Frankly, I can't imagine why everyone doesn't just say "fuck Netscape," and start using a *good* browser.
Every since their debacle with having valid CSS cause hard crashes to the browser, I, for one, refuse to code work-arounds for its HTML and CSS deficencies.
And it's worth noting that Maryland residents are not "effectively disallowed from using it."
They are able to use it, and Maryland's laws will protect them: if there's a lawsuit going on, it will be held in Maryland, and not in Washington no matter how much Microsoft may want it to be.
(So, Microsoft and WA government are in bed together, eh?)
Only problem is when I move the mouse to do something, and then change my mind and move it somewhere else... and end up closing the window. Pisses me off every time. I'm developing the habit of "squiggling" when I change my mind...!
This is untrue. In British Columbia, the tame monopoly was a godsend to most communities.
BC is a mountainous province with thousands of extremely small communities, populations well under 1000 and frequently under 300.
All these communities had telephone service of some sort (radio telephone in the most remote communities) because the monopoly was mandated to provide that service.
When those tiny communities had equipment breakdown, the telephone company had to repair the equipment, and quickly. If the repair necessitated an upgrade, the upgrade used the latest equipment, not some crappy old mechanical switch from the back storeroom.
There entire province is wired for fiber. Dinky-ass little farming communities with less than 500 people have fiber to the main switch.
There's DSL everywhere, and it's cheap ($30/mo if you supply the modem. That's about $2.50 American.)
There's fiber to the home in most new developments. The fiber stops at the interior wall, because there's no way to use it yet -- but it's there, ready and waiting.
Tame monopolies are a Good Thing. The trick, as always, is taming them. Can't take no guff from 'em!
In fact, there are times when it's good to have a monopoly.
Of course, you can't let the monopoly have free reign. It must be regulated in the public interest. In exchange for having a monopoly business, the company must accept regulation.
The monopoly business gets the advantages of no competition, economy of scale, and a captive customer.
The public should get the advantages of universal service, higher levels of customer service, lower prices, and stability.
It's a win-win situation... if it's done well. Read on:
In the telco industry, it would be a generally good thing to allow the Bells to have a monopoly. But regulate hell outta them: force them to provide fiber to all new installations; to provide full and timely customer service; to upgrade switches with the latest technology instead of the antique crap they have in storage; to roll out DSL to every home within the next five years; and regulate the prices they charge.
It can be made to work, if it were approached systematically and intelligently.
Alas, what's going to happen is that competition is going to weed out the weak, and we'll be left with just a few very powerful, very wealthy, very uncontrolled telephone companies that answer to no one but their stockholders.
It's going to be ugly. The consumer will not come out the winner.
Any reason you needed to steal that article, rather than just point a link to the original, and perhaps a soundbite from it so that we'd be interested enough to click the link?
Certainly the attached-to-the-tap Brita's are a biological health hazard. Room-temperature water with lots of organic gunk is primo territory for growing stuff.
I think the Brita jugs are probably fairly safe, when they're kept in the fridge. The newer models have a fill-counter, indicating when they should be replaced.
On the other hand, I think I'm getting a good four months per filter, and I suspect I drink significantly more water than most people. Four months seems like an awful long time for a filter...
Promote Peter McWilliams' book, available online for free ("Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do")?
Only problem is, it requires people to read. Too many people would rather just suck down the entertainment pablum from Survivor, instead of challenging their minds with the written word...
Not only did you pay a buck for it (a buck-sixty in Canada!), if it's that ever=present Dasani water, you've just paid for processed tap water!
Dasani is a Coca-Cola product. It is, I'm reasonably certain, just the processed tap water they use for their soda pop products. Instead of adding a tablespoon of sEkRiT iNgReDiEnT, they just bottle it straight.
Massive friggin' profit for them. Wish I'd thought to do it first...
My fucking doesn't cause any objective harm to you or your property, unless it's your tender and unwilling ass I'm poking.
My sucking doesn't cause any objective harm to you or your property, unless it's that big ol' lollipop your mama was pacifying you with.
