He's probably a repackaged Leo McGarry. ASOTV surfaced around the same time Leo disappeared, and they write in the same idiosyncratic style, though Leo was far more abusive. And they've only ever posted to the same story once--and ASOTV's comment there ends with a conspicuously out-of-place "I agree with Leo." Open and shut case, if you ask me.
It does, however, take artistic genius to draw toolbar icons that are both unified (by the lozenge motif) and visually distinct enough to appear markedly different from one another at a glance. Personally, I think the new Mail.app toolbar succeeds.
And remember that they're just guidelines, not commandments. If there's a better, faster, more intuitive way of doing things that violates the letter of the law, so be it.
My comment was in response to the jackass who said "I'm sorta glad [Apple] didn't use Mozilla code now." The point is that if there's any open-source rendering engine that will benefit from Hyatt's improvements, it'll be KHTML, not Gecko.
"BSD mentality"? If it's the BSD mentality that gives us browsers like Safari (now more standards-compliant than Firefox, not to mention leaner and more polished) then I'll take it.
I read a troll once here on Slashdot that said quality software was "GPL-incompatible." And you know what? I'm beginning to think it's true.
Bitch all you want, but Dave Hyatt's changes to WebCore stand a good chance of finding their way back into KHTML. Both Konq and Safari will then be Acid2 compliant, and arguably more CSS-compliant than Gecko.
Meanwhile, the chances of Mozilla passing the Acid2 test anytime soon are... what exactly?
It can work, but I think the point is that the progress of the "useful arts and sciences" happens faster with intellectual property protections. For example, do you really think anyone would invest $millions in developing life-saving pharmaceuticals for the sheer joy of it? It'd happen eventually... but try telling someone infected with HIV they'll get their drugs "eventually" and see what kind of reaction you get.
Then assuming the law is enforced (by civil action or otherwise), every company in the region will be "disadvantaged" to the same degree and hopefully, over time, discrimination lessens and the need for such a law lessens with it. It's a similar situtaion to mortgage lenders in the '60s redlining entire neighborhoods based on racial composition alone; the practice was founded in statistics and arguably did reduce the risk of default, but once legislation was passed to make racial redlining illegal, the situation improved within a couple decades. Deliberately oversimplifying, but you get the picture.
It's something everybody knows. While I support the Palestinian cause, there's just no disputing Arafat used more inflammatory language in Arabic than in English. Mahmoud Abbas does the same thing, though not to the same degree, and he's toned down the rhetoric since the campaign.
"Do you mean like how Apple came out with Safari and everybody copied it?"
I think you were trying to be sarcastic, but you might not realize how right you are. From Safari, Firefox copied the placement of the Google search bar, the toolbar rearrangement dialog, the private browsing feature, the bookmarks configuration manager, the daisy-petal indeterminate progress indicator,...
It's true, open source software is rarely (never?) innovative when it comes to UI.
That happens more often than you'd think--check the article on autism, for example. I don't mean to offend, but the article seems to be written (and, I presume, attended to) mainly by people with an interest in making autism sound less debilitating than it usually is, or at least broadening the definition to include individuals that aren't accepted in the clinical mainstream as autistic. (I will venture no hypotheses as to motivation.)
Also, articles on schools and universities tend to be appallingly self-aggrandizing; Columbia University is a particularly egregious example, though there are many others.
Perhaps there's nothing factually incorrect about these articles, but the authors have an agenda, and it shows in the writing. There are many, many articles where a casual reader might be misled into thinking Wikipedia offers an unbiased perspective when it's actually anything but.
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Personally, I don't have a problem paying for something if it's worth the cost--do you?
This being New York, maybe they should just replace the rubber door seals with razor blades. I kind of miss the days when you had to kick severed limbs out of the way to get to work.
In New York, train dwell times--time spent in stations--can be frustratingly long, especially during rush hours. Besides people pushing and shoving to get on the train, you've also got the jokers who hold the doors for their friends who're still running down the stairs.
Without a conductor, who's going to yell at everyone to stop holding the doors? How does this work in other automated systems, like Paris's Météor?
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He's probably a repackaged Leo McGarry. ASOTV surfaced around the same time Leo disappeared, and they write in the same idiosyncratic style, though Leo was far more abusive. And they've only ever posted to the same story once--and ASOTV's comment there ends with a conspicuously out-of-place "I agree with Leo." Open and shut case, if you ask me.
"You can't kick off a process as root unless you first go into the NetInfo Manager and enable the root user."
Wrong. sudo much?
