Microsoft makes money off IE because they save money they would otherwise have to spend re-implementing browser-like tools for the Windows Help system, among other uses. There's no reason at all for HTML-rendering code to be embedded in the Operating System.
Well, there are reasons, and cranks will always loudly expound them....
Part of the reason I actively shun both IE and Firefox is that they don't have a built-in WYSIWYG HTML editor. Mozilla does. It's an old tradition, going back to middle-era Netscape, for the browser to include a Composer.
I fiddled around a bit using amaya to compose web pages, but it sucks in many ways. I went back to using Mozilla's Composer. I am strongly against any browser that isn't bundled with a Composer element. Firefox and IE fall into that category, and should be shunned.
I know that I should be using vi to compose my web pages. And Linus should have been using Debug, on a machine running MS-DOS 3.3, to develop and debug Linux.
The problem with pornography is that its a commercial exploititation of taboo. People who spend money on porn could easily just go out and find somebody to enage in real sexual acts with them. Instead, they remain afraid, with their hidden fantasies and sexual imagery.
Pornography is 'slimy' because it reinforces taboo, and exploits the situation the way it is. In a world where people didn't have inhibitions and hangups about sex, pornography would not exist.
You cite 'civil disobedience' as a use for this service?
'Civil Disobedience' is a practice where the person engaged in it specifically and openly commits an act of disobedience, with the full intent of being 'caught' at the practice, in order to protest it's illegality.
There's a shocking ignorance these days of what constitutes 'Civil Disobedience.'
I'm not saying the originator of this "service" should be killed, but I would like to see him spend the rest of his life in a concrete cell with no furniture except a phone that never stops ringing.
I take it your real name isn't Daniel Dvorkin. If it is, you're a surprisingly different person. Most people who issue strong 'hopes' against another person, as you have above, do it from behind a psuedonym.
I'll assume your real name is Harold McMaedel, and that you are a pimply teenager typing messages from your mom's basement. Messages that express your anger and help you cope with the fact that mom won't let you get DSL installed in your 'room.'
The difference in this instance appears to be that this person exploited the hack for commercial purposes. If he'd remained hackerish and kept the skill an underground 'just for fun' thing for the tech elite to diddle with, he wouldn't be attacked over it.
Needless to say, it's a more complex issue. Anything that the 'hackers' are aware of and use is also known and used by malcontents and agencies with ill intent.
Some modern thinkers have 'gone beyond' the notion that the founders of the US had. The founders established a system of government where anything is permitted unless explicitly forbidden.
There are forces all across the political spectrum who advocate a 'prohibited unless explicitly permitted' view of government. They all need to be identified and hopefully persuaded to change.
Moderation is to make the discussions more interesting. It's not a meritocracy. You're not a 'cooler' person because you have +1. Nobody cares what your real name is. etc. etc.
He thinks it's a conspiracy. If he asked the manufacturer, they'd send out a black van in the night and it's the last he would see of the DVD and the DVD player.
It's gotta be the MPAA and their wily deeds. He probably has a Star Wars VCD he got from a guy in Hong Kong or something.
Why do you waste your +1 posting ability on crap like this? Many people read at +2 (I do) to avoid drivel. When you're gonna squabble and 'defend your cred' here (hah!) click on the 'No Karma Bonus' checkbox.
(won't hurt your feelings by suggesting you check it all the time.)
No, he's a nut. The kind of nut who dressed up and went out sidewalk ranting in NYC last week.
Now, if he'd picked a name like 'Duck Ruby' it would all be in fun. But sometimes it seems like he actually believes the stuff he spews. Which is regrettable.
I tried an 'out of balance' experiment on my CDROM at the workplace once. It was the first time I had access to a 'high speed' CDROM drive (i.e. one faster than 4x). I noticed that it was noisier than any drive I'd encountered before.
I began by putting progressively larger pieces of tape on a CDROM disk to put the disk 'out of balance' in the drive. It got progressively noisier.
Then I taped a small metal washer on the CDROM. It spun up and made the whole CPU case shake loudly.
