Didn’t a Japanese company (Honda?) already have those, a decade ago. If not much more? I always assumed infinitely variable transmission existed since I was a child. Wait, so it must have been at least 20 years ago that I saw that photo and article of what was definitely a production vehicle being sold everywhere.
White: I hate the president -> Oh well... Brown: I hate the president -> Must be a terrorist! Jail him! Torture him! Quick!
Brown is the new black.
I’m sorry, but your whole American “freedom of speech” happy happy rainbow unicorn fantasy world never existed. You just had the luck to be born into the right groups.
If you mean the original version from the 70s: Remember that that thing was a book for people who found nothing strange in wiring your TV to “the wire that came out of the wall” with your bare hands. (Live wire, mind you.) I know because back then, my father owned it, and he DID wire a TV like that. ^^ In all those states, including Russia, people are very good at make-do. And in Afghanistan, the average lifespan wasn’t <35 years for nothing. ^^
My father* used to tell me, that he had such a 70s “cookbook”. The original paper version. Which was special, since... here it comes... usually that was just the term for a hollowed-out book, filled with a hand-grenade. ^^
Of course I also had to see for myself what that book contains. Unfortunately I lost the PDF of both the original version, and a early “new” version, years ago when a HDD died.:/ But I think it is completely unacceptable to put someone to jail who didn’t hurt anybody, just because he has something that could be used to hurt somebody. Because by that logic, we all here would have to go to jail, because we could use our penises to rape women (and men). Key point: Doesn’t mean we are actually doing it!
What I think is highly criminal though, is those convictions. Because other than just owning a book, those actually hurt people. There is a name for governments doing such crimes: Dictatorship.
* One of the guys who defended Afghanistan from the Russian invasion back then, assisted by weapons the US gave them, so they did not have to do it themselves. Because of a certain sub-group of people, that kinda backfired for the US though.;) (But hey, at least my father now has a lucrative job, interviewing people that don’t let anyone else interview them.)
Sorry, but you just had a big error in your logic.
There is a difference between keeping things secure with encryption, and DRM. Do you know what that difference is? I give you a hint: Control! Who does have the control over the secure systems. DRM: Your enemies. Not DRM: You.
That’s why the TPM module (from TCPA) is only bad, when you don’t have 100% control over it, and/or you’re not the only one. A TPM that works for YOU is actually your best friend to protect you from crackers and DRMers taking over control.
The point of the research isn't to scare a nation of drivers, already made nervous by stories of software glitches, faulty brakes, and massive automotive recalls.
No? Really?
and discovered new ways to hack into them, sometimes with frightening results.
Riiight...
I think the US has a real problem with the scaremongering. You get FUD thrown around left and right. Everything is “oh teh horrorz!!!1one”. “Terrorists”, “hackers”, “catastrophes”, “glitches”, “conspiracies”, “threats” by the dozen a day... it doesn’t end.
I think the only real threat is forgotten on the way: People making you do what they want, by scaremongering you in the right way.
If you don’t know what they mean, you could as well be an automaton applying them. And if you do, you don’t need them anyway, as you grasp the concept behind it, and can build your formulas yourself.
But hey, the automatons that leave school, having been though “math” as something where you are obsessed with “the right way”(TM) to write it, and learnin everything by heart without ever understanding it, is gonna love it...
Looks like another limited system based on standard notational systems. Nowadays I prefer music automatons that create highly dynamic loops. Stuff that you can build in Reaktor, and that you control with lots of MIDI controllers and analog inputs (read: microphone, instruments). My music scores would look like those of Aphex Twin: http://navid.radiantempire.com/pub/pix/Lustiges/aphex_twin.jpg ^^
Lefties are never going to be 100% supported; better to get used to doing things righty, it'll make for a lot less frustration.
That is a very wrong way to think. It’s a slippery slope. As someone who grew up in Germany, this instantly reminds me of the excuses people gave, for not fighting the Nazis. It was the exact same argument. Also is is the very same problem that that famous quote about giving up freedom for comfort criticizes. There are so many people who let others abuse them, or accept bad thinks, so they don’t have to face the stress. Especially women have a hard time breaking up, because, according to them, the stress that would create, is just too horrible to bear. So the prefer to have a still smaller, ever-growing amount of stress every single day, until finally it is worse than breaking up. But in the process they received thousands of times more stress and end up being wrecks. So with the intention to prevent stress, they chose the way of maximum possible stress. And that’s sad.
