Aw come on. It's "Rape and *Sexual Torture*". Abu Ghraib definitely qualifies as sexual torture, especially from the point of view of every muslim. So the link is correct. Just because you don't even consider the muslim POV you feel this as a political agenda which is it not. The link is factually correct and well in place, as it's one of the latest examples of sexual torture that has become public. I don't think it matters who committed it, really. Maybe you just feel guilty of it and don't want it shown? Anyone who condemns you as a citizen of the US just because of the actions of some dumbasses isn't to be taken seriously anyways. The intelligent ones among us recognize it as what it is - the actions of some dumb individuals.
One, you lose the benefit of shared libraries. Which was what, again? If we just buried that shared lib myth and packaged all libs with the applications, life would be *much* easier. It's not as if disk space would matter. Drag-and-Drop installs and uninstalls rule, when implemented properly.
Two, you don't get the app categorized in your program menus. (Throwing every app imaginable into an application folder is horrible management) Nah. Program menus are *so* MacOS Classic. The thing you're looking for is called the Dock. You drag the App into the App folder, then drag it to the Dock from there. If you happen to find you're not using it often enough to sacrifice the icon space for it (I find the dock to become too crowded for my personal taste too fast, YMMV), you can access it very quickly by opening a finder window and clicking on "Applications", and it will sit just there. (You can even type the first few letters of its name and it will be pre-selected and ready for Apple-O.)
Now that would be in a perfect world without installers. You hit the nail on the head with your comments on those, and on the dirt throwers that contaminate your Lib folders. I sure would hope that Apple finally banned installers altogether and have people use the drag-and-drop way of installing cleanly, without copying anything anywhere..apps on OS X are folders anyway, so put all that's needed there and forget about all those problems software installation caused "back then".
Really, think about it. The main problem in Windows for most people I know is that they fuck it up by installing and uninstalling lots of software. With the above method, that would definitely not be the case anymore. I don't understand how the OSS people and the software industry can't see how that would remove so much pain from today's computer use. Apple seems to slowly understand, but it will take some time until they're there and everybody else copies it.
And not to forget that Prescott Bush was tried and convicted after WW2 for massively funding Adolf Hitler. I found it's not popular or even widely known among Americans, but interesing nevertheless. It's quite probable that Hitler wouldn't have been as successful at getting absolute power without Bush. I like to tell to Americans when they accuse me of being a Nazi just because I'm German. (And yes, I realize those people are dumb and not representative.)
Nah. Just let it run long enough and it will come up with the complete works of Shakespeare.
The rest will be uploaded as the Next Big Thing and be called "The Intarnet". We will tell generations of young hackers that the data's just encrypted and use the time it takes them to realize what's going on as a geek test.
The difference, my dear AC, is in that most Americans haven't cleaned many toilets besides their own, while almost everyone who builds advanced web stuff nowadays started with doing all that shit years ago. So I see your 'karma' and raise one 'been there, done that' for almost everyone.
Fact is, those who call themselves 'web designers' either are trying not to confuse some non-techie (like telling your grandma you 'control computers' when you're really an Oracle DBA) or they're dorks. Those who know that they've got a lot to learn, avoid the term 'web designer' at all cost, and for a reason.
Yeah, I see that too over here in Germany, and I keep wondering how dumb those dorks are. "Web design" was almost no good for making a living some years ago, and it's even worse now. If you are talking about making money building [for] the web, it's all in online applications, customized databases and so on. Web design-only clients mean hassle, shitty work, and trouble getting paid reasonable money.
If you do web sites for small and medium-sized companies (and most of those people do, as they won't get the real big clients), you can get how much out of them nowadays for static web pages, about 2000 to 5000 EUR if you're lucky? The average database application makes me easy 20-80K EUR and keeps me going for a while - and *those* clients are easy to find between above clients and the big ones.
Those in "web design" I meet are mostly dorks, and so be it! They won't endanger my wallet. Let them do the shit nobody wants to do anyway. They'll burn out and be replaced with more dorks. Good for us who get to do the interesting stuff.
