In which world do you live in that scientific credibility == cash? Do you also hold Hugh Hefner and the Sultan of Brunei in such esteem as great scientific thinkers of the twentieth century?
Implement designs from a Fortune 500 website with hundreds of pages, with text embedded in graphics and with Flash integrated into both content and navigation and come back and tell us how that works.
I'm assuming you didn't bother to read any of the parts in the parent's post about this being 2005? Who in their right mind uses Flash for navigation? Text embedded in graphics have alt tags - that's how it's always been. If the website isn't usable from lynx/braille reader then really what use is it? Even a picture gallery has text on it: artists, titles, etc.
Thank you for saying that. Someone with a bit of knowledge, finally!:)
I wouldn't ever count myself as a free-market capitalist type, but it pisses me off even more that people who are don't even understand what it means.
I'd be inclined to suggest that the economic situation in the USA is too free, with the continued consolidation of media companies etc remaining unopposed.
Too many people on Slashdot seem to think the be-all and end-all reason for corporations is to make money. As if money was inherently useful in itself. Businesses are only useful if they benefit society; otherwise they destructive.
Agreed. If every new job expects to pull the IP rights rug out from underneath every previous company you've ever worked for, who's to say the company you work for after that don't do the same. You'll be repeatedly breaching contracts and signing away the rights to stuff you no longer own. At which point surely your new company is guilty of some form of infringement. Ach, this is all just stupid anyway. Tell them to take a running jump, I say.
Since when has eugenics been a "technology", especially one that requires government investment? Killing and sterilising people hardly needs any more research. Nor will eugenics give anyone a technological advantage. A very poor example.
That's exactly what *everyone else* is doing and see what's happened? Focusing on winning with no interest in *why* you're winning or at what cost, leaves the whole exercise pointless. The poster may as well not stand at all if they're just going to do what everyone else does.
I've never edited a Wikipedia article (I'm not particularly knowledgable;) but surely the correction of facts with 'facts', if you understand my meaning, can be avoided in these cases if you explain them. E.g., "it is commonly believed that [such-and-such] but in actual fact [such-and-such] is the case", thereby helping to correct people's mistaken beliefs rather than contradicting them.
If I come across an article which says something I thought not to be true, I might think it was wrong. If it instead listed the commonly held belief *and* explained *why* it was wrong I feel more reassured of the veracity of the article overall.
Is this done? If so, does it help? And if not, why not?:)
Yes, Cornelius - the stuff of epics! - and Tuppe, who was so short his feet only just reached the ground. You have reminded me of a part of my childhood that I thought I had lost. I'm going to have to find that book now... Thank you!:)
My God that's a beautiful idea! Which one was ultimate truths again? I can't remember, so long since I read his early (good) stuff. He's been a bit off lately. The Pooley and Omally series, they were fantastic, though I can't imagine who'd play them.
This may be only tangentially related but I thought I'd get someone else's opinion (however little you guys know about the subject!).
Whenever I've been taught computer architecture they mention the four main taxonomic categories, SISD, SIMD, MISD and MIMD, but never manage to come up with a sensible explanation of what a Multiple Instruction Single Data computer would be.
Would a brain count as one? For example, the human eye provides a single set of visual data at a time, which gets independently analysed and processed by different parts of the brain: facial recognition, language and writing, peripheral vision, the blink reflex.
Is this a reasonable assumption to make? Has anyone ever said this much in as many words? Are there any books or such discussing the similarities?
It's probably not "wildlife" in the general sense, but some small set of animals whose physical senses will play up whenever the earth undergoes strenuous subterranean activity. The rest of the animals - and aborigines - just haven't lost the habit of paying attention to each other.
What? I thought it was the Americans that had a problem with the French. Now they're using near-French pronunciation over an alternative! I wonder if they have a word for entrepreneur?
Why is that an 8-month sentence means "full bed and board" and yet 5 years means it's suddenly "seriously hard labour"? What about 8 months seriously hard labour in prison with no TV, no radio, nothing but basic food water and a cell. Doesn't that equalise things a bit, or were you relying on emotive language to make a poor point?
My apologies: I wasn't strictly speaking about goodwill refunds but about explanations for refunds.
If it doesn't work -- as in the case with a game which doesn't work despite your machine fitting all the requirements -- you shouldn't need to explain the details of *why* you think things are not working. The fact that it *doesn't* work is enough.
The fact that this man has had so much hassle attempting to get a *perfectly operable* game to work, because of the company that he is attempting to subscribe with, suggests there is a much deeper problem though. They're refusing money off him, after all! When you have you ever heard of a sensible company do that?
Well, I think that's going a bit far, but if you're designing a web page I think you need to make a basic assumption, that is: there is a reason for it. If there's no need - and thus no content - you should stop right there.
If, on the other hand, you do have a reason to make your presence known online then colour scheme is important. As the Geocities-ified Zen Garden link shows, if you don't pay attention to content the most useful information in the world will go unheard.
(I only have Firefox installed do you mean to say that there's more obscenities on the Geocities CSS skin than I can currently render? Please do tell!:)
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I think you confuse anarchy with anomy.
How do you intend these people learn to cook without access to a stove? Where do all the future chefs come from? Imported from Mars?
