Yes. It is true. The/. editors are actually a group of Republican operatives who are doing what it takes to ensure President Bush's reelection. This is why the/. political section has so many one-sided pro-Bush stories with an absolute plethora of unsubstantiated pro-Republican remarks. A Democrat or otherwise proud Liberal just can't get a voice on/.
Did you submit any of these articles?
Are you new to/.
Are you on crack?
(Ok, I will admit it. This post is a bit of a troll too but I just cannot let an implied accusation of/. being right-wing go by without SOME comment.)
I primarily use Safari. I like the brush-metal look and, as a long time Mac user, am usually fairly comfortable with what Mr. Jobs likes to spoon feed us. Being unaware of Camino when I acquired my G4 (10.2, now running 10.3), I immediately abandoned IE in favor of Safari.
I currently utilize a cable modem and my experience has been that Safari is generally as fast, maybe a little faster in most instances. My comparison method was to delete all of my caches and see which browser brought the pages up faster. It also seems that I can drag images to my desktop a little easier/quicker with Safari.
Camino, on the other hand, handles saving a web page a WHOLE lot better than Safari - I frequently do not get any graphics with a Safari-saved webpage. Camino handles this flawlessly. Camino also has cookie/security controls that are more precise. So, if I have any concerns about security surrounding a website or when I am cruising around looking for eWomen, I use the old el Camino!
All in all, I think Camino is a very good browser and agree, as the article points out, that it is very benificial to the consumer that Safari has some very close competition.
There is this one game that I've been playing a lot on my new gentoo box. The game is called emerge. First you type emerge and guess the name of the program you really want to install. Then you watch your computer do all kinds of crazy shit for somewhere between 10 minutes and 6 years before you get dumped back to a shell with no idea as to what just transpired!
I wish I had mod point points to give you a +10. My coworkers have no idea why this post is so funny but then they have not spent the last year entering the Unix world from a Mac OS background.
Hmmmm. The original Macs had 512k memory. You must be one of those plants that/.'ers keep talking about. (Said with squinty eyes peaking out from underneath the tin-foil hat.)
Literature analysis (including film studies) typically refers to a protagonist and antagonist just for the very reasons described. It allows the discussion to transcend the good guy/bad guy genre so one can delve into the work's deeper symbolism and meanings.
Usually (I would say always but I am sure there is some contrary example I am forgetting), the protagonist is the individual (or group) whose point of view the work encourages us to adopt, side with, or at least appreciate - even if we find it disagreeable or, on occasion, horrific. Shooting people for just trying to survive is pretty horrific but I don't think I have ever wanted Deckard to lose.
The antagonist may be so by only a few degrees. The example of the voice-over sharply defines this distinction in Blade Runner. With the voice over Deckard is obviously the protagonist; without it, things get complicated (which is why the film is so good). I have even heard arguments that both Ford and Howard's characters are protagonists in their own way and it is the system at large that is the antagonist.
Anyway, thought an English major/would-be database administrator's contribution might be appreciated or useful.
I wonder if the President has to get permission from these corporations to use the recordings of his own words and images?
I do not know the legal answer to that question but suspect it might tell us more about our "republic" than we wish to know.
Same reason it would be pointless to patent a 'punch in the nose,' nobody wants one. LOL. (Seriously though, not to go too far off topic, why did Apple make the 'considered' decision to stick with the one button mouse? It really gripes me that I have to buy a multi-button mouse every time I acquire a new Apple computer.
"If all these companies would stop worrying about patenting buttons or hyperlinks or transparent windows, the computing world would be a better place."
Very true. However, there is a corporate reality out there that must be dealt with and the big boys play rough. Let me cite an example that I know a lot about. A few years back a certain golf company trademarked the single chevron on their golf club heads.
(Yes, I realize trademark and patent are separate legal constructs but the principle is the same, bear with me.)
In truth, trade marking of the chevron was inadvertent and simply part of several head design submissions. Regardless, overnight it became illegal for anyone other than this company to have a single chevron on their golf club head. Customs, under legal requirement to the trademark owner, seized millions of dollars worth of their competitors' shipments. Competitors, by the way, who had had single chevrons on their own golf club heads for years.
