I am not sure that social conservatives are making a comeback. It is unlikely that anyone who was socially conservative then would consider today's current trends to be a move in the direction they prefer.
Other than that, I agree with your comment completely. If ANYONE thinks that they can separate the two political parties, they have had too much happy weed!
There was a time when to be conservative meant something very different than what it does now. However, a very wise person once said that all you have to do to change a liberal to a conservative is wait twenty years without changing a thing!
The truth is that conservatives (theoretically, at least), oppose change without serious contemplation. Liberals, however, are supposed to embrace change and moving forward.
I think, however, that most people will agree that not all change is good, nor is all change bad. It is simply a matter of which changes you want to embrace.
To get back on topic, however, if anyone thinks that 'educating' kids will work, they are fooling themselves. Most kids I know of don't listen to the anti-drug guy that comes around, and I don't think that this is any different.
As a kid in high school, I never listened to the anti-druggies, even though I never planned on using (and never did use) illegal drugs. I don't even smoke or use alcohol (for drinking). To me, these guys were telling me something I didn't need to hear. To those in the class who did use drugs, the anti-druggies were idiots who didn't know anything.
Sure, one or two kids would get the picture, but it isn't likely. The same scenario is likely in this situation as well. Kids that fileshare won't listen, kids that don't won't either.
The university that I attend is fairly good about preventing things like gator. MOST, not all, of the computers have a sign stating that the user is NOT to install ANY software.
This is backed up by a neat trick--when you log off, it restores the C drive to a predefined state. This is fairly simple, since most files are stored on the users' network drive, and their preferences, desktop, etc, are then loaded from this drive.
Thus, the lab users cannot permanently install ANY software. I have tried with several programs. It installs, then on reload is gone.
I don't know how they do this, not being a sysadmin, but I know they run Novell Netware, and all the lab computers run Windows 2000. A lot of Dells and IBMs.
Anyway, this seems like a solution that companies should consider--restrict ALL non-IT users from installing ANY software. This would seriously cut back on problems.
As an aside, Methinks this would be easier done with a Linux box than under windows, since many users would never figure out how to install anything anyway!
hmmm. It seems that you don't understand statisitics all that well either.
Saying that Correlation != Causation is a much more powerful statement than you think. It means ONLY that as height increases, so do wages. Nothing more.
Now the sad part about this study is that they DON'T tell you the strength of that relationship. That is, they tell you how much more (one form of the slope on the plot) a tall person earns, but they do not tell you what the error of that slope is (for those who are statistically challenged, think plus or minus 100 as an example).
Now this is a useless figure because they don't tell you the amount of errror, or any of the other related statistics.
In reality, the two factors may only be related by numerical coincidence, or they may be related by something like geographical location (USA vs. the Kalahari). There is simply nowhere near enough information to justify this conclusion, which is a dubious area of research anyway.
have you tried linux with an nvidia card recently? If not buy a NAME brand nvidia geforce (asus, gigabyte, etc) and try it out under linux. you will be pleasantly surprised. It works wonderfully.
not necessarily, as the land line could be configured for area calling. Also, I wonder if it wouldn't be cheaper to use vonage for that. They *do* have call forwarding don't they?
Bah. If you haven't seen render errors in ie, go here: http://ben.realisticweb.com. On first glance it LOOKS fine, but if you realize that the date is supposed to be positioned in the upper right-hand corner, then you understand that there is a problem.
That page uses style sheets. The trouble is that in IE, the position: fixed; attribute is broken, such that not only does it place the element incorrectly, it also handles scrolling issues incorrectly. Under all other browsers, the logo, date, and link table are fixed, and do not scroll-only the text does. Under IE the whole thing moves.
The w3.org website has several areas that behave the same (where do you think that I got the idea?). The trouble with saying that you don't notice rendering errors while using one browser is the same as saying you don't get viruses while only using one AV--unless you check you don't know.
