According to the W3C standards, layout should be done using inline and block display elements and layers. My pages pass the XHTML 1 and CSS 2 strict validators. My pages display perfectly in Gecko, but not in MSIE. As best as I can tell, MSIE doesn't handle the CSS position element correctly. But I don't feel too bad, even the w3c's CSS page doesn't display right.
AOL could start by spending less money giving me coasters, and use standard connection protocols, etc.
If Microsoft isn't going to use standard protocols, it probably won't include the standard with Windows. So if AOL is going to have to install one anyways, why would they use a standard protocol instead of sticking with their own?
Would the clueful users know fdisk? Maybe not. But they'd read the help and figure it out.
Would the clueless users figure out fdisk? Not likely. My first look at linux was trying to install Mandrake. I got to DiskDrake. I knew I had to make a partition for all the linux stuff. I even made the jump on my own to use a seperate partition for/boot (My one flash of genius blown on a failed o/s install). Once I figured out what these 'mount point' things were, the 'root' concept dawned on me. But I couldn't get passed there. You, I'm sure, are thinking "duh. you need a swap partition." But I didn't know that. The installer said nothing about it. The help button on the page said nothing about it. It just wouldn't let me click 'next'. I didn't stumble upon that bit of information for another 6 months, during which I ran win2k.
1 day: Konqueror is fixed in CVS 1 week: most KDE developers get the fixed version 2 weeks: unmasked in Gentoo, in Debian unstable, RPMs released 3 weeks: MS releases a patch in a security update 4 weeks: in Debian testing, RPMs that work are released 1 months: many MSIE users have the security update 6 months: most MSIE users have the security update 1 year: most Linux/BSD users get around to updating
This is not about Linux. This is so people can't go buy a new Dell and get their friendly neighborhood geek to install their old copy of Windows 98 on it.
Then the corporations will stop donating to the politicians' campaigns. They will donate straight to the politician, with cars, expensive dinners, opera tickets, vacations, and stocks. They will donate the the politicans' pet projects. They will hold rallies, seperate from the campaign's. They will run advertisements for candidates, separate from the campaign. They will give $2000 bonuses to everyone in the company who donates $1000 to the candidate the company likes. They will put new offices and plants in the politician's hometown. And they will threaten to do all this for their opponents.
IBM tried it. Remember os/2? Microsoft made one really good decision to get them lots of market share; they got Windows preinstalled on OEM computers. After that point, IBM realized its mistake. They tried to get back in it by making a superior product. Thats when Microsoft got bad. They changed their product specifically to break their competitors, forced data to be stored above the 1024 block, where os/2 couldn't reach it. Then they forced OEMs to ship only with Windows. Since then, Microsoft has never had the best product, they just have a competition stifling monopoly. You can't beat them at their game. There is a reason for anti-trust legislation, and this is it. This is where the government is supposed to act on behalf of, and for, the people.
But it isn't. Its acting on behalf of, and for, itself. And it wants more money and power. Someone posted earlier that things aren't going to get fixed without a revolution of the common people. In the United States of Apathetics, I can't see that happening any time soon.
Your significant other puts your email address in. You get an email saying "somone likes you". You send it to the trash. Your significant other gets mad at you for not liking them back.
Not for semi's, but if you're pulling 5th wheels, boats, trailers, cars... I guess it is a good analogy. Linux for the small loads and the huge ones. Windows generally gets the semi-big.
Bad analogy. Manual transmissions are great for fun and for light to medium weight loads. For heavy loads, if you're pulling a couple tons, you want an automatic.
"Okay, Mr start over guy. Before you can start over you have to either solve the Abortion and Gun control issue"
Abortion is murder. Murder is not allowed.
You have the right to bear arms. You don't have the right to bear _any_ arms (i.e. Joe Shmoe can't have ICBM's). Rifles and shotguns are fine. Go shoot deer. Go shoot road signs.* Concealed weapons are not allowed in public. If you're packing heat, those around you have a right to know. You want to be able to defend yourselves with guns, fine. If someone else is able to get your gun and kill someone because you were careless (i.e. children playing with daddy's gun) you are guilty of manslaughter.
