As I understood Hoehrmann's message, his complaint is insufficient budget for full-time developers and testers, and to keep the validator running.
there was also a lot of discontent over being ignored by people who should be interested, and being ignored by processes that are supposed to pay attention.
Re:Standard versus Proprietary?
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Dvorak Rants on CSS
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I'm in the process of starting our CSS layout from scratch for all of our blogs [...] We've spent 40 hours in the last week testing a few ideas on a variety of browsers and they're a mess.
so what is the problem with the css standard, exactly? it seems reasonable to me, it's just that some browsers implement it poorly. maybe this is hard, or maybe a common standard for presentation on the web is not in the interests of some dominant browser makers?
assuming "too difficult to implement" is a valid complaint, are there others?
To do roof repairs, but it's not as if Clinton/Gore placed them back up either.
roof repairs? did it take eight years to repair that roof?
here is a speech that carter gave in 1977. some of the predictions were a bit accelerated in terms of dates, but there is a lot here that's quite precient:
"With the exception of preventing war, this is the greatest challenge our country will face during our lifetimes. The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly."
"The most important thing about these proposals is that the alternative may be a national catastrophe. Further delay can affect our strength and our power as a nation."
"I know that many of you have suspected that some supplies of oil and gas are being withheld. You may be right, but suspicions about oil companies cannot change the fact that we are running out of petroleum."
"Now we have a choice. But if we wait, we will live in fear of embargoes. We could endanger our freedom as a sovereign nation to act in foreign affairs."
carter then goes on to provide a plan with ten principles that include conservation, protection of the environment, and development of new sourcese of energy that will be necessary to provide for us in the "next" century.
the next century is here. wouldn't it be nice if the US actually did that starting 25 years ago?
Good luck running a business with freebie software! I hope the IRS doesn't mind that you keep your books in a spreadsheet, because that's all there is on Ubuntu!
why should the irs mind that i keep my books in sql-ledger? are they mandating proprietary software now? i better check with my tax attorney.
$ apt-cache show sql-ledger Package: sql-ledger Priority: optional Section: universe/web Installed-Size: 24716 Maintainer: Finn-Arne Johansen <faj@bzz.no> Architecture: all Version: 2.6.5-1 Depends: perl, apache | httpd, libdbd-pg-perl Suggests: tetex-extra, postgresql Filename: pool/universe/s/sql-ledger/sql-ledger_2.6.5-1_all. deb Size: 2418164 MD5sum: a26a79bdc2b5271edf3caa50f5fd5042 Description: A web based double-entry accounting program Accounting data is stored in an SQL Server, for the display any text or GUI browser can be used. The entire system is linked through a chart of accounts. Each item in inventory is linked to revenue, expense, inventory and tax accounts. When you sell and purchase goods and services the accounts are automatically updated. . With the assembly feature you can build manufactured goods from parts, services and assemblies. When you sell assemblies all the accounts linked to the individual parts, services and assemblies are updated and stock levels adjusted accordingly. If any item belonging to an assembly is changed all assemblies are updated as well. . Invoices, Packing List, Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Sales and Purchase Order, Statements, Receipts and Checks are generated from templates and may be changed to suit your needs. Templates are provided in html and tex format. The tex templates are processed with latex to produce postscript and PDF documents and can be sent to a printer, displayed in a PDF viewer or sent out via email... Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Origin: Ubuntu
Hell, I've got even neater features on Windows now, such as the fact that I can go to the store, buy a program, put it in my computer, and it will WORK!
"go to the store" to "buy" software? are you a cave-man?
on my ubuntu system, all the software i need can be installed from ubuntu's archives, over the internet, for free.
Sure Macs are safe for now because how big is their market share? 5%? 10%? Linux has even lower while Microsoft controlls the remaining %, so naturally people are going to target it cause it has the most impact.
linux isn't safer merely because it's a "smaller" target. the development model and worldwide peer review make the code qualitatively better than windows' proprietary code.
