MDI is sweet. It's a great tool. Not the right tool for all jobs, but it's the right tool for some jobs.
The tabbed approach is great too - I'm using it now in Mozilla. But, if you want to be able to view, compare, or monitor multiple documents at once, tabbing blows. MDI handles that much better.
Someone bitched about MDI using "full screen windows..." Duh. Don't maximize and you won't have that problem. Someone bitched about switching between child windows. Waaah. Use ctrl-tab to traverse the children. (The programmer has the option of taking that a step further, traversing the child windows on an MRU basis.)
Pick the right tool for the job. MDI has its place, tabbing has its place. Both kick ass. Neither sucks.
On the one hand, he's right - MS does decides what goes onto most PC desktops. How many consumers, percentagewise, ditch Outlook Express for something else? There's like two dozen people still using Eudora, right?
On the other hand, MS's referee position didn't seem to bother him back when MS decided that RealNames should be bundled with Windows (I'd say "with IE," but they're one and the same, just ask Microsoft) instead of any of the other companies that were doing the same thing RealNames did. Far as I know, RealNames was the last company playing in that space, after their MS alliance forced the rest out of business.
Spammers aren't smart, but they're probably smart enough to strip the ".gov" addresses before they fire up the spam blasters.
Then again, if there's a www.joeblowforcongress.com sort of web site... nah, you think the candidate is going to listen to the complaints from his minions?
I think the next big invention in internet and computing is a fool proof way to detect and stop spam.
Or use a good whitelist. Anything sent to me by a stranger gets bounced with a message asking them to press reply to confirm their existence. After that, their original message gets through to me, and they're no longer a stranger.
I've only been using this for a month of so, but as far as I'm concerned, spam is no longer a problem. (Well, I did have a Nigerian bank scammer actually confirm the other day....)
If you don't mind playing with procmail, head over to http://sf.net/projects/whitelight and get a copy. Or get the python whitelist, I forget what it's called but it's on sourceforge. Or get the TMDA whitelist if you run your own mail server... or get some other whitelist, I'm sure there's many others.
If Futurama gets cancelled, give us Bart Headroom.
Smartass kid gets whacked over the head, uploaded to Gnutella during his last living moments, then pops up on Channel One to diss Coca-Cola products and help his friend at the student newspaper uncover Microsoft's contributions to Ashcroft's campaigns and the resulting "derailing" of the anti-trust case.
Episode II: ABCDNBCBS, Inc... Corruption at the FCC
Episode III: RIAA... A congressman is the best investment you can make.
Amen. But then, damn near everything interesting in the Headroom universe is a frightening foreshadowing... At least Ramona@kurzweilai.net doesn't stutter like Max, though. Big Time Television=pirate broadcasting. TV watching the viewers=spyware. Illegal off-switch=the fight to stop time-shifters from skipping commercials. ZikZak=AOLTW+SearsRoebuck (just you wait). I swear if I see one more fkkking pop-up ad, I'm going to explode like a blipvertised couch potato.
That show was way ahead of its time. Like someone said above, it was really hard to find people who "got it." As for me, I couldn't decide if I wanted to grow up to be Edison, Bryce, or Reg... but I knew I wanted to marry Fiora.:-)
Oh my god. You have the coolest mom on the planet.
Really, you have no idea how lucky you are.
(Unless it's just an old Coke promo t-shirt, in which case, never mind....)
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Give the average person immortality and I bet it becomes even more important to them that they live freely and comfortably. Give a tyrant immortality and there is even more to be gained by subjugating others.
This just means that wars will be conducted via remote control.
I think it's the other way around, actually... The human era is expected ends in 25-50 primarily because of AI. It's not just a coincidence, it's the cause.
No, wait... it's blackout time, what am I doing here? Pfft.
Should we also fund the military with sales from Sylvester Stallone movies? Fund highways with sales for movies with more than 8.6 seconds of car chase scenes?
Here's an idea: fund the space program with a tax on organizations that USE the space program. Want to launch a satellite? Pay your NASA tax, they paved the way. Your satellite needs a repair? Call NASA, and have your checkbook ready.
Why should sci-fi readers foot the bill for a program that greases the wheels for telecom companies, DirecTV, spaceimaging.com et al? Why can't they (and their customers) pay their own freakin' way?
I made the mistake of buying a MidiMan Midisport 8x8 without asking around first (dumb). I used it under Windows for a few weeks, can't take it back now (dumb). There is no Linux support. The interface is undocumented and inscrutable, so there probably won't be without a heroic effort. I am totally kicking myself for this (dumb) purchase. Argh.
And the icing on the cake... 1996-vintage MusicQuest 8Port/SE that this thing replaces came with much more user-friendly drivers and utilities.
An M-Audio Quattro was going to be my next purchase, but I don't think I can wait for this company to wake up and smell the Linux.
I wonder if Scientology's next complaint will include a footnote that says something like, "this complaint is copyright (c) 2002 Scientology Inc. Redistribution of this document, posting it on the web, or linking to it if it should appear on the web, is expressly prohibited...."