Okay. I solved them.
*An infinite number of rednecks in an infinite number of rusted out pickups with an infinite number of rifles will eventually produce the works of Shakespear in braille on road signs.
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The US consitution is very good. But it was written two hundred years ago; they did not predict many of the problems the US would face. They did not forsee the abuse by political parties, lobbyists, and corporations. As someone else pointed out, they did not imagine that the government would not be run by citizens with ability and desire to govern for the people, but by politicians who govern for power and money. Because the framers did not forsee the changes, they did not forsee that the constitution would be not be interpretted as intended (i.e. separation of church and state).
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That is not fair to the 16 year old who works a job, pays taxes, is subject to the laws, but can't vote. Make it legal only for taxpayers (i.e. anyone who earns money, spends money, or owns property) to vote. But still, politicians will notice when the president of a corporation donates a million quid.
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This is great, until you make a rule that people can pay 3 dollars to have 1 dollar from each player given to them (RIAA, MPAA, rediculous patents). Or a rule that people can pay 3 dollars to make everyone else place bets through them, and take a cut (abusing monopolies). Or a rule that people can pay 3 dollars to be able to decide the next rule in their favor (lobbying). And any of the rules that the players decide.
Some ground rules can really help at the beginnig, but if they get out of hand, the only recourse is to start over. And generally the players don't like that idea too much.
[US_Centric](Yes, I think we need to start over. New constitution. New laws. Try to prevent the mistakes we've made. And allow it to all be thrown out and stared fresh if need be. If only the framers saw that the whole thing would slowly become a big mess.[/US_Centric]
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"My personal take on taking care of the situation described is to make it illegal for any business to contribute a politician. Individuals, sure, but why should businesses be allowed to contribute?"
Don't you think that the politicians will notice that the little girl who apparently just donated two million dollars to his campaign is the grandaughter of the president of a large corporation that would like some favorable legislation?
I can't hear all monitors at 60Hz, but all the ones I can hear have been at 60Hz. I've noticed it especially from Trinitron (use them at work) and older Dell monitors (own one, and at work). I have spent a lot of time in a lab with about 60 Apple monitors, and have never noticed it from any of them. Not a big problem until my teachers ask why i'm plugging my ears during their lecture. . .
Some people can hear higher pitched noises than others. Computer monitors set at a 60Hz refresh, dying florescent bulbs, and many projecters (especially those three lense Barcos) drive me nuts. My grandmother bought one of those insect repellant things for her garden. My brothers and I could all hear it. Most people could not. (The bugs didn't seem to mind) IIRC women and younger people are more likely to be able to hear higher pitched sound.
Not entirely true. The tires had problems only on Ford Explorers. The Explorer was badly designed, and the tires were run outside of the safe operating range to make up for it. It wasn't Firestone's fault, it was Ford's.
This could be great for Linux users. If OpenOffice is accepted and used by the mac users, it could gain an acceptance, if not use, by the Windows users. As long as they don't set the default save format to Word.
TCO does not mean to suits what you think it does. You think "Free is cheaper and it is better." The suits think "Free is cheaper, so it must not be better." Remember, the people making the decisions are the same ones paying 5 quid more at Starbucks for a worse cup of coffee than Mom-n-Pop Coffee. The spend 30 grand more for a car that they can't tell the difference from a Saturn with the leather interior. They are teaching their children, the management of tomorrow, to spend 30 quid more on a white tshirt because it says CK/Tommy Hilfiger/Abercrombie/TheNextFadOutfitter. "You can download Linux free from a million websites. Microsoft ProductXP Advanced Server is ten grand. ProductXP must be better. And it even has 'Advanced' in its name, so its even more advanced!"
I don't know about you, but I'm all for hugs. Humans desire physical contact, thats just how we are. Let some grateful person (or just someone trying to be nice) give you a hug, and you _will_ feel better.
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I suspect the MS booth will get a lot of attention, just like MS gets a lot of attention on slashdot.
You can't buy advertising like that.
Yes you can. Buy a publication.
