The double-quote was moved to the same key as the single quote.
Part of the problem is that the ASCII standard screwed things up by NOT providing dedicated Curly Quotes. HACKs such as ` and ' became popular on X. i.e. ASCII and Unicode quotation marks
Unfortunately, the X Window System fonts contained for a long time the following mutually symmetric glyphs:
0x27 APOSTROPHE -- end curly single quote 0x60 GRAVE ACCENT -- begin curly single quote
Outlook also fucked things up by auto-correcting quotes into "Smart Quotes".
And of course most compilers are too stupid to understand anything other then ASCII so they barf on as well.
Banning double-quotes isn't solving the problem. Having _dedicated keys_ for them would.
> There is no blue-green colorblindess. It's either red-green or blue-yellow.
BZZT. Thanks for playing.
Monochromacy - Sees everything in black and white. Example Deuteranopes - Confuse Blue-greens with grey and mid-pinks Tritanopes - The most common confusion are light blues with greys, dark purples with black, mid-greens with blues and oranges with reds. Protanopia - Confuses some blues with some reds, purples and dark pinks; confuses Mid-greens with some oranges.
Neverrmind the fact that consumers bought MORE then the imaginary losses they were claiming. Hell, it has been shown that people who pirate, on average, tend to buy more stuff.
When the entertainment isn't available for purchase, or held hostage via region locking (aka price fixing), what do you expect some people to do ? "Gee, let me download (part of this) album for free." How about making it legally available for purchase instead ?!?!
Sony completely missed the boat on iTunes, aka purchases on a per-song basis because they were too greedy.
You recently tweeted that no one who isn't transgender should voice opinions on transgender issues yet you regularly voice your own opinion on these issues. Is this a tacit "coming out" of your own transgender past, and if so, what does it mean for your own position as a representative and "megaphone" for women's issues and how you speak to the personal history of growing up as a woman?
-- SJW, noun, acronym for Stupid Juvenile Whiner/Whore: a drama queen over issues no one gives a fuck about.
* Continuum (2012) -- one of the few shows where time travel isn't idiotic or a deus ex machina. * Fringe (2008) for a weird X-Files pseudo-science bent.
Hands down the best Sci Fi in the last decade would have to be 2004 remake of Battlestar Galactica
> Scorpion
Is crap. For a bunch of geniuses they sure make a lot of dumb mistakes.
I *hate* how Netflix groups Sci-Fi with that Fantasy shit. I want to see ONE or the OTHER, not BOTH at the same time.
While you and I agree you don't need fancy graphics for a fun game as a game dev having more horsepower is definitely appreciated as you start doing more physics simulations on the GPU.
Unfortunately consumers not upgrading their consoles doesn't fit into the business model of Microsoft and Sony who want to continue hawking the latest shiny unto consumers so you can buy last years game on new hardware. Nintendo is dragged into by consumers who "jump ship". It becomes an arms race of trying to beat the competition by coming out early enough to get enough consumer buy-in, versus waiting for the superior tech to drop in price.
You are so focused on the destination that you forget the journey is even more important.
For every rich person I could show you 10x poor people who are far happier. There are people who have absolute NOTHING that far happier then the rich guy who has to constantly worry about how to keep and increase his wealth, how his financial portfolio is doing, that his trophy wife is spending more then he can make, etc.
Money != Happiness, although it can buy a little temporary pleasure.
Life is what you make of it, not what you got. Money only provides the potential to enjoy more freedoms, and pursue new interests.
At the end of the day, the amount of money STILL does't satisfy the soul's deep need to create. Any true artist wants to have their art appreciated. The money is just a convenience to be able to KEEP doing the same thing.
My first love is coding. There is no amount of money that could even come close to replacing it. Because regardless of how much I have or don't have I STILL want to write great code.
