The rant about the difference between icons for objects versus actions was very insightful - somebody should really apply that interface metric to Windows and Linux systems as well. Sounds like Mac OS really took a step backwards there.
I agree in principal, but at the same time I know that novice users (still a big apple market) love having little icons everywhere. That favorites icon (the heart) which bugged this guy so much will be adored by many consumers ("I just click on the litte red heart, and my favorites come up! Oooh! Aaah!"), and it's easy for the people who don't like it to turn it off. Ditto for the interface tricks he doesn't like ("Look at the animations! Wheeeeee!"). I don't think it's a step backwards. I'm sure they would have gotten lot more criticism if they, god forbid, made a toolbar with a bunch of text-only buttons.
Blogs will replace sites like Slashdot when Slashdot goes to a subscription model.
Slashdot IS a blog. It even won a bloggie. You must mean small time independant blogs. But if one of them grew big enough to replace slashdot, it, too, would have to somehow pay the bills, and would probably adopt some sort of bussiness model you don't like (ads and/or subscriptions).
I would pay for Google Well, google isn't (and won't be any time soon) asking you to pay. So, how about you set your slashdot homepage prefs so you get a little google slashbox at the top of your/. homepage, and then pay $5 for a/. subscription, and make believe you're paying for google. Sound good?
And admins in school settings are just doing their job too, which happens to be censoring entire school district's net access so that anything deemed unchristian by the administration won't be accessible.
Err, I meant "to start buying DVDs". Should've previewed first, my apologies.
yeah, thats ok. I totally missed the "cd prices" part of your original post (even though I quoted it!) and made an ass of myself chalengeing dvd prices. Oh well. Gotta start waking up fully in the morning before posting to slashdot.
Walmart has so many DVD titles for $14.99, but go to any cd store at the mall and face 15.99 prices for music. ... I still buy both, but cd prices are something that have irked me for years.
Are you sure there have there been $14.99 DVD's for years?
Secondly, if Southern Baptists can get away with it, why shouldn't Scientologists?
Nobody should get away with it. All religious organizations that collect money from their followers and operate in a bussiness-like fashion should be treated as a comercial entity, because thats what they are.
3rd party Copyright bounty hunters could just take people to civil or small claims court. You might think twice about sharing copyrighted material on Morpheous if there was some guy waiting to get a $5000 judgement against you and split it with the copyright holder.
That's a great idea! We should also fund a program to encourage kids to snitch on their parents to the gestapo if they suspect them of drug use. Oh wait; we already do!
Could you imagine that trial? The total amount of worldwide (hell, even just american...) filesharers? That would kill them... The media would have to report on the sheer number of people, not to mention the number of famous, politically active, law enforcement, and other high profile people that would be involved. Hell, I bet even RIAA and MPAA members would be involved. It would halt any further litigation.
Because they'd naturally have to prosecute fairly and evenly. And the media would, naturally, report it fairly. And the public outcry would be overwheling. And the will of the people would actually have an impact on the case. And everyone lives happily ever after (world peace is also achieved). Right?
Opera kicks ass. On my mac here at work, it loads the 200-comment-long nested-view slashdot threads in a fraction of the time InternetExplorer5 does. I keep IE open for doing actual work though; it's kind of handy having a seperate browser history for work-related and non-work-related web browsing.
Do you think Microsoft would ever release Office and IE for a next-generation OS that runs on the same hardware as windows[XP,2000,ME,etc]? I don't think so.
Notice also that the whole article makes it sound like google is selling paid placement within their search results, and only mentions at the very bottom that the ads still go in the "sponsored links" column on the right. And it makes no mention of the fact that they're the still only major search engine without graphical ads.
I think by cowboyneal's clear victory in this poll, we can conclude that most slashdotters don't watch farscape. Heck, most of us probably don't even get it.
I used to get it, when I got scifi, but then I moved 20 miles away and my new cable company doesn't have scifi. We get comedy central instead.
