In my experience with the site the past few days, there doesn't seem to be much discussion. (This is coming from Slashdot, though - Skewz articles generally have only a few pages! of comments associated with them.)
I think they were trying to say was that they're hoping that a site dedicated to pointing out leftward/rightward bias would hopefully attract people interested in intelligent discussion, not propaganda. We'll see as their audience increases.
I also don't see them as "perpetuat[ing] the political divide, rather than address[ing] it." Refusing to acknowledge that a divide exists would hardly be "addressing" it; I think having people gauge such a divide and talk about it is.
I use only the Windows port of GIMP - I don't do much photo editing, but before the not much that I didn't do was not done in Photoshop. </Englishgrammar>
The Photoshop interface was clunky, but I blame that on the "We have 5 million features that you will probably never used, all cleverly hidden under buttons!
The GIMP interface, however, fails at basic Windows GUI principles. This is to be expected, of course, but come on - the interface is generally split up into 3 modeless dialog boxes. The one that has your tools on it is hidden if you maximize your editing window. Ditto for the layers box. They kinda got it right with some features like "transform" - the relevant dialog box pops up, in view, in the editing window, as you're editing.
The whole 3-separate-windows thing (editing, tools, layers) looks like a lazy hack, something I did when a project was due and I was too lazy (read: procrastinated on the deadline and was too time constrained) to write a proper interface.
Wow ! That's more than 4 times faster than the human brain can detect. Now if I only knew why a frame rate this high is needed. Anybody?
It's not needed. But it's useful for comparison.
Nehalem only got x frames per second, but nVidia Magic Goodness 9800 Large Numbers GTX got y FPS, where y > x, can show that nVidia MG9600LNGTX > CPU.
Also, presumably this won't be used to run 50,000 particle games at 300fps, but much more complicated simulations (infinitely destructable environments, not linear algebra) at 60fps.
Maybe it's a regional thing. Where I live, most people use "geek" to describe someone who's tech-savvy, or occaisionally a rabid fan of something ("anime geek.") It generally has neutral to positive connotations.
"Nerd" is a pejorative insult for the antisocial, hygiene deprived basement dweller.
Now, by Zealot's law ("everything on the internet linked to by me is infallible") and the appropriate sections of the Ferengi code, I'd like to point out that "circus freak" is the last definition on dictionary.com, and archaic in some of the zomg-heavy-book type dictionaries I've paged through.
1a. A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy. 1b. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept. 2. A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.
1. a stupid, irritating, ineffectual, or unattractive person. 2. an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit: a computer nerd.
On Windows machines, dragging something to an application is trivial. Dragging something from a program is problematic.
Windows works by passing messages around. Every program has a message queue, and every program has a loop..forever that checks that queue for a message and does something with it (until WM_QUIT or whatever it is comes around.) When you create your window, you just have to mark that you want to receive drag and drop messages.
So, when a user drops something onto your program, Windows sends your program a message. (WM_DROPTARGET, I think, but I'm just guessing.) By default, this message is ignored - go write a handler to make it do something practical.
But... being able to drag something from a program is a problem. Windows lets you drag icons all around everywhere - you can drag a movie file onto the VLC player icon on your desktop, for example, and it'll launch VLC player to open that video. But, to drag something from a program is a problem. I'm sure it's possible, but it's not something I've done before.
I don't know what they were smoking, but they pissed off Microsoft, too, and got left out of developing DirectX 8 IIRC. Because they didn't have their hands on the next version of DirectX, they were way behind the ball when the SDK proper was released.
But, I'm thrilled with the hardware they produce. And as long as AMD stays no more than one generation behind them, they won't be able to rest on their laurels, either.
Kind of like the middle class and the poor want to stick it to the rich as much as possible?
I personally favor a flat income tax. It has no elements of this stupid class warfare we've been plauged with since Marx expounded upon the plight of the proletariat, is highly visible, simple to administer, and easily quantifiable. ("You think my property's worth $y? It was only worth $x last year!")
Quite true. With the 8500 and 8600 models, and now the 9500, nVidia trounces AMD even on budget cards.
But, nVidia got pummeled prior to their acquisition of Yahoo!^H^H^H^H^H^H Voodoo, and the two were quite neck and neck for a long time. So it's more of "the tables have turned (again)" rather than "they have no competition."
Until AMD completely quits making higher-end video cards, nVidia will have to keep on doing something to stay competitive. Same thing with Firefox - I don't think IE8 would have looked any different than IE5 without something biting at their heels-slash-completely surpassing them.
And did you even read the header row of the table?