In which world do you live in that scientific credibility == cash? Do you also hold Hugh Hefner and the Sultan of Brunei in such esteem as great scientific thinkers of the twentieth century?
I'm assuming you didn't bother to read any of the parts in the parent's post about this being 2005? Who in their right mind uses Flash for navigation? Text embedded in graphics have alt tags - that's how it's always been. If the website isn't usable from lynx/braille reader then really what use is it? Even a picture gallery has text on it: artists, titles, etc.
I wouldn't ever count myself as a free-market capitalist type, but it pisses me off even more that people who are don't even understand what it means.
I'd be inclined to suggest that the economic situation in the USA is too free, with the continued consolidation of media companies etc remaining unopposed.
Too many people on Slashdot seem to think the be-all and end-all reason for corporations is to make money. As if money was inherently useful in itself. Businesses are only useful if they benefit society; otherwise they destructive.
Agreed. If every new job expects to pull the IP rights rug out from underneath every previous company you've ever worked for, who's to say the company you work for after that don't do the same. You'll be repeatedly breaching contracts and signing away the rights to stuff you no longer own. At which point surely your new company is guilty of some form of infringement. Ach, this is all just stupid anyway. Tell them to take a running jump, I say.
If you mean Philip Wadler, he works at Edinburgh University. He lists himself as the "principal designer".
D'you hear that wooshing sound?
Since when has eugenics been a "technology", especially one that requires government investment? Killing and sterilising people hardly needs any more research. Nor will eugenics give anyone a technological advantage. A very poor example.
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That's exactly what *everyone else* is doing and see what's happened? Focusing on winning with no interest in *why* you're winning or at what cost, leaves the whole exercise pointless. The poster may as well not stand at all if they're just going to do what everyone else does.
I've never edited a Wikipedia article (I'm not particularly knowledgable ;) but surely the correction of facts with 'facts', if you understand my meaning, can be avoided in these cases if you explain them. E.g., "it is commonly believed that [such-and-such] but in actual fact [such-and-such] is the case", thereby helping to correct people's mistaken beliefs rather than contradicting them.
:)
If I come across an article which says something I thought not to be true, I might think it was wrong. If it instead listed the commonly held belief *and* explained *why* it was wrong I feel more reassured of the veracity of the article overall.
Is this done? If so, does it help? And if not, why not?
Yes, Cornelius - the stuff of epics! - and Tuppe, who was so short his feet only just reached the ground. You have reminded me of a part of my childhood that I thought I had lost. I'm going to have to find that book now... Thank you! :)
My God that's a beautiful idea! Which one was ultimate truths again? I can't remember, so long since I read his early (good) stuff. He's been a bit off lately. The Pooley and Omally series, they were fantastic, though I can't imagine who'd play them.
"What do you live in? Concrete?"
:)
Stone, what else is there?
Perhaps because most browsers don't support languages like Smalltalk (!) and Tcl (!)?
This may be only tangentially related but I thought I'd get someone else's opinion (however little you guys know about the subject!).
Whenever I've been taught computer architecture they mention the four main taxonomic categories, SISD, SIMD, MISD and MIMD, but never manage to come up with a sensible explanation of what a Multiple Instruction Single Data computer would be.
Would a brain count as one? For example, the human eye provides a single set of visual data at a time, which gets independently analysed and processed by different parts of the brain: facial recognition, language and writing, peripheral vision, the blink reflex.
Is this a reasonable assumption to make? Has anyone ever said this much in as many words? Are there any books or such discussing the similarities?
It's probably not "wildlife" in the general sense, but some small set of animals whose physical senses will play up whenever the earth undergoes strenuous subterranean activity. The rest of the animals - and aborigines - just haven't lost the habit of paying attention to each other.
> "hey, do you feel that hunger over their?" No, you couldn't, or you'd get slaughtered by the slashdot spelling nazis! :)
Yep, serves 'im right too. Some of us happen to frown on murder as being somewhat anti-social. Pimms anyone?
"And it's LEUtenant, not LEFtenant!"
What? I thought it was the Americans that had a problem with the French. Now they're using near-French pronunciation over an alternative! I wonder if they have a word for entrepreneur?
Why is that an 8-month sentence means "full bed and board" and yet 5 years means it's suddenly "seriously hard labour"? What about 8 months seriously hard labour in prison with no TV, no radio, nothing but basic food water and a cell. Doesn't that equalise things a bit, or were you relying on emotive language to make a poor point?
My apologies: I wasn't strictly speaking about goodwill refunds but about explanations for refunds.
If it doesn't work -- as in the case with a game which doesn't work despite your machine fitting all the requirements -- you shouldn't need to explain the details of *why* you think things are not working. The fact that it *doesn't* work is enough.
The fact that this man has had so much hassle attempting to get a *perfectly operable* game to work, because of the company that he is attempting to subscribe with, suggests there is a much deeper problem though. They're refusing money off him, after all! When you have you ever heard of a sensible company do that?
Did he even *write* the GPL? He's not a lawyer after all. I thought it was Eben Moglen who drafted the licence.
If, on the other hand, you do have a reason to make your presence known online then colour scheme is important. As the Geocities-ified Zen Garden link shows, if you don't pay attention to content the most useful information in the world will go unheard.
(I only have Firefox installed do you mean to say that there's more obscenities on the Geocities CSS skin than I can currently render? Please do tell! :)