I don't know who's been telling you about Opera, but he's wrong. Opera 5 rocks my world. I've been using it as my primary browser since January. I'm not registered, so there's an ad up in the corner of the app, but it bothers me not in the least bit. Download it, try it out, you'll like it.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
I love "minimum font size" - it saves me lots of headaches. And if the whole page is set to that tiny font size, I can zoom the whole page easily. Opera rocks.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Humane government? You're talking about the same government that seems to be on course for eliminating all religion/morality, right? Ha. They'll just legislate or codify what types of treatment are too expensive and you'll do without, no matter how badly you need it. And since you're excessively taxed for this privilege, you won't have any money left to go to a different provider of your choice.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
I think every legislature in the country has uncontrolled spending habits since the "ratification" of the 16th Amendment. Some use an income tax, some a sales tax. Income tax is theft. At least with a sales tax, I determine for myself how much of a consumer I will be and how much I will save/invest.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Even at my wages, I don't have much hope of making a 20% downpayment on a $500,000 house, which is about the right price right now for a 2 bedroom house (one bedrooms aren't that much cheeper).
Yup. I haven't a clue how my wife and I are going to save enough to buy a house before we're 50. Student loan repayments are absurdly high, and I'm selling my 'dream vehicle' and looking for something cheaper just to save a bit on those payments. I'm sure we could make payments on something decent, given what we currently pay in rent. But if we had to borrow the down payment too, that changes the picture.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Does it do anything with meta-info (other than TITLE tooltips on A) yet? I don't use IE unless I have to, so I don't know. I follow just a few things in Bugzilla involving HTML/CSS compliance, so I know there are lots of issues involved. I doubt MS has gotten it perfect.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Just an aside, by way of agreement with your analysis of Scalia. One of my best friends is clerking for Scalia this year and has told me several times that Scalia is the smartest person on the SC and the finest legal mind he knows of.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Hey, if you've got spare Pentiums sitting around, give them to me! I'm so strapped for cash that I can't afford $100 to buy an antiquated box to play with Linux on.
I found somebody at work that's going to give me an old Mac to scrounge for parts. I'm trying to resurrect an old Centris 650 so I can try to turn that into a Linux box. Yeah, a 25MHz Linux box on a non-standard chip. But I've heard I can overclock it to 40MHz.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
So get timothy to hack the logo that/. uses. Replace "SPAM" with "UCE". Although I don't know if I'd want to eat something called UCE. Too close to UCK if you ask me.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Yeah, the system is stacked. I know and I'm concerned about it, because I realize that a 3rd party is never going to win without visibility. The current system prevents them from being visible to Joe Voter.
Third parties need to work together toward certain common goals. Ballot access (the number of names required on petitions should be less, and the time allowed to gather them longer), voting methods (plurality vote sucks, Condorcet rules), and EC vote apportionment (time for "winner takes all" to die). Restrictions on ballot access date to Teddy Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" campaign. Stupid to base a law on one incident you don't like, but oh well, that's typical. Nearly every state had settled on bloc apportionment of EC votes by the 1830's, though the Constitution implies it should be by district. Write your state legislators; the states are in control of how this is done. (I wrote to my Iowa state leg. last year, and such a bill had been introduced but was defeated.) Districting of EC votes would make it more likely for a 3rd party to win EC votes, and also would not disenfranchise the ~55% of voters who do not vote for the state's winner.
People want 3rd parties. Politics bores Americans. The two major parties are too centrist and nearly identical. Voter turnout has been consistently declining since the 1960 election with only one exception: 1992. What happened in 1992? Ross Perot. A high-profile 3rd party candidate gets people interested. The Dem/Rep duopoly has everything to gain by keeping things the way they are, keeping people away from the polls, so nothing changes.
Keep working at these things. Lay the foundation for change. Educate others about these issues.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Actually, I'd say the solution (and not only to this, but to most things in gov't I disagree with) is to vote 3rd party, and educate others why this is a good idea, too. Think "outside the box" to use a tired cliche. Trying to "reform" an existing political party will do you about as much good as spitting into the wind.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Heh heh heh. I'd refuse to ever live in Boston (or just about any other city on the east coast for that matter). I flew into there for my honeymoon, but fortunately in the middle of the night so I missed the traffic. It's bad enough here in the Midwest!
