Like sibling said, environmentally irresponsible actions hurt others. I am not an extremist (for what it's worth, I think this is a troll, and not Insightful), but claiming that this is a non-issue is wishful thinking at best. It's like that Simpsons episode where Bart decides to kick his legs while walking forward, and if Lisa ends up in his path, that's not his fault (okay, so Lisa is doing almost the same thing in that episode, but that's not relevant here). I'm not a saint. I'll be the first to tell you I don't do enough. But it's something we all *have* to consider. I think the biggest problem the green movement has in the U.S. is how totally disconnected many Americans are from the environmental effects of their actions.
When everyone instinctively reflects on their actions before buying something disposable or inefficient, we'll have a start. I don't mean changes their mind--I just mean honestly reflects and considers the impact of the decision, even if for juts a second, when this replaces the knee-jerk reaction to "green" as some fringe movement that's all about taking away their steaks and trucks and whatever. Many will probably still say "Fuck it!", but those who don't will make a difference.
So yeah, maybe this is "political", if by "political" you mean "ensuring the long-term survival of society and the species"...
I dunno, I might even call this low-end second-rate. The old website made me want to gouge my eyes out, even if I'd had to do it with gummy worms. This is pretty clean. Clearly aimed at a certain market, but clean. Functional, even (although there's not much content there yet)...
AC sibling is right. Trolls are in control. It's a game to them. Jack Thompson is many things, but he is *not* in control. He's compelled to do what he's doing. He *honestly* believes the future of the country depends on his success in this endeavor...
Why not at least *try* for intuitiveness?
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Sure, any non-GUI editor will have an obscure key sequence to exit, but I think that C-x (as in nano, for example) is more intuitive than:wZZ or whatever. I'm also put off by how vim decides that if something is more than one and a half keys outside of home row, it's useless. I was raised on Windows, for better of for worse, but I did learn the useful windows editor shortcuts. Home, end, C-home/end, page up, page down, the arrow keys, C-left/right, C-shift-left/right, shift-up/down, C-x/c/v... Personally I find that typing is not the rate-limiting step in my coding, and I'd gladly give up a bit of efficiency for a sensible interface. I understand that others may feel differently, but I find it hard to be taken with an editor that seems to have setting editing speed records as a key goal... Even the menu bar thing--sure, the extra display real estate helped back in the twenties when you had monitors with maximum resolutions of 32x24 that could only display three lines at once or something, and sure, something like Eclipse goes overboard (although you can maximize views), but now (and I'm still on 1024x768)? I can see the usefulness in learning enough vim to get by because it's ubiquitous, but the uber-efficient approach (and especially having it set up that way by default)... Meh...
I'm sure people will tell me to go back to Notepad or whatever, but I'm just saying that there *are* ways to do an efficient, powerful editor that *doesn't* sacrifice an intuitive interface (and no, I don't think Notepad is it).
Right on. Hell, we could add the requirement to release source code for programs more than fourteen years old (not programs built on those roots--just the original code), and I still can't see that really hurting anybody. Fourteen years is several lifetimes in software terms.
Sure, but will game developers want to use it? If all you have is online distribution (i.e., you don't have a boxed product with CDs), it would take guts to offer totally unrestricted content. Can you imagine record companies getting behind a de-DRMed iTMS? Maybe some artists would be interested, but that's different--recordings are a way to get you to come to shows. Since video game developers don't really have live shows, the digital content is all they have to sell, so I can see them wanting to make sure that they get paid for it...
Also, are italics tags supposed to work in an html title? Doesn't work on FireFox.
No, although God knows it doesn't stop anyone from trying. I learned this lesson about five minutes into learning HTML. I wonder why professional web designers can't seem to learn it at all.
> If you have something that you don't want to share, you don't have to submit it.:-)
Sure, I know that. But.doc is notorious for including all sorts of metadata. I understand what Reuter's goals are. I just think that in the general case, it's irresponsible of him to advocate just submitting.doc files without advising users to at least wipe metadata...