Also, Linux is about freedom and choice. If you can’t put everything in “leftie mode”, then that’s a serious lack of freedom is the software, and hence a critical bug in the underlying basic design. Luckily, since it’s open source, you can always fix little problem that prevent an optimal experiences. And in the process fix them for everybody else too. Hell, if you think it’s not work it, go and ask others if they would give a dollar to have it changed. Soon you will have enough to be paid to to it, or to pay someone from the original team to add that option.:)
Apple doesn’t care much what people say. They just do what they think is great. (And that is a good thing!) They just assume they are leading the way. Which naturally makes them try to fulfill that prophecy. They don’t run behind others, trying to catch up.
MS and the Linux desktop teams mostly just try to play catch-up. But by definition they can’t win that one. Ever. Because when they caught up, the innovators have long moved on to their own ideas. So they will run behind them forever, like a donkey behind a carrot. For MS, this is the definition of their business. For KDE/Gnome, this cancer grew out of the wish to get more Windows users. They thought if they imitated Windows, more people would switch over. But what they forgot, is that even a 100% perfect imitation, still offers no reason to switch. You have to offer that, and then some. Something that is enough to outweigh the inertia that people have to overcome. The only way out for KDE/Gnome, is to stop caring about Windows similarity. Stop trying to imitate! Instead freely think up completely new ways, and have the balls to stand behind them. Radical concepts. Impressive efficiency, that is so far outside the box that others can’t catch up! That is the way to go!
Of all teams on this planet, open source teams should be THE ones who can do that best. Since they don’t have to do anything. There are no paying clients. They can do whatever they want. The only problem is, that they don’t believe in themselves and fear rejection. (Sadly, this is the same thing that makes it so hard for geeks to get girls.:/)
That will be over soon and is only a temporary artifact because of the limitations of CSS2. With CSS3 you just make a multi-column layout that fills the entire width, and only if that is not enough, grows in length.:)
Auto-hide would not work with touch-screens btw. Nothing to touch...
I have some good tips for maximizing space: Firefox allows you to put the URL input field into the menu bar. Then you can switch off the URL bar, including all the pointless icons. Now you could also disable the status bar, but I find it very useful for, well, status infos. That you can disable the bookmarks bar, should go without saying. Then add the All-In-One Sidebar add-on, so you can put everything in the sidebar. And use FireGestures to replace the navigation buttons and other stuff. (When you get used to it, you would not want to ever miss it again.) Finally, install TagSifter and put its sidebar on a keyboard shortcut, so you have a much better replacement for the bookmarks bar, bookmarks manager, etc. If you want, you can even replace the tabs row with a sidebar. Also makes you more efficient, if the sidebar click areas are bigger than the tabs. (Or you become even more efficient, by using shortcuts.)
On the OS side, I you can remove ALL UI elements. Just put whatever you need in KDE4s dashboard overlay (Or use Compiz’s dashboard to do the same. Or use Compiz’s functionality to make something esl go in the foreground.) I recommend assigning a simple keyboard shortcut like Win-Space, and a simple mouse action like a click in any corner of your desktop to it.:)
LOOOL! Brilliant? That’s what you call brilliant? I personally know a dozen sources who independently had that idea years ago. As it is completely and utterly obvious.
What is not so brilliant, is that it’s still the same old same old. Meaning: There is nothing new in there. Just again icon bars / menus. Again the most often clicked UI elements are teeny tiny and pointlessly hard (read slow [read inefficient]) to click. Still the UI is completely based on mouse control. On a freaking netbook, where it’s already insultingly clunky to control the mouse pointer. Again the UI is based on free-floating windows that partially lay over each other, making the lower one useless, or will be in fullscreen anyway, rendering the concept pointless. Also organizing them is a fiddly little game of horrors and nightmares, where you have to manually drag shit around, resize, and never quite get everything to line up and use all the space available. (Instead of just *hinthint* using a tiling window manager, and be done with it.)
This is the design of people that can not think beyond what they are used to. Those people will have no problem finding problems in worse UI concepts, because “How can anyone get anything done in that language? It doesn’t have feature X!”. X being a feature that they are used to. However they are completely unable to look into the other direction of the power spectrum. And even less imagine things that are outside their tiny little box of carved-out paths. And even when someone else shows it to them, they are mentally unable to see the value of features of more powerful UIs. It will just seem “weird”. Because they are thinking in the limits of their own UI concepts.