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Yes. Most of those people are thus following too closely.
I don't know how many times I've been driving at a 2 second distance and some idiot will cut in on me. Sometimes (like on city streets) that 2 seconds is barely enough room for his vehicle. And they'll cut in without signalling. Leaving both of us with less than 1 second of distance.
That's the cause of most of my road rage...idiocy on the part of other drivers. People like that shouldn't even be on the road. They're endangering everyone.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
The fans want Sulu and the Excelsior, for crying out loud. Listen to them. Ultimately, it's the fans who pay your bills. Make them happy. Don't muck with Trek continuity.
If Berman wanted to kill Star Trek, he's doing a good job. ST:TNG was the last good Trek, though DS9 had its moments. I don't even consider Voyager to be Star Trek. Roddenberry created something of mythic proportions with ST:TOS, and these new producers are just screwing it up.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
No kidding. Tom Harkin is a jerk. I remember back in the Gingrich days ('94?) when Clinton visited Drake. Harkin introduced him, and since he couldn't think of anything to intelligently criticize the Republicans about, he resorted to name-calling. "Newtie and the Blowhards" indeed.
Very good point. Some people don't mind doing the same thing for their entire careers. Many, though, want to move on to other things.
Yeah! Forget the fluff, gimme the money.
Ditto on that, too. More freedom please, not less.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Several of the Psalms are designed that way, or with other similar literary devices. The most notable, and probably the one you're thinking of, is Psalm 119. (Coincidentally the longest chapter of the entire Bible.) Each line in every 8-line stanza begins with the same letter in Hebrew.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
the homepage, if it's slashdotted
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AtheOS Interview
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· Score: 5
AtheOS is a free desktop operating system (currently) under the GPL lisence.
AtheOS currently run on Intel, AMD and other compatible processors and
support the Intel Multi Processor architecture. I have seen quite a few anouncements of
"promising" OSes with "great potential" during the development of AtheOS. The problem is that when I follow the links I normally find a description of the concept,
a floppy-bootloader written in assembly, and not much else. AtheOS is a bit more mature,
and is already running quite a lot of software. This server for example is running AtheOS.
The HTTP server is a AtheOS port of Apache, and most of the content is generated by the
AtheOS port of PHP3 and perl.The native AtheOS file system is 64-bit and journaled.
AtheOS is not meant to be a new Unix clone (like Linux and *BSD) but a new clean
desktop OS. It does support large parts of the POSIX standard and hence are able
to run most of the UNIX CLI tools and it comes with a standard UNIX shell (BASH)
but this does not compromise anything in AtheOS as a desktop OS.
AtheOS have a integrated GUI that works in conjunction with the kernel and various
other components to create a complete and consistent system. The GUI is server/client
like X11 but communicate through the native messaging system and the protocol is private
to the server and client library and entirely hidden from the applications. Both the
client library and the server is heavily multithreaded. The fine-grained multithreading and the low latency messaging system make the GUI much more responsive than X11.
Not using X has its ups and downs. The big down is of course the lack of applications
that can be easily ported to AtheOS. Another down is that the current GUI does not support remote display, even though implementing it should not be hard at all. The up's is that the GUI interface is much more high-level, and is much better at defining how a GUI should work. This leads to better
consistency between applications. Drag and drop, clipboard, and other forms of high-level
communication between applications are defined by the OS. This will hopefully lead to applications that work
well together and that give the user an impression of a complete system with consistency between
applications. I believ this consistency is important so the user doesn't have to start from
scratch each time she learns a new program to know.
The AtheOS GUI consists of two main components: An application server and a dll providing a C++ interface
between the server and the application. The GUI is therefore programmed through a C++ API providing windows containing a hierarchy of widgets that all have their own graphical environment.
The kernel was written from scratch. It supports SMP (Symmetric Multi Processing), has a built-in network TCP/IP stack. It supports loadable device-drivers and file-systems.
It provides threads and processes with several powerful communication systems
that makes it easy, efficient and safe to create server/client implementations
where both the server and the client run on the same machine.
