My cable bill is $9/mo. I ordered basic analog TV. Wait, but they give me extended cable, digital cable, and HDTV channels for free because they cannot be bothered to filter it out... if they even could. I've even called up and told them. They don't care.
Back on topic. I am shocked this is a real article. Where the foot icon? The link to the Onion?
The gap itself is not the problem, it's the immediate creation of one that's not proportional to the speed. People look at the gap and think "we could all be closer to this stop sign if it weren't for YOU!", not realizing that distance does not equal time.
You must attend to Psychology by leaving just enough of a gap that they don't get pissed off, and then slowly extending it so that they don't notice. Works wonders in toll plazas.
Gee, what do... mod up the parent, or reply to your totally wrong rant?
He wasn't modded down, he probably just has bad karma and posts start out at -1. Click on the comment ID and see no moderation done to it. Click on his username and take a look at the posting history.
animated puppies running off into the distance when I turn off animations
Isn't that a slap in the face? You're trying to turn off animations and puppies, and before it submits to your will, it decides to run one more animation even though it knows you've just asked it not to. Just to spite you! "Oh, you don't want any more animations, huh, do you? Well, get a load of this! Ha! You're not really in control! And, you bloody well know that the next time you run Windows Update I'm going to stomp all over your settings and come back. Woof! Woof! It looks like you're searching for some files. Should I pee on your carpet?"
That's not true, Privoxy can subsitute blank gifs to reclaim the space just fine. The main reason I moved to Adblock from Privoxy was not for Adblock itself, but for the auto-updating blacklists. I spend far less time configuring Adblock than I did with Privoxy.
So right. I get mails all the time from various companies. I tell them point-blank that I'm happy at my job and I'm not interested in applying. You can recruit me, which means it's your job to convince me to work for you. Usually I just mail back my current salary times 1.5, and that's enough to shut them up.
It's sort of like those pre-approved credit card offers, which invariably say "you're conditionally pre-approved*"! Which means: absolutely fucking nothing.
So what do you call the "free as in freedom" software in English, then?
The word is right there in front of you: it's called freedom. Sure, it's a noun, not an adjective, but we verb nouns all the time so it stands to reason that we can also use nouny adjectives.
AIX is also notorious for mapping address 0 into every process' address space. Yes, Viriginia, that means you can write through a null pointer and not crash. Of course, when you to port that over to a different OS, it doesn't work quite so well.
This smells an awful lot like a "free speech zone". You get a "fair use zone" which grants you a tiny fraction of what fair use really is, enforced by the DRM. Not so unpredictably, the fair use zone will line up nicely with other things they are selling: RIAA-approved DRM hardware and software, of which they'll naturally get a cut. Just a nominal fee, you know.
I'm somewhat pleased, but still wary. At least they're starting to acknowledge what people want to do, rather than just spout out Valentiesque head-in-the-sand sancitmonious bullshit.
Specifically, the LGPL ALLOWS the linking of non-free programs to it.
That's notionally true, but wrong in the context of this thread. You can't statically link in LGPL code into a non-free program, which is what I was replying to. Go ahead, read it. I'll wait.
It is perfectly possible for an application author to produce an application and link it statically.
Many licenses don't allow that in a proprietary app. Most notably, GTK which is LGPL last I checked.
As to the GUI? Either include the widget set, or use GNOME. What's the problem?
See above.
And (ps.) this is what's generally done on Windows. DirectX is included by every application that needs it.
You just argued my point for me. That's because it's legal to link DirectX against a proprietary app. MS isn't going to start complaining for you to release your source code.
I didn't say it was impossible, I said using a free software GUI toolkit in a nonfree app is frequently harder than one you pay for. The latter usually has much simpler distribution terms.
I didn't say it's impossible, just difficult. I'm wagering you didn't see all the release engineering, testing, legal approval, etc., that happened before. You just see the binary.
Also note that many companies are just bit a smaller than Google, Adobe, Real. They have a lot more resources to throw at the problem. Also, the economics are different. I don't know about the games, but for the others, their revenue comes from other places. They don't sell Earth, Reader, or RealPlayer. That's to say, Adobe Reader can lose money, if they think they will make more money selling other stuff. If you're just selling a Linux app, it's far less compelling.