Instead, I see it as what a baseline browser that's integrated into the OS should be.
first, a browser shouldn't be integrated into the OS. secondly, a "baseline browser", if anything, should RENDER CORRECTLY. *That's* the baseline. Then, if people want tabs, extensions, or other add-on features, they can start looking around.
the IE dev team has had plenty of time to fix their broken software, and they haven't. they left the rendering engine a pile of poo, and either intentionally wasted their time on end-user stuff like tabs etc, or they simply aren't able to fix the important stuff, so they did the bells and whistles.
this product is an enormous screw-up, like its predecesors.
I agree. But are the damages coming from the individuals, or the taxpayers? If the latter, unlimited damages does very little to reign in the behavior.
it makes the institutions take abuse of power seriously, thus changing the culture of the department - and that is the determining factor much more so than any one individual's proclivity to do so.
When Officer Smith has to keep his old, ratty patrol car for another year because Officer Jones was an asshat, Officer Jones becomes unpopular. Peer pressure is powerful.
officer jones doesn't care so much about officer smith as much as they both do about chief brody. and chief brody catches hell from the mayor when the municipality gets hit with repeated penalties.
the goal of enforcement is to keep at bay a culture of corruption and mutual cya-ism in the police force. this is a matter of (unwritten) department policy, not individual behavior. if the culture isn't changed, you can be sure that incoming police officers will adapt to the culture rather than worry about the one-in-a-thousand chance that they'll get nailed by some guy with a video camera.
What do you think the point is of passing huge numbers of unenforceable laws? The point is that the police can pick anyone to be a criminal by selective enforcement.
What this is is a perfect example of the opposite. The judge needs to award costs, and a little extra for the trouble and tell the cops to stop acting like idiots. End of case. No lasting dmage has been done to anyone, as long as the law gets laid down in a blunt manner nothing else is needed.
two points:
one, abuse of official power deserves harsh penalties because it's an offense not only against the one who is abused, but the entire public who has given the official the power in the first place.
two, i think a harsher penalty than just "laying down the law in a blunt manner" is required here. isn't it likely that this is standard operating procedure for these cops with uncooperative people they dislike (for whatever reason)? how many abuses like this were *not* recorded on tape? i realize this has no weight in determining guilt or innocence, but i would guess this is a single sample out of a pattern of behavior rather than a fluke incident.
I have found that if you respect the police, they will respect you. If you treat the cops like assholes, they'll probably do the same to you.
the problem, of course, is that the definition of that term is extremely broad, and people in power are wont to define it to suit themselves and their peers.
And my completely inappropriate "judge a book by its cover" sensors tell me that by looking at the guy's picture in the article, he rather looks like an uncooperative, verbally abusive redneck.
you're right - about the completely inappropriate part.
The problem with your theory is that you don't need MS Word to read other people's documents. Microsoft offers for free the MS Word viewer for this purpose.
hrmmm... can't seem to find a link to the linux version.
I love how the/. crowd needs a Wikipedia link to remind us what Free and Open Source Software is.
if you knew, would you have phrased it like this instead: "I love how the/. crowd needs a Wikipedia link to remind us what Free and Open Source Software are."
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XUL, XUL, XUL
what do you dislike about XUL?
at times i've resorted to cut/paste into OpenOffice to print something complex.
they could achieve the same effect by putting "i have no scruples, self-respect, or sense of taste" in their bio section.
there was also a lot of discontent over being ignored by people who should be interested, and being ignored by processes that are supposed to pay attention.
so what is the problem with the css standard, exactly? it seems reasonable to me, it's just that some browsers implement it poorly. maybe this is hard, or maybe a common standard for presentation on the web is not in the interests of some dominant browser makers?
assuming "too difficult to implement" is a valid complaint, are there others?
mark then put on his high heels, lipstick, and sun-dress, and passed around cocktails on a tray at billg's dinner party.
i can *smell* the evil, but i can't see it yet.
roof repairs? did it take eight years to repair that roof?
here is a speech that carter gave in 1977. some of the predictions were a bit accelerated in terms of dates, but there is a lot here that's quite precient:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/filmmore/ps_cr isis.html
some quotes:
"With the exception of preventing war, this is the greatest challenge our country will face during our lifetimes. The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly."