Threads can communicate through message ports (most common), shared memory, posix
signals, semaphores, named and anonymous pipes, pty's, TCP/IP, and probably a few
other methods as well.
Unlike many people seems to believe AtheOS is *not* a BeOS clone.
The two OS's are not compatible at binary level nor source-code level. Making a BeOS clone has never been a goal (I started working on AtheOS
before the first BeBox was shipped), it is not a goal now, and it will
not be a goal in the future.
If you have any questions or comments you can reach me at kurt@atheos.cx
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
You're right. I'm still working my way through the Marathon Trilogy. Someday I'll download the new scenario patches (like M:Evil) and try those, too. I just don't have the time to play games.
Isn't multi-user capability built in, though? I mean, shouldn't the OS understand input from different keyboards/mice already? I figured the hardest part would be the video.
If I ever do any multi-media stuff it's unlikely we'd be logged in a the same time. And my multi-media experience is limited to recording a bit from the mic, and using ColorIt! to make simple web page graphics. I hope Gimp gets ported to OS X.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Exactly! If anyone knows more about this, I'd really like to know. If NeXT had it, I don't know why it would have been taken out of OS X. There are probably a lot of people who, like me, don't really stress their system that hard. I'd rather pay $200 for an extra terminal than an extra $1000 for second PC when the first PC could handle the extra load just fine by itself. And the terminal could be used for quite some time while the PC gets upgraded and replaced.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
This might be applicable to my own problem. I just want to figure out how I can have multiple people logged on to my MacOS X box concurrently. Most of a processor's time is spent idle. Why should my wife and I have 2 PC's at home when 1 has all the processing power we need? If there's a way to set up the keyboard and display remote from the PC, I'm half way there...solving the lack of physical ports. And since OS X is a multi-user system, what else would I need to do?
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
I can't agree more. My favorite approach (so far...I'm sure there's something better that I haven't thought of yet) is a template-driven system. Plug in the values you want, and bingo! At any time you can change the templates. Even your web designers could do this. Programmers only need to worry about the application.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
That's exactly the right way to think about it. Advertisers seem to think that 100 views == 1 click, or whatever. They're wrong. If I'm at CNN.com, I don't care how many banners I see, I'm not clicking any of them. I don't care about the stuff they're advertising. Specialty sites like Slashdot, however, maybe they advertise stuff I'm interested in. Maybe 100 views == 5 clicks then.
Of course, the advertising companies (DoubleClick) would love to track our browsing habits so they can automatically serve up interesting ads regardless of where we are. No, thanks! Traditional media (TV, print) advertising is based on the content, hence beer ads during football games and in the sports section. They don't advertise beer by following you around all day holding a sign in front of your face. That's more like invasion of privacy or stalking. The search engines have got it right...when you search for "football" the beer ads come up. They aren't tracking me (which is a lot of work), they are working on the principle of related content (much easier).
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
User !important rules have top priority in CSS2, unlike CSS1. However, !important rules will still work with CSS1 browsers, providing the author has not made his own styles !important.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
The key to solving this, as home-schoolers have noticed as home-schooling has gained in popularity recently, is to get outside the home. Organize with other home-schoolers and set up your own teams, clubs, groups. Get the kids signed up for dance lessons, tae kwon do, Scouting, church clubs, etc.
