I would be very surprised to see any candidate from the two "real" parties take a risk by writing a weblog.
It's rare enough to even see one talking like a human being, let alone activly doing so with the public. Though I can't totally blame them, as it seems every time a canidate does they're quickly labled as "wacky" by the media, and treated like a joke from that point on.
every time they posted their trademark "Me too!" posts.
I'm somewhat saddened by the fact that I can look back with nostalgia on being annoyed by that. People being able to write "Me too!" instead of "me 2" or "me two OMG!!!" seems almost a wonderful dream at this point.
If you think you can, then try it out: try to select "reload" from the context menu with your eyes shut.
If I wasn't sold on the pie menu already, I sure am now. I've been using this for about fifteen minutes and mozilla's normal menus since whenever the last time they moved the options around in there. With the pie menu I hit reload on the first try. Turning it off, first I couldn't even remember where reload was and the next try was three options off.
It surprised me a bit when I realised this is the first time I've even heard kate mentioned. Before going to Linux I primarily used ultraedit for working on anything with little to no gui. I was quite happy to find something similar in layout, even if more lightweight already installed when I decided to give Linux a try.
Why can't they dedicate their lives to memorizing the Star Trek timeline like I have?
Because they're getting paid to make Star Trek a significant portion of their lives, personally I expect them to be able to match the knowledge of the majority of Star Trek fans. Or at the very least to do a google search on occasion if they're unsure of anything. Contradicting something in another series or episode is fine if they make an active choice betwean entertainment value and continuency, but it's unprofessional if the break is done simply from ignorance. My watching of the franchise has been disjointed enough that I doubt I'd catch a mistake if it was made, but if I had a job related to the continuation of it you better believe I'd do my homework catching up.
Copy protection never hurts anyone but the inocent. Right now I have a nonworking vcr under my normal one, just because I need it as a connection to watch macrovision enabled dvds on my ancient tv. Meanwhile if I just downloaded s/vcd rips instead of buying dvds I'd have no problem watching them at all.
What did you expect? You walk up to a project, say it looks like crap, and say the only way it won't is if they drop all their opinions and take up yours?
If anyone, coder, designer, artist, whatever came to any of my projects with that attitude I doubt I'd be very eager to welcome them in.
Maybe that doesn't sound very profound, but I think that there are many things that the Linux community is missing the boat on.
If people refuse to take a more stable, better looking, and user friendly (well, some distros) operating system even when it's given to them for free, I'd say it's they who have the problem, not linux.
And his character grew even more intriguing with his guest appearances, like the fascinating "The First Duty."
What really bugs me is the waste. Wesley bugged me at first, but after a while the writers finally started giving the character more depth, little by little. Then after his last episode, when finally I've gotten to the point of actually liking the character, when I'm actually interested in what he's going to do next...we never see him again. Kes in Voyager made a good play for most wasted potential for a character in the trek'verse, but I don't see anyone topping Wesley in that regard for a long long time if ever.
I love how he takes such a morally superior tone when the first of the four sites he links to has a nice " Sega Dreamcast ISOs Sony PSX ISOs Sony PSX2 ISOs " top50 link on his site.
To put it simply: Enough of the blue screen jokes, let's move on to some refreshing MS material.
Heck, I use Linux and I'm sick of them too. It ranks right up there with cracks about how hard linux is to install, or the one button mouse for macs. Even more annoying though, is that BSOD jokes give a bad impression of non windows users as a whole, and distract people from real issues.
The advertising industry used to talk about 'The Great Unwashed' and talk about 'getting on all fours to look at the problem from the customer's point of view'. They were just as wrong as you are, and smarter agencies came along and ate their lunch.
Given how common it is for a product to be sold in a commercial solely on the endorsement of a super model, actor , or movie tie in I don't think I can really agree with you on this one.
What I've done is just move to checking it every couple of months, and found the comic much more enjoyable that way. I'm not sure when the comic hit mass and reached the progression level of Dark Shadows for me. Eventually though, week after week then month after month of things like the possibly vampire girl made reading the comic weekly more frustrating than enjoyable.
I really like the idea of having this available in a collected paper version. That way people who enjoy slow progression can get their fix online, and easily frustrated people like myself can avoid it compleatly and simply buy the collected works.
I was extreamly impressed when I gave it a try a couple weeks ago. I really didn't think my computer had the memory to really handle a java based IDE, given that netbeans gave me about a minute or more to make and position a button. JBuilder amazingly enough though actually ran at speeds comparible to kylix for me.