(as an aside, this error was pointed out to me when I said that I liked a certain AV and hadn't gotten a virus while using it)
There are entire pages dedicated to pointing out the many holes in IE's CSS implementation. In fact this is one of the main gripes many people have who do web development. They find themselves continually recoding different portions of the site just to accomodate a certain lack of features.
I will also use this as a moment to pull out my trusty soap-box: please do not say CSS style sheets. It is so very redundant. CSS == Cascading Style Sheets. I think you get the picture.
Now, does anyone else need this box? I think I'm done with it for a while.
yes but, they said java, and were insistent on it when I pointed out the difference. I still have the email log. When I asked what their linux users should do, they were fairly succinct --use windows.
As a point of interest--does anyone happen to know if Safari breaks that page? Also what is.fsp (the extension they use).
I do. Try going to here and logging in. Compare browsers.
Even though you need an account to actually log in, under IE, the page looks different.
Under moz, the submit button doesn't work!!!!
When I complained, they told me it was because of incompatible versions of JAVA that NS/Moz uses. Methinks they are a bit confused.
Yes, I am aware of that problem, but i also know when my system starts getting buggy that it could easily be a virus. Honestly, though, I find AVG to be a good tool. Maybe Norton is better, but i wouldn't put money on it. AVG just has a different business model--if you need it for non-commercial, non-network use, then its free. Otherwise it costs. The free version is effective though, since I have seen people run it as well as norton (not something I would do, AV progs don't always like each other), and AVG picked up things that norton didn't.
I have to agree. Firebird is better than Moz. The only complaint I have is that, under linux, I haven't figured out how to get thunderbird to open links in Firebird directly. Right now I have to copy/paste, but that seems to work.
You beat me to it. Having personally used AVG (free edition) for quite some time, I find that it is as good as any of the commercial ones (I am virus free). I don't know that it checks Mozilla/Thunderbird mail though. Try installing your mail client first, or AVG won't pickup the directory. Good Luck.
Also, I have to ask what need you have for WinXP. If it is not a gaming machine (ie, you won't be playing Doom 3), then you can easily run WineX and then you won't have some issues inherent with any M$ solution.
I hadn't really thought that most people considered romanticizing the same as understating. I personally see it as making things look too happy in the end (which is not necessarily the same), or making a bad situation look somewhat positive (such as being a peasant in the 14th century). But it may be a semantics issue, I will grant that.
I still maintain that the movie did a good job of helping people understand a very terrible disease.
The focus of 'A Beautiful Mind' was NOT to document all of his bizarreness, but to demonstrate what schizophrenia could be like--and it did a decent job of it.
Having worked as a mental health associate in a residential treatment facility that primarily cares for schizophrenics, I think it important to point out a few things.
First, most schizophrenics are bizarre. By definition. Catatonic schizophrenics may not be, but bizarreness of thought is one of the requirements for diagnosis (source: DSM-IV revised). Thus to say that John Nash was sometimes bizarre is redundant. Of course he was.
Second, sexuality is unrelated to the discussion. Why bring it up?
Third, schizophrenia is a very debilitating disease. It is not easily overcome. If you think that the movie was overly romantic, consider this: two-thirds (approximately) of schizophrenics do not get better, regardless of treatment. It is very exceptional that someone with schizophrenia can learn to cope as well as Nash did. His story is exceptional, even if hollywood made it seem "cute" or whatever. I respect him for what he did. The movie, in terms of its treatment of what schizophrenics go through, did a good job of illustrating the nature of thier delusions, hallucinations and paranoia. IF ANYTHING IT UNDERSTATED IT!!!!!
