as arcane as all that sounds...I think i'd prefer something like that over the damned ctrl+alt+backspace in linux I've hit that so many damned times by accident:(
it also does more than OSX: - moving a window from ANY part of the window area - resizing the window from ANY part of the window area - all the same keyboard shortcuts for managing a window are the same in KDE as they are in windows (alt+space+pick_a_letter) - the most obvious visualization of multiple desktops there can be - transparency on the desktop cube so you can see what windows are on the desktops on the other sides of the cube!!!! - an options to make application windows BURN INTO ASHES when the program is terminated. For total computing newcomers that's a great way to teach them some basic concepts!
only thing needed now is a way to combine widgets+applets+dashboard+sidebar all in one and let users configure it to however they want. I don't really like dashboard on the mac but the sidebar in windows takes up too much space...UNLESS you happen to have a widescreen monitor I think...
my 1 story apartment building is surrounded by bush on 3 sides:) All my cats either sleep outside or know to wake us up when it's time to go. Or go in the bath tub(most of the time) if they can't wake us up.
But I used to know this old lady who got a large container with a lid and filled it with water. 1/2 of the lid she glued sides on it to make it kind of a box and she fills it with just the dirt from her yard. The cats go on the box side of the lid and she turns the waste into the tank when it's time. It still sorta smells in the back room where she has it but it's not as bad as it would smell if she just had a litter box. Or maybe it's the smell of old people the masked the scent....anyway, when the water is dirty enough she just makes a neighbour tilt it out the window and pour it into the yard. Some really tasty tomatoes grew out of the dirt under that window. But I doubt you can just pour toilet water out your window....:(
No, I don't know why she doesn't just make the cats use the dirt outside in the yard in the first place.
If your games are free, and the users has to log in to the site to play them, I see nothing wrong with requiring them to view the ads. Especially if the ads don't annoy or get in the way.
Advertising pays for free services. I never tried to dispute that. My idea is to ensure that some services get a guaranteed advertising income. I'm sure offering yahoo mail for free to so many people costs a lot of money. What if someday 60% of yahoo mail users had a 100% ad-block success rate. No $$$ for yahoo.
There should be an official standard for advertising on web pages.
Advertisers should adhere to it. Browsers should adhere to it. Webmasters should adhere to it. Advertisers should ensure that the webmasters adhere to it.
Then... have the contract you agree to when signing up for ad-supported services indicate that the site uses the official industry standard advertising method. Any attempt on the users part to block the ads is in breach of contract. The browser gets a certificate indicating that it must display those ads.
Regular sites like..... can continue to use the current methods of advertising where it's a constant battle between the advertisers and the adblockers.
Some foolish site owners will get greedy and try to push the advertising certificate on their users starting at the home page. Their traffic will plummet. Others will continue on as the always have with the regular ads and continue generate the revenue they're used to as if nothing happened. Some people will change web-mail services to another site that their ad blocker will work on. The majority will not really care and will stay with their current web-mail service. Even many people that do care will consider the 9 years worth of messages and 9 years worth of handing out business cards with the same address that they have with their current service to be more important than blocking ads.
What do you think? Lets start a discussion and get these ideas worked out implemented and standardized before CSS3 is out.
More like it doesnt work anymore but for a time it did the positive things it was meant to do.
It would be nice if the security vendors collaborated on something like this and agreed not to treat it like a virus.
Also maybe use bittorrent protocol to transfer the security updates between systems.
I have never been able to recover any of the outlook mail that I've lost the dozens of times windows has fucked up on my system. I know I should probably try thunderbird but I've been using Yahoo Mail perfectly for so many years now that I don't see any reason to switch.
also, e-mail is useless to me if I can't access it from anywhere I find internet access. I don't have and don't want a laptop. If all my mail is on my pc at home while I'm on vacation in Canada then it's totally useless to me.
I remember spending the summer of 96 getting familiar with windows 95 and the quake engine. Without that game and its mods and tweaking the mod files so they work and messing with the console I would never have gained the knowledge of computers that led to my current job as a web designer. I'm no 'expert' at anything but I'm a far better computer user than the average joe thanks to quakes 1,2,3, unreal, u.t., classic console emulators, etc... I know now that all of those work fine in linux but in 96 I had never heard of linux. Plus consoles don't (or didn't) have WoW or counterstrike, or starcraft, or baldurs gate, or (a good) Sim City...Sim anything, Descent, Thief, and the list goes on and on...
I think the first time I heard of linux was in 2002. But even then it was only ever mentioned in a server related way. Just like a spent the summer of 96 reading the windows manual and help file and talking to people who already knew it, I would have to do much of the same to really switch to linux. However I don't have anyone around me who already knows it and I don't have to time to spend 10+ hours a day figuring out the OS. It the same with Photoshop Vs. Gimp.
I think as linux devs realize more over the years the importance of good GUI design to average users then more and more people will use it and wind up learning enough through using that they can help the newcomers and so on.
Then there's my problem of trying multiple versions of multiple live cd distros over the course of 2 years and finally only finding 1 that works (Sabayon). I'm the only person in my circle of family and friends capable of salvaging their aging systems with a fresh dose of linux but how can I if it took me 2 years and dozens of distros to find one that works on my system so I can start learning it.