Why, you should see how much I have to pay my accountants and lawyers to keep track of the terms on gcc, kde, gnome and so on and so forth. The burden this passes on to my users is just unimaginable.
I know you're kidding, but your joke is wrong. I think you are confusing using free software in-house versus linking against it. We use lots of free software and love it. gcc, openoffice, etc.
But, we also develop propietary software for Linux, and tracking all the licensing is very difficult and expensive because every bit of free software has strings attached. Those strings must have the license reviewed by legal. What you save in cost of the kit itself, can sometimes be totally negated by the legal tracking issues. I've spent days talking to business folks trying to clear up misconceptions over MPL code, stuff even that lawyers have already approved.
Compare that to something like a commerical SDK, where the license is often extremely simple and lets you do whatever you want, no questions asked. Companies sometimes need that flexibility and sometimes, believe it or not, is cheaper.
In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and define Sax's Licensing Law: Tracking development use of free software libraries in propietary software is just as difficult as tracking the in-house use of propietary software. The former you have to deal with an annoying pile of licenses that are similar but totally different, the latter you have to deal with a pile of annoying EULAs that are similar but totally different.
I think he's speaking of making a release of propietary software for Linux. The problem is that some distros use KDE, some use GNOME, and all of them use different versions. On Windows or Mac, it's possible to build a single binary to target nearly all the installed base, because you can be guaranteed the GUI is there and mostly backwards compatible.
For Linux, we don't want to make a custom build for every single distro out there. The cost would be prohibitive and you'd have a lot more combinations to test. Free software simply hands the entire build process over to the individual distros. Sometimes they get it right, but sometimes not: oops, the app doesn't work with libYooble.4.2p3_alpha5 and the distro vendors didn't know about that or, more likely, don't care.
It's possible, just very difficult, to deliver commercial software on Linux. You're swimming upstream.
than top-post.
It's better to remove all quotes
which is a freaking pain in the ass.
message backwards
then I have read your
If you top-post,
we read top to bottom.
Because in English
Lung cancer and diabetes are also due to lifestyle, but nobody is blaming the victims they way they do with AIDS.
The OP said type 1 (aka juvenile) diabetes, which is not preventable and has nothing to do with lifestyle. Type 1 is an auto-immune disease, where the insulin-producing cells are killed off by the body. Type 2 (aka adult-onset) can be associated with lifestyle, but isn't always. My father-in-law got type 2 simply by getting old, not fat.
I remember as kid using that same line on my parents. Sometimes I'd be lying, and sometimes it would be the truth. My parents might have said: "Oh yeah? Who does?"
"Uhhh, Bobby Jones".
If Bobby was a good kid:
"Fine, let me call Bobby's mother and ask where's the best place to get an X." That was enough to call off any lie, or kill off any enthusiasm even if it was true.
If Bobby was a dirtbag:
"Bobby is a dirtbag and so are his parents. Don't be like him."
Frequently, if it was something that entailed credit and/or commitments, it was something like "if you want an X, you're going to have to buy it yourself". As a kid I really wanted my own landline so I could use a modem and not bug anyone. So I got a job and bought my own landline, they never paid a dime for it.
Sometimes, they would actually reconsider things and let me do something they were initially opposed to: "Hey, you're right, lots of kids are doing X these days and there's no realy harm in that. Go ahead" Maybe it was just a masterful stroke of merely pretending to do so, but it worked on me.
It isn't so much as if you say yes or no, but how you do it!
Actually, I like some cross-browser display differences. It keeps overzealous web designers from treating the web too much like print, making things far worse. What I don't like is when those differences are simply bugs (like IE's png handling).
That's why you should use TaxAct, which is either free for printing, or someting like $9 with one e-file. TurboTax and TaxCut have slowly ratcheted up the price over the years and not gotten any better.