Having worked with a man who truly believed his mother was a leprechaun, another who believed that he invented the Knight Rider car (but the government stole it, and made the show so they could kill his family and cover it all up) (he also believed that demons would throw "fury darts" at him, and that was why he attacked people), and another (blond) man who believed the devil was persecuting him becuase he had red hair, I have a lot of respect for those who manage to overcome this. I also feel that unless you have worked with these people, you cannot rightfully comment on their "bizarreness".
end rant
As an aside (maybe a second rant), I also worked with some who were ADD/ADHD, and it is a strange thing. It is also mostly behavioral (I believe, some will argue), and is very rare outside the US. Ritalin should NEVER be given to children. If you know anything about medicine or psychology, consider this. The test group for Ritalin was adult humans and rats (sometimes different, sometimes not). There has NOT been any solid research on the long-term effects of Ritalin on young children. To generalize the results of studies on adults to children is a good example of bad statistics and medicine.
I know I haven't cited references like I should, but it is late.
yah, but I don't believe they needed a reason. Blizzard, by comparison, is NEVER on time with their releases, and no one can reasonably claim that they do poorly. It is just as easy to argue that the anticipation factor actually increases sales (aka Star Wars). What people do with the game after purchase is totally different though.
I agree with on the idea of not installing multiple versions. But the problem is that so many make unrelated apps dependent on Gnome or kDE, thus requiring you to install one or both when you prefer windowmaker.
I don't think I said that they couldn't manufacture coolness. At least, I hope not.
My point was that this is not the way it will work. You have to know your audience, and M$ is proving that they don't. In fact I explicitly stated that cool is manufactured. It's just that they are doing it wrong in this case.
As for my "predictable and saddening attack on Barbie", I suppose that the cat's out of the bag--I am anti-Barbie. Call me a bigot. Please.
No, actually, I think that Barbie is seen as very cool, but the way that she is made to look absolutely frightens me, because real females DON'T look like that, and little girls frequently think that they should, thus paving the way for all types of problems with self-esteem and whatnot.
Many will hat me for that, but I think that it is true. Just the power of advertising done correctly. If the creator of Barbie had been as clueless as M$ about audience desire/knowledge, noone born today would ever hear the word Barbie.
hmmm.... I think I agree with the grandparent in this case--cool is manufactured. If you think all the sports people wear Nike because they are a better or cooler shoe, then you are mistaken. Nike is worn by them because Nike gives them shoes, or pays them to wear them. Why else then do entire teams commonly wear the same exact brand of shoe?
Your example with Porsche and Cadillac (BTW, mine is the correct spelling), is even more spurious--Cadillac doesn't TRY to be cool: they aren't in that market. Caddies are meant to be elegant, classy, and sophisticated, not cool. You will further notice that Porsche and Cadillac don't even market to the same people. Nor should they.
All that said, I do agree with the idea that if you see XYZ company running Linux or BSD or MACOSX, then you will tend to like that OS more. Unfortunately, it only works for us nerds, geeks and the nerkles. Jane Doe doesn't get it, and this is something even M$ doesn't seem to understand (although they, of all people, should), because Jane Doe doesn't even realize that the people on the show or in the movie are using a particular type of computer. To her, its just a computer.
Take my wife, as an example. The ONLY reason she knows ANYTHING about linux is because I use it at home--at some of her software doesn't run under linux. If it did, she wouldn't even care as much as she does. To her, as long as the sorry computer is working, it doesn't matter what it looks like.
Most people don't know that they aren't looking at a windows box. Why not? Because to them, it's not about the OS, its about what they can do with the machine. Will their favorite software work? No? Then they take it back. Can they surf the net and drool over pr0n? yes? Then they keep it.
The sad truth is that this won't work for M$ for the same reason that most people don't know much about linux and digital freedom--Americans don't CARE! The irony of it all is that M$ will be able to point to the stable marked and claim that its a result of their advertising, and unless they do some real market research they won't ever know.
("Hi, this is Cindy, and I would like to ask you a few questions about technology on television. Do you have a minute to spare? [this is where most people hang up] Yes? Good. In the most recent episode of Seinfeld what type of computer was he using?" At this point the person starts to break out in a sweat, having forgotten if they watched the show. After a minute they decide they did, but they really can't remember anyone using a computer, so they say the first thing that comes to mind, "I think it was a Dell." This is of course, wrong, as it was probably a Sony Vaio or something similar, but 'Cindy' doesn't care, she marks the little box that says 'windows boxen', and thanks them for their time, but only after asking about 300 other questions that take "only a minute" of their time.)