Home-schooling is a lot more than sitting at home 24/7 while mommy/daddy teach from a book. Think of the increased freedom to go on field trips at any time, to get practical exposure to the world (like trips to the store), to schedule school the way it works best for your family. On the 5 o'clock news just the other night there was a segment on how home-schooled kids are turning out to be the brightest and most well-adjusted kids entering the US college system today.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
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I don't know who's been telling you about Opera, but he's wrong. Opera 5 rocks my world. I've been using it as my primary browser since January. I'm not registered, so there's an ad up in the corner of the app, but it bothers me not in the least bit. Download it, try it out, you'll like it.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
I love "minimum font size" - it saves me lots of headaches. And if the whole page is set to that tiny font size, I can zoom the whole page easily. Opera rocks.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Humane government? You're talking about the same government that seems to be on course for eliminating all religion/morality, right? Ha. They'll just legislate or codify what types of treatment are too expensive and you'll do without, no matter how badly you need it. And since you're excessively taxed for this privilege, you won't have any money left to go to a different provider of your choice.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
I think every legislature in the country has uncontrolled spending habits since the "ratification" of the 16th Amendment. Some use an income tax, some a sales tax. Income tax is theft. At least with a sales tax, I determine for myself how much of a consumer I will be and how much I will save/invest.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Yup. I haven't a clue how my wife and I are going to save enough to buy a house before we're 50. Student loan repayments are absurdly high, and I'm selling my 'dream vehicle' and looking for something cheaper just to save a bit on those payments. I'm sure we could make payments on something decent, given what we currently pay in rent. But if we had to borrow the down payment too, that changes the picture.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Does it do anything with meta-info (other than TITLE tooltips on A) yet? I don't use IE unless I have to, so I don't know. I follow just a few things in Bugzilla involving HTML/CSS compliance, so I know there are lots of issues involved. I doubt MS has gotten it perfect.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Just an aside, by way of agreement with your analysis of Scalia. One of my best friends is clerking for Scalia this year and has told me several times that Scalia is the smartest person on the SC and the finest legal mind he knows of.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Hey, if you've got spare Pentiums sitting around, give them to me! I'm so strapped for cash that I can't afford $100 to buy an antiquated box to play with Linux on.
I found somebody at work that's going to give me an old Mac to scrounge for parts. I'm trying to resurrect an old Centris 650 so I can try to turn that into a Linux box. Yeah, a 25MHz Linux box on a non-standard chip. But I've heard I can overclock it to 40MHz.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
So get timothy to hack the logo that /. uses. Replace "SPAM" with "UCE". Although I don't know if I'd want to eat something called UCE. Too close to UCK if you ask me.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Yeah, the system is stacked. I know and I'm concerned about it, because I realize that a 3rd party is never going to win without visibility. The current system prevents them from being visible to Joe Voter.
Third parties need to work together toward certain common goals. Ballot access (the number of names required on petitions should be less, and the time allowed to gather them longer), voting methods (plurality vote sucks, Condorcet rules), and EC vote apportionment (time for "winner takes all" to die). Restrictions on ballot access date to Teddy Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" campaign. Stupid to base a law on one incident you don't like, but oh well, that's typical. Nearly every state had settled on bloc apportionment of EC votes by the 1830's, though the Constitution implies it should be by district. Write your state legislators; the states are in control of how this is done. (I wrote to my Iowa state leg. last year, and such a bill had been introduced but was defeated.) Districting of EC votes would make it more likely for a 3rd party to win EC votes, and also would not disenfranchise the ~55% of voters who do not vote for the state's winner.
People want 3rd parties. Politics bores Americans. The two major parties are too centrist and nearly identical. Voter turnout has been consistently declining since the 1960 election with only one exception: 1992. What happened in 1992? Ross Perot. A high-profile 3rd party candidate gets people interested. The Dem/Rep duopoly has everything to gain by keeping things the way they are, keeping people away from the polls, so nothing changes.
Keep working at these things. Lay the foundation for change. Educate others about these issues.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Actually, I'd say the solution (and not only to this, but to most things in gov't I disagree with) is to vote 3rd party, and educate others why this is a good idea, too. Think "outside the box" to use a tired cliche. Trying to "reform" an existing political party will do you about as much good as spitting into the wind.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Heh heh heh. I'd refuse to ever live in Boston (or just about any other city on the east coast for that matter). I flew into there for my honeymoon, but fortunately in the middle of the night so I missed the traffic. It's bad enough here in the Midwest!
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Yes. Most of those people are thus following too closely.
I don't know how many times I've been driving at a 2 second distance and some idiot will cut in on me. Sometimes (like on city streets) that 2 seconds is barely enough room for his vehicle. And they'll cut in without signalling. Leaving both of us with less than 1 second of distance.
That's the cause of most of my road rage...idiocy on the part of other drivers. People like that shouldn't even be on the road. They're endangering everyone.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
The fans want Sulu and the Excelsior, for crying out loud. Listen to them. Ultimately, it's the fans who pay your bills. Make them happy. Don't muck with Trek continuity.