It sort of makes sense in a twisted and greedy way. Paraphrasing jwz, they've decided webcasting is more like printing CDs than broadcasting on the radio. Except: nobody gets to keep that "printed" copy, but they sure get the money for it.
People say here they want to kill internet radio. I'm not sure that's true. They want to kill all cheap radio. Long term, I think they will want to kill broadcast radio too, and somehow replace it with pay-per-listen.
Why on Earth would a game company want you to play over and over, and keep enjoying your single purchase?
Because the original games were consoles in an arcade. You didn't own games, you pumped quarters into ones that other people owned. When the first home units came out, the designers followed that trend. It took them many years to figure it out. At the beginning, it very much a technology exercise: how much game can you fit in 2K? You would put up with the deficiencies in the game, because you enjoyed the technology as much as the game itself. You also wouldn't have to spent lots of money continuously feeding it quarters, or asking Mom for a ride to the mall. That was a big factor.
Don't give them too much credit. If they did it right, then it would have worked like this in 2000 and XP. It took them 7 years to figure out how to do it!
I wish I could get that as a patch for XP or 2000. I've been manually doing this for years by carefully editing ACLs.
My wife nearly gave birth in my car. The entire labor from start to finish was 59 minutes. We barely made it to hospital in time, five minutes more and the baby would have been on my floormat. One stop could have cost us that, even if the cop did #3 on your list and escorted us.
When I was speeding and rolling through stoplights at empty intersections, I knew I wasn't going to stop unless the police physically cut me off. I'd gladly pay a ticket or go jail... once my family safe is at the hospital.
Good thing, too. Once we got the hospital, the emergency room entrace was blocked by chairs and garbage cans for cleaning. One would think that this might be illegal or against policy, but apparently not. I had to spend a few minutes moving them out of the way, while the janitors sat there watching me and smoking their cigarettes.
A crossbow bolt is serious, but with a certain class of problems the clock really is ticking and seconds matter.
At least put their DVD player into 16:9 when they're in the bathroom. Then it will look right for widescreen DVDs.
I stopped by Blockbuster the other day for the first time in years (a few kids will do that to you). Asked for a movie, and did my usual "is it widescreen" because some are not marked, and I hate chopped-up movies even on my old 3:2 TV. A few years ago the answer would have been "we only have fullscreen, customers keep accidentally renting the widescreen and complaining".
But this time I got "when there's a choice, we only stock widescreen now. Corporate says it's "truer to the director's vision". I was shocked because they are doing the right thing. My guess is that people with snazzy new sets complained about fullframe on their 16:9 (be it pillarboxed or stretched) and complained. After all, they have more money!
Well, I don't give a crap about the director's vision (read: George Lucas) but I surely want to see ALL of the movie.
Actually, I have confidence that this will aspect ratio crap will fix itself in a few years as we phase out 3:2, broadcasters get smarter, and and better auto-detection electronics is built in. It's insane watching HDTV now- cut to commercial filmed in 16:9 and it's freaking pillarboxed AND letterboxed! What are the broadcasters smoking?
But yeah, most people can't tell the difference between a clean 480p and HD. Sad, isn't it?
We geeks have to improve the technology so it works better with no configuring. For the folks who don't like pillarboxing because they think something's missing (duh, but that's how people think), the solution is the fill the empty spots with something. Many ideas come to mind. How about two 3:2 PIPs on one side? An extra tuner to full it, snapshot frames into it randomly, or a button to explicitly do it. Put the subtitles/captions there instead of over the content. How about a nonintrustive TV or visual chapter guide? During a sportscast, I also saw a nice effect where they simply repeated the same content in the extra areas, but faded/blurred out, to make a nice algorithmic background. Or put some graphics there. There's just so much that can be done.
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Back on topic. I am shocked this is a real article. Where the foot icon? The link to the Onion?
You must attend to Psychology by leaving just enough of a gap that they don't get pissed off, and then slowly extending it so that they don't notice. Works wonders in toll plazas.
Gee, what do... mod up the parent, or reply to your totally wrong rant?