Thanks for your reply, the discussion is quite interesting for those of us who don't read or write code. Anyway, I have one question - I read that there's lots of debugging and tracing stuff in 5.3 and that it runs much faster if you remove that. The discussion surprisingly doesn't touch the subject, so I have to ask whether you removed all that or not? I tried 5.2.1 and found it to be much slower than 4.8 on my Athlon 1133, but then again I just can't remember how that slowing-down stuff was called and how to remove it, so I won't blame the FreeBSD staff.;)
I hope it will. Maybe without the fancy formatting people will learn to write again instead of scribbling.
BTW, I have the same sig you have here at work. My boss thinks it's odd and funny and likes to point it out as funny to prospective clients. I wonder if he'll ever grip how dumb it makes him look for the brighter ones, but I digress.
Jokes aside, since I read your other post (the one I replied to), I wonder how it could be done. I suppose that the "paper" would have to have no limitations on how to move to get the full lift effect, but maybe this premise is broken, maybe your suggestion about the very small "papers" can help work it out, but still an interesing problem.
Any engineers here who can comment on the subject? I'm a programmer, I don't do hardware.;)
Okay, just tell me how you mechanically keep the single flat objects connected while still allowing them to float freely (i.e. in *any* direction). I'd love to see this in action.
Hm. Somehow I have to think of how many Rubik's Magic I bought just because people would almost immediately break them if you handed one to them. Obviously this Rubik guy didn't solve the practical problem very well. (BTW, the solutions on that page are correct, but I'd wonder if anyone could follow *those* instructions on how to do it. )
I might be confusing Freenet with something else, but wasn't Freenet the network in which you dedicate a certain amount and disk space (!) to encrypted data you have no idea about?
If yes, I might be a child porn distributor without even knowing, and go to jail for it. Why should I want to be on such a network?
As others said, just because you can't google it doesn't mean it's not true. I ran a legally purchased DRDOS (don't remember the version number) which wouldn't run my legally purchased Windows 3.1 (OEM).
I also ran GeoWorks Ensemble which looked and worked great, but as I mainly played games and programmed in Turbo Pascal at that time, I didn't have much use for a GUI and ditched the pirated copy in favour of my legal Win 3.1 I only started up for the occasional letter/homework or showing it off to people. So I can't confirm the Geoworks problem myself (must have been MSDOS 5 at that time), but I definitely had the DRDOS problem which was a shame because it offered native task switching and great memory management that was *way* ahead of its time.
I actually doubt that they would check in patches I make to be used on/. itself.:) But then again, I don't think they are too interested in community building, otherwise they'd have a meta section and better community features like distinguishing the friends from the mere non-idiots and fine-tuning moderation. -1 to +5 just isn't enough. It would be *so* easy to hide the scores and let users choose (I want the n highest rated comments) while maintaining a moderation limit per comment to prevent over-moderation of early comments. Actually I have designed some additions to/. as a mind play, such as "I want to read 15 minutes of good comments" or "I want to read 20 minutes of trolls". But I digress.;)
Actually I give freaks a +2 modifier so I can see and pick on them if they say something stupid. *g* It's all just on personal preference, I guess, but to me it feels as if all those features in slashcode aren't exactly made in a way that encourage creative use, but that might be because of server load issues. I don't know perl, so I can't look it up.;)
True, true. But any medium is biased, and if it is only because you filter the content in your mind.
Actually the friends list can serve as a nice non-idiot database, and I regularly included people with whom I disagreed but who obviously know what they're talking about. But now I am reshaping it to represent a social network, and the comments I get to see degrade in quality as I remove more and more entries from the NIDB times. Slashdot definitely should offer a finer granulation of comment moderation. If you assign modifiers to friends, FOF and maybe one or two mod categories like Funny or Insightful, you get lots of comments at +4 or +5. Making it reach up to +10 or something would definitely help.
the boot up time on an old Apple II was faster than the boot up time on a modern Mac or PC
That's something that really bothers me nowadays, using and programming computers since 1981. The old machines were ready to use much quicker than today. I know, there's more complexity in today's systems, but wtf? My 386DX/25 DOS 6.22 box was ready to use nine seconds after switching it on, around 20 seconds when autostarting Windows 3.11. That seemed like a long wait, but you don't want to know how damn long my box takes today until I can actually use it, it's minutes from power-on on my Athlon 1133, and I have stripped many things like scanning for new hardware and only running what I really need, disabling daemons/services...
