In fairness to the Slashdot summary, the article itself starts, "The freedoms built in to the net are under attack like never before, argues regular columnist Bill Thompson", which seems like nonsense. He goes on about how important the end-to-end principle is, then says it's not really Vista that's attacking it at all.
2) Yes, the previous iteration of slashdot was immensely more accessible, more usable, and better designed. I come here much less frequently now that the site's maintainers have made the poor choice to break compatibility with many browsers. The choice to wed slashdot to CSS is slashdot's problem, not any browser's.
You're weird. 99.5% (at a conservative estimate) of people browsing the web can see Slashdot just fine, because they're using IE6, IE7, Firefox (any version), Mozilla (any version), Seamonkey (any version), Safari, Konqueror, Opera, or one of a plethora of other browsers that has no problem with CSS. Just because it doesn't work on your 10+ year old browser doesn't mean it's bad.
After a 10 second glance on Wikipedia, here's an idea; the CEO of Shell is Finnish. He comes from a country with a relatively educated populace and an electoral system relatively free of bribery.
The CEO of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson, comes from Texas, US. He comes from a state and country that the above can't really be said for. Sure, some portions of the US are educated and some aspects of the electoral system are ok, but most aren't.
Please note, flamebait NOT intended. Just telling it how I see it.
Actually, one of the few beefs I have with Apple's interface is those little coloured buttons along the top of dialogs. What in hell are they supposed to do? You have to learn it. I thought good interfaces should be as discoverable as possible. I definitely prefer MS's approach here, with the little symbols on buttons.
Whether you see something as strobing or not is an interesting phenomenon. Your brain seems to compensate after a while. I always used to have my monitor run at 60Hz (default), and didn't have a problem. Then one day I switched to 85Hz, and it seemed 'cleaner' and 'brighter'. Now, when I go back to 60Hz, it does seem like there's a fast strobe. Curious.
But, if you're mentally navigating a directory structure and know that you want../../section2/ and don't want to idle your time locating it in the list on the left...?
The Conservatives have started to put out some policies; check out some of David Cameron's responses on Ask David, Webcameron. From what I can tell, his party can roughly (alas) be summed up in the nutshell:
Same policies as Michael Howard, but with a bunch more ethnics and women in parliament. And, they don't really want to lower taxes anymore, and for some utterly bizarre reason have taken it upon themselves to be more socialist than NuLabour when it comes to the NHS, wanting to end the 'opt out' (to private healthcare) culture, and pump yet more money in.:-(
BUT, at least they're fervently against ID cards and the Big Brother State. I'm afraid to say that, under our current system, that policy alone is pretty much enough to make me want to vote for them.
Ugh. I hate it when people mouth off PR for no justifiable reason. I shall defend.
* maintain the links between the voters of an area and the elected person (unlike the proportional representation elections the EU uses, where you vote for a list of people you've never heard of)
Most people have 'never heard of' their local candidates either; and what if someone who you didn't vote for gets in? Are they going to represent your views? Of course not, otherwise there'd be no need for voting. This supposed 'link' being a benefit of FPTP is the biggest fallacy out there.
* reduce the risk of someone being elected who most of the people who voted did not vote for
So does PR.
* let smaller parties get some seats, creating wider debate in parliament and creating more interest in the general public
So does PR.
* eliminate tactical voting, where people vote for the "less bad" option
So does PR.
* not be too radical a change from the current system
The current system sucks, a radical change would be GOOD.
* are well tried and tested, having been in use for many University Guild of Students' elections for ages
Same for PR. Except it's been used in more 'official' elections instead. Check out the Finnish political system.
Wow, did the supreme court actually come out and say that those laws were unconstitutional, but they were enforcing them anyway? I'd say it isn't legal to do that, but then who do you turn to after those people? Heh. Back to the politicians again?
Their main logo is an opaque circle containing a bird's head. The registered trademark symbol is a transparent circle containing an 'R'. Apart from the circle, where is the similarity?
I agree, their usage of the ® symbol is bizarre. Its HTML entity name is ® so perhaps that 'reg' thing is why they use it.
Looking at it, you'd think that domain parking wouldn't be half as profitable as it is. We clearly need to work harder on our search engines.
It'd be far easier to sort the problem out the same way it's sorted out in the physical world. Why don't you get a ton of property squatters that do essentially nothing with the property in the city centre? Rental costs, taxes, etc. It's a *waste of money*. And domain names are even better, because you can't buy them, you have to keep renting them. So increase the minimum rent to $100/year and see how many asswipes with 300k domains maintain that portfolio.
Woahh, woah, hang on. Where the hell do you live, Africa? This is a ridiculous argument. You almost certainly make enough money to fund a measly $50/yr for your TLD. If it's not worth even that much to you, you should be asking yourself whether you even need it and considering getting a subdomain from a hosting provider or something; you can probably get them for free somewhere. I totally reject your argument.
Not really an option. The US's 2 party system needs an overhaul, the people don't have a decent choice anymore when voting. That's why democracy, ever so occasionally, seems like a worse option than direct action (force).
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And it's actually OpenVistA. Note the trailing upper case.
Erm, except that its SourceForge page says that it's OpenVista.
Ouch, that's an unfortunate name. It's got to be up there with the great oxymorons of our time like Microsoft Works, and Trusted Computing.
In fairness to the Slashdot summary, the article itself starts, "The freedoms built in to the net are under attack like never before, argues regular columnist Bill Thompson", which seems like nonsense. He goes on about how important the end-to-end principle is, then says it's not really Vista that's attacking it at all.
2) Yes, the previous iteration of slashdot was immensely more accessible, more usable, and better designed. I come here much less frequently now that the site's maintainers have made the poor choice to break compatibility with many browsers. The choice to wed slashdot to CSS is slashdot's problem, not any browser's.