I imagine that the real strength of linux is that eventually it will allow Dell to put out "Dell Linux", and then you will have "Sony Linux" and "AOLinux" and maybe even "Barbie Linux" (with unrealistic images of women portrayed prominently so that another generation of young females can be ruined by the unrealistic ideal), which would be closely related to "Playboy Linux", and "Hustler Linux", but wouldn't sell quite as well.
See those things will be what wins the OS wars, because M$ will never allow enough control of windows to slip away for that type of branding, but Linux invites it.
No, M$ is doomed to believe they won this "cool campaign", without ever knowing that 90% of the population doesn't CARE!
(Okay, now that I'm done with my soapbox, does any one else want to borrow it?)
hmmm...obviously we had slightly different things in mind when we said "claim". You were referring to claims made within the html, whilst I referred to claims made on the page itself, which I think we will agree are two very different animals. That said, I agree with your way of looking at it 100%, and still maintain my point of view with the above clarification.
I was referring to the company that owns them, not the shareholders in SCO....aren't they mostly owned by another company, who may hold some liability?
never said they were...just me personally. Sorry, though--current technology limitations prevent me from posting a link from this (or any other) website directly to the content of my mind. At least in any meaningful way.
As for the RP being for the legalization of hemp, I hope you are not confusing this with the legalization of marijuana. They are, politically, two different issues (morally too, but that's another story). Hemp should be, and if I ran for governor of, oh say, Kentucky, I would put that on my bill, and give incentives to corporations and farmers who switched from growing tobacco to growing hemp.
The reason is that hemp is a very fast growing weed, and is extremely useful for paper, ink, bio-diesel (somebody verify this one for me plz?), and many other resources. It cannot be used for smoking (unless somebody wants very little buzz with a fairly decent headache, from what I hear).
If the Republican leadership was half as smart as they should be, they would bill this to big business as a way to get an early jump on a big market, and give big incentives to the companies. As for whether or not any of them would agree with me, I doubt it.
Unfortunately, it is popular to hate republicans (which may be one of the reasons I lean that direction, even though both parties represent the same essential idea--power for their friends, and increased taxes for everyone else), and this leads to a general belief that if your republican you can't have forward thinking ideas. It simply isnt' true!
Hopefully you are wrong about dead tree books. I want to see a renewable source for paper (hemp!), that doesn't take vast acres of ruined forest. That said, I am a republican by registration and an independent by philosophy.
Actually, most sites that claim to adhere to standard xy or z do. The real problem is that most site don't claim any standard at all.
There are plenty of good sites that are standards compliant, but most sites just don't care, and it's partially due to the fact that some places use bad code (my bank for one, which renders the front page, but you can't login [ps, if anyone knows anything about the.fsp extension for pages, let me know] under Moz/NS7; when I contacted them they told me that it was because the version of JAVA that NS7 and Moz use is incompatible with the version they use. They never got it that the version of JAVA on a machine has little to do with the browser, just the OS, and who installed it), and it seems like they don't even know what is good coding.
Other times, its because they learned web design in the graphic design dept, and their teacher just wanted it to look pretty. It happens.
Other times it's because the designer is using whatever WYSIWYG editor their business/school provides, and they don't know enough to check.
But for people who know to check, they generally have valid code. Personally I strive for XHTML 1.0 Strict, but that's a choice. It means I can't use [FRAMESET]or [IFRAME], but that's okay.
I do agree that most stuff, however, is not standards compliant, and it's sad.
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I am not sure that social conservatives are making a comeback. It is unlikely that anyone who was socially conservative then would consider today's current trends to be a move in the direction they prefer.
Other than that, I agree with your comment completely. If ANYONE thinks that they can separate the two political parties, they have had too much happy weed!