Suspend to disk comes close, but still feels slow. Aren't there any efforts made on getting quicker again?
I know you're being modded as funny (obviously by someone who didn't check to see that you indeed added me to your friends list), but if my comment puts me onto your list, I guess you belong onto mine, too, as I tend to befriend people with similar views on some topics.
> Its designed for visual presentation of data, > placing of text and graphics
No, goddammit, it's not. It's designed for structurally marking up hypertext, thus the name. The visual presentation is being dealt with by CSS. The separation of style and content through HTML4/CSS1 is best practice since when, 1998?
And while we're at it, how do you e.g. position an image with say 4mm full run-around at (75mm/150mm) on a printout with plain HTML? To make it short, you don't because you can't.
Mind you, I don't pick on you personally, I just can't stand reading things like that anymore. Separation of code and presentation is best practice about everywhere, and HTML/CSS really makes it easy for everyone. It's not exactly rocket science and people would have to bitch about HTML/CSS much less if they simply wrote valid code in the appropriate languages. It's no wonder most tagsoup renders like shit in different browsers. Sadly, most 'web designers' don't get the clue, but it's been like this since the very beginning, so I will just stop complaining now and continue writing my book on the subject.
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Aw come on. It's "Rape and *Sexual Torture*". Abu Ghraib definitely qualifies as sexual torture, especially from the point of view of every muslim. So the link is correct. Just because you don't even consider the muslim POV you feel this as a political agenda which is it not. The link is factually correct and well in place, as it's one of the latest examples of sexual torture that has become public. I don't think it matters who committed it, really. Maybe you just feel guilty of it and don't want it shown? Anyone who condemns you as a citizen of the US just because of the actions of some dumbasses isn't to be taken seriously anyways. The intelligent ones among us recognize it as what it is - the actions of some dumb individuals.
One, you lose the benefit of shared libraries.
.apps on OS X are folders anyway, so put all that's needed there and forget about all those problems software installation caused "back then".
Which was what, again? If we just buried that shared lib myth and packaged all libs with the applications, life would be *much* easier. It's not as if disk space would matter. Drag-and-Drop installs and uninstalls rule, when implemented properly.
Two, you don't get the app categorized in your program menus. (Throwing every app imaginable into an application folder is horrible management)
Nah. Program menus are *so* MacOS Classic. The thing you're looking for is called the Dock. You drag the App into the App folder, then drag it to the Dock from there. If you happen to find you're not using it often enough to sacrifice the icon space for it (I find the dock to become too crowded for my personal taste too fast, YMMV), you can access it very quickly by opening a finder window and clicking on "Applications", and it will sit just there. (You can even type the first few letters of its name and it will be pre-selected and ready for Apple-O.)
Now that would be in a perfect world without installers. You hit the nail on the head with your comments on those, and on the dirt throwers that contaminate your Lib folders. I sure would hope that Apple finally banned installers altogether and have people use the drag-and-drop way of installing cleanly, without copying anything anywhere.
Really, think about it. The main problem in Windows for most people I know is that they fuck it up by installing and uninstalling lots of software. With the above method, that would definitely not be the case anymore. I don't understand how the OSS people and the software industry can't see how that would remove so much pain from today's computer use. Apple seems to slowly understand, but it will take some time until they're there and everybody else copies it.
With NOBODY to hold my hands. Because the life of the geek is a lonely life.
...in Japan!
You must be new here.