> My pet peeve is that Windows does not offer a sort which includes the folders mixed in and that Mac does not offer a sort with the folders segregated:)
Hear Hear! I agree 100%
Both Windows and OSX are dumb. There are times I want:
* folders grouped together, and * times I want ASCII sorting, and (so that A_1, A_10, A_2) * other times I want natural sorting. (so that A_9, A_10 )
When is Apple and Microsoft going to hire someone who knows what the fuck they are doing ?
> Seriously, could someone in web design please explain WHY keeping a toolbar on the top is a good idea?
Graphics Guru here. (I've been programming graphics and doing UI design since the mid 80's)
I used one for the first time on one of my web pages a few months ago where I show the Section name, Page Number, and other misc info -- some which is clickable to navigate to a different section. Basically a "sticky floating header." I also have an option where the viewer can toggle color on/off (since I use color highlighting to show categories.)
I have mixed opinions about this:
* (+) It looks sexy as hell so I can understand why people want to use it. As you scroll the page up the last section you come across "sticks" to the top of the screen until the next one. It helps "anchor" the reader by showing them useful information relevant for the current section. * (-) Calculating where to scroll now needs to be intercepted / adjusted to account for the sticky header height. * (+/-) If used the ancient iFrame that would solve the scrolling calculation problem but I lose the graceful "scroll up into fixed place". * (-) I hate the fact that I'm losing vertical space which is already at a premium. * (-) Treating it as a "sticky footer" solves the scrolling calculation problem, but it just looks weird as the reader is mis-led into believing what the "next" section is, not the "current" section. * (-) I really wish there was an option to auto-hide it -- but that has it own's problems. What triggers it? That forces the reader to press a key or move their mouse to make it visible. UGH.
With all the problems it creates I'm not convinced the sticky header is the right solution -- it has a limited usefulness. It definitely should be used sparingly, but I lament that there really are no good alternatives.
i.e. Form without Function is useless visual vomit.
Unfortunately too may UI / UX "experts" get dazzled by the "bling" forgetting WHY people are reading in the first place. i.e. They want to solve a task: either linear reading, or non-linear navigation.
This is why I constantly asked myself 4 questions when I was deploying it:
* What purpose does this sticky header server? * What problem does it solve? * Does it create more problems then it solves? * What are the alternatives?
Good design is almost always a trade off.:-/
The problem modern Web designers don't know what the fuck they are doing anymore. They don't understand the _context_ of the problem that has been "solved" for 20 years. Instead they want to dumb their UI down to tablet / phone standards tossing out all the UI advantages that people have come to expect as standard behavior. UI has become a "lowest common denominator" -- the worst of everything. Even worse these UX designers think they are doing god's work unwilling to listen to feedback on all the dumb shit they are doing, unable to learn.
This current fad of "flat design" is one such idiocracy. Instead of empower the view to use different colors to help distinguish icons you force them to decode similar monochromatic silhouettes. *face palm*.
It is good someone is starting to call out these dumb web designers.
* Hard currencies have an intrinsic value. i.e. Especially the metals. * Soft currencies -- you are correct -- they are completely artificial.
However, this isn't telling the entire picture.
There are 4 Levels of money. That is, money can represent 4 different things:
1. Barter
If you have physical good I desire, and vice versa, we can trade. The *thing itself* is money -- ANYTHING can have value -- depending on who wants it. Now this becomes impractical when you only want 1/2 a cow -- thus a solution was needed for this problem. Which leads me to my next point:
2. Tokens
Instead of trading the physical things themselves, we can trade tokens which represent them. The nice thing is that we can sub-divide tokens into any division we want.
3. Time, Effort, and Skill
I don't have the skills to build a house, nor the time, but if I have enough tokens, I can hire people who do. As a result we've started to ditch using physical tokens and moved to digital tokens, aka bits to represent money. For the time being banks will honor this Bits <--> Paper money equivalency.
4. Energy
At the end of the day, currency is really about energy. Hell, Bitcoin mining shows _exactly_ this. We can currently, very primitively, convert matter into energy and vice versa. This will play an ever increasing role as our technology moves beyond the primitive level we have.
