It's very feature-filled, and definitely competitive with Homesite. The 1.0.0 version I'm using right now has a couple small bugs and an occasional memory leak, but hopefully that will be fixed when I upgrade to one of the 1.0.x releases.
I dunno. Here in Maryland, pinball games were treated the same way until like 10 years ago.
I remember wanting to play pinball really bad when I was a kid, but the arcade had all the pinball machines roped off in an area with big signs that said 'You must be 18 to enter this area'.
So here I am at like age 10 thinking this was the most asinine thing I ever heard of. I asked my dad what the deal was, and he told me the supposed reason for the law was to prevent underage gambling. What-ever.
First of all, please do not call me a liberal. It's 'libertarian'.
My basic angle is that I have a right to live my life the way I choose, and you have a right to live your life as you choose, and neither of us should attempt to infringe upon the other.
Some people want to shield their children from everything that isn't fluffy, happy and colorful. I don't agree with that at all. I want my son to be educated and aware of the full diversity of human activity out there, so he is fully prepared to live as an adult. I want him to make the right decisions when he is an adult and is confronted with some of the less-than-savory things in the world, without me there to hold his hand.
I imagine that he will stumble upon Nambla and Lycaeum someday just as I did, but it will not happen until I am comfortable that he will make the right decisions after reading what they have to say. Right now we either sit down and surf together, or I keep an eye on what he's surfing from the other room. Usually it's Pokemon-related:)
Yeah, man. I guess you're right - I'm a totally-out-of-it dumbass;)
I actually don't give a rat's ass about the browsing habits of the typical net user. I make my own personal decision to do my thing, and as far as I'm concerned they're free to do theirs also. If they want to visit corporate sites - if they think they're getting what they want out of them - that's their personal choice. I wouldn't presume to tell anyone else what's best for them.
The reason I thought you were promoting government control of the media is the following sentence:
When a particular minority with very special interests gets an overwhelming amount of mindspace, the public needs special protective measures against the corps abusing their power.
I assumed that special protective measures meant government regulation of who can broadcast what, how much, or when, which is called censorship.
Russia's media is state-controlled, even today after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In recent months the government has raided newspaper offices, and the secret police stabbed some journalist. So, they've made a lot of progress lately, but there are still those there that want to silence unpopular ideas.
I would rather chance my 8.y.o. son stumbling upon some pornography on the net than having someone else; some bureaucrat or appointed holier-than-thou 'decency commissioner' control what content is available on the Internet.
I don't need Big Brother telling me how to do my job as a parent, or dictating what ideas and pictures are too 'dangerous' for me or my child to see. I am fully capable of making my own personal decisions - I don't need you or anyone else to make them for me.
When a particular minority with very special interests gets an overwhelming amount of mindspace, the public needs special protective measures against the corps abusing their power.
Lemme share a little bit of harsh reality with you here, bud.
If you set up a government commission to enforce this, in less than 2 weeks those same big corporations will have bought the politicians' influence so that they become the only legal content providers, shutting out the little guys in the process. Then you end up with fewer choices, and more special interest control than you had before. This sort of political corruption and corporate welfare happens every single day in America. It's a natural result of having a bloated Federal government that has its nose in too many places it shouldn't be.
The U.S. government is currently paying the television networks to add anti-drug messages into the plot of popular television shows. Talk about propaganda.
I'd rather have corporate-controlled media any day than government-controlled media. Look at Russia.
Anyway, despite my sarcastic comment about Katz (how could I resist a shot at Katz?) I do think that Open Media is going to kick ass all over the old media, simply because its more 2-way and interactive, whereas the 1-way old media shovels crap down our throats. The net is going to radically transform the whole media scene - we're only in the very early stages.
Every once in a while I drop into the CNN site to see what the sheep are watching these days, but other than that I have almost completely tuned out the corporate media blather.
If you don't like corporate-run sites, don't visit them. I don't understand why you would want the viewing habits of other people to be controlled. Shouldn't they be free to make their own decisions?
Besides, Open Media is about to eat Old Media for lunch. Haven't you been reading Jon Katz's stories?;)
I heard a speech the other day where the speaker said we are no longer on a slippery slope to losing all our individual liberties, we're hurtling down a water slide.
Voting for a third party candidate is never a wasted vote, regardless of whether they have a chance this time around.
The more votes a third party candidate gets, the easier it is next time around for that party or candidate to get ballot access (an extremely daunting, expensive proposition in many states), media coverage, matching funds (although Libertarians refuse to accept them), inclusion in polls and debates, and campaign donations.
While voting your conscience may not win a current election, it does more good in the long run than voting for the lesser of two evils.
Yeah, the meatspace war on drugs is going really well! I am so happy that we have over a million people in prison on nonviolent drug charges! In fact, there are so many drug prisoners that they don't have room for the nice rapists and murderers!
I think it's great that children are encouraged to report their parents to the police, so the parents can be sent to jail for a mandatory 20-year sentence, and the kids can grow up as orphans.
I think it's awesome that our cities are a war zone because of the inflated prices drugs command on the black market!! It makes me smile when innocent people get caught in the crossfire:)
It makes me sleep easy at night knowing that police can confiscate my car without due process, or comb through my banking records without my knowledge.
