unfettered free market libertarianism for you: feudalism in disguise. swear fealty to your corporate masters. they believe in the common good, it's just that they measure "common" with dollars.
Oh, what a horrible grip their educational programs have on me!
heh
that reminds me - some dvd I have had a History channel show as a special feature, one of those history ("reality") versus fiction and man was it awful. I think it was Kingdom of Heaven, and 90% of the show was all about how knights could defend a castle with MTV camera angles and OMG look how sharp these pikes are!!1! The interesting historical questions and their relationship to current events were pretty much entirely ignored - that whole Christian versus Muslim thing (it was a big deal in the press at the time). So sad. oh well.
One wonders what .exe installers will do, or the auto run crap on Windows CDs/DVDs.
.dmg files on their macs.
I think virtualization is the only answer for geeks.
but regular people will be totally confused: I have enough trouble explaining the concept of quitting an application and RAM versus hard drive to gramma. Even somewhat experienced regular people are confused by the
Until my TV comes with a EULA stating that I am not buying the hardware, and that I'm just licensed to use the hardware however Fox network sees fit. And that is the day I stop buying TV's.
Take pre-emptive action! Put your TV in the OFF state, unplug it, then post to your local freecycle.org group and have some other sucker come and take it away for you. You'll have more time to post to slashdot.
I gave up TV in 1996 except for that day in September 2001. I have never touched a Tivo, I have never seen Survivor. You can do it, too. Only when you've been free from it for so long can you see the grip that it has on people.
Hopefully it will lead to more and smaller and less expensive shows. I think people want to be closer to the performers anyway.
I think the linux snob attitude is actually a defensive reaction against the holes pointed out by the newbies that the snob just doesn't want to see. A libertarian attitude common among geeks doesn't exactly help, either, nor does the quasi-aspergers interpersonal communication style that is also common (and they are hand-in-hand I might point out). Not that it bothers me - I don't mind a sink-or-swim environment, but it's obviously the great barrier to entry.
My guess is that only a "whole widget" approach like the Mac hardware + OS X + cultural support will have a low barrier to entry to the n00b. The cultural component is critical.
most people don't know about their dvd player's bookmark feature which you can usually use to skip all that crap at hte beginning. for instance, the apple dvd player has a preference to set what happens when you play a DVD you have already played- whether to start from the beginning, start from where you stopped last time, or play from the default bookmark. if you set the bookmark for the beginning of the main title or for the main menu, then you might never have to watch that stuff again (on that disc).
I have to say, I'd be one of them. Regardless of how safe the waste storage is, I don't want to be a home owner who lives near a waste storage facility. I'd be afraid that I'd never be able to sell the house.
Funny thing is, the NIMBY group is pretty much universal, including strong nuke supporters. So it ends up in the BYs of the poor and/or politically weak.
Hell I wish Ford hadn't changed the Windstar, with the older model's you can haul 4'x8' sheets of sheet rock and plywood
the honda odyssey can.
I interviewed a deaf person once. We just sat in front of my computer and shared a keyboard, typing into a word processor. Funny thing is being geeks and used to doing the IM thing even in the same room, it felt kind of normal. We made him an offer, but he took a different job.
Duplication shows possibility. If we can duplicate an evolutionary process, we will be able to show that theoretically it could have happened that way.
Well that's true. I'm mostly speaking of the process itself rather than the specifics of what happened on earth. What I mean is that our understanding of evolutionary processes and biology are incomplete until we can make it happen ourselves. It's like believing in and having some evidence in support of parabolic projectile trajectories without actually being able to verify the theory by shooting actual projectiles.
Well, the problem is that you can't prove evolution. While this discovery certainly bridges the gap and piles on more evidence for and in favor of evolution.
It leaves open the door for dispute, no matter how flimsy. It's something that we have to deal with, and will have to deal with forever.
we'll know and we'll have final proof when we can duplicate the processes ourselves, and then later when we can make our own biology.
A similar arugment also works for AI.
I'm 34. I just got a guitar for the first time since I was 16. It's great. I play it for my kids, 5 and 3. they love it and don't care that I suck (so far).
As for the violin, it's probably too hard. But maybe you could play a fiddle.
Essentially he has become an Ann Coulter of the computer industry. Same gig, different arena.
Although he doesn't (yet) advocate rounding up Apple users and putting them in camps.
They may just switch to base 11 instead.
You're a stick-in-the-mud.
After the bubble, much of the early innovation on the web slowed almost to a halt. there was a big lull. Nothing much happened for a few years, and we were pretty distracted by 9-11.
But lots of interesting and new things have been happening lately. It's like the early days of the web again in a lot of ways, but we're more mature and we have a better sense of what works on the web and what doesn't. And there is a huge user base now. It helps to put a term around this, and web 2.0 is as good as anything for me.
I liked the virtual desktop setup that I had back in about 1995 I think. was it fvwm? Nothing since then has worked for me, including (especially) the various ones for OS 9 and X. I'm too much of a visual guy to hide stuff too much though, and as much as I'd hate to admit it, I think virtual desktops would work better for me with animated switching between them that gave a sense of space.
I happen to be just terrible at managing my email. hundreds of emails in my inbox, and frequently quit Mail with email message windows open. So I could solve this specific problem with better user habits, it's true. Though the general point of windows of background apps barging in on my quality time in another application still happens. But not nearly to the extent the OP describes.
Use two monitors, and do your real work on the secondary screen.
I assume you're talking about Windows. This happens on the Mac to some extent, usually when launching apps - eg when I launch Mail then switch back to the app I was using, of course, new windows in Mail throw themselves on the top. This was not a problem in classic Mac OS which enforced application level window layers, which - to be perfectly honest - I prefer for this very reason.
But I've found two monitors do the trick.
Yes
But if the hair is standing up on the back of her neck, her teeth are barred, ears back, tail between her legs, then she's probably to be avoided. Don't make eye contact.
I think that on the whole, theater owners are unhappy about the existence of DVD, not to mention home theater. It's just natural. My brother lives in LA (in the biz of course) and theaters there are so much more interesting than pretty much everywhere else in the country. From round-the-clock viewings to constant showings of classic movies, it makes my local theaters about as interesting by comparison as a blank wall.
I'm thinking it's time to ditch the megamultiplex, and do smaller, more targeted theaters. I'd consider building a set of really small but nice theaters for projecting HD (not many people will be able to afford 1080p projectors). make it a co-op so it is technically not public viewings. I'd have a kid-scale theater with an adjoining bookstore/starbucks for the adults. or a laundromat - bring your clothes, watch a movie while they're cleaned. (I have heard of gym/laundromat combos) lots of room for innovation here.
Geologically, as in - we're about to have another ice age.