ZPE (Zero Point Energy) will free us from the greed of currency, and move the value into what people can create uniquely. But hat is still a few decades off before we evolve to that level.
Code + Data is NOT Artificial Intelligence no matter how many times you call it that.
The joke that passes for A.I., which really should be called Artificial Ignorance, in contradistinction to a.i. (actual intelligence), is nothing more then a glorified dynamic table lookup.
Slashdot Mirror
> In order to build a large, powerful organization you can't have a larger, more powerful organization trying stop you.
--
" Government is the Entertainment Division of the military-industrial complex"
-- Frank Zappa
This problem has been around for ages:
If you look at early computer keyboard, Apple ][+ there is only one type of double-quote.
When the Apple //e came out, it has a modern keyboard
The double-quote was moved to the same key as the single quote.
Part of the problem is that the ASCII standard screwed things up by NOT providing dedicated Curly Quotes. HACKs such as ` and ' became popular on X.
i.e.
ASCII and Unicode quotation marks
Outlook also fucked things up by auto-correcting quotes into "Smart Quotes".
And of course most compilers are too stupid to understand anything other then ASCII so they barf on as well.
Banning double-quotes isn't solving the problem. Having _dedicated keys_ for them would.
Gee, if only there was renewable power that will never deplete in our lifetime ...
* Wave
* Geothermal
* Solar on the moon
> did all the ones that used the sound stuff (since the Apple didn't have that capability)
Huh?
The Apple "squeeker" is located at $C030 or POKE 49200,X in Basic.
Heck, even Sea Dragon and Castle Wolfenstein had digitized 1-bit speech back in the day.
Granted, you really needed to use machine language to get anything interesting out of it.
I disagree on everyone's first program. It was the much simpler, canonical:
Speaking of custom character design I even came across this github Apple 2 font design page: //e HGR Font 6502 Assembly Language Tutorial
* Apple ][
> There is no blue-green colorblindess. It's either red-green or blue-yellow.
BZZT. Thanks for playing.
Monochromacy - Sees everything in black and white. Example
Deuteranopes - Confuse Blue-greens with grey and mid-pinks
Tritanopes - The most common confusion are light blues with greys, dark purples with black, mid-greens with blues and oranges with reds.
Protanopia - Confuses some blues with some reds, purples and dark pinks; confuses Mid-greens with some oranges.
^THIS. Piracy was blamed on:
* VCR's
* CD's
Neverrmind the fact that consumers bought MORE then the imaginary losses they were claiming. Hell, it has been shown that people who pirate, on average, tend to buy more stuff.
When the entertainment isn't available for purchase, or held hostage via region locking (aka price fixing), what do you expect some people to do ? "Gee, let me download (part of this) album for free." How about making it legally available for purchase instead ?!?!
Sony completely missed the boat on iTunes, aka purchases on a per-song basis because they were too greedy.
In case anyone is curious about the questions the Stupid Juvenile Whiner ignored ...
* https://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7723721&cid=50163683
i.e.
--
SJW, noun, acronym for Stupid Juvenile Whiner/Whore: a drama queen over issues no one gives a fuck about.
I've heard Farscape is good but I haven't watched it. Thanks for the recommendation -- I'll add it to the winter To Watch list.
Haven't heard of Orphan Black. Looks like another interesting one to check out !
Yeah, last decade was stretching it a tad: ~12 years. :-)
> Killjoys, Dark Matter, Stranger Things
Agreed those are decent.
I would also add:
* Continuum (2012) -- one of the few shows where time travel isn't idiotic or a deus ex machina.
* Fringe (2008) for a weird X-Files pseudo-science bent.
Hands down the best Sci Fi in the last decade would have to be 2004 remake of Battlestar Galactica
> Scorpion
Is crap. For a bunch of geniuses they sure make a lot of dumb mistakes.
