My essential objection was that is was off-topic - or off at a wild tangent anyway, and there was no declaration of an interest in the site and little real relevance to the debate.
If people want to link to their own sites in a distinctly spammy / google-bomby way they have that right but they shouldn't end up at +5, Informative, because of it, they certainly shouldn't be gaining karma for posting a blatant shill.
That's an insult to those slashdotters who actually go out there and find good sites that genuinely add to the debate, instead of just posting porn-links for personal profit.
Good post. Insightful. I'd mod you up but I want to comment instead.
I acknowledge your points, however, there is an effect to which adsense is detrimental to the web experience beyond the irritation of advertising.
The concept that page visits can make money just by viewing a page with in-context ads has led to a resurgence in pages designed just for that purpose, and the SEO (Search-Engine Optimisation) that pushes these pages high in the webs indexes makes it harder to find the real material you're after.
Competition for the top rank at google is between advertisers, not content suppliers. This isn't good for the surfer.
According to your choice of faith, the One God has manifested himself many times. Speaking as Yahweh to the Jews in the Torah and Old Testament, he is wrathful, a hard taskmaster, yet caring, loyal and wise.
2400 years later: To and Through Jesus, God, as Jehovah, but also as Yahweh-that-was, spoke of love, compassion, kindness, understanding and atonement - self-sacrifice in the name of the ideals being an acceptable choice, for all reward will come afterwards
615 years after that, Mohammed begins to receive instruction from Allah, who identifies himself as the same God known to both earlier religions and their prophets, but who now speaks with harsh promises backed up with kind promises, a steely-eyed determination that people must stand up for themselves, that some things ARE worth fighting for, but at the same time imposing hard codes of honour and respect, demanding tolerance, love and devotion but promising heavently rewards beyond anything ever promised before.
So - if you worship God by obeying his words which were later withdrawn... are you really worshipping him correctly at all?
It's somewhat unpopular (and/or blasphemous, depending on your PoV) to look at religion from a historical perspective.. but if you analyse the motives behind the Commandments which are shared by Jew, Christian and Moslem, they all aim towards supporting a stable, cohesive and mutually respectful society.
In that context I'd see religion as a lifestyle requiring a degree of long-term commitment to the mutual goals of the society it forms, and Idolatry as any interest outside of that society which threatens ones commitment to the "faith" and the lifestyle it intends.
You can define that as worship of metallic gods, excessive devotion to the accumulation of wealth, even worship of human heros, demagogues.. or, in extremis, preachers (depending on whether you accept the Gospel of St.Thomas). Essentially it comes down to paying attention to your own people first.
it'd make slightly more sense if he'd said halal instead of Kosher (Ethiopia=borderline Islamic, Kosher is the Jewish food guide.. not that its much different), as the Qu'ran says that eating non-Halal food out of necessity to avoid starvation or sickness is no sin in God's eyes.
Disclaimer, IANAM - I just read the book out of curiosity
yes, but a Gnome app will never be really happy running on Windows or OSX due to the overhead in terms of libraries to load. XUL is fully crossplatform and has the same requirements on any system - and with the coming dominance of Firefox, there are a lot of people out there learning XUL programming.
Could be the apps in the PVR are digitally signed to prevent them being replaced / infected. A home-compiled module would lack the necessary signature.
One thing that comes to mind is that Mac OSX has a pretty good Java implementation. The OSX port of OpenOffice 1.x was always buggy (and is split between an official X11 port and the native NeoOffice under the GPL)
OSX HIG-compliance is probably a lot easier to achieve in Java than the current X11/Win32 codebase
In iTunes 4.7 Apple restricted this feature. You can only play music from 3 other playlists every 24 hours. This was in response to pressure from RIAA as university networs were becoming a smorgasbord of free-to-listen music through iTunes sharing.
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That roundabout just works - a normal one wouldn't do as well. it just scares furriners and learner drivers...
If there's a prosecution (criminal stupidity?) it'll be released as evidence. But I doubt it
Thank god (or the Force), at last something for which people will remember Hemel Hempstead.
No more having to describe it as "about 5 miles north of Watford" in order to get some vague glimmer of recognition !
My essential objection was that is was off-topic - or off at a wild tangent anyway, and there was no declaration of an interest in the site and little real relevance to the debate.
If people want to link to their own sites in a distinctly spammy / google-bomby way they have that right but they shouldn't end up at +5, Informative, because of it, they certainly shouldn't be gaining karma for posting a blatant shill.
That's an insult to those slashdotters who actually go out there and find good sites that genuinely add to the debate, instead of just posting porn-links for personal profit.