There are lots of news sites with highly leftest ratings on issues like "economic policy" and "domestic policy." Those sound suspiciously like pro-big government.
And really... Can you find anyone who likes paying high taxes? The middle class doesn't like it either, and those greedy poor people don't pay anything!/sarcasm
Ahh... America and France used to be such great pals until the "falling out."
They gave us the statue of liberty, we inspired them to overthrow their monarchy for freedom. But, despite Ben Franklin's best efforts and French help in our own war, we kinda puked over how bloody their revolution was getting. And it's been downhill ever since.
Wait... You don't have any psychological problems (other than replying to my post ^.^) You've never had sessions - you only run into this psychologist because she rents the space next to where you work. And you definitely haven't given her any money.
Do you mean to say, sir, that you are guilty of stealing psychology?!
On a limited account, you still have to "sudo" into your Administrator account - it wants a username and a password.
But in Vista, even if you're logged in as an administrator, programs still don't have administrator privileges. If they try to do something that needs them, you still have to click "continue."
Obtuse simplification: In Vista, even the root account has to sudo. That makes it even more secure. (Obviously.)
I'm not arguing for privatization of roads - there it's not like you can change your road provider. (Well, maybe you can opt to take the toll road because you value the reduced commute time, but that's not quite an accurate analogy.)
You do have choice in your Internet providers at the moment. The problem is we don't have much choice. Around here, it's pretty much some Time Warner, AT&T, or satellite. Further reducing consumer choice is a bad thing.
Now, if you could somehow choose which state's roads you were going to use, and could choose to pay their taxes instead, that'd be sweet. That's nonsensical and impossible for roads, but entirely possible with the tubes. We need more choice, not less.
And, it's definitely not difficult, or impossible, to provide a choice. The difficulty is in government-granted last-mile monopolies.
It doesn't make sense to privatize everything, and that's not what I'm arguing. It would be nice to privatize roads, in the most glowing of theories, but in practicality I doubt it would work.
Internet is increasingly important. However, I like having a choice of provider. I like being able to say "Nope, I'll check my e-mail at a library. Or a friend's house. Or an internet cafe."
It doesn't make sense to have a choice in road providers. But, because of how the whole line-owner-carrier-thing has been abstracted, it does make sense to have multiple ISPs competing. Considering how wonderful last-mile monopolies have done for us so far, I'd hate to see even less competition.
It's not so much doing without internet as being able to choose who you buy your access from. (I guess you do have choices with roads - an analogy would be taking the toll road because it's faster, or taking an alternate route to save money if you don't value the speed.)
Maybe "WiFi" is just a $60 Linksys router in the aft? Wouldn't that be hilarious, but as another poster mentioned, perhaps useful for in-flight rentals.
Exactly. It would be really nice to have perfect competition, but that will never happen in my lifetime.
You mentioned the whole regulation and infrastructure thing. The whole "high barriers to entry" thing is what keeps me from going "Screw you, AT&T! I'm running my own ISP!
So, a more practical solution than "How can we change billing to screw over customers as efficiently as possible?" is to see what we can do about those high barriers to entry. Not much we can do about the cost of running a gajillion miles of copper and fiber, so I guess we should be whining about the whole "regulation" thing. (Or lack thereof. Or too much thereof.)
Not that it's feasible to go without electricity or roads, but lots of people get along just fine without the Internet. (I would suffer withdrawl and shrivel up and die, like a vampire exposed to sunlight. Actually, I also do that when exposed to sunlight. But that's a separate issue. Point is, it's not a "bread and water" kind of necessity.
If private companies provide internet service, you have every right to say "No, no series of tubes for me. I have a big truck." and go about your daily life.
If the government decides to take control of the internet, they're going to pay for it with tax dollars. (Duh.) And it's even more unfeasible to refuse to pay your taxes.
So, what's the argument? Nobody should have to pay the government to skew the internet around whatever our current bunch of congresscritters decide will get them the most votes and money come election year.
The other problem is freedom of choice. Where I live, there's a handful of companies that provide internet access, and I can subscribe to any one of them. Switching providers is a lot easier than emmigration.
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In my experience with the site the past few days, there doesn't seem to be much discussion. (This is coming from Slashdot, though - Skewz articles generally have only a few pages! of comments associated with them.)
I think they were trying to say was that they're hoping that a site dedicated to pointing out leftward/rightward bias would hopefully attract people interested in intelligent discussion, not propaganda. We'll see as their audience increases.
I also don't see them as "perpetuat[ing] the political divide, rather than address[ing] it." Refusing to acknowledge that a divide exists would hardly be "addressing" it; I think having people gauge such a divide and talk about it is.