And not to forget that Prescott Bush was tried and convicted after WW2 for massively funding Adolf Hitler. I found it's not popular or even widely known among Americans, but interesing nevertheless. It's quite probable that Hitler wouldn't have been as successful at getting absolute power without Bush. I like to tell to Americans when they accuse me of being a Nazi just because I'm German. (And yes, I realize those people are dumb and not representative.)
Nah. Just let it run long enough and it will come up with the complete works of Shakespeare.
The rest will be uploaded as the Next Big Thing and be called "The Intarnet". We will tell generations of young hackers that the data's just encrypted and use the time it takes them to realize what's going on as a geek test.
Or standards-compliant CSS rendering. You know, stuff like getting the fucking box model right and implementing at least FUCKING CSS 1 DAMMIT.
Sorry, forgot to take my pills. I'm off to the nurse.
The difference, my dear AC, is in that most Americans haven't cleaned many toilets besides their own, while almost everyone who builds advanced web stuff nowadays started with doing all that shit years ago. So I see your 'karma' and raise one 'been there, done that' for almost everyone.
Fact is, those who call themselves 'web designers' either are trying not to confuse some non-techie (like telling your grandma you 'control computers' when you're really an Oracle DBA) or they're dorks. Those who know that they've got a lot to learn, avoid the term 'web designer' at all cost, and for a reason.
Yeah, I see that too over here in Germany, and I keep wondering how dumb those dorks are. "Web design" was almost no good for making a living some years ago, and it's even worse now. If you are talking about making money building [for] the web, it's all in online applications, customized databases and so on. Web design-only clients mean hassle, shitty work, and trouble getting paid reasonable money.
If you do web sites for small and medium-sized companies (and most of those people do, as they won't get the real big clients), you can get how much out of them nowadays for static web pages, about 2000 to 5000 EUR if you're lucky? The average database application makes me easy 20-80K EUR and keeps me going for a while - and *those* clients are easy to find between above clients and the big ones.
Those in "web design" I meet are mostly dorks, and so be it! They won't endanger my wallet. Let them do the shit nobody wants to do anyway. They'll burn out and be replaced with more dorks. Good for us who get to do the interesting stuff.
You must be new here. *g*
Thanks for your reply, the discussion is quite interesting for those of us who don't read or write code. Anyway, I have one question - I read that there's lots of debugging and tracing stuff in 5.3 and that it runs much faster if you remove that. The discussion surprisingly doesn't touch the subject, so I have to ask whether you removed all that or not? I tried 5.2.1 and found it to be much slower than 4.8 on my Athlon 1133, but then again I just can't remember how that slowing-down stuff was called and how to remove it, so I won't blame the FreeBSD staff. ;)
I hope it will. Maybe without the fancy formatting people will learn to write again instead of scribbling.
BTW, I have the same sig you have here at work. My boss thinks it's odd and funny and likes to point it out as funny to prospective clients. I wonder if he'll ever grip how dumb it makes him look for the brighter ones, but I digress.
Geez, you've got some hot friends.
I don't have a clue how gyros would help here.
;)
Jokes aside, since I read your other post (the one I replied to), I wonder how it could be done. I suppose that the "paper" would have to have no limitations on how to move to get the full lift effect, but maybe this premise is broken, maybe your suggestion about the very small "papers" can help work it out, but still an interesing problem.
Any engineers here who can comment on the subject? I'm a programmer, I don't do hardware.
Okay, just tell me how you mechanically keep the single flat objects connected while still allowing them to float freely (i.e. in *any* direction). I'd love to see this in action.
Hm. Somehow I have to think of how many Rubik's Magic I bought just because people would almost immediately break them if you handed one to them. Obviously this Rubik guy didn't solve the practical problem very well. (BTW, the solutions on that page are correct, but I'd wonder if anyone could follow *those* instructions on how to do it. )
FWIW, that's a copy of an old CompuServe forum message, so it's not really a usenet reference. ;)
I might be confusing Freenet with something else, but wasn't Freenet the network in which you dedicate a certain amount and disk space (!) to encrypted data you have no idea about?