I *hate* how Netflix groups Sci-Fi with that Fantasy shit. I want to see ONE or the OTHER, not BOTH at the same time.
While you and I agree you don't need fancy graphics for a fun game as a game dev having more horsepower is definitely appreciated as you start doing more physics simulations on the GPU.
Unfortunately consumers not upgrading their consoles doesn't fit into the business model of Microsoft and Sony who want to continue hawking the latest shiny unto consumers so you can buy last years game on new hardware. Nintendo is dragged into by consumers who "jump ship". It becomes an arms race of trying to beat the competition by coming out early enough to get enough consumer buy-in, versus waiting for the superior tech to drop in price.
> But I was told by Slashdotters that government people didn't understand the Internet and therefore such attempts would be useless.
Short term: yes.
Long term: no.
Only cowards censor.
--
A society doesn't remain a free and open when it censors free speech by mis-labeling it hate speech.
Irony: Arrogant Cunt says others are idiots unable to grok that Tim Cooks doesn't have a monopoly on good ideas.
Do you complain about people using the wheel that has been around for thousands of years too?
You're under the assumption that the latest SHINY is worth upgrading to.
I neither want nor need MS spyware.
For Flash games, I 100% agree.
i.e. Normally I hate Tower Defense games but these ones are gems (pardon the pun)
* Gemcraft Chapter 0
* Desktop Tower Defense
Exactly.
When you can't innovate, litigate!
I'm calling bullshit on your bullshit.
You are so focused on the destination that you forget the journey is even more important.
For every rich person I could show you 10x poor people who are far happier. There are people who have absolute NOTHING that far happier then the rich guy who has to constantly worry about how to keep and increase his wealth, how his financial portfolio is doing, that his trophy wife is spending more then he can make, etc.
Money != Happiness, although it can buy a little temporary pleasure.
Life is what you make of it, not what you got. Money only provides the potential to enjoy more freedoms, and pursue new interests.
At the end of the day, the amount of money STILL does't satisfy the soul's deep need to create. Any true artist wants to have their art appreciated. The money is just a convenience to be able to KEEP doing the same thing.
My first love is coding. There is no amount of money that could even come close to replacing it. Because regardless of how much I have or don't have I STILL want to write great code.
Because when I want an ASCII sort order space, 0x20, shows up first.
Underscore is 0x5F which may or may not come before A..Z,a..z.
Space also doesn't introduce extra visual noise.
Not everyone use case is the same but the point is, Windows, and OSX completely suck for sort filters for filenames.
> My pet peeve is that Windows does not offer a sort which includes the folders mixed in and that Mac does not offer a sort with the folders segregated :)
Hear Hear! I agree 100%
Both Windows and OSX are dumb. There are times I want:
* folders grouped together, and
* times I want ASCII sorting, and (so that A_1, A_10, A_2)
* other times I want natural sorting. (so that A_9, A_10 )
When is Apple and Microsoft going to hire someone who knows what the fuck they are doing ?
Consider the alternative.
There is NOTHING to keep the cops accountable when there is no camera.
At least the video can be used to prove the cop was doing what he was supposed to be doing.
The alternative of no camera is far worse.
> Seriously, could someone in web design please explain WHY keeping a toolbar on the top is a good idea?
Graphics Guru here. (I've been programming graphics and doing UI design since the mid 80's)
I used one for the first time on one of my web pages a few months ago where I show the Section name, Page Number, and other misc info -- some which is clickable to navigate to a different section. Basically a "sticky floating header." I also have an option where the viewer can toggle color on/off (since I use color highlighting to show categories.)
I have mixed opinions about this:
* (+) It looks sexy as hell so I can understand why people want to use it. As you scroll the page up the last section you come across "sticks" to the top of the screen until the next one. It helps "anchor" the reader by showing them useful information relevant for the current section.
* (-) Calculating where to scroll now needs to be intercepted / adjusted to account for the sticky header height.
* (+/-) If used the ancient iFrame that would solve the scrolling calculation problem but I lose the graceful "scroll up into fixed place".