Do a google search for esconsult1 and w3matter (parent company of cityflicker - notice the correlation.
Good post. Insightful. I'd mod you up but I want to comment instead.
I acknowledge your points, however, there is an effect to which adsense is detrimental to the web experience beyond the irritation of advertising.
The concept that page visits can make money just by viewing a page with in-context ads has led to a resurgence in pages designed just for that purpose, and the SEO (Search-Engine Optimisation) that pushes these pages high in the webs indexes makes it harder to find the real material you're after.
Competition for the top rank at google is between advertisers, not content suppliers. This isn't good for the surfer.
According to your choice of faith, the One God has manifested himself many times. Speaking as Yahweh to the Jews in the Torah and Old Testament, he is wrathful, a hard taskmaster, yet caring, loyal and wise.
2400 years later: To and Through Jesus, God, as Jehovah, but also as Yahweh-that-was, spoke of love, compassion, kindness, understanding and atonement - self-sacrifice in the name of the ideals being an acceptable choice, for all reward will come afterwards
615 years after that, Mohammed begins to receive instruction from Allah, who identifies himself as the same God known to both earlier religions and their prophets, but who now speaks with harsh promises backed up with kind promises, a steely-eyed determination that people must stand up for themselves, that some things ARE worth fighting for, but at the same time imposing hard codes of honour and respect, demanding tolerance, love and devotion but promising heavently rewards beyond anything ever promised before.
So - if you worship God by obeying his words which were later withdrawn... are you really worshipping him correctly at all?
It's somewhat unpopular (and/or blasphemous, depending on your PoV) to look at religion from a historical perspective.. but if you analyse the motives behind the Commandments which are shared by Jew, Christian and Moslem, they all aim towards supporting a stable, cohesive and mutually respectful society.
.. or, in extremis, preachers (depending on whether you accept the Gospel of St.Thomas). Essentially it comes down to paying attention to your own people first.
In that context I'd see religion as a lifestyle requiring a degree of long-term commitment to the mutual goals of the society it forms, and Idolatry as any interest outside of that society which threatens ones commitment to the "faith" and the lifestyle it intends.
You can define that as worship of metallic gods, excessive devotion to the accumulation of wealth, even worship of human heros, demagogues
Internet Explorer 5.x was available until very recently as a free download for SCO Unix too. I believe IE6 is Windows-only though.
it'd make slightly more sense if he'd said halal instead of Kosher (Ethiopia=borderline Islamic, Kosher is the Jewish food guide.. not that its much different), as the Qu'ran says that eating non-Halal food out of necessity to avoid starvation or sickness is no sin in God's eyes.
Disclaimer, IANAM - I just read the book out of curiosity
Although, this runs Palmos 5.4 whic isn't based on Linux at all..
No that's not it. I just spent an hour looking for it as well and failed. It definitely was on there though....
musta been running on Windows Server 2003...
There's a better Bash.org quote: (from memory)
Dammit I just spilt man juice all over my keyboard
TMI!! TMI !!!
Eww!!
Oh No! I meant Mango Juice!
Damn that was a bad typo...
..because I thought they meant one of these SSNs
yes, but a Gnome app will never be really happy running on Windows or OSX due to the overhead in terms of libraries to load. XUL is fully crossplatform and has the same requirements on any system - and with the coming dominance of Firefox, there are a lot of people out there learning XUL programming.
Could be the apps in the PVR are digitally signed to prevent them being replaced / infected. A home-compiled module would lack the necessary signature.
Do not machine-wash happy fun Pod !
File a claim for an accident involving hot oil and excessive access and nobody'll ever believe it was a geek-related disaster....
..sprinklers hit burning oil and there goes his whole house
Cel300 was ludicrously overclockable even with regular air-cooling - 450mhz was common, 600 isn't unknown if you had a good one.
One thing that comes to mind is that Mac OSX has a pretty good Java implementation. The OSX port of OpenOffice 1.x was always buggy (and is split between an official X11 port and the native NeoOffice under the GPL)
OSX HIG-compliance is probably a lot easier to achieve in Java than the current X11/Win32 codebase
Its a techy site. I bet the owners spend more time reading slashdot than reading their mail.
Appleworks Office suite is offered for Windows as well - Schools with mac and windows labs used it on both to guarantee cross-compatibility
(Appleworks was based on the cross-platform Claris Office which was bought up by Apple)
In iTunes 4.7 Apple restricted this feature. You can only play music from 3 other playlists every 24 hours. This was in response to pressure from RIAA as university networs were becoming a smorgasbord of free-to-listen music through iTunes sharing.