He's suggesting that if OO.o isn't opening a.doc correctly, I should submit it? Does he expect all the users to just throw their privacy right out the window? Maybe if they wrote a utility that scrambled non-whitespace characters (although they'd have to be careful with width) both in the document text and metadata, and stripped out embedded pictures and graphs and such, and replaced them with blanks of the same size. I'm not the paranoid sort, but I'm a little concerned he's pushing this "all your.docs are belong to us" strategy without even a regard for user privacy...
Gah... Right you are. I was expecting 'not' to split the infinitive, and blindly ignored the 'genetically'... Well, the first part of my post still stands--Churchill's quote has nothing to do with this...
Do you even know what a split infinitive is? Churchill said that about dangling preopsitions... Not to mention that they IBM isn't splitting any infinitives: "to not foo" is splitting the infinitive--"not to foo" is the right way to say it. Take the classic "To boldly go...".
Maybe you have a better monitor than me that can see invisible things...
Grandparent and I both, apparently. Or if you'd bothered to take a look at the article linked by grandparents, you would've seen they discuss the Toshiba chips. I can't imagine why you migh think that arstechnica is making up facts about the nano's flash memory, but it's easier to give another source than try to dispute that...
So if we could only take care of the fact that Americans, for the most part, drive like jack-asses (not that other countries are any better), we'd be all set. Also, I never was able to grasp the SUV philosophy of security-through-being-able-to-crush-the-shit-out- of-everyone-else-if-in-an-accident...
I dunno... In the first paragraph, they manage to claim that the formula is--get this--"E mc2". That's right, not squared--just doubled. And who really needs an equal sign in a formula? Go Yahoo! If I had a dog, its blog would have more scientific credibility than this article.
How hard would it be to write a script that checks submissions to see if any link to identical URLs? That's right, trivial. This would eliminate 90% of dupes. Throw URLs and story submission IDs as (key, value) pairs into a hash table. If you get a collision, flag both stories--the editor could check the conflict via the hash table. Keep stuff in the table for maybe a week. We'd still get dupes linking to different versions of the source story, but that doesn't really happen that often...
And I guess it wouldn't help your problem--editors would still be free to choose an inferior submission. But hell, if editor A rejects submission 1 about some topic, and editor B comes along and doesn't see submission 1 (because it's already been rejected) but sees submission 2 and likes it, he would then see that it dupes (rejected) submission 1. He is then free to compare the two submissions, and greenlight 1 instead of 2...
I'm checking this out now, and I'm pretty impressed... I put in Yo La Tengo and Pandora starts off with (surprise surprise) "Autumn Sweater" (for those of you unfamiliar with the band, it's vaguely like starting off with "Stairway" if I'd put in Zep--it is a great song, but it's such an *obvious* choice that it almost makes you want to roll your eyes). Pandora followed with the Church (I've heard the name, but never the music), and then a string of great artists I've never heard of, and coming back to YLT for one of my favorite songs with an obscure Simpsons reference, "Let's Save Tony Orlando's House". I wish it could do a little more breadth--it seems all these songs have been picked due to similarity to Yo La Tengo's style when they're wearing their straight-ahead-rock hat. And I just noticed that "Autumn Sweater" and "Let's", other than tempo, are surprisingly similar. My favorite web radio station is awesome because it manages to be cross-genre while maintaining a broad cohesive feel. But Pandora's pretty cool... also, is there a way to export the playlist for the radio station?
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Like sibling said, environmentally irresponsible actions hurt others. I am not an extremist (for what it's worth, I think this is a troll, and not Insightful), but claiming that this is a non-issue is wishful thinking at best. It's like that Simpsons episode where Bart decides to kick his legs while walking forward, and if Lisa ends up in his path, that's not his fault (okay, so Lisa is doing almost the same thing in that episode, but that's not relevant here). I'm not a saint. I'll be the first to tell you I don't do enough. But it's something we all *have* to consider. I think the biggest problem the green movement has in the U.S. is how totally disconnected many Americans are from the environmental effects of their actions.