Sorry for being so angry. But having to face it every single day, knowing how stupid it is, I can’t stand the idiocy anymore. Maybe I should instead have grabbed the first guy who came up with it, and punch him into stupor.;)
Some corrections: 1) Compiz: is sadly very misunderstood because of its eye candy. Yes, you can do eye candy. But that is not the point. The point is an extremely configurable window manager, that allows you to realize very different designs from any normal UI. I, for example have neither title bar buttons, nor a task bar, start menu or similar stuff. All window management functions are accessible trough holding the Win key (optionally with Alt), and a mouse button / movement. (E.g. Win-Mouse1 anywhere in the window = move window.) I have enabled tiling and don’t have such a thing as minimized windows. Hence the Scale plugin, and cube desktop switcher (or expo) are all I need. 2) KDE 4: Unfortunately KDE4 is extreme in its imitation of Windows. Luckily you still have the ability to set nearly everything to bearable and sane options, which is good. But usually everything defaults to the stomach-turning insanity that is the Windows behavior. Like single click + hover instead of double click + single click. Something MS did in Windows 95, and quickly removed later, because they noticed how stupid it was. And then some...: On top of that, KDE also added the Plasma behavior. Which is pretty much guaranteed to drive you insane. (Come here and I’ll make you hate it so that you’ll scream bloody murder in less than 10 minutes! Or I’ll give you $50!) At least I could use the Dashboard like this: If I click into a corner of my screen, the dashboard gets toggled. It contains the K menu (and soon some self-written full-screen alternatives), the.xsession-errors log, the clock/calendar and other very similar useful stuff like a weather info.... 8) Xmonad: You forgot that one. Probably the best and also the most efficient (tiling) window manager in existance. (And completely configurable.)
Then make them files. Is your argument seriously: “We got that fucked-up concept of data units glued together is one single file, instead of their own how it should be. So we must also fuck up the interface, because...”
For most users, they don't need to know or care
Or in other words: “I want to decide what they need to know or care about. And I think they all should stay idiots, not even able to use a file system. So the Gaussian distribution curve of idiocy goes even more down. Until I come up with an even simpler concept to satisfy the lower end of that new curve. And so on, until only complete retards can even use the system.” Or in other words: It a couple of years, you want to introduce “Clippy’s easy brother, that even a new born will find easy” (While a grown-up will not be able to use it at all, let alone efficiently,
No. Thanks.
A graph is the perfect way to store and display data. All data. No exceptions. A file system with links is basically a graph with a static node of origin. For special cases like trees and (multi-dimensional) lists there can be special optimized storages and views. But they are still only special cases of a graph view and can be transformed back and forth transparently.
The biggest joke is, that you talk about abstracting things away from the user, but do not mention in a single word, what that abstraction would be. And I say that that is, because is is physically impossible for you to do so. Since a graph is by definition the perfect abstraction for all data. Every further abstraction would be extremely lossy and seriously limit what you could do. Hence it is not physically possible to make something that makes people more able to manage data, than with a graph. Hell, even our own brain is wired in that way.
Hey, I still think Encyclopedia Dramatica and Uncyclopedia are more useful for non-political-correct things, than Wikipedia and its false moral rules ever can be.
Face it: Wikipedia is a monarchy. What does not please the gods, does not get in. And this is why it’s fundamentally flawed: It’s centralized. I mean the one who thought that up must have never looked back at history. Ever. It needs to peer-to-peer. It needs to be built upon a trust network. Or it will never surpass what is essentially a dictatorship over mindsets and ideas.
But the fucks like a goddess! And everyone knows it. Unfortunately she never uses contraceptives. Which nobody knows. This explains why she’s the mother of every human ever.;))
You seem to intentionally not mention, that first, someone has to prove that you knew that it was obtained trough theft. Also if you only believed it, and it wasn’t actually, then that’s not a crime. Ob.vi.ous.ly.
Unless your country is a dictatorship where “innocent until proven guilty” does not exist anymore. (I wouldn’t be surprised if according to some parts of the government that’s gone from the constitution already, or will be soon. A couple of more “terrorist attacks” [read: Dude with a couple of gas bottles in his car, or fake letter from fake Osama {who is dead by now, in case you missed it}] and “think of the children”s should suffice.)