Immoral use of trademark for competition advantage? Absolutely. But legal =! moral, and while legislative change in intellectual property rights law has my vote, Apple would be foolish not to place a patent on transparency given how integral it is to their current windowing system. Whether they are evil or good will depend upon their subsequent behavior. What I would hope is that, once they own the patent and are safe from having it used against them, they would allow others to freely use it.
if the government makes us register our guns, they will come to take the guns away
Though you use this arguement as an example of what is not a slippery slope, if you examine the historical (recent) evidence: Germany, Austrailia, Canada, New York, etc, registration HAS always lead to confiscation. You actually prove your point.
Just something to think about. And now, back to the black box...
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Damn dog...
Did you submit any of these articles?
Are you new to /.
Are you on crack?
(Ok, I will admit it. This post is a bit of a troll too but I just cannot let an implied accusation of /. being right-wing go by without SOME comment.)
I currently utilize a cable modem and my experience has been that Safari is generally as fast, maybe a little faster in most instances. My comparison method was to delete all of my caches and see which browser brought the pages up faster. It also seems that I can drag images to my desktop a little easier/quicker with Safari.
Camino, on the other hand, handles saving a web page a WHOLE lot better than Safari - I frequently do not get any graphics with a Safari-saved webpage. Camino handles this flawlessly. Camino also has cookie/security controls that are more precise. So, if I have any concerns about security surrounding a website or when I am cruising around looking for eWomen, I use the old el Camino!
All in all, I think Camino is a very good browser and agree, as the article points out, that it is very benificial to the consumer that Safari has some very close competition.
I wish I had mod point points to give you a +10. My coworkers have no idea why this post is so funny but then they have not spent the last year entering the Unix world from a Mac OS background.
Hmmmm. The original Macs had 512k memory. You must be one of those plants that /.'ers keep talking about. (Said with squinty eyes peaking out from underneath the tin-foil hat.)
Usually (I would say always but I am sure there is some contrary example I am forgetting), the protagonist is the individual (or group) whose point of view the work encourages us to adopt, side with, or at least appreciate - even if we find it disagreeable or, on occasion, horrific. Shooting people for just trying to survive is pretty horrific but I don't think I have ever wanted Deckard to lose.
The antagonist may be so by only a few degrees. The example of the voice-over sharply defines this distinction in Blade Runner. With the voice over Deckard is obviously the protagonist; without it, things get complicated (which is why the film is so good). I have even heard arguments that both Ford and Howard's characters are protagonists in their own way and it is the system at large that is the antagonist.
Anyway, thought an English major/would-be database administrator's contribution might be appreciated or useful.
I wonder if the President has to get permission from these corporations to use the recordings of his own words and images? I do not know the legal answer to that question but suspect it might tell us more about our "republic" than we wish to know.
True, but not nearly as much fun :)
"Why not a patent on the one-button mouse?"
Same reason it would be pointless to patent a 'punch in the nose,' nobody wants one. LOL. (Seriously though, not to go too far off topic, why did Apple make the 'considered' decision to stick with the one button mouse? It really gripes me that I have to buy a multi-button mouse every time I acquire a new Apple computer.
"If all these companies would stop worrying about patenting buttons or hyperlinks or transparent windows, the computing world would be a better place."
Very true.
However, there is a corporate reality out there that must be dealt with and the big boys play rough. Let me cite an example that I know a lot about. A few years back a certain golf company trademarked the single chevron on their golf club heads.
(Yes, I realize trademark and patent are separate legal constructs but the principle is the same, bear with me.)
In truth, trade marking of the chevron was inadvertent and simply part of several head design submissions. Regardless, overnight it became illegal for anyone other than this company to have a single chevron on their golf club head. Customs, under legal requirement to the trademark owner, seized millions of dollars worth of their competitors' shipments. Competitors, by the way, who had had single chevrons on their own golf club heads for years.
Immoral use of trademark for competition advantage? Absolutely. But legal =! moral, and while legislative change in intellectual property rights law has my vote, Apple would be foolish not to place a patent on transparency given how integral it is to their current windowing system. Whether they are evil or good will depend upon their subsequent behavior. What I would hope is that, once they own the patent and are safe from having it used against them, they would allow others to freely use it.
Ex Customs Inspector
if the government makes us register our guns, they will come to take the guns away Though you use this arguement as an example of what is not a slippery slope, if you examine the historical (recent) evidence: Germany, Austrailia, Canada, New York, etc, registration HAS always lead to confiscation. You actually prove your point. Just something to think about. And now, back to the black box...