* (-) I hate the fact that I'm losing vertical space which is already at a premium.
* (-) Treating it as a "sticky footer" solves the scrolling calculation problem, but it just looks weird as the reader is mis-led into believing what the "next" section is, not the "current" section.
* (-) I really wish there was an option to auto-hide it -- but that has it own's problems. What triggers it? That forces the reader to press a key or move their mouse to make it visible. UGH.
With all the problems it creates I'm not convinced the sticky header is the right solution -- it has a limited usefulness. It definitely should be used sparingly, but I lament that there really are no good alternatives.
i.e. Form without Function is useless visual vomit.
Unfortunately too may UI / UX "experts" get dazzled by the "bling" forgetting WHY people are reading in the first place. i.e. They want to solve a task: either linear reading, or non-linear navigation.
This is why I constantly asked myself 4 questions when I was deploying it:
* What purpose does this sticky header server?
* What problem does it solve?
* Does it create more problems then it solves?
* What are the alternatives?
Good design is almost always a trade off. :-/
The problem modern Web designers don't know what the fuck they are doing anymore. They don't understand the _context_ of the problem that has been "solved" for 20 years. Instead they want to dumb their UI down to tablet / phone standards tossing out all the UI advantages that people have come to expect as standard behavior. UI has become a "lowest common denominator" -- the worst of everything. Even worse these UX designers think they are doing god's work unwilling to listen to feedback on all the dumb shit they are doing, unable to learn.
This current fad of "flat design" is one such idiocracy. Instead of empower the view to use different colors to help distinguish icons you force them to decode similar monochromatic silhouettes. *face palm*.
It is good someone is starting to call out these dumb web designers.
Agreed.
A partial workaround on YouTube is to use K to toggle the play/pause state. The problem is the video doesn't also have auto focus.
> but what purpose does having a filename beginning with a space serve?
Forced Sorting.
It is MY filenames, not the OS's filenames. That is why we have filenames in the first place -- to be human accessible.
This is why CP/M was designed by an idiot, which MS copied. You can't use colons (:), or double quote (") in a filename.
* https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
< (less than)
> (greater than)
: (colon)
" (double quote)
/ (forward slash)
\ (backslash)
| (vertical bar or pipe)
? (question mark)
* (asterisk)
> All money is fake by definition.
That's partially incorrect.
* Hard currencies have an intrinsic value. i.e. Especially the metals.
* Soft currencies -- you are correct -- they are completely artificial.
However, this isn't telling the entire picture.
There are 4 Levels of money. That is, money can represent 4 different things:
1. Barter
If you have physical good I desire, and vice versa, we can trade. The *thing itself* is money -- ANYTHING can have value -- depending on who wants it. Now this becomes impractical when you only want 1/2 a cow -- thus a solution was needed for this problem. Which leads me to my next point:
2. Tokens
Instead of trading the physical things themselves, we can trade tokens which represent them. The nice thing is that we can sub-divide tokens into any division we want.
3. Time, Effort, and Skill
I don't have the skills to build a house, nor the time, but if I have enough tokens, I can hire people who do. As a result we've started to ditch using physical tokens and moved to digital tokens, aka bits to represent money. For the time being banks will honor this Bits <--> Paper money equivalency.
4. Energy
At the end of the day, currency is really about energy. Hell, Bitcoin mining shows _exactly_ this. We can currently, very primitively, convert matter into energy and vice versa. This will play an ever increasing role as our technology moves beyond the primitive level we have.
ZPE (Zero Point Energy) will free us from the greed of currency, and move the value into what people can create uniquely. But hat is still a few decades off before we evolve to that level.
Biocomputing.
Code + Data is NOT Artificial Intelligence no matter how many times you call it that.
The joke that passes for A.I., which really should be called Artificial Ignorance, in contradistinction to a.i. (actual intelligence), is nothing more then a glorified dynamic table lookup.