There was a time when to be conservative meant something very different than what it does now. However, a very wise person once said that all you have to do to change a liberal to a conservative is wait twenty years without changing a thing!
The truth is that conservatives (theoretically, at least), oppose change without serious contemplation. Liberals, however, are supposed to embrace change and moving forward.
I think, however, that most people will agree that not all change is good, nor is all change bad. It is simply a matter of which changes you want to embrace.
To get back on topic, however, if anyone thinks that 'educating' kids will work, they are fooling themselves. Most kids I know of don't listen to the anti-drug guy that comes around, and I don't think that this is any different.
As a kid in high school, I never listened to the anti-druggies, even though I never planned on using (and never did use) illegal drugs. I don't even smoke or use alcohol (for drinking). To me, these guys were telling me something I didn't need to hear. To those in the class who did use drugs, the anti-druggies were idiots who didn't know anything.
Sure, one or two kids would get the picture, but it isn't likely. The same scenario is likely in this situation as well. Kids that fileshare won't listen, kids that don't won't either.
The university that I attend is fairly good about preventing things like gator. MOST, not all, of the computers have a sign stating that the user is NOT to install ANY software.
This is backed up by a neat trick--when you log off, it restores the C drive to a predefined state. This is fairly simple, since most files are stored on the users' network drive, and their preferences, desktop, etc, are then loaded from this drive.
Thus, the lab users cannot permanently install ANY software. I have tried with several programs. It installs, then on reload is gone.
I don't know how they do this, not being a sysadmin, but I know they run Novell Netware, and all the lab computers run Windows 2000. A lot of Dells and IBMs.
Anyway, this seems like a solution that companies should consider--restrict ALL non-IT users from installing ANY software. This would seriously cut back on problems.
As an aside, Methinks this would be easier done with a Linux box than under windows, since many users would never figure out how to install anything anyway!
hmmm.
It seems that you don't understand statisitics all that well either.
Saying that Correlation != Causation is a much more powerful statement than you think. It means ONLY that as height increases, so do wages. Nothing more.
Now the sad part about this study is that they DON'T tell you the strength of that relationship. That is, they tell you how much more (one form of the slope on the plot) a tall person earns, but they do not tell you what the error of that slope is (for those who are statistically challenged, think plus or minus 100 as an example).
Now this is a useless figure because they don't tell you the amount of errror, or any of the other related statistics.
In reality, the two factors may only be related by numerical coincidence, or they may be related by something like geographical location (USA vs. the Kalahari). There is simply nowhere near enough information to justify this conclusion, which is a dubious area of research anyway.
actually, I'm a little surprised it HAD a fan. I had an old pentium I from 1994 (packard bell also, piece o' junk), that only used passive cooling.
When did active become the norm?
have you tried linux with an nvidia card recently? If not buy a NAME brand nvidia geforce (asus, gigabyte, etc) and try it out under linux. you will be pleasantly surprised. It works wonderfully.
not necessarily, as the land line could be configured for area calling. Also, I wonder if it wouldn't be cheaper to use vonage for that. They *do* have call forwarding don't they?
Bah. If you haven't seen render errors in ie, go here: http://ben.realisticweb.com.
On first glance it LOOKS fine, but if you realize that the date is supposed to be positioned in the upper right-hand corner, then you understand that there is a problem.
That page uses style sheets. The trouble is that in IE, the position: fixed; attribute is broken, such that not only does it place the element incorrectly, it also handles scrolling issues incorrectly. Under all other browsers, the logo, date, and link table are fixed, and do not scroll-only the text does. Under IE the whole thing moves.
The w3.org website has several areas that behave the same (where do you think that I got the idea?). The trouble with saying that you don't notice rendering errors while using one browser is the same as saying you don't get viruses while only using one AV--unless you check you don't know.
