Are we talkin' paparazzi photos here, then? I'm sure the celebs Down Under will really appreciate being outed in public like that when they're just tryin' to blend in!
Your job as a consumer is to look out for yourself.
I do that, and exceptionally well, thank you, but it doesn't preclude me sticking up for either other consumers or even - gasp! - non-consumers when I think they might have been manipulated or otherwise unfairly disadvantaged. I have no particular fondness for Arrington - I've rarely even visited the site and didn't know who he was until the CrunchPad - but that's immaterial to the ethics if he was screwed-over; whether I like the guy, or even whether I suspect he'd do the same given the chance, is just not relevant. We could worry about Arrington's own potential ill intentions to screw-over the rest of us if and when that time actually came.
If he really did get jilted by Fusion Garage, then I'd support a boycott of the JooJoo in response.
What's the next advancement... do we find a battlefield-tested way to drain their blood and freeze-dry them for convenient transport? First zombies, and then vampires? I'm growing more garlic and saplings, just in case.
I've been running at 1600+ horizontal res for at least 15 years now, and using a double-window paradigm the whole time. Once upon a time it was an entirely manual, forced thing, since Microsoft and Windows itself had no real interest in helping with that. Later I discovered tools like Shove-It and HandyThing that helped me do it better. From a glance at Devil's Pie, it looks like it might be a rough analog of how I've been using HandyThing in Windows. While I started with nothing but side-by-side windows, HandyThing gave me a means to define other regions of the screen for specific applications, and then make those definitions 'sticky' and automatic.
Assuming Arrington really has a legitimate stake in the thing, I suggest we boycott it until Rathakrishnan cries uncle. If he has no market for it, then his 'theft' gains him nothing.
It's not the national representatives that Kirk is worried about "walking away from the table": it's the corporate lobbyists that have been hiding UNDER the table. He's worried that if the treaty is made public that they'll stop playing footsie with the national reps and stop the flow of money into the Swiss bank accounts of certain people.
Coming as this did hot on the heels of an article about a new RNA discovery, when I first read the title I thought it was about Google inventing a new type of DNA. Now that would be newsworthy!
KDE doesn't group actual windows themselves, but it does allow arbitrary grouping of taskbar buttons for those windows, in a fashion similar to Windows but without the unilateral assumption (it's an option that has to be enabled, by default it acts like Windows unfortunately). It can organize dissimilar apps under the same taskbar button, which allows grouping multiple windows by actual common task. Then the buttons themselves can be renamed to be descriptive of that common task. I doubt they have "persistence" yet, but who knows?
You've never heard of taskbar grouping? Windows has had it since XP, and KDE has an even better rendition (windows can be manually grouped, buttons can be re-titled, etc.). How is that massively different than multiple browser windows each with tabs in them? And what of app windows that aren't browsers and don't use tabbing for other instances?
Same paradigm, slightly different application of it.
It's rather disappointing that even now there are still people who think that "bars" crammed full of "tabs" with truncated text are somehow a game-changing paradigm shift compared to "bars" crammed full of "buttons" with truncated text.
Yes, because clicking on a tiny little tab with truncated text in it is SOOOoooo much better than clicking on a tiny little minimized button with truncated text.
Somebody should thank the folks who write these judges' paychecks, thank them for having the ethics to not make them sing somebody else's tune in return for their supper.
This sort of misbehavior in the consumer printer market is truly old news, but it never stays old because there are MILLIONS of people who never got the original memos. This Ask Slashdot is a reminder just how many people there are who continue to be disadvantaged by these tactics that some of us have known about for a decade. Where are the Ralph Naders of the tech world when you really need them? (When they're not busy running for public office, that is.)
I once had the opportunity to read part of the diary of a teenage girl who had been at a Scientology "Base" in Colorado. I don't recall the name of it, or even whether she mentioned it by name (this was 20 years ago). The disruptive, corruptive effects her involvement with this Base and the CoS had on her state of mind were obvious from what she wrote. While I don't recall whether she described any physical enslavement, the mental enslavement was apparent.
Why they're still getting away with it mystifies me; pretty much everyone now knows what they're doing and how they're doing it.
I know... I'm doing that, too! I imported my entire Firefox profile from Windows into Ubuntu, including the proxy setting, and then ran Proxomitron in Wine to finish the migration. I keep thinking about switching to privoxy and converting my filters, but why mess with what still works?
So next for me is to find or write an extension to block JS per-site.
Dude, it's been done: Proxomitron (or privoxy on the *nix side). You could of course use NoScript, but reading between your lines I'm guessing you're a conscientious objector to that. One of Proxomitron's default HTTP filters in fact selectively blocks JavaScript per site (maybe even per page, can't recall). Even though I now rely on Firefox extensions for a lot of what Proxomitron used to do for me, I still use it for some custom site filters. And the fact that it's independent of the browser is still one of its strongest points.
Ain't it funny that the tipping point for a good old fashioned revolt here at home is so far off, when we fought wars and American citizens died in far-off places over "threats" that impacted them far less than what has been occurring right here at home? Even World War II was fought over issues that threatened Americans far less than what a small minority of Americans have been doing to their own countrymen, and that disparity has been even more pronounced with every military action since then.
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But what if it's Lindsay Lohan doing the shoplifting?
Are we talkin' paparazzi photos here, then? I'm sure the celebs Down Under will really appreciate being outed in public like that when they're just tryin' to blend in!
Especially if it's Hilary Clinton or Sarah Palin?