I use OSX all day, Windows All night, and Some weekends I force myself to use Knoppix. I feel I have spent more than enough time in each to declare that ClearType is crappy.
If I ruled the world, every prison would be modelled after a highschool. No-one would be released from prison without at least a highschool diploma.
Getting a good job as a highschool drop out is hard. Getting any job as an ex-con is even harder.
Add them together and it's almost impossible not to become a life-long repeat offender.
There need to be programs that assist inmates in moving halfway across the country to try to start a new life far away from the 'frends' and social situations that got them put in jail to begin with.
Drug addicts in rehab are constantly taught about the connection between return to their old lives and old friends and returning to rehab.
I'm a Christian but even I haven enough sense to know that the Genesis creation story is overly simplified childrens tale. Nothing more. If you want to know the true story just ask the creator in the after life.
used to agree with you about using acdsee in place of explorer but I dislike the interface so much now that I often forget to open it and wind up arranging image in explorer or whatever image management software I decided at random to try this week.
imx work around install an imx service that watching all.imx files system wide. When a program tries to 'open' one the service opens it, pulls out the image data, saves it to a temp location. The image editor works with that temp file and whenever it's saved the service updates the actual.imx file
Of course this is all just reinventing the wheel with xml for no really good reason other than the already existing wheels need their tires changed. IPTC is really the right way to go I think but when you have apps like ACDSee(so I've heard, need to check for myself) and other that kill exif and iptc info when u edit the file, then my imx monitoring service starts to sound like a good idea i think.
Besides didn't you see the big "CRAZY idea" disclaimer.
10 seconds reading the description on the page and I'm convinced this is what I've been wanting for a long time. Especially now that I'm desperately trying to switch to dual booting linux and windows I hate having my image data stuck in acdsee.
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as arcane as all that sounds...I think i'd prefer something like that over the damned ctrl+alt+backspace in linux :(
I've hit that so many damned times by accident
it also does more than OSX:
- moving a window from ANY part of the window area
- resizing the window from ANY part of the window area
- all the same keyboard shortcuts for managing a window are the same in KDE as they are in windows (alt+space+pick_a_letter)
- the most obvious visualization of multiple desktops there can be
- transparency on the desktop cube so you can see what windows are on the desktops on the other sides of the cube!!!!
- an options to make application windows BURN INTO ASHES when the program is terminated. For total computing newcomers that's a great way to teach them some basic concepts!
only thing needed now is a way to combine widgets+applets+dashboard+sidebar all in one and let users configure it to however they want.
I don't really like dashboard on the mac but the sidebar in windows takes up too much space...UNLESS you happen to have a widescreen monitor I think...
my 1 story apartment building is surrounded by bush on 3 sides :)
All my cats either sleep outside or know to wake us up when it's time to go.
Or go in the bath tub(most of the time) if they can't wake us up.
But I used to know this old lady who got a large container with a lid and filled it with water.
1/2 of the lid she glued sides on it to make it kind of a box and she fills it with just the dirt from her yard.
The cats go on the box side of the lid and she turns the waste into the tank when it's time.
It still sorta smells in the back room where she has it but it's not as bad as it would smell if she just had a litter box.
Or maybe it's the smell of old people the masked the scent....anyway,
when the water is dirty enough she just makes a neighbour tilt it out the window and pour it into the yard.
Some really tasty tomatoes grew out of the dirt under that window.
But I doubt you can just pour toilet water out your window....:(
No, I don't know why she doesn't just make the cats use the dirt outside in the yard in the first place.
products like this seem to have been successfull thanks to their very annoying ads http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeadOn
this is how i could imagine enforcing itd =17585850
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=216486&ci
and if you don't like the TOS go someone else of course.
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=216486&cid =17585850
is it still spamming if all I'm doing is linking to another non-spam post on slashdot?
I was playing a word association game with some co-workers once.
1 person said "pets"
the other person said "food"
I said "Purina Puppy Chow".
I have 9 Cats.
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=216486&cid =17585850
what do you think of this idea.
If your games are free, and the users has to log in to the site to play them, I see nothing wrong with requiring them to view the ads. Especially if the ads don't annoy or get in the way.
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=216486&cid =17585850
...?
I don't get it.
What do you mean?
Advertising pays for free services. I never tried to dispute that.
My idea is to ensure that some services get a guaranteed advertising income.
I'm sure offering yahoo mail for free to so many people costs a lot of money.
What if someday 60% of yahoo mail users had a 100% ad-block success rate.
No $$$ for yahoo.
wait...why am i going on and on with this reply.
Did you even read my post?
sites like this one I guess
http://www.lyricscafe.com/lyricscafe/index.php
There should be an official standard for advertising on web pages.
.....
Advertisers should adhere to it.
Browsers should adhere to it.
Webmasters should adhere to it.
Advertisers should ensure that the webmasters adhere to it.
Then...
have the contract you agree to when signing up for ad-supported services indicate that the site uses the official industry standard advertising method. Any attempt on the users part to block the ads is in breach of contract. The browser gets a certificate indicating that it must display those ads.