I had to unplug the computer quickly and use a bent paperclip to extract the CD. It would have been embarassing to explain why the computer in my cubicle was making so much noise.
I thought it worth raising the subject of one of the worst made for TV movies of all time since this is a Star Wars thread.
I've noticed there are a lot of different 'Star Wars Christmas Special' DVDs out now, and they're easy to buy on eBay. Is Lucas allowing this? They're open outright auctions. I've seen quite a variety of Case/Cover artwork to accompany them.
It's certainly an interesting side-topic, if we're gonna talk about Star Wars 'releases.'
***** Umm, whoah. We used the search key 'Star Wars Christmas Special' on eBay yesterday at work and it pulled up a bunch of 'em. I just checked to put up a link for folks in this message. They're gone now.
Never mind. Lucas took 'em out.
Still, it's a must have 'made for TV film.' It and the original Star Wars (which I saw in 1977 in the theatre) are the total of the Star Wars films that I've seen so far.
If managers are 'handing these drives to people' at random, leading to people asking slashdot what they should stick on them, clearly it's time for some malcontents to write some sort of cross platform malware to use said drives as vectors.
I'm not advocating this, but it's what generally happens when storage devices are bandied about aimlessly, and that's what 'managers' are doing here.
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by redefining the industry more than once.
Redefine? I thought the mantra went that Apple did it first, right, and everybody else did the redefining.
Or is it that I'm not enough of a marketing wonk to understand this fancy new lingo?
Microsoft makes money off IE because they save money they would otherwise have to spend re-implementing browser-like tools for the Windows Help system, among other uses. There's no reason at all for HTML-rendering code to be embedded in the Operating System.
Well, there are reasons, and cranks will always loudly expound them....
Part of the reason I actively shun both IE and Firefox is that they don't have a built-in WYSIWYG HTML editor. Mozilla does. It's an old tradition, going back to middle-era Netscape, for the browser to include a Composer.
I fiddled around a bit using amaya to compose web pages, but it sucks in many ways. I went back to using Mozilla's Composer. I am strongly against any browser that isn't bundled with a Composer element. Firefox and IE fall into that category, and should be shunned.
I know that I should be using vi to compose my web pages. And Linus should have been using Debug, on a machine running MS-DOS 3.3, to develop and debug Linux.
The problem with pornography is that its a commercial exploititation of taboo. People who spend money on porn could easily just go out and find somebody to enage in real sexual acts with them. Instead, they remain afraid, with their hidden fantasies and sexual imagery.
Pornography is 'slimy' because it reinforces taboo, and exploits the situation the way it is. In a world where people didn't have inhibitions and hangups about sex, pornography would not exist.
You cite 'civil disobedience' as a use for this service?
'Civil Disobedience' is a practice where the person engaged in it specifically and openly commits an act of disobedience, with the full intent of being 'caught' at the practice, in order to protest it's illegality.
There's a shocking ignorance these days of what constitutes 'Civil Disobedience.'
I'm not saying the originator of this "service" should be killed, but I would like to see him spend the rest of his life in a concrete cell with no furniture except a phone that never stops ringing.
I take it your real name isn't Daniel Dvorkin. If it is, you're a surprisingly different person. Most people who issue strong 'hopes' against another person, as you have above, do it from behind a psuedonym.
I'll assume your real name is Harold McMaedel, and that you are a pimply teenager typing messages from your mom's basement. Messages that express your anger and help you cope with the fact that mom won't let you get DSL installed in your 'room.'
The difference in this instance appears to be that this person exploited the hack for commercial purposes. If he'd remained hackerish and kept the skill an underground 'just for fun' thing for the tech elite to diddle with, he wouldn't be attacked over it.
Needless to say, it's a more complex issue. Anything that the 'hackers' are aware of and use is also known and used by malcontents and agencies with ill intent.
Some modern thinkers have 'gone beyond' the notion that the founders of the US had. The founders established a system of government where anything is permitted unless explicitly forbidden.
There are forces all across the political spectrum who advocate a 'prohibited unless explicitly permitted' view of government. They all need to be identified and hopefully persuaded to change.