My smoking doesn't cause any objective harm to you or your property, unless I'm puffing my cancer-stick an enclosed airspace shared with your unwilling lungs.
My toking doesn't cause any objective harm to you or your property, unless I was bogarting your last smoke.
I'm obliged to point out that Peter McWilliams is now deceased, killed by the repressive minority twats who insisted he choke on barf rather than supress his vomit reflex by smoking weed during his last ailing years.
When you call "War on Drugs," it always affects other people. Gettaclue.
If you mean fastest-executing, then you're correct.
However, I mean "best" in terms of programmer productivity, code maintainability, and robustness. Low-level languages are not the best choice for achieving these goals.
To tie this in with an earlier thread, who else is really making money now? Marijuana seed sellers. Who's going to be making money tomorrow? The same.
Here we have a culture that has outlawed the most basic of human needs: the need to feel good.
It'd sure be nice if everyone would finally just get over the childhood conditioning their parents inflicted on them (because, hey, their parents inflicted it on them, and their parents before them) and finally come to grips with some basic facts of life.
People is gonna fuck, suck, smoke, toke, and get it on it *whatever* ways thrill them.
As long as it doesn't cause harm to others, or other's property, IT AIN'T NOBODY'S BUSINESS IF YOU DO.
If the collective "we" could just get over that hurdle, imagine how much nicer the world would be...
[Inevitably, the ill-informed dupes of the repressive minority will be sure to follow this post with insufferable statements about how masturbation makes you blind, THC makes you rob people, etc.... These are precisely the people who make this society so senselessly repressive.]
Heck, by creating yet another C derivative language, they are just adding to the problem of inefficient, difficult-to-debug, difficult-to-maintain languages.
IMO, the programmer community would, in many cases, be far, *far* better off writing their applications using a very high level language.
This will allow them to spend *less* time creating the main code body, and *more* time debugging. Their applications will be less faulty.
Then, using profiling, they can identify exactly those areas that need to be written using a low-level language for speed.
Imagine: very high productivity, very high maintainability, very large reduction in bugs, and 96% or more of the performance!
"Fully seventy percent of convicted hard drug abusers (by "hard", I mean "harder than cannabis") are admitted Republicans or Libertarians. Therefore, conservatives have in essence declared war on themselves."
You make this sound like it's a bad thing!
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Opps. My bad. I should have looked at the map a bit more closely.
iD software should COUNTER-SUE, claiming that the parents' irresponsible guardianship led their children to cause harm to the business, by creating a situation in which the company's video games became linked, in the news media, to their killing spree.
The reduction in sales has cost iD software millions of dollars. The parents are liable for that loss!
Hey, it's no more inane than what's being claimed by big bad John DeCamp...
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Hmmm... and didn't humans most likely evolve in South Africa?
Standard procedure is to not talk to the media. It's a legality issue: shooting off at the mouth is a fantastic way of making oneself or one's organization open to a losing lawsuit.
Both the secretary and the principal are explicitly *NOT* allowed to talk to the media. They are not lawyers, and can not adequately judge which information is safe to reveal, and which information makes the organization vulnerable to lawsuit -- let alone judge whether a particular turn of phrase is a hazard.
Katz should have contacted the school board directly, and asked to talk to the board's lawyer or superintendent.
Both of whom would, in all likelyhood, tell him to bugger off. He is, after all, Katz, not a legitimate reporter.
Slashdot Mirror
Infra-red reflective contact lenses. That's the trick!
(I'll take mine with a mirror finish, please. Whoo-hoO!)
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Frankly, I can't imagine why everyone doesn't just say "fuck Netscape," and start using a *good* browser.
Every since their debacle with having valid CSS cause hard crashes to the browser, I, for one, refuse to code work-arounds for its HTML and CSS deficencies.
Choose Better: Choose Opera.
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And it's worth noting that Maryland residents are not "effectively disallowed from using it."
They are able to use it, and Maryland's laws will protect them: if there's a lawsuit going on, it will be held in Maryland, and not in Washington no matter how much Microsoft may want it to be.
(So, Microsoft and WA government are in bed together, eh?)