He wasn't modded down, he probably just has bad karma and posts start out at -1. Click on the comment ID and see no moderation done to it. Click on his username and take a look at the posting history.
Isn't that a slap in the face? You're trying to turn off animations and puppies, and before it submits to your will, it decides to run one more animation even though it knows you've just asked it not to. Just to spite you! "Oh, you don't want any more animations, huh, do you? Well, get a load of this! Ha! You're not really in control! And, you bloody well know that the next time you run Windows Update I'm going to stomp all over your settings and come back. Woof! Woof! It looks like you're searching for some files. Should I pee on your carpet?"
Sorry, yes, I'm bitter.
That's not true, Privoxy can subsitute blank gifs to reclaim the space just fine. The main reason I moved to Adblock from Privoxy was not for Adblock itself, but for the auto-updating blacklists. I spend far less time configuring Adblock than I did with Privoxy.
It's sort of like those pre-approved credit card offers, which invariably say "you're conditionally pre-approved*"! Which means: absolutely fucking nothing.
*based on your current income and debt levels.
The word is right there in front of you: it's called freedom. Sure, it's a noun, not an adjective, but we verb nouns all the time so it stands to reason that we can also use nouny adjectives.
AIX is also notorious for mapping address 0 into every process' address space. Yes, Viriginia, that means you can write through a null pointer and not crash. Of course, when you to port that over to a different OS, it doesn't work quite so well.
Holy cow, that's like four jokes in one. Instant classic.
I'm somewhat pleased, but still wary. At least they're starting to acknowledge what people want to do, rather than just spout out Valentiesque head-in-the-sand sancitmonious bullshit.
Many licenses don't allow that in a proprietary app. Most notably, GTK which is LGPL last I checked.
As to the GUI? Either include the widget set, or use GNOME. What's the problem?
See above.
And (ps.) this is what's generally done on Windows. DirectX is included by every application that needs it.
You just argued my point for me. That's because it's legal to link DirectX against a proprietary app. MS isn't going to start complaining for you to release your source code.
I didn't say it was impossible, I said using a free software GUI toolkit in a nonfree app is frequently harder than one you pay for. The latter usually has much simpler distribution terms.
Also note that many companies are just bit a smaller than Google, Adobe, Real. They have a lot more resources to throw at the problem. Also, the economics are different. I don't know about the games, but for the others, their revenue comes from other places. They don't sell Earth, Reader, or RealPlayer. That's to say, Adobe Reader can lose money, if they think they will make more money selling other stuff. If you're just selling a Linux app, it's far less compelling.
I know you're kidding, but your joke is wrong. I think you are confusing using free software in-house versus linking against it. We use lots of free software and love it. gcc, openoffice, etc. But, we also develop propietary software for Linux, and tracking all the licensing is very difficult and expensive because every bit of free software has strings attached. Those strings must have the license reviewed by legal. What you save in cost of the kit itself, can sometimes be totally negated by the legal tracking issues. I've spent days talking to business folks trying to clear up misconceptions over MPL code, stuff even that lawyers have already approved.
Compare that to something like a commerical SDK, where the license is often extremely simple and lets you do whatever you want, no questions asked. Companies sometimes need that flexibility and sometimes, believe it or not, is cheaper.
In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and define Sax's Licensing Law: Tracking development use of free software libraries in propietary software is just as difficult as tracking the in-house use of propietary software. The former you have to deal with an annoying pile of licenses that are similar but totally different, the latter you have to deal with a pile of annoying EULAs that are similar but totally different.
For Linux, we don't want to make a custom build for every single distro out there. The cost would be prohibitive and you'd have a lot more combinations to test. Free software simply hands the entire build process over to the individual distros. Sometimes they get it right, but sometimes not: oops, the app doesn't work with libYooble.4.2p3_alpha5 and the distro vendors didn't know about that or, more likely, don't care.
It's possible, just very difficult, to deliver commercial software on Linux. You're swimming upstream.
than top-post.
It's better to remove all quotes
which is a freaking pain in the ass.
message backwards
then I have read your
If you top-post,
we read top to bottom.