Look at some polling numbers, dude.
There are people all over the place, having children and supporting the relection of Dubya.
Not sure what about my participation in this discussion makes me an 'idiot' though.
Duck Rubby is the one who is forever parroting out the propaganda somebody fed him.
And people who pay the taxes to support 'stable government jobs' love it when a few of those duffs can be fired because they're not needed any longer.
Not so sure about what you were saying about the duffs, however. They'll probably invoke Union Rights and stuff.
Perhaps things would be less confusing if there was only one Pizza delivery service in each Metro region....
'Community Editable' sounds interesting, possibly even amusing to observe in action.
Sorry for seeing a bit cynical here...
Wow. I went to that site and entered 'Smith' as my only search key. Looks like a GREAT site for harvesting marketing information.
Hmmm, but the tables of info it brought up have one of those ubiquetous 'shopping cart' icons on all the lines... hmmm...
Yikes. Well, those are cool ideas, but they're "not politically feasible" as I am sure all good 'City Managers' will agree.
Heh.
Moderation is to make the discussions more interesting. It's not a meritocracy. You're not a 'cooler' person because you have +1. Nobody cares what your real name is. etc. etc.
He thinks it's a conspiracy. If he asked the manufacturer, they'd send out a black van in the night and it's the last he would see of the DVD and the DVD player.
It's gotta be the MPAA and their wily deeds. He probably has a Star Wars VCD he got from a guy in Hong Kong or something.
Why do you waste your +1 posting ability on crap like this? Many people read at +2 (I do) to avoid drivel. When you're gonna squabble and 'defend your cred' here (hah!) click on the 'No Karma Bonus' checkbox.
(won't hurt your feelings by suggesting you check it all the time.)
No, he's a nut. The kind of nut who dressed up and went out sidewalk ranting in NYC last week.
Now, if he'd picked a name like 'Duck Ruby' it would all be in fun. But sometimes it seems like he actually believes the stuff he spews. Which is regrettable.
I tried an 'out of balance' experiment on my CDROM at the workplace once. It was the first time I had access to a 'high speed' CDROM drive (i.e. one faster than 4x). I noticed that it was noisier than any drive I'd encountered before.
I began by putting progressively larger pieces of tape on a CDROM disk to put the disk 'out of balance' in the drive. It got progressively noisier.
Then I taped a small metal washer on the CDROM. It spun up and made the whole CPU case shake loudly.
I had to unplug the computer quickly and use a bent paperclip to extract the CD. It would have been embarassing to explain why the computer in my cubicle was making so much noise.
I've always known you were a nut. Now you've posted something to link back to as proof when you rant again.
There are tornados to worry about, etc., but it seems like living in a coastal region is just begging for trouble.
Maybe I should throw a server online somewhere in the basement, here in 'flyover country' for people 'living on the edge' to back their data onto.
Naw, this house has been here since 1900 but it could go any time...
I thought it worth raising the subject of one of the worst made for TV movies of all time since this is a Star Wars thread.
I've noticed there are a lot of different 'Star Wars Christmas Special' DVDs out now, and they're easy to buy on eBay. Is Lucas allowing this? They're open outright auctions. I've seen quite a variety of Case/Cover artwork to accompany them.
It's certainly an interesting side-topic, if we're gonna talk about Star Wars 'releases.'
*****
Umm, whoah. We used the search key 'Star Wars Christmas Special' on eBay yesterday at work and it pulled up a bunch of 'em. I just checked to put up a link for folks in this message. They're gone now.
Never mind. Lucas took 'em out.
Still, it's a must have 'made for TV film.' It and the original Star Wars (which I saw in 1977 in the theatre) are the total of the Star Wars films that I've seen so far.
If managers are 'handing these drives to people' at random, leading to people asking slashdot what they should stick on them, clearly it's time for some malcontents to write some sort of cross platform malware to use said drives as vectors.
I'm not advocating this, but it's what generally happens when storage devices are bandied about aimlessly, and that's what 'managers' are doing here.
And the thousands of people who read this and don't back up know that you are in the minority.