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Me, too.
Only problem is when I move the mouse to do something, and then change my mind and move it somewhere else... and end up closing the window. Pisses me off every time. I'm developing the habit of "squiggling" when I change my mind...!
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This is untrue. In British Columbia, the tame monopoly was a godsend to most communities.
BC is a mountainous province with thousands of extremely small communities, populations well under 1000 and frequently under 300.
All these communities had telephone service of some sort (radio telephone in the most remote communities) because the monopoly was mandated to provide that service.
When those tiny communities had equipment breakdown, the telephone company had to repair the equipment, and quickly. If the repair necessitated an upgrade, the upgrade used the latest equipment, not some crappy old mechanical switch from the back storeroom.
There entire province is wired for fiber. Dinky-ass little farming communities with less than 500 people have fiber to the main switch.
There's DSL everywhere, and it's cheap ($30/mo if you supply the modem. That's about $2.50 American.)
There's fiber to the home in most new developments. The fiber stops at the interior wall, because there's no way to use it yet -- but it's there, ready and waiting.
Tame monopolies are a Good Thing. The trick, as always, is taming them. Can't take no guff from 'em!
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One Provider Is Plenty.
There's nothing inherently wrong with a monopoly.
In fact, there are times when it's good to have a monopoly.
Of course, you can't let the monopoly have free reign. It must be regulated in the public interest. In exchange for having a monopoly business, the company must accept regulation.
The monopoly business gets the advantages of no competition, economy of scale, and a captive customer.
The public should get the advantages of universal service, higher levels of customer service, lower prices, and stability.
It's a win-win situation... if it's done well. Read on:
In the telco industry, it would be a generally good thing to allow the Bells to have a monopoly. But regulate hell outta them: force them to provide fiber to all new installations; to provide full and timely customer service; to upgrade switches with the latest technology instead of the antique crap they have in storage; to roll out DSL to every home within the next five years; and regulate the prices they charge.
It can be made to work, if it were approached systematically and intelligently.
Alas, what's going to happen is that competition is going to weed out the weak, and we'll be left with just a few very powerful, very wealthy, very uncontrolled telephone companies that answer to no one but their stockholders.
It's going to be ugly. The consumer will not come out the winner.
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Any reason you needed to steal that article, rather than just point a link to the original, and perhaps a soundbite from it so that we'd be interested enough to click the link?
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Let's Slashdot his house! Quick, everyone -- go ring his doorbell!
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Certainly the attached-to-the-tap Brita's are a biological health hazard. Room-temperature water with lots of organic gunk is primo territory for growing stuff.
I think the Brita jugs are probably fairly safe, when they're kept in the fridge. The newer models have a fill-counter, indicating when they should be replaced.
On the other hand, I think I'm getting a good four months per filter, and I suspect I drink significantly more water than most people. Four months seems like an awful long time for a filter...
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Promote Peter McWilliams' book, available online for free ("Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do")?
Only problem is, it requires people to read. Too many people would rather just suck down the entertainment pablum from Survivor, instead of challenging their minds with the written word...
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Not only did you pay a buck for it (a buck-sixty in Canada!), if it's that ever=present Dasani water, you've just paid for processed tap water!
Dasani is a Coca-Cola product. It is, I'm reasonably certain, just the processed tap water they use for their soda pop products. Instead of adding a tablespoon of sEkRiT iNgReDiEnT, they just bottle it straight.
Massive friggin' profit for them. Wish I'd thought to do it first...
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Sure dupe. Just as soon as *you* get a clue.
My fucking doesn't cause any objective harm to you or your property, unless it's your tender and unwilling ass I'm poking.
My sucking doesn't cause any objective harm to you or your property, unless it's that big ol' lollipop your mama was pacifying you with.
My smoking doesn't cause any objective harm to you or your property, unless I'm puffing my cancer-stick an enclosed airspace shared with your unwilling lungs.
My toking doesn't cause any objective harm to you or your property, unless I was bogarting your last smoke.