I remember hearing a story on this american life about a story Al Gore told in a school about a little kid alerting people to love canal. Somehow a reporter misquoted him in a paper, and all across the nation news organisations were getting the story wrong. And then refusing to print a retraction once they were contacted by the school, who actually had a tape of the speech.
Also possible is a refrence to a saturday night live sketch. The premice was a bank whose sole function was making change for people, at no cost. When asked how they could make money doing that, the answer was..volume.
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Perhaps a joint venture betwean Linux users tired of explaining we have a gui, and Mac users tired of explaining that their operating system supports multi button mice.
It sucks because we spend so much time picking the right one for the project.
I do sympathise with that. I've gotten enough complaints over the fact that I use Ogg Vorbis for my projects from people who don't want to upgrade winamp, but who want to play the games music in it. But the problem here was that much of the target audience can't install the codec. Not can't be bothered to install it, just can't. A significant enough amount of the target audience for something like this, from what I can tell of the descriptions at least, would be using Linux to warrent encoding them in something we can actually watch.
I thought that strip was kind of funny, but I think the penny arcade guys missed the point of the spots. I don't think the commercials are aimed so much to say macs are better, but rather to simply try to address the misconception the average windows user has that macs are inferior toy computers.
I think it's stupid in this day and age that anyone would think along those lines, but unfourtunatly most of the people out there are just this ignorent of computer topics. Heck, look how often the one mouse issue will come up on any slashdot discussion. If in a fairly tech savy comunity there's that long lasting a misconception, I think apple is smart to have these comercils to target the averge computer shopper.
Heck, I'd love it if some distro funded a "I'm a Linux user, and I don't type everything on a command line" comercial.
Agreed. I'd been looking foreward to Rocket guys interview answers, and came back quite disillusioned about the depth and spirit of his ideas. Wallice's interview on the other hand I wasn't really looking foreward to reading after seeing the times article, but was pleasently surprised to find myself with a lot to think about after reading this.
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I would be very surprised to see any candidate from the two "real" parties take a risk by writing a weblog.
It's rare enough to even see one talking like a human being, let alone activly doing so with the public. Though I can't totally blame them, as it seems every time a canidate does they're quickly labled as "wacky" by the media, and treated like a joke from that point on.
every time they posted their trademark "Me too!" posts.
I'm somewhat saddened by the fact that I can look back with nostalgia on being annoyed by that. People being able to write "Me too!" instead of "me 2" or "me two OMG!!!" seems almost a wonderful dream at this point.
If you think you can, then try it out: try to select "reload" from the context menu with your eyes shut.
If I wasn't sold on the pie menu already, I sure am now. I've been using this for about fifteen minutes and mozilla's normal menus since whenever the last time they moved the options around in there. With the pie menu I hit reload on the first try. Turning it off, first I couldn't even remember where reload was and the next try was three options off.
It surprised me a bit when I realised this is the first time I've even heard kate mentioned. Before going to Linux I primarily used ultraedit for working on anything with little to no gui. I was quite happy to find something similar in layout, even if more lightweight already installed when I decided to give Linux a try.
Why can't they dedicate their lives to memorizing the Star Trek timeline like I have?
Because they're getting paid to make Star Trek a significant portion of their lives, personally I expect them to be able to match the knowledge of the majority of Star Trek fans. Or at the very least to do a google search on occasion if they're unsure of anything. Contradicting something in another series or episode is fine if they make an active choice betwean entertainment value and continuency, but it's unprofessional if the break is done simply from ignorance. My watching of the franchise has been disjointed enough that I doubt I'd catch a mistake if it was made, but if I had a job related to the continuation of it you better believe I'd do my homework catching up.
Copy protection never hurts anyone but the inocent. Right now I have a nonworking vcr under my normal one, just because I need it as a connection to watch macrovision enabled dvds on my ancient tv. Meanwhile if I just downloaded s/vcd rips instead of buying dvds I'd have no problem watching them at all.
What did you expect? You walk up to a project, say it looks like crap, and say the only way it won't is if they drop all their opinions and take up yours?
If anyone, coder, designer, artist, whatever came to any of my projects with that attitude I doubt I'd be very eager to welcome them in.
Maybe that doesn't sound very profound, but I think that there are many things that the Linux community is missing the boat on.
If people refuse to take a more stable, better looking, and user friendly (well, some distros) operating system even when it's given to them for free, I'd say it's they who have the problem, not linux.
And his character grew even more intriguing with his guest appearances, like the fascinating "The First Duty."