But I spoze in that case Google could just pretend the complaint didn't exist, wait for the scientologists to file a complaint with the court (read: in public) and then link to that document as they comply with the request to remove the links.
That text is not just a 'censored notice,' it's also a means of defeating the Scientology's legal attack. In their complaint, Scientology provides the list of URLs they want censored. By linking to the complaint, Google provides end user with a list of the removed links. It's such an elegant way to defeat the legal attack - use the complaint itself to provide what the complaint seeks to take away - I couldn't help but laugh out loud.
But yeah, putting that notice ("you can find the censored links here...") at the top of the page would be the icing on the cake.
If you want to make money selling software, you have to write that software yourself. All of it. Seems fair, don't it?
If us taxpayers are going to pay universities to write innovative software, we (the people who paid for the creation of that software) would like that software to remain in the public domain.
Gates, on the other hand, opposes the GPL because he wants to enable himself and others to make money on the backs of students who work at the expense of taxpayers. Is there some reason that I should be sympathetic here?
As Gates is reportedly fond of saying, that's the stupidest idea I've heard all week.
3) Price cut to $600ish "if you put JUST LINUX" in the order form comments.
4) Company web site is non-functional.
5) Company website comes back, sorta... now the root page is forwarded to a store.yahoo.com page.
6) Said page has NO information about the product (well, there's a picture), nor about the company, just an "order" button and a $600ish price tag.
7) No metion of the "just linux" discount, it's apparently $600ish, period.
So here we have a company that's fallen on hard times, can't keep its web site up, is not marketing itself or its products via the web (an "order" button and a picture does not constitute marketing, it's just begging for sales), and is selling off its sole product for under half the original price.
This looks to me like a liquidation sale. I'd love to be proven wrong though, because I would like very much to have such a box (tho at a lower price). Anyone have any inside scoop on ZapMedia's overall health?
Heck no, it's just part of doing business. There's a reason they always use free providers - those are throwaway accounts, they know they'll be using other accounts for the next spamming.
Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be better just to let them keep on using the same accounts, at least that way they could be filtered easily.
Consider the law of supply and demand. Bandwidth is more attractive now than ever before, and in most areas the number of wires in the ground hasn't increased to keep pace. Bandwidth is expensive because people will pay lots of money for it (high demand) and because there are not many ways to get it (tight supply).
The fact that most of the suppliers are local monopolies is just the icing on the cake (their cake that is, not yours).
I always cringe when MAJOR_RECORD_LABEL claims that MP3s are costing them BIG_NUMBER millions per year. As if ~7 downloads = 1 CD that would otherwise have been purchased. If MP3 swapping drops by 75% because the songs cost $0.02 to download, that would provide an interesting basis for the lost revenue equation.
You see, I have this theory that very few of the Napster downloads do not represent lost sales. They represent someone downloading heaps of songs because they can download heaps of songs. They represent someone else downloading a heap of songs out of curiousity, only to delete them after a quick preview because no, that band actually sucks. The represent someone else downloading a heap of songs because their friend recommended the band... and then it's off to the CD shop cuz yeah, it's worth $15ish to hear that in the car, living room, and anywhere else the computer's speakers can't be heard.
Of course, there's occasionally the download and CD-burn of a compilation of songs from albums that basically sucked except for one or two tracks that kicked much ass (any Skinny Puppy fans out there? I'm sure many of you know exactly what I mean). That probably does cost the industry. But that problem contains it's own solution: don't force your customers to spend $15 for a track or two, sell user-specified compilations containing only the tracks customers want - for $17, with luck.
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The tabbed approach is great too - I'm using it now in Mozilla. But, if you want to be able to view, compare, or monitor multiple documents at once, tabbing blows. MDI handles that much better.
And then there's the situation where an app needs multiple views on a single document. MDI is the right tool for that job.
Someone bitched about MDI using "full screen windows..." Duh. Don't maximize and you won't have that problem. Someone bitched about switching between child windows. Waaah. Use ctrl-tab to traverse the children. (The programmer has the option of taking that a step further, traversing the child windows on an MRU basis.)
Pick the right tool for the job. MDI has its place, tabbing has its place. Both kick ass. Neither sucks.
Corporations will learn that leasson when huge numbers of people stop forking over huge amounts of money for Microsoft's products.
The Peru situation is pretty cool, but I'm still not holding my breath.
On the other hand, MS's referee position didn't seem to bother him back when MS decided that RealNames should be bundled with Windows (I'd say "with IE," but they're one and the same, just ask Microsoft) instead of any of the other companies that were doing the same thing RealNames did. Far as I know, RealNames was the last company playing in that space, after their MS alliance forced the rest out of business.
But back then, that was good.
The tables turned.
Now, that's bad?
He's right, it sucks, but still...
Somebody call the guy a waaaaambulance.
"Punch a spammer! Bidding starts at $50!"
Then again, if there's a www.joeblowforcongress.com sort of web site... nah, you think the candidate is going to listen to the complaints from his minions?
Or use a good whitelist. Anything sent to me by a stranger gets bounced with a message asking them to press reply to confirm their existence. After that, their original message gets through to me, and they're no longer a stranger.