I use only the Windows port of GIMP - I don't do much photo editing, but before the not much that I didn't do was not done in Photoshop. </Englishgrammar>
The Photoshop interface was clunky, but I blame that on the "We have 5 million features that you will probably never used, all cleverly hidden under buttons!
The GIMP interface, however, fails at basic Windows GUI principles. This is to be expected, of course, but come on - the interface is generally split up into 3 modeless dialog boxes. The one that has your tools on it is hidden if you maximize your editing window. Ditto for the layers box. They kinda got it right with some features like "transform" - the relevant dialog box pops up, in view, in the editing window, as you're editing.
The whole 3-separate-windows thing (editing, tools, layers) looks like a lazy hack, something I did when a project was due and I was too lazy (read: procrastinated on the deadline and was too time constrained) to write a proper interface.
Wow ! That's more than 4 times faster than the human brain can detect. Now if I only knew why a frame rate this high is needed. Anybody?
It's not needed. But it's useful for comparison.
Nehalem only got x frames per second, but nVidia Magic Goodness 9800 Large Numbers GTX got y FPS, where y > x, can show that nVidia MG9600LNGTX > CPU.
Also, presumably this won't be used to run 50,000 particle games at 300fps, but much more complicated simulations (infinitely destructable environments, not linear algebra) at 60fps.
Not quite.
UAC prompts for admin accounts have allow/cancel buttons.
UAC prompts for limited accounts require an admin username/password in addition to clicking a button.
Interesting! I should start looking at technet again...
It does - if you're on a limited account.
It's only if you're logged in as administrator that you don't have to provide a password - you already did when you logged on.
Think of it this way - with UAC, even root has to sudo.
Maybe it's a regional thing. Where I live, most people use "geek" to describe someone who's tech-savvy, or occaisionally a rabid fan of something ("anime geek.") It generally has neutral to positive connotations.
"Nerd" is a pejorative insult for the antisocial, hygiene deprived basement dweller.
Now, by Zealot's law ("everything on the internet linked to by me is infallible") and the appropriate sections of the Ferengi code, I'd like to point out that "circus freak" is the last definition on dictionary.com, and archaic in some of the zomg-heavy-book type dictionaries I've paged through.
1a. A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy. 1b. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept. 2. A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.Compare with nerd:
1. a stupid, irritating, ineffectual, or unattractive person. 2. an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit: a computer nerd.54% of statistics can be made to say anything.
On Windows machines, dragging something to an application is trivial. Dragging something from a program is problematic.
Windows works by passing messages around. Every program has a message queue, and every program has a loop..forever that checks that queue for a message and does something with it (until WM_QUIT or whatever it is comes around.) When you create your window, you just have to mark that you want to receive drag and drop messages.
So, when a user drops something onto your program, Windows sends your program a message. (WM_DROPTARGET, I think, but I'm just guessing.) By default, this message is ignored - go write a handler to make it do something practical.
But... being able to drag something from a program is a problem. Windows lets you drag icons all around everywhere - you can drag a movie file onto the VLC player icon on your desktop, for example, and it'll launch VLC player to open that video. But, to drag something from a program is a problem. I'm sure it's possible, but it's not something I've done before.
I don't know what they were smoking, but they pissed off Microsoft, too, and got left out of developing DirectX 8 IIRC. Because they didn't have their hands on the next version of DirectX, they were way behind the ball when the SDK proper was released.
But, I'm thrilled with the hardware they produce. And as long as AMD stays no more than one generation behind them, they won't be able to rest on their laurels, either.
Kind of like the middle class and the poor want to stick it to the rich as much as possible?
I personally favor a flat income tax. It has no elements of this stupid class warfare we've been plauged with since Marx expounded upon the plight of the proletariat, is highly visible, simple to administer, and easily quantifiable. ("You think my property's worth $y? It was only worth $x last year!")
Quite true. With the 8500 and 8600 models, and now the 9500, nVidia trounces AMD even on budget cards.
But, nVidia got pummeled prior to their acquisition of Yahoo!^H^H^H^H^H^H Voodoo, and the two were quite neck and neck for a long time. So it's more of "the tables have turned (again)" rather than "they have no competition."
Until AMD completely quits making higher-end video cards, nVidia will have to keep on doing something to stay competitive. Same thing with Firefox - I don't think IE8 would have looked any different than IE5 without something biting at their heels-slash-completely surpassing them.
And did you even read the header row of the table?
