I understand your sentiment, and partially agree. It just seems bad that it's either a system where a 25% vote wins, or a system where you have one of two choices, neither of which are good, but people feel like they must pick a "lesser of two evils". Ours is a system where there very well could be a "perfect leader" out there, a man of the people, who would never see the light of day because he doesn't play the games the Big Two do.
Maybe I'm just too cynical....it all reminds me of the Simpsons episode where they had to vote between the two aliens....it's funny and sad because it's true.
It's a shame that we live in a matter of state where people have to say "don't vote for the candidate you support because it splits the vote, and in turn the guy both of us oppose will win". You should pick who you want, based on your criteria, and let the chips fall where they may.
Speaking of, why does the Green Party get so much support as opposed to the Libertarians (which from what I can tell, seem much more "mainstream" in that if you asked someone their thoughts, would probably fall in line with them)?
Maybe they could extend Mono to actually have an MS backed cross-platform.NET? A Visual Studio for linux, and ASP.NET for Apache? SQL Server even? That'd be awesome to be able to run MS tools on something other than Windows...
We clamor for better content in movies and TV shows, along with other entertainment. Why not push for better advertising content quality? Yes, when I record something on my MythTV box, I skip the ads. It's a godsend - especially when you want to watch the latest Real World/Road Rules challenge and you don't want to spend 30 minutes watching the 6 minutes of content. Even better is the torrents of CSI - HD recordings with the commercials already cut. Sweet! But I watch a lot of real-time TV, too.
Back to my original point....among all the trash out there is always a few gems, commercials that get it right, that are funny, unique, etc., that people actually talk about. It's not limited to just Superbowl ads, either. The beer manufacturers can do it, why can't everyone else? Maybe we'd be more inclined to not skip ads if we had a reason to watch them? I think everyone is just tired of watching the same ad spot, over and over and over, for weeks at a time. Why not shoot for a memorable ad instead of repeatedly bashing you over the head with the same crappy one?
If not for CDs, where do I get "original" quality for my digital rips? I don't care about extras on CDs and crap. And yes, when I get my new CD home, I rip it, and really, the MP3s are the only method I actually listen to the music. But I like being able to a)know that I can rip the tracks at whatever bitrate and whatever method I want, and b)the original "master" recording is still sitting there on my shelf.
If the CD goes away, where will the baseline of quality be? Will 128k be where the bar is set?
FF: All right. Where is the poison? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both eat, and find out who is right... and who is dead.
IE7: But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own cake or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own cake, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the cake in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the cake in front of me.
FF: You've made your decision then?
IE7: Not remotely. Because iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the cake in front of you.
FF: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
IE7: Wait til I get going! Now, where was I?
FF: Australia.
IE7: Yes, Australia. And you must have suspected I would have known the powder's origin, so I can clearly not choose the cake in front of me.
FF: You're just stalling now.
IE7: You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? You've beaten my giant, which means you're exceptionally strong, so you could've put the poison in your own cake, trusting on your strength to save you, so I can clearly not choose the cake in front of you. But, you've also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the cake in front of me.
FF: You're trying to trick me into giving away something. It won't work.
IE7: IT HAS WORKED! YOU'VE GIVEN EVERYTHING AWAY! I KNOW WHERE THE POISON IS!
FF: Then make your choice.
IE7: I will, and I choose - What in the world can that be?
IE7: [IE7 gestures up and away from the table. FF looks. IE7 swaps the cakes]
FF: What? Where? I don't see anything.
IE7: Well, I- I could have sworn I saw something. No matter.First, let's eat. Me from my cake, and you from yours.
FF, IE7: [they eat]
FF: You guessed wrong.
IE7: You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched cakes when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...
IE7: [IE7 stops suddenly, and falls dead to the right]
Opera: And to think, all that time it was your cake that was poisoned.
FF: They were both poisoned. I spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder.
For the second, that sounds like the GTK+ rendering issue that's present with ClearType enabled in anything higher than 16-bit color depth. This is not a GAIM problem, but it is a problem with the build of GTK+ that GAIM uses/needs.
Do you have any more info about this GTK+ bug? I noticed this, too (probably because I just upgraded to the GTK+ version that gaim 2b4), and it's quite annoying. Of course I'm running in 32-bit color depth, and ClearType helps on the LCD monitor. Is this a known and logged GTK bug and are they doing anything about it? I searched on the GTK bugzilla and didn't see anything...
Um, wouldn't the real killer app on a Mac be the ability to natively run Windows apps? Virtualization, emulation, pixie dust, whatever, but being able to run any friggin Windows app, game, anything, on your Mac. Anything. Not just some things. With no hardware or 3D graphics or whatever. Run ANYTHING on a Mac. I'm pretty sure that's the holy grail.
Come to think of it, I think that might be the killer app in linux, too. Can I get funding and royalties now?
So 2.0 drops on Tuesday, and the biggest topic/. has to discuss about it is whether or not Mozilla actually pioneered tabbed browsing or not? Come on....