So if you go to a e.g. bicycle market, buy a bike, get a invoice for it, a cop notices you driving around on that stolen bike, and you show him whom you bought it from, they prosecute YOU? Sure. Riiight...
That would be very fucked up. I was in this situation twice (both times it turned out that the bike was not the stolen one, but only the same model). And both times, I just told them: Look, here’s the invoice. That’s the dude I bought it from. If it’s stolen, please kick his ass, and get my my money back! And both times you saw that that was how they usually handled things, since the thief is normally knowingly not using the bike but selling it to someone who does not know that it is stolen. So the cops also know that it would be wrong to fuck someone over, who just got fucked over. Also the law is still to assume innocence until proven guilty.
Intentionally read ALL quantum encrypted transmissions, thereby making it impossible to use it, and forcing people to traditional channels. Then crack them. The traditional ways.
Or: After Bob received the message, just call him, tell him you are the new admin, and they did not give you the password yet, but you were told to install $somethingBobReallyWants on his computer. So if he could kindly give him the password...;)
Allright then. If you love so much to use terms that were specifically designed by a international mafia, to scaremonger people into a delusional and perverse reality, then you must also accept my preferred term for them:
Media reproduction, artist extortion and rape RAPE CHILD RAPE MURDER COCKSUCKER BLOOD TERRORIST HORROR NIGHTMARE DOOM SNUFF PORN ULTIMATE EVIL RAPE GIB SPLATTER BLOOD SPLAY FUCK FEST industry of INTERDIMENSIONAL APOCALYPSE!;)
Hey, writing a crack is not a crime. Using it might be. The cracker team should sue Rockstar for copyright infringement. Especially since they are making money off of it! Just like those black market companies that sell illegal copies of DVD movies. Let them taste their own shitstorm! YEAAH!:D
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Didn’t a Japanese company (Honda?) already have those, a decade ago. If not much more?
I always assumed infinitely variable transmission existed since I was a child. Wait, so it must have been at least 20 years ago that I saw that photo and article of what was definitely a production vehicle being sold everywhere.
Unless you are brown.
White: I hate the president -> Oh well...
Brown: I hate the president -> Must be a terrorist! Jail him! Torture him! Quick!
Brown is the new black.
I’m sorry, but your whole American “freedom of speech” happy happy rainbow unicorn fantasy world never existed. You just had the luck to be born into the right groups.
You don’t have to lie. We knew that that guy was you. ^^
Also, it’s OK. Since the only difference between you and us, is that we didn’t get caught.
Hey, find me a teenager who hears “a book full of mischief” and doesn’t go: I must instantly have that one!! ;)
If you mean the original version from the 70s: Remember that that thing was a book for people who found nothing strange in wiring your TV to “the wire that came out of the wall” with your bare hands. (Live wire, mind you.) I know because back then, my father owned it, and he DID wire a TV like that. ^^
In all those states, including Russia, people are very good at make-do. And in Afghanistan, the average lifespan wasn’t <35 years for nothing. ^^
My father* used to tell me, that he had such a 70s “cookbook”. The original paper version. Which was special, since... here it comes... usually that was just the term for a hollowed-out book, filled with a hand-grenade. ^^
Of course I also had to see for myself what that book contains. Unfortunately I lost the PDF of both the original version, and a early “new” version, years ago when a HDD died. :/
But I think it is completely unacceptable to put someone to jail who didn’t hurt anybody, just because he has something that could be used to hurt somebody. Because by that logic, we all here would have to go to jail, because we could use our penises to rape women (and men).
Key point: Doesn’t mean we are actually doing it!
What I think is highly criminal though, is those convictions. Because other than just owning a book, those actually hurt people. There is a name for governments doing such crimes: Dictatorship.
* One of the guys who defended Afghanistan from the Russian invasion back then, assisted by weapons the US gave them, so they did not have to do it themselves. Because of a certain sub-group of people, that kinda backfired for the US though. ;) (But hey, at least my father now has a lucrative job, interviewing people that don’t let anyone else interview them.)
Well, you know. To the holy god Steve Jobs, of course.
It’s a typical line for the mentally insane.
Sorry, but you just had a big error in your logic.
There is a difference between keeping things secure with encryption, and DRM. Do you know what that difference is?
I give you a hint: Control!
Who does have the control over the secure systems.
DRM: Your enemies.
Not DRM: You.