*ducks*
... when you strap my mother-in-law to a turbine engine. The rest of the plane is optional.
No lithium?! Here they are talking about taking him off his meds again... it's gonna make him anxious, and you don't wanna make Bunny anxious!
I do that, and exceptionally well, thank you, but it doesn't preclude me sticking up for either other consumers or even - gasp! - non-consumers when I think they might have been manipulated or otherwise unfairly disadvantaged. I have no particular fondness for Arrington - I've rarely even visited the site and didn't know who he was until the CrunchPad - but that's immaterial to the ethics if he was screwed-over; whether I like the guy, or even whether I suspect he'd do the same given the chance, is just not relevant. We could worry about Arrington's own potential ill intentions to screw-over the rest of us if and when that time actually came.
If he really did get jilted by Fusion Garage, then I'd support a boycott of the JooJoo in response.
Didn't you ever play Alpha Centauri? They call those Genejack Factories.
What's the next advancement... do we find a battlefield-tested way to drain their blood and freeze-dry them for convenient transport? First zombies, and then vampires? I'm growing more garlic and saplings, just in case.
I've been running at 1600+ horizontal res for at least 15 years now, and using a double-window paradigm the whole time. Once upon a time it was an entirely manual, forced thing, since Microsoft and Windows itself had no real interest in helping with that. Later I discovered tools like Shove-It and HandyThing that helped me do it better. From a glance at Devil's Pie, it looks like it might be a rough analog of how I've been using HandyThing in Windows. While I started with nothing but side-by-side windows, HandyThing gave me a means to define other regions of the screen for specific applications, and then make those definitions 'sticky' and automatic.
Assuming Arrington really has a legitimate stake in the thing, I suggest we boycott it until Rathakrishnan cries uncle. If he has no market for it, then his 'theft' gains him nothing.
It's not the national representatives that Kirk is worried about "walking away from the table": it's the corporate lobbyists that have been hiding UNDER the table. He's worried that if the treaty is made public that they'll stop playing footsie with the national reps and stop the flow of money into the Swiss bank accounts of certain people.
Coming as this did hot on the heels of an article about a new RNA discovery, when I first read the title I thought it was about Google inventing a new type of DNA. Now that would be newsworthy!
KDE doesn't group actual windows themselves, but it does allow arbitrary grouping of taskbar buttons for those windows, in a fashion similar to Windows but without the unilateral assumption (it's an option that has to be enabled, by default it acts like Windows unfortunately). It can organize dissimilar apps under the same taskbar button, which allows grouping multiple windows by actual common task. Then the buttons themselves can be renamed to be descriptive of that common task. I doubt they have "persistence" yet, but who knows?
You've never heard of taskbar grouping? Windows has had it since XP, and KDE has an even better rendition (windows can be manually grouped, buttons can be re-titled, etc.). How is that massively different than multiple browser windows each with tabs in them? And what of app windows that aren't browsers and don't use tabbing for other instances?
Same paradigm, slightly different application of it.
It's rather disappointing that even now there are still people who think that "bars" crammed full of "tabs" with truncated text are somehow a game-changing paradigm shift compared to "bars" crammed full of "buttons" with truncated text.
More of the same, please!
Yes, because clicking on a tiny little tab with truncated text in it is SOOOoooo much better than clicking on a tiny little minimized button with truncated text.
Somebody should thank the folks who write these judges' paychecks, thank them for having the ethics to not make them sing somebody else's tune in return for their supper.
This sort of misbehavior in the consumer printer market is truly old news, but it never stays old because there are MILLIONS of people who never got the original memos. This Ask Slashdot is a reminder just how many people there are who continue to be disadvantaged by these tactics that some of us have known about for a decade. Where are the Ralph Naders of the tech world when you really need them? (When they're not busy running for public office, that is.)
How about a home automation system built entirely from scrap printers?
I once had the opportunity to read part of the diary of a teenage girl who had been at a Scientology "Base" in Colorado. I don't recall the name of it, or even whether she mentioned it by name (this was 20 years ago). The disruptive, corruptive effects her involvement with this Base and the CoS had on her state of mind were obvious from what she wrote. While I don't recall whether she described any physical enslavement, the mental enslavement was apparent.
Why they're still getting away with it mystifies me; pretty much everyone now knows what they're doing and how they're doing it.
I'd prefer Soylent Green to soggy pseudo-pork any day!
I know... I'm doing that, too! I imported my entire Firefox profile from Windows into Ubuntu, including the proxy setting, and then ran Proxomitron in Wine to finish the migration. I keep thinking about switching to privoxy and converting my filters, but why mess with what still works?
Dude, it's been done: Proxomitron (or privoxy on the *nix side). You could of course use NoScript, but reading between your lines I'm guessing you're a conscientious objector to that. One of Proxomitron's default HTTP filters in fact selectively blocks JavaScript per site (maybe even per page, can't recall). Even though I now rely on Firefox extensions for a lot of what Proxomitron used to do for me, I still use it for some custom site filters. And the fact that it's independent of the browser is still one of its strongest points.
Ain't it funny that the tipping point for a good old fashioned revolt here at home is so far off, when we fought wars and American citizens died in far-off places over "threats" that impacted them far less than what has been occurring right here at home? Even World War II was fought over issues that threatened Americans far less than what a small minority of Americans have been doing to their own countrymen, and that disparity has been even more pronounced with every military action since then.
They're keeping us distracted.
No, it makes you an Anarchist. You'll probably be out skulking in the woods with the Partisans.