When everyone instinctively reflects on their actions before buying something disposable or inefficient, we'll have a start. I don't mean changes their mind--I just mean honestly reflects and considers the impact of the decision, even if for juts a second, when this replaces the knee-jerk reaction to "green" as some fringe movement that's all about taking away their steaks and trucks and whatever. Many will probably still say "Fuck it!", but those who don't will make a difference.
So yeah, maybe this is "political", if by "political" you mean "ensuring the long-term survival of society and the species"...
I dunno, I might even call this low-end second-rate. The old website made me want to gouge my eyes out, even if I'd had to do it with gummy worms. This is pretty clean. Clearly aimed at a certain market, but clean. Functional, even (although there's not much content there yet)...
I hope you're not suggesting that this is a *bad* thing (and I say that as a non-native English speaker)...
In other news, muggers to start taking photos of their victims.
Seriously, I wonder if this can be fooled by a picture. Although it'd still provide some security if you just lost your phone somewhere...
Um, you're taking for granted that the lead times don't overlap with the other missions...
This...
AC sibling is right. Trolls are in control. It's a game to them. Jack Thompson is many things, but he is *not* in control. He's compelled to do what he's doing. He *honestly* believes the future of the country depends on his success in this endeavor...
Maybe Jack Thompson will pitch in ten grand...
Sure, any non-GUI editor will have an obscure key sequence to exit, but I think that C-x (as in nano, for example) is more intuitive than :wZZ or whatever. I'm also put off by how vim decides that if something is more than one and a half keys outside of home row, it's useless. I was raised on Windows, for better of for worse, but I did learn the useful windows editor shortcuts. Home, end, C-home/end, page up, page down, the arrow keys, C-left/right, C-shift-left/right, shift-up/down, C-x/c/v... Personally I find that typing is not the rate-limiting step in my coding, and I'd gladly give up a bit of efficiency for a sensible interface. I understand that others may feel differently, but I find it hard to be taken with an editor that seems to have setting editing speed records as a key goal... Even the menu bar thing--sure, the extra display real estate helped back in the twenties when you had monitors with maximum resolutions of 32x24 that could only display three lines at once or something, and sure, something like Eclipse goes overboard (although you can maximize views), but now (and I'm still on 1024x768)? I can see the usefulness in learning enough vim to get by because it's ubiquitous, but the uber-efficient approach (and especially having it set up that way by default)... Meh...
I'm sure people will tell me to go back to Notepad or whatever, but I'm just saying that there *are* ways to do an efficient, powerful editor that *doesn't* sacrifice an intuitive interface (and no, I don't think Notepad is it).
Right on. Hell, we could add the requirement to release source code for programs more than fourteen years old (not programs built on those roots--just the original code), and I still can't see that really hurting anybody. Fourteen years is several lifetimes in software terms.
Sure, but will game developers want to use it? If all you have is online distribution (i.e., you don't have a boxed product with CDs), it would take guts to offer totally unrestricted content. Can you imagine record companies getting behind a de-DRMed iTMS? Maybe some artists would be interested, but that's different--recordings are a way to get you to come to shows. Since video game developers don't really have live shows, the digital content is all they have to sell, so I can see them wanting to make sure that they get paid for it...
And the plus-4 on the zip can probably give you the campus building, so
+1 17445-1234
Room 545
Jim Smith
or, to make it completely unintelligible to anyone but a postal employee...
+1 17445-1234 545
Jim Smith
Yeah, that's the sort of thing I thought must be happening. Still, thirty seconds of scripting lets you strip those tags...
Also, are italics tags supposed to work in an html title? Doesn't work on FireFox.
No, although God knows it doesn't stop anyone from trying. I learned this lesson about five minutes into learning HTML. I wonder why professional web designers can't seem to learn it at all.