According to the W3C standards, layout should be done using inline and block display elements and layers. My pages pass the XHTML 1 and CSS 2 strict validators. My pages display perfectly in Gecko, but not in MSIE. As best as I can tell, MSIE doesn't handle the CSS position element correctly. But I don't feel too bad, even the w3c's CSS page doesn't display right.
AOL could start by spending less money giving me coasters, and use standard connection protocols, etc.
If Microsoft isn't going to use standard protocols, it probably won't include the standard with Windows. So if AOL is going to have to install one anyways, why would they use a standard protocol instead of sticking with their own?
Would the clueful users know fdisk?
/boot (My one flash of genius blown on a failed o/s install). Once I figured out what these 'mount point' things were, the 'root' concept dawned on me. But I couldn't get passed there. You, I'm sure, are thinking "duh. you need a swap partition." But I didn't know that. The installer said nothing about it. The help button on the page said nothing about it. It just wouldn't let me click 'next'. I didn't stumble upon that bit of information for another 6 months, during which I ran win2k.
Maybe not. But they'd read the help and figure it out.
Would the clueless users figure out fdisk?
Not likely. My first look at linux was trying to install Mandrake. I got to DiskDrake. I knew I had to make a partition for all the linux stuff. I even made the jump on my own to use a seperate partition for
My Prediction:
1 day: Konqueror is fixed in CVS
1 week: most KDE developers get the fixed version
2 weeks: unmasked in Gentoo, in Debian unstable, RPMs released
3 weeks: MS releases a patch in a security update
4 weeks: in Debian testing, RPMs that work are released
1 months: many MSIE users have the security update
6 months: most MSIE users have the security update
1 year: most Linux/BSD users get around to updating
This is not about Linux. This is so people can't go buy a new Dell and get their friendly neighborhood geek to install their old copy of Windows 98 on it.
Then the corporations will stop donating to the politicians' campaigns. They will donate straight to the politician, with cars, expensive dinners, opera tickets, vacations, and stocks. They will donate the the politicans' pet projects. They will hold rallies, seperate from the campaign's. They will run advertisements for candidates, separate from the campaign. They will give $2000 bonuses to everyone in the company who donates $1000 to the candidate the company likes. They will put new offices and plants in the politician's hometown. And they will threaten to do all this for their opponents.
IBM tried it. Remember os/2? Microsoft made one really good decision to get them lots of market share; they got Windows preinstalled on OEM computers. After that point, IBM realized its mistake. They tried to get back in it by making a superior product. Thats when Microsoft got bad. They changed their product specifically to break their competitors, forced data to be stored above the 1024 block, where os/2 couldn't reach it. Then they forced OEMs to ship only with Windows. Since then, Microsoft has never had the best product, they just have a competition stifling monopoly. You can't beat them at their game. There is a reason for anti-trust legislation, and this is it. This is where the government is supposed to act on behalf of, and for, the people.
But it isn't. Its acting on behalf of, and for, itself. And it wants more money and power. Someone posted earlier that things aren't going to get fixed without a revolution of the common people. In the United States of Apathetics, I can't see that happening any time soon.
Your significant other puts your email address in. You get an email saying "somone likes you". You send it to the trash. Your significant other gets mad at you for not liking them back.
Not for semi's, but if you're pulling 5th wheels, boats, trailers, cars... I guess it is a good analogy. Linux for the small loads and the huge ones. Windows generally gets the semi-big.
Linux : Windows :: Manual : Automatic Transmission
Bad analogy. Manual transmissions are great for fun and for light to medium weight loads. For heavy loads, if you're pulling a couple tons, you want an automatic.
"Okay, Mr start over guy. Before you can start over you have to either solve the Abortion and Gun control issue"
Abortion is murder. Murder is not allowed.
You have the right to bear arms. You don't have the right to bear _any_ arms (i.e. Joe Shmoe can't have ICBM's). Rifles and shotguns are fine. Go shoot deer. Go shoot road signs.* Concealed weapons are not allowed in public. If you're packing heat, those around you have a right to know. You want to be able to defend yourselves with guns, fine. If someone else is able to get your gun and kill someone because you were careless (i.e. children playing with daddy's gun) you are guilty of manslaughter.