I am glad that drug addicts are afraid to seek out help because they're afraid of being imprisoned!
We are doing so well in the War on Some Drugs!! It makes me happy!!
One reason MP3's are taking off like wildfire is that CD's are *so fucking expensive*. We're talking $17 for some CD I may have never heard, that may have 2 good songs on it, or may suck completely. I quit buying CD's like 7 years ago, and have listened to nothing but dj mixtapes, vinyl and MP3s ever since.
Here's your business model: a subscription service offering unlimited access to over 1.9 million tracks for $5.95/mo. At a price point like that, it becomes much easier for me to pay the subscription fee than to track the damn things down and jam up my precious hard drive space with them.
And now organizations like the WTO take American sovernity. Check out this link from a conservative legistlator complaining about the WTO for those reasons.
That's my man Ron Paul. He was in USA Today, um, today. He was the Libertarian Party candidate for president in 1988, but is now back in Congress as a Republican. He was recently ranked as being by far the most libertarian member of Congress. I definitely wouldn't call him conservative. I mean, how many conservatives do you know that want to legalize drugs?
Regarding your assertion that there are fewer and larger corporations... That may be in part because the barriers to entry are getting higher, in the form of taxation and regulation. With high barriers, only the biggest and most capitalized can survive.
These Naderesque conspiracy theories are really starting to get to me.
I agree with you wholeheartedly that our foreign policy sucks, and that we should stop meddling in the affairs of other countries, but I think that you are not seeing all of the good that the free market brings to the world.
The free market is an infinitely efficient natural mechanism that allows a choice of high-quality goods and services to reach buyers as quickly as possible, at the lowest price possible, and with as little waste as possible.
Free trade between countries virtually eliminates the chance of those countries bombing each other, by building strong economic ties and symbiotic relationships. No two countries that have a McDonald's have ever been at war with each other.
Slashdot Mirror
China?
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Hehe. Reminds me of the old saying about 'scratching an itch'
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I searched high and low for a decent HTML editor - something similar to Homesite.
I found a KDE-based editor called Quanta+ at http://quanta.sourceforge.net/
It's very feature-filled, and definitely competitive with Homesite. The 1.0.0 version I'm using right now has a couple small bugs and an occasional memory leak, but hopefully that will be fixed when I upgrade to one of the 1.0.x releases.
I highly recommend checking this package out.
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I dunno. Here in Maryland, pinball games were treated the same way until like 10 years ago.
I remember wanting to play pinball really bad when I was a kid, but the arcade had all the pinball machines roped off in an area with big signs that said 'You must be 18 to enter this area'.
So here I am at like age 10 thinking this was the most asinine thing I ever heard of. I asked my dad what the deal was, and he told me the supposed reason for the law was to prevent underage gambling. What-ever.
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First of all, please do not call me a liberal. It's 'libertarian'.
:)
My basic angle is that I have a right to live my life the way I choose, and you have a right to live your life as you choose, and neither of us should attempt to infringe upon the other.
Some people want to shield their children from everything that isn't fluffy, happy and colorful. I don't agree with that at all. I want my son to be educated and aware of the full diversity of human activity out there, so he is fully prepared to live as an adult. I want him to make the right decisions when he is an adult and is confronted with some of the less-than-savory things in the world, without me there to hold his hand.
I imagine that he will stumble upon Nambla and Lycaeum someday just as I did, but it will not happen until I am comfortable that he will make the right decisions after reading what they have to say. Right now we either sit down and surf together, or I keep an eye on what he's surfing from the other room. Usually it's Pokemon-related
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Yeah, man. I guess you're right - I'm a totally-out-of-it dumbass ;)
I actually don't give a rat's ass about the browsing habits of the typical net user. I make my own personal decision to do my thing, and as far as I'm concerned they're free to do theirs also. If they want to visit corporate sites - if they think they're getting what they want out of them - that's their personal choice. I wouldn't presume to tell anyone else what's best for them.
The reason I thought you were promoting government control of the media is the following sentence:
When a particular minority with very special interests gets an overwhelming amount of mindspace, the public needs special protective measures against the corps abusing their power.
I assumed that special protective measures meant government regulation of who can broadcast what, how much, or when, which is called censorship.
--
Russia's media is state-controlled, even today after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In recent months the government has raided newspaper offices, and the secret police stabbed some journalist. So, they've made a lot of progress lately, but there are still those there that want to silence unpopular ideas.
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Ouch, man.
.y.o. son stumbling upon some pornography on the net than having someone else; some bureaucrat or appointed holier-than-thou 'decency commissioner' control what content is available on the Internet.
I would rather chance my 8
I don't need Big Brother telling me how to do my job as a parent, or dictating what ideas and pictures are too 'dangerous' for me or my child to see. I am fully capable of making my own personal decisions - I don't need you or anyone else to make them for me.
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When a particular minority with very special interests gets an overwhelming amount of mindspace, the public needs special protective measures against the corps abusing their power.
Lemme share a little bit of harsh reality with you here, bud.