(as an aside, this error was pointed out to me when I said that I liked a certain AV and hadn't gotten a virus while using it)
There are entire pages dedicated to pointing out the many holes in IE's CSS implementation. In fact this is one of the main gripes many people have who do web development. They find themselves continually recoding different portions of the site just to accomodate a certain lack of features.
I will also use this as a moment to pull out my trusty soap-box: please do not say CSS style sheets. It is so very redundant. CSS == Cascading Style Sheets. I think you get the picture.
Now, does anyone else need this box? I think I'm done with it for a while.
yes but, they said java, and were insistent on it when I pointed out the difference. I still have the email log. When I asked what their linux users should do, they were fairly succinct --use windows.
.fsp (the extension they use).
As a point of interest--does anyone happen to know if Safari breaks that page? Also what is
I do. Try going to here and logging in. Compare browsers. Even though you need an account to actually log in, under IE, the page looks different. Under moz, the submit button doesn't work!!!! When I complained, they told me it was because of incompatible versions of JAVA that NS/Moz uses. Methinks they are a bit confused.
Yes, I am aware of that problem, but i also know when my system starts getting buggy that it could easily be a virus. Honestly, though, I find AVG to be a good tool. Maybe Norton is better, but i wouldn't put money on it. AVG just has a different business model--if you need it for non-commercial, non-network use, then its free. Otherwise it costs. The free version is effective though, since I have seen people run it as well as norton (not something I would do, AV progs don't always like each other), and AVG picked up things that norton didn't.
enough said.
I have to agree. Firebird is better than Moz. The only complaint I have is that, under linux, I haven't figured out how to get thunderbird to open links in Firebird directly. Right now I have to copy/paste, but that seems to work.
I think the real benefit would be having TWO 16:9 ratio monitors. Simple enough.
You beat me to it. Having personally used AVG (free edition) for quite some time, I find that it is as good as any of the commercial ones (I am virus free). I don't know that it checks Mozilla/Thunderbird mail though. Try installing your mail client first, or AVG won't pickup the directory. Good Luck.
Also, I have to ask what need you have for WinXP. If it is not a gaming machine (ie, you won't be playing Doom 3), then you can easily run WineX and then you won't have some issues inherent with any M$ solution.
Just a thought though.
I hadn't really thought that most people considered romanticizing the same as understating. I personally see it as making things look too happy in the end (which is not necessarily the same), or making a bad situation look somewhat positive (such as being a peasant in the 14th century). But it may be a semantics issue, I will grant that. I still maintain that the movie did a good job of helping people understand a very terrible disease.
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The focus of 'A Beautiful Mind' was NOT to document all of his bizarreness, but to demonstrate what schizophrenia could be like--and it did a decent job of it.
Having worked as a mental health associate in a residential treatment facility that primarily cares for schizophrenics, I think it important to point out a few things.
First, most schizophrenics are bizarre. By definition. Catatonic schizophrenics may not be, but bizarreness of thought is one of the requirements for diagnosis (source: DSM-IV revised). Thus to say that John Nash was sometimes bizarre is redundant. Of course he was.
Second, sexuality is unrelated to the discussion. Why bring it up?
Third, schizophrenia is a very debilitating disease. It is not easily overcome. If you think that the movie was overly romantic, consider this: two-thirds (approximately) of schizophrenics do not get better, regardless of treatment. It is very exceptional that someone with schizophrenia can learn to cope as well as Nash did. His story is exceptional, even if hollywood made it seem "cute" or whatever. I respect him for what he did. The movie, in terms of its treatment of what schizophrenics go through, did a good job of illustrating the nature of thier delusions, hallucinations and paranoia. IF ANYTHING IT UNDERSTATED IT!!!!!