Okay. I solved them.
*An infinite number of rednecks in an infinite number of rusted out pickups with an infinite number of rifles will eventually produce the works of Shakespear in braille on road signs.
The US consitution is very good. But it was written two hundred years ago; they did not predict many of the problems the US would face. They did not forsee the abuse by political parties, lobbyists, and corporations. As someone else pointed out, they did not imagine that the government would not be run by citizens with ability and desire to govern for the people, but by politicians who govern for power and money. Because the framers did not forsee the changes, they did not forsee that the constitution would be not be interpretted as intended (i.e. separation of church and state).
That is not fair to the 16 year old who works a job, pays taxes, is subject to the laws, but can't vote. Make it legal only for taxpayers (i.e. anyone who earns money, spends money, or owns property) to vote. But still, politicians will notice when the president of a corporation donates a million quid.
This is great, until you make a rule that people can pay 3 dollars to have 1 dollar from each player given to them (RIAA, MPAA, rediculous patents). Or a rule that people can pay 3 dollars to make everyone else place bets through them, and take a cut (abusing monopolies). Or a rule that people can pay 3 dollars to be able to decide the next rule in their favor (lobbying). And any of the rules that the players decide.
Some ground rules can really help at the beginnig, but if they get out of hand, the only recourse is to start over. And generally the players don't like that idea too much.
[US_Centric](Yes, I think we need to start over. New constitution. New laws. Try to prevent the mistakes we've made. And allow it to all be thrown out and stared fresh if need be. If only the framers saw that the whole thing would slowly become a big mess.[/US_Centric]
"My personal take on taking care of the situation described is to make it illegal for any business to contribute a politician. Individuals, sure, but why should businesses be allowed to contribute?"
Don't you think that the politicians will notice that the little girl who apparently just donated two million dollars to his campaign is the grandaughter of the president of a large corporation that would like some favorable legislation?
I can't hear all monitors at 60Hz, but all the ones I can hear have been at 60Hz. I've noticed it especially from Trinitron (use them at work) and older Dell monitors (own one, and at work). I have spent a lot of time in a lab with about 60 Apple monitors, and have never noticed it from any of them. Not a big problem until my teachers ask why i'm plugging my ears during their lecture. . .
Some people can hear higher pitched noises than others. Computer monitors set at a 60Hz refresh, dying florescent bulbs, and many projecters (especially those three lense Barcos) drive me nuts. My grandmother bought one of those insect repellant things for her garden. My brothers and I could all hear it. Most people could not. (The bugs didn't seem to mind) IIRC women and younger people are more likely to be able to hear higher pitched sound.
"It's not our fault your Explorer has crap tires"
Not entirely true. The tires had problems only on Ford Explorers. The Explorer was badly designed, and the tires were run outside of the safe operating range to make up for it. It wasn't Firestone's fault, it was Ford's.
This could be great for Linux users. If OpenOffice is accepted and used by the mac users, it could gain an acceptance, if not use, by the Windows users. As long as they don't set the default save format to Word.
TCO does not mean to suits what you think it does. You think "Free is cheaper and it is better." The suits think "Free is cheaper, so it must not be better." Remember, the people making the decisions are the same ones paying 5 quid more at Starbucks for a worse cup of coffee than Mom-n-Pop Coffee. The spend 30 grand more for a car that they can't tell the difference from a Saturn with the leather interior. They are teaching their children, the management of tomorrow, to spend 30 quid more on a white tshirt because it says CK/Tommy Hilfiger/Abercrombie/TheNextFadOutfitter. "You can download Linux free from a million websites. Microsoft ProductXP Advanced Server is ten grand. ProductXP must be better. And it even has 'Advanced' in its name, so its even more advanced!"
Windows allow thieves to crawl into my house and catch fire to my carpets and steal my shoes.
I don't know about you, but I'm all for hugs. Humans desire physical contact, thats just how we are. Let some grateful person (or just someone trying to be nice) give you a hug, and you _will_ feel better.
Every time I've walked past that room and the door is open, there are at least 2 people on the couch. (I work with Jeremy) (Hi Jeremy.)