If you set up a government commission to enforce this, in less than 2 weeks those same big corporations will have bought the politicians' influence so that they become the only legal content providers, shutting out the little guys in the process. Then you end up with fewer choices, and more special interest control than you had before. This sort of political corruption and corporate welfare happens every single day in America. It's a natural result of having a bloated Federal government that has its nose in too many places it shouldn't be.
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The U.S. government is currently paying the television networks to add anti-drug messages into the plot of popular television shows. Talk about propaganda.
I'd rather have corporate-controlled media any day than government-controlled media. Look at Russia.
Anyway, despite my sarcastic comment about Katz (how could I resist a shot at Katz?) I do think that Open Media is going to kick ass all over the old media, simply because its more 2-way and interactive, whereas the 1-way old media shovels crap down our throats. The net is going to radically transform the whole media scene - we're only in the very early stages.
Peace,
pb
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Hear, hear.
;)
Every once in a while I drop into the CNN site to see what the sheep are watching these days, but other than that I have almost completely tuned out the corporate media blather.
If you don't like corporate-run sites, don't visit them. I don't understand why you would want the viewing habits of other people to be controlled. Shouldn't they be free to make their own decisions?
Besides, Open Media is about to eat Old Media for lunch. Haven't you been reading Jon Katz's stories?
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I heard a speech the other day where the speaker said we are no longer on a slippery slope to losing all our individual liberties, we're hurtling down a water slide.
Or Harry Browne :)
Voting for a third party candidate is never a wasted vote, regardless of whether they have a chance this time around.
The more votes a third party candidate gets, the easier it is next time around for that party or candidate to get ballot access (an extremely daunting, expensive proposition in many states), media coverage, matching funds (although Libertarians refuse to accept them), inclusion in polls and debates, and campaign donations.
While voting your conscience may not win a current election, it does more good in the long run than voting for the lesser of two evils.
Actually, the libertarian.org site is an introduction to libertarianism, sponsored by the Henry Hazlitt Foundation.
The Libertarian Party site is at www.lp.org
Actually the chemistry link on hyperreal now sends you to some site called the Vaults of Erowid.
Yeah, the meatspace war on drugs is going really well! I am so happy that we have over a million people in prison on nonviolent drug charges! In fact, there are so many drug prisoners that they don't have room for the nice rapists and murderers!
:)
I think it's great that children are encouraged to report their parents to the police, so the parents can be sent to jail for a mandatory 20-year sentence, and the kids can grow up as orphans.
I think it's awesome that our cities are a war zone because of the inflated prices drugs command on the black market!! It makes me smile when innocent people get caught in the crossfire
It makes me sleep easy at night knowing that police can confiscate my car without due process, or comb through my banking records without my knowledge.
I am glad that drug addicts are afraid to seek out help because they're afraid of being imprisoned!
We are doing so well in the War on Some Drugs!! It makes me happy!!
Here's a link that tells how to contact the appropriate lawmakers to urge them not to pass the bill:
http://www.lp.org/action/sneakpeek/
http://www.cspan.org/
One reason MP3's are taking off like wildfire is that CD's are *so fucking expensive*. We're talking $17 for some CD I may have never heard, that may have 2 good songs on it, or may suck completely. I quit buying CD's like 7 years ago, and have listened to nothing but dj mixtapes, vinyl and MP3s ever since.
:(
Here's your business model: a subscription service offering unlimited access to over 1.9 million tracks for $5.95/mo. At a price point like that, it becomes much easier for me to pay the subscription fee than to track the damn things down and jam up my precious hard drive space with them.
p.b., with no j
Haha. Here I am hungry, trying to figure out what to eat... and I come across your post.
I'm gonna go eat me some ramen too.
Mmmm mmmm good.
I sure do like me some ramen boy.
P.S. The freeze-dried vegetables make Maruchan the best ramen that money can buy.
Damn, what company do you work at, and how do I apply? Sex toys? Getting stoned in the company lunchroom?
And I thought the catered Indian food at my brother's job was a cool perk.
Very true. I forgot about Mr. Buckley.
And now organizations like the WTO take American sovernity. Check out this link from a conservative legistlator complaining about the WTO for those reasons.
That's my man Ron Paul. He was in USA Today, um, today. He was the Libertarian Party candidate for president in 1988, but is now back in Congress as a Republican. He was recently ranked as being by far the most libertarian member of Congress. I definitely wouldn't call him conservative. I mean, how many conservatives do you know that want to legalize drugs?
Regarding your assertion that there are fewer and larger corporations... That may be in part because the barriers to entry are getting higher, in the form of taxation and regulation. With high barriers, only the biggest and most capitalized can survive.
These Naderesque conspiracy theories are really starting to get to me.
I agree with you wholeheartedly that our foreign policy sucks, and that we should stop meddling in the affairs of other countries, but I think that you are not seeing all of the good that the free market brings to the world.
The free market is an infinitely efficient natural mechanism that allows a choice of high-quality goods and services to reach buyers as quickly as possible, at the lowest price possible, and with as little waste as possible.
Free trade between countries virtually eliminates the chance of those countries bombing each other, by building strong economic ties and symbiotic relationships. No two countries that have a McDonald's have ever been at war with each other.