I've only been using this for a month of so, but as far as I'm concerned, spam is no longer a problem. (Well, I did have a Nigerian bank scammer actually confirm the other day....)
If you don't mind playing with procmail, head over to http://sf.net/projects/whitelight and get a copy. Or get the python whitelist, I forget what it's called but it's on sourceforge. Or get the TMDA whitelist if you run your own mail server... or get some other whitelist, I'm sure there's many others.
http://www.amphistar.com
http://home.mira.net/~radacorp/ (not commercial, but noteworthy)
http://home.t-online.de/home/02431981680-0001/hom
http://www.airfoil.de/
"World's most recent press release..." is probably more like it.
Smartass kid gets whacked over the head, uploaded to Gnutella during his last living moments, then pops up on Channel One to diss Coca-Cola products and help his friend at the student newspaper uncover Microsoft's contributions to Ashcroft's campaigns and the resulting "derailing" of the anti-trust case.
Episode II: ABCDNBCBS, Inc... Corruption at the FCC
Episode III: RIAA... A congressman is the best investment you can make.
Please oh please.
That show was way ahead of its time. Like someone said above, it was really hard to find people who "got it." As for me, I couldn't decide if I wanted to grow up to be Edison, Bryce, or Reg... but I knew I wanted to marry Fiora. :-)
Really, you have no idea how lucky you are.
(Unless it's just an old Coke promo t-shirt, in which case, never mind....)
This just means that wars will be conducted via remote control.
No, wait... it's blackout time, what am I doing here? Pfft.
Here's an idea: fund the space program with a tax on organizations that USE the space program. Want to launch a satellite? Pay your NASA tax, they paved the way. Your satellite needs a repair? Call NASA, and have your checkbook ready.
Why should sci-fi readers foot the bill for a program that greases the wheels for telecom companies, DirecTV, spaceimaging.com et al? Why can't they (and their customers) pay their own freakin' way?
This is just a way for ICANN to make money, nothing more, nothing less. Other TLD registrar apps work the same way, if I'm not mistaken.
And the icing on the cake... 1996-vintage MusicQuest 8Port/SE that this thing replaces came with much more user-friendly drivers and utilities.
An M-Audio Quattro was going to be my next purchase, but I don't think I can wait for this company to wake up and smell the Linux.
But I spoze in that case Google could just pretend the complaint didn't exist, wait for the scientologists to file a complaint with the court (read: in public) and then link to that document as they comply with the request to remove the links.
It will be interesting to see how this develops.
But yeah, putting that notice ("you can find the censored links here...") at the top of the page would be the icing on the cake.
If us taxpayers are going to pay universities to write innovative software, we (the people who paid for the creation of that software) would like that software to remain in the public domain.
Gates, on the other hand, opposes the GPL because he wants to enable himself and others to make money on the backs of students who work at the expense of taxpayers. Is there some reason that I should be sympathetic here?
As Gates is reportedly fond of saying, that's the stupidest idea I've heard all week.
The web site is back up... perhaps I was mistaken about the company's demise.
2) Producer goes through some layoffs.
3) Price cut to $600ish "if you put JUST LINUX" in the order form comments.
4) Company web site is non-functional.
5) Company website comes back, sorta... now the root page is forwarded to a store.yahoo.com page.
6) Said page has NO information about the product (well, there's a picture), nor about the company, just an "order" button and a $600ish price tag.
7) No metion of the "just linux" discount, it's apparently $600ish, period.
So here we have a company that's fallen on hard times, can't keep its web site up, is not marketing itself or its products via the web (an "order" button and a picture does not constitute marketing, it's just begging for sales), and is selling off its sole product for under half the original price.
This looks to me like a liquidation sale. I'd love to be proven wrong though, because I would like very much to have such a box (tho at a lower price). Anyone have any inside scoop on ZapMedia's overall health?
Why, all the little fishies will have to swim out of the way just as fast as they can, I guess. I pity the mollusks, though.
Heck no, it's just part of doing business. There's a reason they always use free providers - those are throwaway accounts, they know they'll be using other accounts for the next spamming.
Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be better just to let them keep on using the same accounts, at least that way they could be filtered easily.
...and the message is clear: if you're using AOL/TW, now would be a good time to find another ISP.
The fact that most of the suppliers are local monopolies is just the icing on the cake (their cake that is, not yours).
You see, I have this theory that very few of the Napster downloads do not represent lost sales. They represent someone downloading heaps of songs because they can download heaps of songs. They represent someone else downloading a heap of songs out of curiousity, only to delete them after a quick preview because no, that band actually sucks. The represent someone else downloading a heap of songs because their friend recommended the band... and then it's off to the CD shop cuz yeah, it's worth $15ish to hear that in the car, living room, and anywhere else the computer's speakers can't be heard.
Of course, there's occasionally the download and CD-burn of a compilation of songs from albums that basically sucked except for one or two tracks that kicked much ass (any Skinny Puppy fans out there? I'm sure many of you know exactly what I mean). That probably does cost the industry. But that problem contains it's own solution: don't force your customers to spend $15 for a track or two, sell user-specified compilations containing only the tracks customers want - for $17, with luck.