That’s why the TPM module (from TCPA) is only bad, when you don’t have 100% control over it, and/or you’re not the only one. A TPM that works for YOU is actually your best friend to protect you from crackers and DRMers taking over control.
The point of the research isn't to scare a nation of drivers, already made nervous by stories of software glitches, faulty brakes, and massive automotive recalls.
No? Really?
and discovered new ways to hack into them, sometimes with frightening results.
Riiight...
I think the US has a real problem with the scaremongering. You get FUD thrown around left and right. Everything is “oh teh horrorz!!!1one”. “Terrorists”, “hackers”, “catastrophes”, “glitches”, “conspiracies”, “threats” by the dozen a day... it doesn’t end.
I think the only real threat is forgotten on the way: People making you do what they want, by scaremongering you in the right way.
If you don’t know what they mean, you could as well be an automaton applying them.
And if you do, you don’t need them anyway, as you grasp the concept behind it, and can build your formulas yourself.
But hey, the automatons that leave school, having been though “math” as something where you are obsessed with “the right way”(TM) to write it, and learnin everything by heart without ever understanding it, is gonna love it...
MOOO TOOT! ... uuum, I meant MEE TOO! :P
(Although I go with the professional variant: XHTML5. And only if Haskell and a real app cant’t do it. ^^)
Looks like another limited system based on standard notational systems. Nowadays I prefer music automatons that create highly dynamic loops. Stuff that you can build in Reaktor, and that you control with lots of MIDI controllers and analog inputs (read: microphone, instruments). My music scores would look like those of Aphex Twin: http://navid.radiantempire.com/pub/pix/Lustiges/aphex_twin.jpg ^^
Lefties are never going to be 100% supported; better to get used to doing things righty, it'll make for a lot less frustration.
That is a very wrong way to think. It’s a slippery slope.
As someone who grew up in Germany, this instantly reminds me of the excuses people gave, for not fighting the Nazis. It was the exact same argument. Also is is the very same problem that that famous quote about giving up freedom for comfort criticizes. There are so many people who let others abuse them, or accept bad thinks, so they don’t have to face the stress. Especially women have a hard time breaking up, because, according to them, the stress that would create, is just too horrible to bear. So the prefer to have a still smaller, ever-growing amount of stress every single day, until finally it is worse than breaking up. But in the process they received thousands of times more stress and end up being wrecks. So with the intention to prevent stress, they chose the way of maximum possible stress. And that’s sad.
Also, Linux is about freedom and choice. If you can’t put everything in “leftie mode”, then that’s a serious lack of freedom is the software, and hence a critical bug in the underlying basic design. Luckily, since it’s open source, you can always fix little problem that prevent an optimal experiences. And in the process fix them for everybody else too. Hell, if you think it’s not work it, go and ask others if they would give a dollar to have it changed. Soon you will have enough to be paid to to it, or to pay someone from the original team to add that option. :)
The problem is philosophy, and only philosophy.
Apple doesn’t care much what people say. They just do what they think is great. (And that is a good thing!) They just assume they are leading the way. Which naturally makes them try to fulfill that prophecy. They don’t run behind others, trying to catch up.
MS and the Linux desktop teams mostly just try to play catch-up. But by definition they can’t win that one. Ever. Because when they caught up, the innovators have long moved on to their own ideas. So they will run behind them forever, like a donkey behind a carrot.
For MS, this is the definition of their business.
For KDE/Gnome, this cancer grew out of the wish to get more Windows users. They thought if they imitated Windows, more people would switch over. But what they forgot, is that even a 100% perfect imitation, still offers no reason to switch. You have to offer that, and then some. Something that is enough to outweigh the inertia that people have to overcome.
The only way out for KDE/Gnome, is to stop caring about Windows similarity. Stop trying to imitate! Instead freely think up completely new ways, and have the balls to stand behind them. Radical concepts. Impressive efficiency, that is so far outside the box that others can’t catch up! That is the way to go!
Of all teams on this planet, open source teams should be THE ones who can do that best. Since they don’t have to do anything. There are no paying clients. They can do whatever they want. The only problem is, that they don’t believe in themselves and fear rejection. :/)
(Sadly, this is the same thing that makes it so hard for geeks to get girls.
That will be over soon and is only a temporary artifact because of the limitations of CSS2. With CSS3 you just make a multi-column layout that fills the entire width, and only if that is not enough, grows in length. :)
Auto-hide would not work with touch-screens btw. Nothing to touch...