You mean the guy who wrote Bits on Wheels (Mac OS X)?
You know what's an interesting Google query? "leo mcgarry" "as seen on tv" site:slashdot.org
Well, I'm a longtime Apple fanboi, but I highly doubt that ASOTV works for Apple. I think he's Leo McGarry under a new username.
Those aren't hipsters you're describing, they're Upper East Side fratboys. Hope this helps.
You do realize "It's not stealing, Your Honor, it's just copyright infringement" isn't a valid legal defense, don't you?
Um... on what grounds would you make your defense?
It does, however, take artistic genius to draw toolbar icons that are both unified (by the lozenge motif) and visually distinct enough to appear markedly different from one another at a glance. Personally, I think the new Mail.app toolbar succeeds.
And remember that they're just guidelines, not commandments. If there's a better, faster, more intuitive way of doing things that violates the letter of the law, so be it.
My comment was in response to the jackass who said "I'm sorta glad [Apple] didn't use Mozilla code now." The point is that if there's any open-source rendering engine that will benefit from Hyatt's improvements, it'll be KHTML, not Gecko.
"BSD mentality"? If it's the BSD mentality that gives us browsers like Safari (now more standards-compliant than Firefox, not to mention leaner and more polished) then I'll take it.
I read a troll once here on Slashdot that said quality software was "GPL-incompatible." And you know what? I'm beginning to think it's true.
Bitch all you want, but Dave Hyatt's changes to WebCore stand a good chance of finding their way back into KHTML. Both Konq and Safari will then be Acid2 compliant, and arguably more CSS-compliant than Gecko.
Meanwhile, the chances of Mozilla passing the Acid2 test anytime soon are... what exactly?
And how would the abolition of intellectual property help the situation? Seems people would have even less of an incentive to find cures, right?
It can work, but I think the point is that the progress of the "useful arts and sciences" happens faster with intellectual property protections. For example, do you really think anyone would invest $millions in developing life-saving pharmaceuticals for the sheer joy of it? It'd happen eventually... but try telling someone infected with HIV they'll get their drugs "eventually" and see what kind of reaction you get.
Yes, me too.
Then assuming the law is enforced (by civil action or otherwise), every company in the region will be "disadvantaged" to the same degree and hopefully, over time, discrimination lessens and the need for such a law lessens with it. It's a similar situtaion to mortgage lenders in the '60s redlining entire neighborhoods based on racial composition alone; the practice was founded in statistics and arguably did reduce the risk of default, but once legislation was passed to make racial redlining illegal, the situation improved within a couple decades. Deliberately oversimplifying, but you get the picture.
It's something everybody knows. While I support the Palestinian cause, there's just no disputing Arafat used more inflammatory language in Arabic than in English. Mahmoud Abbas does the same thing, though not to the same degree, and he's toned down the rhetoric since the campaign.
"Do you mean like how Apple came out with Safari and everybody copied it?"
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I think you were trying to be sarcastic, but you might not realize how right you are. From Safari, Firefox copied the placement of the Google search bar, the toolbar rearrangement dialog, the private browsing feature, the bookmarks configuration manager, the daisy-petal indeterminate progress indicator,
It's true, open source software is rarely (never?) innovative when it comes to UI.
That happens more often than you'd think--check the article on autism, for example. I don't mean to offend, but the article seems to be written (and, I presume, attended to) mainly by people with an interest in making autism sound less debilitating than it usually is, or at least broadening the definition to include individuals that aren't accepted in the clinical mainstream as autistic. (I will venture no hypotheses as to motivation.)
Also, articles on schools and universities tend to be appallingly self-aggrandizing; Columbia University is a particularly egregious example, though there are many others.
Perhaps there's nothing factually incorrect about these articles, but the authors have an agenda, and it shows in the writing. There are many, many articles where a casual reader might be misled into thinking Wikipedia offers an unbiased perspective when it's actually anything but.
Personally, I don't have a problem paying for something if it's worth the cost--do you?
You must be new here ;)
Interesting! Thanks for the information.
This being New York, maybe they should just replace the rubber door seals with razor blades. I kind of miss the days when you had to kick severed limbs out of the way to get to work.
In New York, train dwell times--time spent in stations--can be frustratingly long, especially during rush hours. Besides people pushing and shoving to get on the train, you've also got the jokers who hold the doors for their friends who're still running down the stairs.
Without a conductor, who's going to yell at everyone to stop holding the doors? How does this work in other automated systems, like Paris's Météor?
Probably because it was already overrated at 0.
Are you trolling, or just stupid?