What really bugs me is the waste. Wesley bugged me at first, but after a while the writers finally started giving the character more depth, little by little. Then after his last episode, when finally I've gotten to the point of actually liking the character, when I'm actually interested in what he's going to do next...we never see him again. Kes in Voyager made a good play for most wasted potential for a character in the trek'verse, but I don't see anyone topping Wesley in that regard for a long long time if ever.
I love how he takes such a morally superior tone when the first of the four sites he links to has a nice
"
Sega Dreamcast ISOs
Sony PSX ISOs
Sony PSX2 ISOs
"
top50 link on his site.
To put it simply: Enough of the blue screen jokes, let's move on to some refreshing MS material.
Heck, I use Linux and I'm sick of them too. It ranks right up there with cracks about how hard linux is to install, or the one button mouse for macs. Even more annoying though, is that BSOD jokes give a bad impression of non windows users as a whole, and distract people from real issues.
I strongly suspect that the brain will likely have degraded to the point where most of the critical information in it has been lost.
So in the future even zombies will be emulated!
The advertising industry used to talk about 'The Great Unwashed' and talk about 'getting on all fours to look at the problem from the customer's point of view'. They were just as wrong as you are, and smarter agencies came along and ate their lunch.
Given how common it is for a product to be sold in a commercial solely on the endorsement of a super model, actor , or movie tie in I don't think I can really agree with you on this one.
Ninja. Lots of them.
What I've done is just move to checking it every couple of months, and found the comic much more enjoyable that way. I'm not sure when the comic hit mass and reached the progression level of Dark Shadows for me. Eventually though, week after week then month after month of things like the possibly vampire girl made reading the comic weekly more frustrating than enjoyable.
I really like the idea of having this available in a collected paper version. That way people who enjoy slow progression can get their fix online, and easily frustrated people like myself can avoid it compleatly and simply buy the collected works.
I wonder if it means the MS-bashing by the editors will be reduced
There do seem to have been a lot of "Linux is dead" articles posted latley though. If I was just a tiny bit more paranoid...
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Sweet, now my system will scream "FIRST BOOT!!!!" at me when I turn it on.
It'd be cool to watch a bunch of them dancing in sequence...
Especially if they got a line of SDR as backup dancers. And then, suddenly, Dancing to an Electric Boogaloo 2002.
I was extreamly impressed when I gave it a try a couple weeks ago. I really didn't think my computer had the memory to really handle a java based IDE, given that netbeans gave me about a minute or more to make and position a button. JBuilder amazingly enough though actually ran at speeds comparible to kylix for me.
I remember hearing a story on this american life about a story Al Gore told in a school about a little kid alerting people to love canal. Somehow a reporter misquoted him in a paper, and all across the nation news organisations were getting the story wrong. And then refusing to print a retraction once they were contacted by the school, who actually had a tape of the speech.
Also possible is a refrence to a saturday night live sketch. The premice was a bank whose sole function was making change for people, at no cost. When asked how they could make money doing that, the answer was..volume.
Perhaps a joint venture betwean Linux users tired of explaining we have a gui, and Mac users tired of explaining that their operating system supports multi button mice.
It sucks because we spend so much time picking the right one for the project.
I do sympathise with that. I've gotten enough complaints over the fact that I use Ogg Vorbis for my projects from people who don't want to upgrade winamp, but who want to play the games music in it. But the problem here was that much of the target audience can't install the codec. Not can't be bothered to install it, just can't. A significant enough amount of the target audience for something like this, from what I can tell of the descriptions at least, would be using Linux to warrent encoding them in something we can actually watch.
I thought that strip was kind of funny, but I think the penny arcade guys missed the point of the spots. I don't think the commercials are aimed so much to say macs are better, but rather to simply try to address the misconception the average windows user has that macs are inferior toy computers.
I think it's stupid in this day and age that anyone would think along those lines, but unfourtunatly most of the people out there are just this ignorent of computer topics. Heck, look how often the one mouse issue will come up on any slashdot discussion. If in a fairly tech savy comunity there's that long lasting a misconception, I think apple is smart to have these comercils to target the averge computer shopper.
Heck, I'd love it if some distro funded a "I'm a Linux user, and I don't type everything on a command line" comercial.
Agreed. I'd been looking foreward to Rocket guys interview answers, and came back quite disillusioned about the depth and spirit of his ideas. Wallice's interview on the other hand I wasn't really looking foreward to reading after seeing the times article, but was pleasently surprised to find myself with a lot to think about after reading this.