Having worked with a man who truly believed his mother was a leprechaun, another who believed that he invented the Knight Rider car (but the government stole it, and made the show so they could kill his family and cover it all up) (he also believed that demons would throw "fury darts" at him, and that was why he attacked people), and another (blond) man who believed the devil was persecuting him becuase he had red hair, I have a lot of respect for those who manage to overcome this. I also feel that unless you have worked with these people, you cannot rightfully comment on their "bizarreness".
end rant
As an aside (maybe a second rant), I also worked with some who were ADD/ADHD, and it is a strange thing. It is also mostly behavioral (I believe, some will argue), and is very rare outside the US. Ritalin should NEVER be given to children. If you know anything about medicine or psychology, consider this. The test group for Ritalin was adult humans and rats (sometimes different, sometimes not). There has NOT been any solid research on the long-term effects of Ritalin on young children. To generalize the results of studies on adults to children is a good example of bad statistics and medicine.
I know I haven't cited references like I should, but it is late.
yah, but I don't believe they needed a reason. Blizzard, by comparison, is NEVER on time with their releases, and no one can reasonably claim that they do poorly. It is just as easy to argue that the anticipation factor actually increases sales (aka Star Wars). What people do with the game after purchase is totally different though.
I agree with on the idea of not installing multiple versions. But the problem is that so many make unrelated apps dependent on Gnome or kDE, thus requiring you to install one or both when you prefer windowmaker.
I don't think I said that they couldn't manufacture coolness. At least, I hope not.
My point was that this is not the way it will work. You have to know your audience, and M$ is proving that they don't. In fact I explicitly stated that cool is manufactured. It's just that they are doing it wrong in this case.
As for my "predictable and saddening attack on Barbie", I suppose that the cat's out of the bag--I am anti-Barbie. Call me a bigot. Please.
No, actually, I think that Barbie is seen as very cool, but the way that she is made to look absolutely frightens me, because real females DON'T look like that, and little girls frequently think that they should, thus paving the way for all types of problems with self-esteem and whatnot.
Many will hat me for that, but I think that it is true. Just the power of advertising done correctly. If the creator of Barbie had been as clueless as M$ about audience desire/knowledge, noone born today would ever hear the word Barbie.
no it says: Meinten Sie: dark mcbride
strange thing is that it's not even real words...
[for the humor impaired I know what german looks like....]
hmmm....
I think I agree with the grandparent in this case--cool is manufactured. If you think all the sports people wear Nike because they are a better or cooler shoe, then you are mistaken. Nike is worn by them because Nike gives them shoes, or pays them to wear them. Why else then do entire teams commonly wear the same exact brand of shoe?
Your example with Porsche and Cadillac (BTW, mine is the correct spelling), is even more spurious--Cadillac doesn't TRY to be cool: they aren't in that market. Caddies are meant to be elegant, classy, and sophisticated, not cool. You will further notice that Porsche and Cadillac don't even market to the same people. Nor should they.
All that said, I do agree with the idea that if you see XYZ company running Linux or BSD or MACOSX, then you will tend to like that OS more. Unfortunately, it only works for us nerds, geeks and the nerkles. Jane Doe doesn't get it, and this is something even M$ doesn't seem to understand (although they, of all people, should), because Jane Doe doesn't even realize that the people on the show or in the movie are using a particular type of computer. To her, its just a computer.
Take my wife, as an example. The ONLY reason she knows ANYTHING about linux is because I use it at home--at some of her software doesn't run under linux. If it did, she wouldn't even care as much as she does. To her, as long as the sorry computer is working, it doesn't matter what it looks like.
Most people don't know that they aren't looking at a windows box. Why not? Because to them, it's not about the OS, its about what they can do with the machine. Will their favorite software work? No? Then they take it back. Can they surf the net and drool over pr0n? yes? Then they keep it.
The sad truth is that this won't work for M$ for the same reason that most people don't know much about linux and digital freedom--Americans don't CARE! The irony of it all is that M$ will be able to point to the stable marked and claim that its a result of their advertising, and unless they do some real market research they won't ever know.