Regular sites like
can continue to use the current methods of advertising where it's a constant battle between the advertisers and the adblockers.
Some foolish site owners will get greedy and try to push the advertising certificate on their users starting at the home page. Their traffic will plummet.
Others will continue on as the always have with the regular ads and continue generate the revenue they're used to as if nothing happened.
Some people will change web-mail services to another site that their ad blocker will work on.
The majority will not really care and will stay with their current web-mail service.
Even many people that do care will consider the 9 years worth of messages and 9 years worth of handing out business cards with the same address that they have with their current service to be more important than blocking ads.
What do you think?
Lets start a discussion and get these ideas worked out implemented and standardized before CSS3 is out.
More like it doesnt work anymore but for a time it did the positive things it was meant to do. It would be nice if the security vendors collaborated on something like this and agreed not to treat it like a virus. Also maybe use bittorrent protocol to transfer the security updates between systems.
I have never been able to recover any of the outlook mail that I've lost the dozens of times windows has fucked up on my system.
I know I should probably try thunderbird but I've been using Yahoo Mail perfectly for so many years now that I don't see any reason to switch.
also, e-mail is useless to me if I can't access it from anywhere I find internet access.
I don't have and don't want a laptop.
If all my mail is on my pc at home while I'm on vacation in Canada then it's totally useless to me.
I remember spending the summer of 96 getting familiar with windows 95 and the quake engine. Without that game and its mods and tweaking the mod files so they work and messing with the console I would never have gained the knowledge of computers that led to my current job as a web designer. I'm no 'expert' at anything but I'm a far better computer user than the average joe thanks to quakes 1,2,3, unreal, u.t., classic console emulators, etc... I know now that all of those work fine in linux but in 96 I had never heard of linux.
Plus consoles don't (or didn't) have WoW or counterstrike, or starcraft, or baldurs gate, or (a good) Sim City...Sim anything, Descent, Thief, and the list goes on and on...
I think the first time I heard of linux was in 2002. But even then it was only ever mentioned in a server related way.
Just like a spent the summer of 96 reading the windows manual and help file and talking to people who already knew it, I would have to do much of the same to really switch to linux. However I don't have anyone around me who already knows it and I don't have to time to spend 10+ hours a day figuring out the OS. It the same with Photoshop Vs. Gimp.
I think as linux devs realize more over the years the importance of good GUI design to average users then more and more people will use it and wind up learning enough through using that they can help the newcomers and so on.
Then there's my problem of trying multiple versions of multiple live cd distros over the course of 2 years and finally only finding 1 that works (Sabayon).
I'm the only person in my circle of family and friends capable of salvaging their aging systems with a fresh dose of linux but how can I if it took me 2 years and dozens of distros to find one that works on my system so I can start learning it.
no I use it eventually, takes between 4 and 20 reboots/crashes before it finally works.
knoppix and sabayon linux work perfectly tho.
I can beat that!
I use windows XP and within 11 seconds of starting up windows crashes at its loading screen!
and it's turned OFF by DEFAULT in XP making it USELESS!
I use OSX all day, Windows All night, and Some weekends I force myself to use Knoppix.
I feel I have spent more than enough time in each to declare that ClearType is crappy.
Since Knoppix is the ONE AND ONLY LIVE CD TO EVER BOOT ON MY HOME SYSTEM, it's the only one I'm familiar with and the only one I carry with me.
Ubuntu be damned.
I have said this so many times.
If I ruled the world, every prison would be modelled after a highschool.
No-one would be released from prison without at least a highschool diploma.
Getting a good job as a highschool drop out is hard.
Getting any job as an ex-con is even harder.
Add them together and it's almost impossible not to become a life-long repeat offender.
There need to be programs that assist inmates in moving halfway across the country to try to start a new life far away from the 'frends' and social situations that got them put in jail to begin with.
Drug addicts in rehab are constantly taught about the connection between return to their old lives and old friends and returning to rehab.
I'm a Christian but even I haven enough sense to know that the Genesis creation story is overly simplified childrens tale. Nothing more. If you want to know the true story just ask the creator in the after life.
used to agree with you about using acdsee in place of explorer but I dislike the interface so much now that I often forget to open it and wind up arranging image in explorer or whatever image management software I decided at random to try this week.
.imx files system wide. When a program tries to 'open' one the service opens it, pulls out the image data, saves it to a temp location. The image editor works with that temp file and whenever it's saved the service updates the actual .imx file
imx work around
install an imx service that watching all
Of course this is all just reinventing the wheel with xml for no really good reason other than the already existing wheels need their tires changed.
IPTC is really the right way to go I think but when you have apps like ACDSee(so I've heard, need to check for myself) and other that kill exif and iptc info when u edit the file, then my imx monitoring service starts to sound like a good idea i think.
Besides didn't you see the big "CRAZY idea" disclaimer.
10 seconds reading the description on the page and I'm convinced this is what I've been wanting for a long time. Especially now that I'm desperately trying to switch to dual booting linux and windows I hate having my image data stuck in acdsee.
so it exports new copies of the photos was all the metadata embedded in the image file?