"The most important thing about these proposals is that the alternative may be a national catastrophe. Further delay can affect our strength and our power as a nation."
"I know that many of you have suspected that some supplies of oil and gas are being withheld. You may be right, but suspicions about oil companies cannot change the fact that we are running out of petroleum."
"Now we have a choice. But if we wait, we will live in fear of embargoes. We could endanger our freedom as a sovereign nation to act in foreign affairs."
carter then goes on to provide a plan with ten principles that include conservation, protection of the environment, and development of new sourcese of energy that will be necessary to provide for us in the "next" century.
the next century is here. wouldn't it be nice if the US actually did that starting 25 years ago?
why should the irs mind that i keep my books in sql-ledger? are they mandating proprietary software now? i better check with my tax attorney.
"go to the store" to "buy" software? are you a cave-man?
on my ubuntu system, all the software i need can be installed from ubuntu's archives, over the internet, for free.
ooh, pretty!
linux isn't safer merely because it's a "smaller" target. the development model and worldwide peer review make the code qualitatively better than windows' proprietary code.
first, a browser shouldn't be integrated into the OS. secondly, a "baseline browser", if anything, should RENDER CORRECTLY. *That's* the baseline. Then, if people want tabs, extensions, or other add-on features, they can start looking around.
the IE dev team has had plenty of time to fix their broken software, and they haven't. they left the rendering engine a pile of poo, and either intentionally wasted their time on end-user stuff like tabs etc, or they simply aren't able to fix the important stuff, so they did the bells and whistles.
this product is an enormous screw-up, like its predecesors.
it makes the institutions take abuse of power seriously, thus changing the culture of the department - and that is the determining factor much more so than any one individual's proclivity to do so.
officer jones doesn't care so much about officer smith as much as they both do about chief brody. and chief brody catches hell from the mayor when the municipality gets hit with repeated penalties.
the goal of enforcement is to keep at bay a culture of corruption and mutual cya-ism in the police force. this is a matter of (unwritten) department policy, not individual behavior. if the culture isn't changed, you can be sure that incoming police officers will adapt to the culture rather than worry about the one-in-a-thousand chance that they'll get nailed by some guy with a video camera.
mod parent to high heaven.
two points:
one, abuse of official power deserves harsh penalties because it's an offense not only against the one who is abused, but the entire public who has given the official the power in the first place.
two, i think a harsher penalty than just "laying down the law in a blunt manner" is required here. isn't it likely that this is standard operating procedure for these cops with uncooperative people they dislike (for whatever reason)? how many abuses like this were *not* recorded on tape? i realize this has no weight in determining guilt or innocence, but i would guess this is a single sample out of a pattern of behavior rather than a fluke incident.
the problem, of course, is that the definition of that term is extremely broad, and people in power are wont to define it to suit themselves and their peers.
And my completely inappropriate "judge a book by its cover" sensors tell me that by looking at the guy's picture in the article, he rather looks like an uncooperative, verbally abusive redneck.
you're right - about the completely inappropriate part.
for the better.
don't get me wrong - i would celebrate for a week straight if microsoft did do that.
hrmmm... can't seem to find a link to the linux version.
I love how the /. crowd needs a Wikipedia link to remind us what Free and Open Source Software is.
if you knew, would you have phrased it like this instead: "I love how the /. crowd needs a Wikipedia link to remind us what Free and Open Source Software are."
all your base are belong to chair!
cool, what business are you in, so i can compete with you?