If yes, I might be a child porn distributor without even knowing, and go to jail for it. Why should I want to be on such a network?
As others said, just because you can't google it doesn't mean it's not true. I ran a legally purchased DRDOS (don't remember the version number) which wouldn't run my legally purchased Windows 3.1 (OEM).
I also ran GeoWorks Ensemble which looked and worked great, but as I mainly played games and programmed in Turbo Pascal at that time, I didn't have much use for a GUI and ditched the pirated copy in favour of my legal Win 3.1 I only started up for the occasional letter/homework or showing it off to people. So I can't confirm the Geoworks problem myself (must have been MSDOS 5 at that time), but I definitely had the DRDOS problem which was a shame because it offered native task switching and great memory management that was *way* ahead of its time.
I actually doubt that they would check in patches I make to be used on /. itself. :) But then again, I don't think they are too interested in community building, otherwise they'd have a meta section and better community features like distinguishing the friends from the mere non-idiots and fine-tuning moderation. -1 to +5 just isn't enough. It would be *so* easy to hide the scores and let users choose (I want the n highest rated comments) while maintaining a moderation limit per comment to prevent over-moderation of early comments. Actually I have designed some additions to /. as a mind play, such as "I want to read 15 minutes of good comments" or "I want to read 20 minutes of trolls". But I digress. ;)
Actually I give freaks a +2 modifier so I can see and pick on them if they say something stupid. *g* It's all just on personal preference, I guess, but to me it feels as if all those features in slashcode aren't exactly made in a way that encourage creative use, but that might be because of server load issues. I don't know perl, so I can't look it up. ;)
True, true. But any medium is biased, and if it is only because you filter the content in your mind.
Actually the friends list can serve as a nice non-idiot database, and I regularly included people with whom I disagreed but who obviously know what they're talking about. But now I am reshaping it to represent a social network, and the comments I get to see degrade in quality as I remove more and more entries from the NIDB times. Slashdot definitely should offer a finer granulation of comment moderation. If you assign modifiers to friends, FOF and maybe one or two mod categories like Funny or Insightful, you get lots of comments at +4 or +5. Making it reach up to +10 or something would definitely help.
That's something that really bothers me nowadays, using and programming computers since 1981. The old machines were ready to use much quicker than today. I know, there's more complexity in today's systems, but wtf? My 386DX/25 DOS 6.22 box was ready to use nine seconds after switching it on, around 20 seconds when autostarting Windows 3.11. That seemed like a long wait, but you don't want to know how damn long my box takes today until I can actually use it, it's minutes from power-on on my Athlon 1133, and I have stripped many things like scanning for new hardware and only running what I really need, disabling daemons/services...
Suspend to disk comes close, but still feels slow. Aren't there any efforts made on getting quicker again?
I know you're being modded as funny (obviously by someone who didn't check to see that you indeed added me to your friends list), but if my comment puts me onto your list, I guess you belong onto mine, too, as I tend to befriend people with similar views on some topics.
Yeah, sure. It's the butler. It's always the butler.
> Its designed for visual presentation of data,
> placing of text and graphics
No, goddammit, it's not. It's designed for structurally marking up hypertext, thus the name. The visual presentation is being dealt with by CSS. The separation of style and content through HTML4/CSS1 is best practice since when, 1998?
And while we're at it, how do you e.g. position an image with say 4mm full run-around at (75mm/150mm) on a printout with plain HTML? To make it short, you don't because you can't.
Mind you, I don't pick on you personally, I just can't stand reading things like that anymore. Separation of code and presentation is best practice about everywhere, and HTML/CSS really makes it easy for everyone. It's not exactly rocket science and people would have to bitch about HTML/CSS much less if they simply wrote valid code in the appropriate languages. It's no wonder most tagsoup renders like shit in different browsers. Sadly, most 'web designers' don't get the clue, but it's been like this since the very beginning, so I will just stop complaining now and continue writing my book on the subject.
Come on, now don't you inflate the issue.