I've been using the 2.0 betas since they were publicly available, and have to say it's a big improvement. The individual tab closing button (it's nice...just give it a shot), the spell checking, improvements in the preferences interface....all around, a very nice job!
How do you use your router to block ads? Does it actually supress/remove ads, objects, iframes, etc. from the webpage, or does it just block the item from loading, giving you a red X or whatever on the webpage? Is it easily updateable? Can you right click on something that got through and have it added to the list? I have a WRT54G if that helps...
My thoughts exactly. I would really really like an Apple, too. But I don't forsee ever spending 2 grand on a computer unless I'm building it myself. If I'm buying a laptop, I'm looking in the $1k range, and Dell's $1k laptops (adjust for coupons and such....what can I get for a grand?) beat out what I can get from Apple for $1000.
Does the MPAA control TV shows, too? I have no interest in downloading full theater movies or DVD rips, but I'll grab tonight's CSI off the 'bay sometime tomorrow because my DVR is busy recording other things. Plus the shows off torrents are HD, with commercials pre-cut, so it's awesome. Where do those fit in?
Badass! My first posted submisssion! Anyway, my comments that the editors took out, but that I made on the article itself:
Why doesn't someone / some group create an open source voting machine software? The hardware could even be open source, too. These all seem like good ideas (the article - not the comments, though I'm intrigued by the Brazilian system), so what are we waiting for? Why doesn't someone do it? Who do we talk to to get started?
Slippery slopes are a logical fallacy, and arguing them borders on asinine, sorry. I would really think a slashdot reader would know this by now.
Slippery slopes can be a fallacy (and usually are), but they can be a logical argument, too. Saying they are always logical fallacy is just plain wrong.
Did everyone forget all versions of the Ps3 come standard with hard drives? Load time will not be an issue this gen.
Are they loading every game disc onto the hard drive, then? So, what, you can fit one game on the drive, and then when you want to play another, you have to delete and copy the new one? Sounds fun!
Kids write faster on their cellphones than secretaries on typewriters, there'll be that feature if there's a need for it.
I would argue against that, unless the world's business documents want to say "u wnt 2 c me? l8r!" or some such crap. I want to see a kid type legible sentences on a cell phone faster than any computer geek can type on a keyboard.
I've been using the Nightly Tester Tools to make older extensions compatible. So far, no problems in the ones I use regularly. Themes are a different matter, though...
Off topic, but is there a good comparison somewhere between MySQL and Postgre, that's current? My google search turned up entries that were a couple of years old, and I'm pretty sure that a lot has changed in that time. It'd be even better if there was a comparison of the two to commercial offerings like MS SQL Server.
Specifically, I'm interested in the possibility of developing ASP.NET apps with a F/OSS database backend. It looks like both MySQL and Postgre have.NET connectors available, so I wouldn't have to use the generic ODBC drivers. But is there a good rundown of features, speed comparisons, and other things that would help? Thanks for any pointers!
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Sorry for the ignorance, but where are the /. captchas? I don't run into any when submitting comments...are they somewhere else?
I understand your sentiment, and partially agree. It just seems bad that it's either a system where a 25% vote wins, or a system where you have one of two choices, neither of which are good, but people feel like they must pick a "lesser of two evils". Ours is a system where there very well could be a "perfect leader" out there, a man of the people, who would never see the light of day because he doesn't play the games the Big Two do.
Maybe I'm just too cynical....it all reminds me of the Simpsons episode where they had to vote between the two aliens....it's funny and sad because it's true.
It's a shame that we live in a matter of state where people have to say "don't vote for the candidate you support because it splits the vote, and in turn the guy both of us oppose will win". You should pick who you want, based on your criteria, and let the chips fall where they may.
Speaking of, why does the Green Party get so much support as opposed to the Libertarians (which from what I can tell, seem much more "mainstream" in that if you asked someone their thoughts, would probably fall in line with them)?
at a concert. I lost my shoe and my wallet. Last time I did that again....
Maybe they could extend Mono to actually have an MS backed cross-platform .NET? A Visual Studio for linux, and ASP.NET for Apache? SQL Server even? That'd be awesome to be able to run MS tools on something other than Windows...
We clamor for better content in movies and TV shows, along with other entertainment. Why not push for better advertising content quality? Yes, when I record something on my MythTV box, I skip the ads. It's a godsend - especially when you want to watch the latest Real World/Road Rules challenge and you don't want to spend 30 minutes watching the 6 minutes of content. Even better is the torrents of CSI - HD recordings with the commercials already cut. Sweet! But I watch a lot of real-time TV, too.
Back to my original point....among all the trash out there is always a few gems, commercials that get it right, that are funny, unique, etc., that people actually talk about. It's not limited to just Superbowl ads, either. The beer manufacturers can do it, why can't everyone else? Maybe we'd be more inclined to not skip ads if we had a reason to watch them? I think everyone is just tired of watching the same ad spot, over and over and over, for weeks at a time. Why not shoot for a memorable ad instead of repeatedly bashing you over the head with the same crappy one?