I have some good tips for maximizing space:
Firefox allows you to put the URL input field into the menu bar. Then you can switch off the URL bar, including all the pointless icons.
Now you could also disable the status bar, but I find it very useful for, well, status infos. That you can disable the bookmarks bar, should go without saying.
Then add the All-In-One Sidebar add-on, so you can put everything in the sidebar.
And use FireGestures to replace the navigation buttons and other stuff. (When you get used to it, you would not want to ever miss it again.)
Finally, install TagSifter and put its sidebar on a keyboard shortcut, so you have a much better replacement for the bookmarks bar, bookmarks manager, etc.
If you want, you can even replace the tabs row with a sidebar. Also makes you more efficient, if the sidebar click areas are bigger than the tabs. (Or you become even more efficient, by using shortcuts.)
On the OS side, I you can remove ALL UI elements. :)
Just put whatever you need in KDE4s dashboard overlay (Or use Compiz’s dashboard to do the same. Or use Compiz’s functionality to make something esl go in the foreground.) I recommend assigning a simple keyboard shortcut like Win-Space, and a simple mouse action like a click in any corner of your desktop to it.
LOOOL! Brilliant? That’s what you call brilliant? I personally know a dozen sources who independently had that idea years ago. As it is completely and utterly obvious.
What is not so brilliant, is that it’s still the same old same old. Meaning: There is nothing new in there. Just again icon bars / menus. Again the most often clicked UI elements are teeny tiny and pointlessly hard (read slow [read inefficient]) to click. Still the UI is completely based on mouse control. On a freaking netbook, where it’s already insultingly clunky to control the mouse pointer. Again the UI is based on free-floating windows that partially lay over each other, making the lower one useless, or will be in fullscreen anyway, rendering the concept pointless. Also organizing them is a fiddly little game of horrors and nightmares, where you have to manually drag shit around, resize, and never quite get everything to line up and use all the space available. (Instead of just *hinthint* using a tiling window manager, and be done with it.)
This is the design of people that can not think beyond what they are used to. Those people will have no problem finding problems in worse UI concepts, because “How can anyone get anything done in that language? It doesn’t have feature X!”. X being a feature that they are used to. However they are completely unable to look into the other direction of the power spectrum. And even less imagine things that are outside their tiny little box of carved-out paths. And even when someone else shows it to them, they are mentally unable to see the value of features of more powerful UIs. It will just seem “weird”. Because they are thinking in the limits of their own UI concepts.
Sorry for being so angry. But having to face it every single day, knowing how stupid it is, I can’t stand the idiocy anymore. Maybe I should instead have grabbed the first guy who came up with it, and punch him into stupor. ;)
Some corrections: .xsession-errors log, the clock/calendar and other very similar useful stuff like a weather info. ...
1) Compiz: is sadly very misunderstood because of its eye candy. Yes, you can do eye candy. But that is not the point. The point is an extremely configurable window manager, that allows you to realize very different designs from any normal UI. I, for example have neither title bar buttons, nor a task bar, start menu or similar stuff. All window management functions are accessible trough holding the Win key (optionally with Alt), and a mouse button / movement. (E.g. Win-Mouse1 anywhere in the window = move window.) I have enabled tiling and don’t have such a thing as minimized windows. Hence the Scale plugin, and cube desktop switcher (or expo) are all I need.
2) KDE 4: Unfortunately KDE4 is extreme in its imitation of Windows. Luckily you still have the ability to set nearly everything to bearable and sane options, which is good. But usually everything defaults to the stomach-turning insanity that is the Windows behavior. Like single click + hover instead of double click + single click. Something MS did in Windows 95, and quickly removed later, because they noticed how stupid it was. And then some...: On top of that, KDE also added the Plasma behavior. Which is pretty much guaranteed to drive you insane. (Come here and I’ll make you hate it so that you’ll scream bloody murder in less than 10 minutes! Or I’ll give you $50!) At least I could use the Dashboard like this: If I click into a corner of my screen, the dashboard gets toggled. It contains the K menu (and soon some self-written full-screen alternatives), the
8) Xmonad: You forgot that one. Probably the best and also the most efficient (tiling) window manager in existance. (And completely configurable.)
Then make them files.