Because in English
The OP said type 1 (aka juvenile) diabetes, which is not preventable and has nothing to do with lifestyle. Type 1 is an auto-immune disease, where the insulin-producing cells are killed off by the body. Type 2 (aka adult-onset) can be associated with lifestyle, but isn't always. My father-in-law got type 2 simply by getting old, not fat.
"Uhhh, Bobby Jones".
If Bobby was a good kid:
"Fine, let me call Bobby's mother and ask where's the best place to get an X." That was enough to call off any lie, or kill off any enthusiasm even if it was true.
If Bobby was a dirtbag:
"Bobby is a dirtbag and so are his parents. Don't be like him."
Frequently, if it was something that entailed credit and/or commitments, it was something like "if you want an X, you're going to have to buy it yourself". As a kid I really wanted my own landline so I could use a modem and not bug anyone. So I got a job and bought my own landline, they never paid a dime for it.
Sometimes, they would actually reconsider things and let me do something they were initially opposed to: "Hey, you're right, lots of kids are doing X these days and there's no realy harm in that. Go ahead" Maybe it was just a masterful stroke of merely pretending to do so, but it worked on me.
It isn't so much as if you say yes or no, but how you do it!
Actually, I like some cross-browser display differences. It keeps overzealous web designers from treating the web too much like print, making things far worse. What I don't like is when those differences are simply bugs (like IE's png handling).
That's why you should use TaxAct, which is either free for printing, or someting like $9 with one e-file. TurboTax and TaxCut have slowly ratcheted up the price over the years and not gotten any better.
People say here they want to kill internet radio. I'm not sure that's true. They want to kill all cheap radio. Long term, I think they will want to kill broadcast radio too, and somehow replace it with pay-per-listen.
I wish I could get that as a patch for XP or 2000. I've been manually doing this for years by carefully editing ACLs.
When I was speeding and rolling through stoplights at empty intersections, I knew I wasn't going to stop unless the police physically cut me off. I'd gladly pay a ticket or go jail... once my family safe is at the hospital.
Good thing, too. Once we got the hospital, the emergency room entrace was blocked by chairs and garbage cans for cleaning. One would think that this might be illegal or against policy, but apparently not. I had to spend a few minutes moving them out of the way, while the janitors sat there watching me and smoking their cigarettes.
A crossbow bolt is serious, but with a certain class of problems the clock really is ticking and seconds matter.
I stopped by Blockbuster the other day for the first time in years (a few kids will do that to you). Asked for a movie, and did my usual "is it widescreen" because some are not marked, and I hate chopped-up movies even on my old 3:2 TV. A few years ago the answer would have been "we only have fullscreen, customers keep accidentally renting the widescreen and complaining".
But this time I got "when there's a choice, we only stock widescreen now. Corporate says it's "truer to the director's vision". I was shocked because they are doing the right thing. My guess is that people with snazzy new sets complained about fullframe on their 16:9 (be it pillarboxed or stretched) and complained. After all, they have more money!
Well, I don't give a crap about the director's vision (read: George Lucas) but I surely want to see ALL of the movie. Actually, I have confidence that this will aspect ratio crap will fix itself in a few years as we phase out 3:2, broadcasters get smarter, and and better auto-detection electronics is built in. It's insane watching HDTV now- cut to commercial filmed in 16:9 and it's freaking pillarboxed AND letterboxed! What are the broadcasters smoking?
But yeah, most people can't tell the difference between a clean 480p and HD. Sad, isn't it?
We geeks have to improve the technology so it works better with no configuring. For the folks who don't like pillarboxing because they think something's missing (duh, but that's how people think), the solution is the fill the empty spots with something. Many ideas come to mind. How about two 3:2 PIPs on one side? An extra tuner to full it, snapshot frames into it randomly, or a button to explicitly do it. Put the subtitles/captions there instead of over the content. How about a nonintrustive TV or visual chapter guide? During a sportscast, I also saw a nice effect where they simply repeated the same content in the extra areas, but faded/blurred out, to make a nice algorithmic background. Or put some graphics there. There's just so much that can be done.