If Berman wanted to kill Star Trek, he's doing a good job. ST:TNG was the last good Trek, though DS9 had its moments. I don't even consider Voyager to be Star Trek. Roddenberry created something of mythic proportions with ST:TOS, and these new producers are just screwing it up.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
When will this FUD end? The iBook does extremely well against comparably priced notebooks. More features, plenty of new-standard (no legacy crap) ports for expansion, same price points. Desktops do, too, even without looking at Total Cost of Ownership arguments.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Several of the Psalms are designed that way, or with other similar literary devices. The most notable, and probably the one you're thinking of, is Psalm 119. (Coincidentally the longest chapter of the entire Bible.) Each line in every 8-line stanza begins with the same letter in Hebrew.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
You're right. I'm still working my way through the Marathon Trilogy. Someday I'll download the new scenario patches (like M:Evil) and try those, too. I just don't have the time to play games.
Isn't multi-user capability built in, though? I mean, shouldn't the OS understand input from different keyboards/mice already? I figured the hardest part would be the video.
If I ever do any multi-media stuff it's unlikely we'd be logged in a the same time. And my multi-media experience is limited to recording a bit from the mic, and using ColorIt! to make simple web page graphics. I hope Gimp gets ported to OS X.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Exactly! If anyone knows more about this, I'd really like to know. If NeXT had it, I don't know why it would have been taken out of OS X. There are probably a lot of people who, like me, don't really stress their system that hard. I'd rather pay $200 for an extra terminal than an extra $1000 for second PC when the first PC could handle the extra load just fine by itself. And the terminal could be used for quite some time while the PC gets upgraded and replaced.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
This might be applicable to my own problem. I just want to figure out how I can have multiple people logged on to my MacOS X box concurrently. Most of a processor's time is spent idle. Why should my wife and I have 2 PC's at home when 1 has all the processing power we need? If there's a way to set up the keyboard and display remote from the PC, I'm half way there...solving the lack of physical ports. And since OS X is a multi-user system, what else would I need to do?
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
I can't agree more. My favorite approach (so far...I'm sure there's something better that I haven't thought of yet) is a template-driven system. Plug in the values you want, and bingo! At any time you can change the templates. Even your web designers could do this. Programmers only need to worry about the application.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
That's exactly the right way to think about it. Advertisers seem to think that 100 views == 1 click, or whatever. They're wrong. If I'm at CNN.com, I don't care how many banners I see, I'm not clicking any of them. I don't care about the stuff they're advertising. Specialty sites like Slashdot, however, maybe they advertise stuff I'm interested in. Maybe 100 views == 5 clicks then.
Of course, the advertising companies (DoubleClick) would love to track our browsing habits so they can automatically serve up interesting ads regardless of where we are. No, thanks! Traditional media (TV, print) advertising is based on the content, hence beer ads during football games and in the sports section. They don't advertise beer by following you around all day holding a sign in front of your face. That's more like invasion of privacy or stalking. The search engines have got it right...when you search for "football" the beer ads come up. They aren't tracking me (which is a lot of work), they are working on the principle of related content (much easier).
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
Sure, it's pretty easy, as long as your browser is CSS2 compliant.
img[width="468][height="60"] {display: none !important }
User !important rules have top priority in CSS2, unlike CSS1. However, !important rules will still work with CSS1 browsers, providing the author has not made his own styles !important.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.
The key to solving this, as home-schoolers have noticed as home-schooling has gained in popularity recently, is to get outside the home. Organize with other home-schoolers and set up your own teams, clubs, groups. Get the kids signed up for dance lessons, tae kwon do, Scouting, church clubs, etc.
Home-schooling is a lot more than sitting at home 24/7 while mommy/daddy teach from a book. Think of the increased freedom to go on field trips at any time, to get practical exposure to the world (like trips to the store), to schedule school the way it works best for your family. On the 5 o'clock news just the other night there was a segment on how home-schooled kids are turning out to be the brightest and most well-adjusted kids entering the US college system today.
I have zero tolerance for zero-tolerance policies.