("Hi, this is Cindy, and I would like to ask you a few questions about technology on television. Do you have a minute to spare? [this is where most people hang up] Yes? Good. In the most recent episode of Seinfeld what type of computer was he using?" At this point the person starts to break out in a sweat, having forgotten if they watched the show. After a minute they decide they did, but they really can't remember anyone using a computer, so they say the first thing that comes to mind, "I think it was a Dell." This is of course, wrong, as it was probably a Sony Vaio or something similar, but 'Cindy' doesn't care, she marks the little box that says 'windows boxen', and thanks them for their time, but only after asking about 300 other questions that take "only a minute" of their time.)
I imagine that the real strength of linux is that eventually it will allow Dell to put out "Dell Linux", and then you will have "Sony Linux" and "AOLinux" and maybe even "Barbie Linux" (with unrealistic images of women portrayed prominently so that another generation of young females can be ruined by the unrealistic ideal), which would be closely related to "Playboy Linux", and "Hustler Linux", but wouldn't sell quite as well.
See those things will be what wins the OS wars, because M$ will never allow enough control of windows to slip away for that type of branding, but Linux invites it.
No, M$ is doomed to believe they won this "cool campaign", without ever knowing that 90% of the population doesn't CARE!
(Okay, now that I'm done with my soapbox, does any one else want to borrow it?)
hmmm...obviously we had slightly different things in mind when we said "claim". You were referring to claims made within the html, whilst I referred to claims made on the page itself, which I think we will agree are two very different animals. That said, I agree with your way of looking at it 100%, and still maintain my point of view with the above clarification.
I was referring to the company that owns them, not the shareholders in SCO....aren't they mostly owned by another company, who may hold some liability?
Dunno. Just asking.
never said they were...just me personally. Sorry, though--current technology limitations prevent me from posting a link from this (or any other) website directly to the content of my mind. At least in any meaningful way.
As for the RP being for the legalization of hemp, I hope you are not confusing this with the legalization of marijuana. They are, politically, two different issues (morally too, but that's another story). Hemp should be, and if I ran for governor of, oh say, Kentucky, I would put that on my bill, and give incentives to corporations and farmers who switched from growing tobacco to growing hemp.
The reason is that hemp is a very fast growing weed, and is extremely useful for paper, ink, bio-diesel (somebody verify this one for me plz?), and many other resources. It cannot be used for smoking (unless somebody wants very little buzz with a fairly decent headache, from what I hear).
If the Republican leadership was half as smart as they should be, they would bill this to big business as a way to get an early jump on a big market, and give big incentives to the companies. As for whether or not any of them would agree with me, I doubt it.
Unfortunately, it is popular to hate republicans (which may be one of the reasons I lean that direction, even though both parties represent the same essential idea--power for their friends, and increased taxes for everyone else), and this leads to a general belief that if your republican you can't have forward thinking ideas. It simply isnt' true!
Hopefully you are wrong about dead tree books. I want to see a renewable source for paper (hemp!), that doesn't take vast acres of ruined forest. That said, I am a republican by registration and an independent by philosophy.
Actually, most sites that claim to adhere to standard xy or z do. The real problem is that most site don't claim any standard at all.
.fsp extension for pages, let me know] under Moz/NS7; when I contacted them they told me that it was because the version of JAVA that NS7 and Moz use is incompatible with the version they use. They never got it that the version of JAVA on a machine has little to do with the browser, just the OS, and who installed it), and it seems like they don't even know what is good coding.
There are plenty of good sites that are standards compliant, but most sites just don't care, and it's partially due to the fact that some places use bad code (my bank for one, which renders the front page, but you can't login [ps, if anyone knows anything about the
Other times, its because they learned web design in the graphic design dept, and their teacher just wanted it to look pretty. It happens.
Other times it's because the designer is using whatever WYSIWYG editor their business/school provides, and they don't know enough to check.
But for people who know to check, they generally have valid code. Personally I strive for XHTML 1.0 Strict, but that's a choice. It means I can't use [FRAMESET]or [IFRAME], but that's okay.
I do agree that most stuff, however, is not standards compliant, and it's sad.