Is your argument seriously: “We got that fucked-up concept of data units glued together is one single file, instead of their own how it should be. So we must also fuck up the interface, because...”
For most users, they don't need to know or care
Or in other words: “I want to decide what they need to know or care about. And I think they all should stay idiots, not even able to use a file system. So the Gaussian distribution curve of idiocy goes even more down. Until I come up with an even simpler concept to satisfy the lower end of that new curve. And so on, until only complete retards can even use the system.”
Or in other words: It a couple of years, you want to introduce “Clippy’s easy brother, that even a new born will find easy” (While a grown-up will not be able to use it at all, let alone efficiently,
No. Thanks.
A graph is the perfect way to store and display data. All data. No exceptions. A file system with links is basically a graph with a static node of origin.
For special cases like trees and (multi-dimensional) lists there can be special optimized storages and views. But they are still only special cases of a graph view and can be transformed back and forth transparently.
The biggest joke is, that you talk about abstracting things away from the user, but do not mention in a single word, what that abstraction would be. And I say that that is, because is is physically impossible for you to do so. Since a graph is by definition the perfect abstraction for all data. Every further abstraction would be extremely lossy and seriously limit what you could do. Hence it is not physically possible to make something that makes people more able to manage data, than with a graph.
Hell, even our own brain is wired in that way.
Come back when you’re an actual professional!
Hey, I still think Encyclopedia Dramatica and Uncyclopedia are more useful for non-political-correct things, than Wikipedia and its false moral rules ever can be.
Face it: Wikipedia is a monarchy. What does not please the gods, does not get in. And this is why it’s fundamentally flawed: It’s centralized. I mean the one who thought that up must have never looked back at history. Ever.
It needs to peer-to-peer. It needs to be built upon a trust network. Or it will never surpass what is essentially a dictatorship over mindsets and ideas.
But the fucks like a goddess! And everyone knows it. Unfortunately she never uses contraceptives. Which nobody knows. ;))
This explains why she’s the mother of every human ever.
You seem to intentionally not mention, that first, someone has to prove that you knew that it was obtained trough theft.
Also if you only believed it, and it wasn’t actually, then that’s not a crime. Ob.vi.ous.ly.
Unless your country is a dictatorship where “innocent until proven guilty” does not exist anymore. (I wouldn’t be surprised if according to some parts of the government that’s gone from the constitution already, or will be soon. A couple of more “terrorist attacks” [read: Dude with a couple of gas bottles in his car, or fake letter from fake Osama {who is dead by now, in case you missed it}] and “think of the children”s should suffice.)
WTF? Yeah right...
So if you go to a e.g. bicycle market, buy a bike, get a invoice for it, a cop notices you driving around on that stolen bike, and you show him whom you bought it from, they prosecute YOU? Sure. Riiight...
That would be very fucked up. I was in this situation twice (both times it turned out that the bike was not the stolen one, but only the same model). And both times, I just told them: Look, here’s the invoice. That’s the dude I bought it from. If it’s stolen, please kick his ass, and get my my money back! And both times you saw that that was how they usually handled things, since the thief is normally knowingly not using the bike but selling it to someone who does not know that it is stolen. So the cops also know that it would be wrong to fuck someone over, who just got fucked over. Also the law is still to assume innocence until proven guilty.
In short: I don’t believe a word you’re saying.
Intentionally read ALL quantum encrypted transmissions, thereby making it impossible to use it, and forcing people to traditional channels. Then crack them. The traditional ways.
Or: After Bob received the message, just call him, tell him you are the new admin, and they did not give you the password yet, but you were told to install $somethingBobReallyWants on his computer. So if he could kindly give him the password... ;)
Allright then. If you love so much to use terms that were specifically designed by a international mafia, to scaremonger people into a delusional and perverse reality, then you must also accept my preferred term for them:
Media reproduction, artist extortion and rape RAPE CHILD RAPE MURDER COCKSUCKER BLOOD TERRORIST HORROR NIGHTMARE DOOM SNUFF PORN ULTIMATE EVIL RAPE GIB SPLATTER BLOOD SPLAY FUCK FEST industry of INTERDIMENSIONAL APOCALYPSE! ;)
Hey, writing a crack is not a crime. Using it might be. :D
The cracker team should sue Rockstar for copyright infringement. Especially since they are making money off of it! Just like those black market companies that sell illegal copies of DVD movies.
Let them taste their own shitstorm! YEAAH!