If not for CDs, where do I get "original" quality for my digital rips? I don't care about extras on CDs and crap. And yes, when I get my new CD home, I rip it, and really, the MP3s are the only method I actually listen to the music. But I like being able to a)know that I can rip the tracks at whatever bitrate and whatever method I want, and b)the original "master" recording is still sitting there on my shelf.
If the CD goes away, where will the baseline of quality be? Will 128k be where the bar is set?
FF: All right. Where is the poison? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both eat, and find out who is right... and who is dead.
IE7: But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own cake or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own cake, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the cake in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the cake in front of me.
FF: You've made your decision then?
IE7: Not remotely. Because iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the cake in front of you.
FF: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
IE7: Wait til I get going! Now, where was I?
FF: Australia.
IE7: Yes, Australia. And you must have suspected I would have known the powder's origin, so I can clearly not choose the cake in front of me.
FF: You're just stalling now.
IE7: You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? You've beaten my giant, which means you're exceptionally strong, so you could've put the poison in your own cake, trusting on your strength to save you, so I can clearly not choose the cake in front of you. But, you've also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the cake in front of me.
FF: You're trying to trick me into giving away something. It won't work.
IE7: IT HAS WORKED! YOU'VE GIVEN EVERYTHING AWAY! I KNOW WHERE THE POISON IS!
FF: Then make your choice.
IE7: I will, and I choose - What in the world can that be?
IE7: [IE7 gestures up and away from the table. FF looks. IE7 swaps the cakes]
FF: What? Where? I don't see anything.
IE7: Well, I- I could have sworn I saw something. No matter.First, let's eat. Me from my cake, and you from yours.
FF, IE7: [they eat]
FF: You guessed wrong.
IE7: You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched cakes when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...
IE7: [IE7 stops suddenly, and falls dead to the right]
Opera: And to think, all that time it was your cake that was poisoned.
FF: They were both poisoned. I spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder.
Wait, Red Hat has maintained it's monopoly that it gained through illegal business practices?
Um, wouldn't the real killer app on a Mac be the ability to natively run Windows apps? Virtualization, emulation, pixie dust, whatever, but being able to run any friggin Windows app, game, anything, on your Mac. Anything. Not just some things. With no hardware or 3D graphics or whatever. Run ANYTHING on a Mac. I'm pretty sure that's the holy grail.
Come to think of it, I think that might be the killer app in linux, too. Can I get funding and royalties now?
So 2.0 drops on Tuesday, and the biggest topic /. has to discuss about it is whether or not Mozilla actually pioneered tabbed browsing or not? Come on....
I've been using the 2.0 betas since they were publicly available, and have to say it's a big improvement. The individual tab closing button (it's nice...just give it a shot), the spell checking, improvements in the preferences interface....all around, a very nice job!
How do you use your router to block ads? Does it actually supress/remove ads, objects, iframes, etc. from the webpage, or does it just block the item from loading, giving you a red X or whatever on the webpage? Is it easily updateable? Can you right click on something that got through and have it added to the list? I have a WRT54G if that helps...
My thoughts exactly. I would really really like an Apple, too. But I don't forsee ever spending 2 grand on a computer unless I'm building it myself. If I'm buying a laptop, I'm looking in the $1k range, and Dell's $1k laptops (adjust for coupons and such....what can I get for a grand?) beat out what I can get from Apple for $1000.
I'll just stick to sending them envelopes of cash like I've always done!
Does the MPAA control TV shows, too? I have no interest in downloading full theater movies or DVD rips, but I'll grab tonight's CSI off the 'bay sometime tomorrow because my DVR is busy recording other things. Plus the shows off torrents are HD, with commercials pre-cut, so it's awesome. Where do those fit in?
Which goes to show, if you post "rumors" online about someone that are true (malicious or not), then they aren't really rumors, are they?
Badass! My first posted submisssion! Anyway, my comments that the editors took out, but that I made on the article itself:
Why doesn't someone / some group create an open source voting machine software? The hardware could even be open source, too. These all seem like good ideas (the article - not the comments, though I'm intrigued by the Brazilian system), so what are we waiting for? Why doesn't someone do it? Who do we talk to to get started?
It seems that page loads are even snappier in RC3 than they were in RC2?
I've been using the Nightly Tester Tools to make older extensions compatible. So far, no problems in the ones I use regularly. Themes are a different matter, though...
Off topic, but is there a good comparison somewhere between MySQL and Postgre, that's current? My google search turned up entries that were a couple of years old, and I'm pretty sure that a lot has changed in that time. It'd be even better if there was a comparison of the two to commercial offerings like MS SQL Server.
.NET connectors available, so I wouldn't have to use the generic ODBC drivers. But is there a good rundown of features, speed comparisons, and other things that would help? Thanks for any pointers!
Specifically, I'm interested in the possibility of developing ASP.NET apps with a F/OSS database backend. It looks like both MySQL and Postgre have