You, dear Dwonis, need to do some remedial reading. Please go hustle your pert little ass over to [Peter McWilliams'] website, and read Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do. It'll do you a world o' good.
I'm obliged to point out that Peter McWilliams is now deceased, killed by the repressive minority twats who insisted he choke on barf rather than supress his vomit reflex by smoking weed during his last ailing years.
When you call "War on Drugs," it always affects other people. Gettaclue.
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It depends on how you define "best."
If you mean fastest-executing, then you're correct.
However, I mean "best" in terms of programmer productivity, code maintainability, and robustness. Low-level languages are not the best choice for achieving these goals.
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To tie this in with an earlier thread, who else is really making money now? Marijuana seed sellers. Who's going to be making money tomorrow? The same.
Here we have a culture that has outlawed the most basic of human needs: the need to feel good.
It'd sure be nice if everyone would finally just get over the childhood conditioning their parents inflicted on them (because, hey, their parents inflicted it on them, and their parents before them) and finally come to grips with some basic facts of life.
People is gonna fuck, suck, smoke, toke, and get it on it *whatever* ways thrill them.
As long as it doesn't cause harm to others, or other's property, IT AIN'T NOBODY'S BUSINESS IF YOU DO.
If the collective "we" could just get over that hurdle, imagine how much nicer the world would be...
[Inevitably, the ill-informed dupes of the repressive minority will be sure to follow this post with insufferable statements about how masturbation makes you blind, THC makes you rob people, etc.... These are precisely the people who make this society so senselessly repressive.]
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Heck, by creating yet another C derivative language, they are just adding to the problem of inefficient, difficult-to-debug, difficult-to-maintain languages.
IMO, the programmer community would, in many cases, be far, *far* better off writing their applications using a very high level language.
This will allow them to spend *less* time creating the main code body, and *more* time debugging. Their applications will be less faulty.
Then, using profiling, they can identify exactly those areas that need to be written using a low-level language for speed.
Imagine: very high productivity, very high maintainability, very large reduction in bugs, and 96% or more of the performance!
It's the intelligent way to work.
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Hell, yes: by the very act of suing iD, they're impugning iD's products!
Looksee, it's the American Legal System at work here. Rationality doesn't enter the picture.
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"Fully seventy percent of convicted hard drug abusers (by "hard", I mean "harder than cannabis") are admitted Republicans or Libertarians. Therefore, conservatives have in essence declared war on themselves."
You make this sound like it's a bad thing!
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Opps. My bad. I should have looked at the map a bit more closely.
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iD software should COUNTER-SUE, claiming that the parents' irresponsible guardianship led their children to cause harm to the business, by creating a situation in which the company's video games became linked, in the news media, to their killing spree.
The reduction in sales has cost iD software millions of dollars. The parents are liable for that loss!
Hey, it's no more inane than what's being claimed by big bad John DeCamp...
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Hmmm... and didn't humans most likely evolve in South Africa?
I wonder if we're all nuclear babies...
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"The Idiot is a diversion, mind the crooks in the background."
That's a *very* intriguing idea, metis. Please, expand upon it!
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Oooh! Let me, let me!
My suggestion: a BountyQuest-like program targeting spammers. Heck, if we all kicked in a buck each, we could hire the world's finest assassins.
[I'm not entirely sure I'm not serious...]
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Actually, I sing ditties, not diddies...
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"...like a script-kiddie with some real ambition could bring the world to it's knees."
Er, yah. Right. To its knees.
Good god, we're not talking about a nuclear war.
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No, not at all.
Standard procedure is to not talk to the media. It's a legality issue: shooting off at the mouth is a fantastic way of making oneself or one's organization open to a losing lawsuit.
Both the secretary and the principal are explicitly *NOT* allowed to talk to the media. They are not lawyers, and can not adequately judge which information is safe to reveal, and which information makes the organization vulnerable to lawsuit -- let alone judge whether a particular turn of phrase is a hazard.
Katz should have contacted the school board directly, and asked to talk to the board's lawyer or superintendent.
Both of whom would, in all likelyhood, tell him to bugger off. He is, after all, Katz, not a legitimate reporter.
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