> If you have something that you don't want to share, you don't have to submit it. :-)
.doc is notorious for including all sorts of metadata. I understand what Reuter's goals are. I just think that in the general case, it's irresponsible of him to advocate just submitting .doc files without advising users to at least wipe metadata...
Sure, I know that. But
He's suggesting that if OO.o isn't opening a .doc correctly, I should submit it? Does he expect all the users to just throw their privacy right out the window? Maybe if they wrote a utility that scrambled non-whitespace characters (although they'd have to be careful with width) both in the document text and metadata, and stripped out embedded pictures and graphs and such, and replaced them with blanks of the same size. I'm not the paranoid sort, but I'm a little concerned he's pushing this "all your .docs are belong to us" strategy without even a regard for user privacy...
Gah... Right you are. I was expecting 'not' to split the infinitive, and blindly ignored the 'genetically'... Well, the first part of my post still stands--Churchill's quote has nothing to do with this...
Do you even know what a split infinitive is? Churchill said that about dangling preopsitions... Not to mention that they IBM isn't splitting any infinitives: "to not foo" is splitting the infinitive--"not to foo" is the right way to say it. Take the classic "To boldly go...".
Maybe you have a better monitor than me that can see invisible things...
Grandparent and I both, apparently. Or if you'd bothered to take a look at the article linked by grandparents, you would've seen they discuss the Toshiba chips. I can't imagine why you migh think that arstechnica is making up facts about the nano's flash memory, but it's easier to give another source than try to dispute that...
So if we could only take care of the fact that Americans, for the most part, drive like jack-asses (not that other countries are any better), we'd be all set. Also, I never was able to grasp the SUV philosophy of security-through-being-able-to-crush-the-shit-out- of-everyone-else-if-in-an-accident...
I dunno... In the first paragraph, they manage to claim that the formula is--get this--"E mc2". That's right, not squared--just doubled. And who really needs an equal sign in a formula? Go Yahoo! If I had a dog, its blog would have more scientific credibility than this article.
How hard would it be to write a script that checks submissions to see if any link to identical URLs? That's right, trivial. This would eliminate 90% of dupes. Throw URLs and story submission IDs as (key, value) pairs into a hash table. If you get a collision, flag both stories--the editor could check the conflict via the hash table. Keep stuff in the table for maybe a week. We'd still get dupes linking to different versions of the source story, but that doesn't really happen that often...
And I guess it wouldn't help your problem--editors would still be free to choose an inferior submission. But hell, if editor A rejects submission 1 about some topic, and editor B comes along and doesn't see submission 1 (because it's already been rejected) but sees submission 2 and likes it, he would then see that it dupes (rejected) submission 1. He is then free to compare the two submissions, and greenlight 1 instead of 2...
Not to mention that Prius is gonna have a line of people complaining that they need to push Start to turn off their cars...
I'm checking this out now, and I'm pretty impressed... I put in Yo La Tengo and Pandora starts off with (surprise surprise) "Autumn Sweater" (for those of you unfamiliar with the band, it's vaguely like starting off with "Stairway" if I'd put in Zep--it is a great song, but it's such an *obvious* choice that it almost makes you want to roll your eyes). Pandora followed with the Church (I've heard the name, but never the music), and then a string of great artists I've never heard of, and coming back to YLT for one of my favorite songs with an obscure Simpsons reference, "Let's Save Tony Orlando's House". I wish it could do a little more breadth--it seems all these songs have been picked due to similarity to Yo La Tengo's style when they're wearing their straight-ahead-rock hat. And I just noticed that "Autumn Sweater" and "Let's", other than tempo, are surprisingly similar. My favorite web radio station is awesome because it manages to be cross-genre while maintaining a broad cohesive feel. But Pandora's pretty cool... also, is there a way to export the playlist for the radio station?
If you type in George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord", does it suggest the Chiffons' "He's So Fine"?