There are lots of news sites with highly leftest ratings on issues like "economic policy" and "domestic policy." Those sound suspiciously like pro-big government.
And really... Can you find anyone who likes paying high taxes? The middle class doesn't like it either, and those greedy poor people don't pay anything! /sarcasm
Ahh... America and France used to be such great pals until the "falling out."
They gave us the statue of liberty, we inspired them to overthrow their monarchy for freedom. But, despite Ben Franklin's best efforts and French help in our own war, we kinda puked over how bloody their revolution was getting. And it's been downhill ever since.
Wait... You don't have any psychological problems (other than replying to my post ^.^) You've never had sessions - you only run into this psychologist because she rents the space next to where you work. And you definitely haven't given her any money.
Do you mean to say, sir, that you are guilty of stealing psychology?!
Media bias
Now, go to a DNC convention. I'm sure you'll find a few rich people who aren't conservative.
Continue = "sudo !!"
Cancel = ... well, cancel.
On a limited account, you still have to "sudo" into your Administrator account - it wants a username and a password.
But in Vista, even if you're logged in as an administrator, programs still don't have administrator privileges. If they try to do something that needs them, you still have to click "continue."
Obtuse simplification: In Vista, even the root account has to sudo. That makes it even more secure. (Obviously.)
and I have a fair bit of exposure to and experience with the medical psychology
OK, I believe you now. Psychology sucks.
And I was seriously considering purchasing some, too...
I'm not arguing for privatization of roads - there it's not like you can change your road provider. (Well, maybe you can opt to take the toll road because you value the reduced commute time, but that's not quite an accurate analogy.)
You do have choice in your Internet providers at the moment. The problem is we don't have much choice. Around here, it's pretty much some Time Warner, AT&T, or satellite. Further reducing consumer choice is a bad thing.
Now, if you could somehow choose which state's roads you were going to use, and could choose to pay their taxes instead, that'd be sweet. That's nonsensical and impossible for roads, but entirely possible with the tubes. We need more choice, not less.
And, it's definitely not difficult, or impossible, to provide a choice. The difficulty is in government-granted last-mile monopolies.
It doesn't make sense to privatize everything, and that's not what I'm arguing. It would be nice to privatize roads, in the most glowing of theories, but in practicality I doubt it would work.
Internet is increasingly important. However, I like having a choice of provider. I like being able to say "Nope, I'll check my e-mail at a library. Or a friend's house. Or an internet cafe."
It doesn't make sense to have a choice in road providers. But, because of how the whole line-owner-carrier-thing has been abstracted, it does make sense to have multiple ISPs competing. Considering how wonderful last-mile monopolies have done for us so far, I'd hate to see even less competition.
It's not so much doing without internet as being able to choose who you buy your access from. (I guess you do have choices with roads - an analogy would be taking the toll road because it's faster, or taking an alternate route to save money if you don't value the speed.)
Maybe "WiFi" is just a $60 Linksys router in the aft? Wouldn't that be hilarious, but as another poster mentioned, perhaps useful for in-flight rentals.
Not to feed the trolls, but what's with the Slaughterhouse Five references? Or are their other "K. Trouts"?
Thank you, I'm here all week.
Feed the trolls the lasagna, it's delicious. Tip your waitress!
Exactly. It would be really nice to have perfect competition, but that will never happen in my lifetime.
You mentioned the whole regulation and infrastructure thing. The whole "high barriers to entry" thing is what keeps me from going "Screw you, AT&T! I'm running my own ISP!
So, a more practical solution than "How can we change billing to screw over customers as efficiently as possible?" is to see what we can do about those high barriers to entry. Not much we can do about the cost of running a gajillion miles of copper and fiber, so I guess we should be whining about the whole "regulation" thing. (Or lack thereof. Or too much thereof.)
Not that it's feasible to go without electricity or roads, but lots of people get along just fine without the Internet. (I would suffer withdrawl and shrivel up and die, like a vampire exposed to sunlight. Actually, I also do that when exposed to sunlight. But that's a separate issue. Point is, it's not a "bread and water" kind of necessity.
If private companies provide internet service, you have every right to say "No, no series of tubes for me. I have a big truck." and go about your daily life.
If the government decides to take control of the internet, they're going to pay for it with tax dollars. (Duh.) And it's even more unfeasible to refuse to pay your taxes.
So, what's the argument? Nobody should have to pay the government to skew the internet around whatever our current bunch of congresscritters decide will get them the most votes and money come election year.
The other problem is freedom of choice. Where I live, there's a handful of companies that provide internet access, and I can subscribe to any one of them. Switching providers is a lot easier than emmigration.