You're weird. 99.5% (at a conservative estimate) of people browsing the web can see Slashdot just fine, because they're using IE6, IE7, Firefox (any version), Mozilla (any version), Seamonkey (any version), Safari, Konqueror, Opera, or one of a plethora of other browsers that has no problem with CSS. Just because it doesn't work on your 10+ year old browser doesn't mean it's bad.
One of the things that i learned was that there is a constant tension between journalists and the advertisers that make the paper run.
Did you run adverts dressed as news, or did the advertisers get an Opinion Center?
After a 10 second glance on Wikipedia, here's an idea; the CEO of Shell is Finnish. He comes from a country with a relatively educated populace and an electoral system relatively free of bribery.
The CEO of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson, comes from Texas, US. He comes from a state and country that the above can't really be said for. Sure, some portions of the US are educated and some aspects of the electoral system are ok, but most aren't.
Please note, flamebait NOT intended. Just telling it how I see it.
WOW.
Did you just see Windows Vista?
And I love how the uber-lite-brites are getting all the press while A REAL TERRORIST PLOT was uncovered today in the UK.
Be careful yourself about 'letting the terrorists win'. That hasn't been anywhere near proven yet. Innocent until proven guilty.
Actually, one of the few beefs I have with Apple's interface is those little coloured buttons along the top of dialogs. What in hell are they supposed to do? You have to learn it. I thought good interfaces should be as discoverable as possible. I definitely prefer MS's approach here, with the little symbols on buttons.
Whether you see something as strobing or not is an interesting phenomenon. Your brain seems to compensate after a while. I always used to have my monitor run at 60Hz (default), and didn't have a problem. Then one day I switched to 85Hz, and it seemed 'cleaner' and 'brighter'. Now, when I go back to 60Hz, it does seem like there's a fast strobe. Curious.
But, if you're mentally navigating a directory structure and know that you want ../../section2/ and don't want to idle your time locating it in the list on the left...?
He's Bill Gates.
A woman won't accept a 3.5" floppy.
The Conservatives have started to put out some policies; check out some of David Cameron's responses on Ask David, Webcameron. From what I can tell, his party can roughly (alas) be summed up in the nutshell:
:-(
Same policies as Michael Howard, but with a bunch more ethnics and women in parliament. And, they don't really want to lower taxes anymore, and for some utterly bizarre reason have taken it upon themselves to be more socialist than NuLabour when it comes to the NHS, wanting to end the 'opt out' (to private healthcare) culture, and pump yet more money in.
BUT, at least they're fervently against ID cards and the Big Brother State. I'm afraid to say that, under our current system, that policy alone is pretty much enough to make me want to vote for them.
Ugh. I hate it when people mouth off PR for no justifiable reason. I shall defend.
* maintain the links between the voters of an area and the elected person (unlike the proportional representation elections the EU uses, where you vote for a list of people you've never heard of)
Most people have 'never heard of' their local candidates either; and what if someone who you didn't vote for gets in? Are they going to represent your views? Of course not, otherwise there'd be no need for voting. This supposed 'link' being a benefit of FPTP is the biggest fallacy out there.
* reduce the risk of someone being elected who most of the people who voted did not vote for
So does PR.
* let smaller parties get some seats, creating wider debate in parliament and creating more interest in the general public
So does PR.
* eliminate tactical voting, where people vote for the "less bad" option
So does PR.
* not be too radical a change from the current system
The current system sucks, a radical change would be GOOD.
* are well tried and tested, having been in use for many University Guild of Students' elections for ages
Same for PR. Except it's been used in more 'official' elections instead. Check out the Finnish political system.
The idea is that if you are constipated, you should wait for the movement
Isn't that the idea of the reading? To calmly wait?
Also, your phobia of the words 'toilet' and 'shit' is humourous.
... considering most employees aren't half as anally-retentive as them.
Wow, did the supreme court actually come out and say that those laws were unconstitutional, but they were enforcing them anyway? I'd say it isn't legal to do that, but then who do you turn to after those people? Heh. Back to the politicians again?
Oh, come on. That's like being thankful for AIDS when you have a cold. Bull-shit.
Their main logo is an opaque circle containing a bird's head. The registered trademark symbol is a transparent circle containing an 'R'. Apart from the circle, where is the similarity?
I agree, their usage of the ® symbol is bizarre. Its HTML entity name is ® so perhaps that 'reg' thing is why they use it.
Yes, but they're much better at PR.
You won't see a return to applets until the startup issue is fixed though.
Just a wild thought, but perhaps the Java VM could be configured to load into memory when the computer boots?
Looking at it, you'd think that domain parking wouldn't be half as profitable as it is. We clearly need to work harder on our search engines.
It'd be far easier to sort the problem out the same way it's sorted out in the physical world. Why don't you get a ton of property squatters that do essentially nothing with the property in the city centre? Rental costs, taxes, etc. It's a *waste of money*. And domain names are even better, because you can't buy them, you have to keep renting them. So increase the minimum rent to $100/year and see how many asswipes with 300k domains maintain that portfolio.
Woahh, woah, hang on. Where the hell do you live, Africa? This is a ridiculous argument. You almost certainly make enough money to fund a measly $50/yr for your TLD. If it's not worth even that much to you, you should be asking yourself whether you even need it and considering getting a subdomain from a hosting provider or something; you can probably get them for free somewhere. I totally reject your argument.
Not really an option. The US's 2 party system needs an overhaul, the people don't have a decent choice anymore when voting. That's why democracy, ever so occasionally, seems like a worse option than direct action (force).