(nobody I know gets both scifi and comedy central... even though every cable company within a hundred miles has been bought by AT&T, the channel lineup still has to be different from city to city. Becuase they're fuckers.)
If you redirected traffic from the central server to a fake server of your own creation, wouldn't that limit the number of people you could play with online to, oh, say, just YOU?
I don't know for certain, but I really doubt the authentication is done entirely seperate from actual gameplay. Break one, break em both.
Did CmdrTaco, one of the helmsmen of the most popular Free/OS news sites in existence just mimic what Microsoft PR/FUD machine has been saying since Linux showed up on its threat radar?
I was thinking something along those same lines, but then I remembered that he's talking about a service that it costs money to continue providing. He's not talking about source code or software, he's talking about a website providing a service.
There is a very big difference.
We're lucky to live in a time when people are giving away their code, but we're luckier still to live in a time when there are SO many entirely free (except for ads) web services.
All the same, free or not, I can't think of an above-the-board reason a why site would need a policy allowing it to change it's terms of use without first notifying it's users. That just seems low down and shady.
Seriously, folks. I hate microsoft as much as the next guy, but this is getting out of hand. The government demanding a private company's source code? Is that the kind of world we want?
Everyone seems blinded by the fact that this time it's microsoft who happens to be the victim. Doesn't anyone see that next time it might be the good guys getting fucked by the government?
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The rant about the difference between icons for objects versus actions was very insightful - somebody should really apply that interface metric to Windows and Linux systems as well. Sounds like Mac OS really took a step backwards there.
I agree in principal, but at the same time I know that novice users (still a big apple market) love having little icons everywhere. That favorites icon (the heart) which bugged this guy so much will be adored by many consumers ("I just click on the litte red heart, and my favorites come up! Oooh! Aaah!"), and it's easy for the people who don't like it to turn it off. Ditto for the interface tricks he doesn't like ("Look at the animations! Wheeeeee!"). I don't think it's a step backwards. I'm sure they would have gotten lot more criticism if they, god forbid, made a toolbar with a bunch of text-only buttons.
> Doesn't like font handling.
I think what he said is that he didn't like the font selection interface.
And he doesn't like that some fonts look shitty in Carbon apps.
Which is a really stupid flaw in the OS, and quite worth bitching about.
vi rhymes with sky
Blogs will replace sites like Slashdot when Slashdot goes to a subscription model.
/. homepage, and then pay $5 for a /. subscription, and make believe you're paying for google. Sound good?
Slashdot IS a blog. It even won a bloggie. You must mean small time independant blogs. But if one of them grew big enough to replace slashdot, it, too, would have to somehow pay the bills, and would probably adopt some sort of bussiness model you don't like (ads and/or subscriptions).
I would pay for Google
Well, google isn't (and won't be any time soon) asking you to pay. So, how about you set your slashdot homepage prefs so you get a little google slashbox at the top of your
And admins in school settings are just doing their job too, which happens to be censoring entire school district's net access so that anything deemed unchristian by the administration won't be accessible.
bullshit. show me how accessable your mac cube is...
The mac cube is this accessible.
Err, I meant "to start buying DVDs". Should've previewed first, my apologies.
yeah, thats ok. I totally missed the "cd prices" part of your original post (even though I quoted it!) and made an ass of myself chalengeing dvd prices. Oh well. Gotta start waking up fully in the morning before posting to slashdot.
Walmart has so many DVD titles for $14.99, but go to any cd store at the mall and face 15.99 prices for music.
...
I still buy both, but cd prices are something that have irked me for years.
Are you sure there have there been $14.99 DVD's for years?
Secondly, if Southern Baptists can get away with it, why shouldn't Scientologists?
Nobody should get away with it. All religious organizations that collect money from their followers and operate in a bussiness-like fashion should be treated as a comercial entity, because thats what they are.
Unfortunately (or, fortunately, depending on how you look at it), corporations no not have Constitutionally guaranteed rights.
Actually, they do, according to the famous 1886 court decision.
Sucks, doesn't it?
3rd party Copyright bounty hunters could just take people to civil or small claims court. You might think twice about sharing copyrighted material on Morpheous if there was some guy waiting to get a $5000 judgement against you and split it with the copyright holder.
That's a great idea! We should also fund a program to encourage kids to snitch on their parents to the gestapo if they suspect them of drug use. Oh wait; we already do!
Could you imagine that trial? The total amount of worldwide (hell, even just american...) filesharers? That would kill them... The media would have to report on the sheer number of people, not to mention the number of famous, politically active, law enforcement, and other high profile people that would be involved. Hell, I bet even RIAA and MPAA members would be involved. It would halt any further litigation.
Because they'd naturally have to prosecute fairly and evenly. And the media would, naturally, report it fairly. And the public outcry would be overwheling. And the will of the people would actually have an impact on the case. And everyone lives happily ever after (world peace is also achieved). Right?
Opera kicks ass. On my mac here at work, it loads the 200-comment-long nested-view slashdot threads in a fraction of the time InternetExplorer5 does. I keep IE open for doing actual work though; it's kind of handy having a seperate browser history for work-related and non-work-related web browsing.
If a site admin decides they don't want something running, then they don't want something running, and it's nobody else's business.
You've clearly never been a user on a network with stupid-bitch admins who block everything.
Yes. It is a marketing strategy.
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It's the queers. They're in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for gay Martians, I swear to God
It was funnier before I realized the second part was your sig, and not refering to
Where can I get it in 2,048 by 1,536 resolution??
Right here. (9mb TIFF from nasa)
Do you think Microsoft would ever release Office and IE for a next-generation OS that runs on the same hardware as windows[XP,2000,ME,etc]? I don't think so.
I agree. Certainly not a topic worth commenting on.
I also would not even consider commenting on this topic.
Notice also that the whole article makes it sound like google is selling paid placement within their search results, and only mentions at the very bottom that the ads still go in the "sponsored links" column on the right. And it makes no mention of the fact that they're the still only major search engine without graphical ads.
nevermind. I don't know what I was thinking! ;-)
Uh, dude, $0.0023 is 23 hundredths of a penny.
Uh, dude. Wouldn't that be 230 hundredths, or 2.3 tenths of a penny?
I mean, $0.0023 x 10 would be 2.3 pennies, right?
I think by cowboyneal's clear victory in this poll, we can conclude that most slashdotters don't watch farscape. Heck, most of us probably don't even get it.
I used to get it, when I got scifi, but then I moved 20 miles away and my new cable company doesn't have scifi. We get comedy central instead.
(nobody I know gets both scifi and comedy central... even though every cable company within a hundred miles has been bought by AT&T, the channel lineup still has to be different from city to city. Becuase they're fuckers.)
If you redirected traffic from the central server to a fake server of your own creation, wouldn't that limit the number of people you could play with online to, oh, say, just YOU?
I don't know for certain, but I really doubt the authentication is done entirely seperate from actual gameplay. Break one, break em both.
Did CmdrTaco, one of the helmsmen of the most popular Free/OS news sites in existence just mimic what Microsoft PR/FUD machine has been saying since Linux showed up on its threat radar?
I was thinking something along those same lines, but then I remembered that he's talking about a service that it costs money to continue providing. He's not talking about source code or software, he's talking about a website providing a service.
There is a very big difference.
We're lucky to live in a time when people are giving away their code, but we're luckier still to live in a time when there are SO many entirely free (except for ads) web services.
All the same, free or not, I can't think of an above-the-board reason a why site would need a policy allowing it to change it's terms of use without first notifying it's users. That just seems low down and shady.
Seriously, folks. I hate microsoft as much as the next guy, but this is getting out of hand. The government demanding a private company's source code? Is that the kind of world we want?
Everyone seems blinded by the fact that this time it's microsoft who happens to be the victim. Doesn't anyone see that next time it might be the good guys getting fucked by the government?