How about giving us the ability to remove and/or modify in any way the tags we've already made. These aren't ephemeral comments that go away after a day or two, they're long term displays.
Give us some power over our own work please. Some of us work like Slashdot editors, with a tendency toward dupes and typos.
You might want to consider notifying del.icio.us in some way before creating a slash subdomain on their server for them. Your plan is in the wrong order.
Are you one of those people that think that hacks somehow don't count unless they were perpetrated using homebrew exploits and programs? Whether or not his actions appeal to your sense of elitism, he repeatedly broke in and fucked around pretty effectively.
At no point has he claimed to be a "great hacker". In fact, he's played up the fact that what he did took little more than a bit of research. Of course, in the real world, the very best all work like this. It's only in the world of script kiddies that it's considered uncool to stand on the shoulders of giants.
There was another/. article about this guy a while back, about the fact that the US wanted him. There was an interview. I don't remember very well, but I think he said he was disappointed (also I imagine I'd remember if he'd said he'd found something).
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You, my friend, are doing too many things. Stop trying to solve the wrong problem, and just get yourself fired instead.
"Technologies" is a buzzword? I suppose it's ambiguous.
Also, are you saying that there's no Google social network yet? It's inhabited almost exclusively by Brazilians, and is spammy as hell, but it's definitely a Google social network. It's invite only, but I don't think it's in beta (they bought it). It should be though, what with such a devastating donut famine.
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Or maybe you're asking not to be a lonely paranoid recluse.
It's a social calendar: You put some stuff up, make it viewable to your friends, then check their calendar to see when they get out of class so you can call them.
The internet isn't the place to be plotting your coup d'etat anyway.
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That's like being scared that Domino's knows what pizza you like. How do you expect them to know when and what to deliver to you unless you call them and give them the information? It's fairly important for them to pay attention to the terms people use, just as Domino's has to be aware of what pizzas are popular.
The alternative is that after you type in the terms, they return a page saying "Lalalalala we're not listening! We care about our users' privacy!" Instead, the choice of whether or not to make the information exchange is left to the individual.
Heh, the trite is strictly for the purposes of Slashdot. I can even take back what I said about "hidden in bloat", because it wasn't hidden. I've just found it in the Office section (in Slackware 10.2). It would have been the first graphics program I opened to try, if it had been with the others (I know that this isn't much less inflammatory than "hidden in bloat").
The other point about getting annoyed and stopping using it isn't the coercive threat you make it out to be, just a comment that I've invested a lot of time in learning GIMP, and it'd be too frustrating to keep using krita if it turned into too much of a leap from GIMP.
But seriously, I'm not the kind of user that can give useful feedback or suggestions, at least not beyond the level of the point you've already seen. Similarly, that menu is called "Filter" instead of "Filters", which breaks the standard in both GIMP and Krita (all the others are plural). Probably changed by now though - Slackware is a little behind.
No no, relax. Not a personal thing, just a probability thing. I wasn't saying anything about you, just that the other guy sounded like the kind of gamer who'd be hanging around lots of other fairly hardcore gamers at LAN parties, and you didn't. If anything you should be flattered!
In that case, you're probably not the sort of person likely to go out to meet other gamers. I think it's important to note that he said meet, because that implies LAN parties, which means hardcore, and usually plenty of hardware geeks.
Mixing in those circles, his claim is perfectly plausible, and the underlying idea that gamers aren't the clueless morons that Slate (read: Dell) makes them out to be, is certainly correct.
Where is this wiki? Is it available from the internet? Maybe if you can't answer for some job-related reason, some other helpful AC can come along with a link to anything similar they may know of...
Corporations are probably the originators and are definitely the carriers. It spread pretty much in the opposite direction to bird flu, and is currently mutating to the point where it can spread from the corporate killbot drones to normal humans. It's already mutated and spread to other kinds of animal, such as politicians and law enforcement.
We normal people are all that's left. And to make things even more exciting: Our plane leaves in a half hour!
This is one of those easy but ego-hurting kchanges they kould make in an kinstant, with few real technical konsequences.
For a while now, I've been kseriously konsidering setting up a kampaigny site like knames.org or some such, where I would have a database of bad KDE app names, along with suggested changes, and maybe a wiki for initial input of user-contributed names.
While end kusers have no right to tell kdevelopers how to name their work, I think that in a "Desktop Environment", it bekomes a kusability issue. KDE isn't known for karing about kusability, but when the required kwork can be done by shell scripts and regexes, what's the kexcuse?
More accurate would have been to call Windows itself the lowest common denominator system. But that wouldn't have fit into his point, which was otherwise insightful.
And yes, using Windows does make you a part of that user group. It labels you as similar to the AOL grannies, the gamers, the script kiddies, the warez crowd... just as using Linux labels me as similar to the FSF disciples, the sandals-and-ponytail hackers, and the Gentoo ricers. Labels are dumb and mostly meaningless, but that doesn't make them incorrect as the general grouping terms that they are. People tend to take and use them as insults, so for the sake of my own peace of mind, the first thing I do when one enters my brain is to chmod -x its ass.
Interesting. Thank you very much for this. As a beginner-intermediate graphics program user, I don't have any major technical words in my list of needs. I'll probably be able to move gradually over to this program now (it's always been there, I just didn't know - typical KDE losing decent apps into the bloat), especially when they reproduce/port the few GIMP filters etc that I use a lot.
I hope they organise the filters in the same way as GIMP as the featurelist grows (obviously right now there's no need for a Blur submenu with only one blur option, for example). Actually, I'll be annoyed and stop using it if they don't. So far, the emboss submenu seems justified, but it's little touches like calling it "edge detection" instead of "edge detect" that they need to watch out for.
I'd have questioned the need for six pages of fascinating prose about gender equality in a niche form of entertainment, but gender image equality in the minority who make money from it? Besides the fact that it wasn't about female gamers, as you say, who even gives a shit? Very few people who ought to, and lots of interfering people with overactive consciences, that's who.
From a journalism point of view, normal gamers are a non-story. Each has their own trials and tribulations which they duly deal with and grow from - boring stock human stuff - and hard to make-believe a problem out of. But the Suicide Girls (who I first heard of in this article) provide for nice eye candy photos to break up the long text, as well as being easy to write about.
I agree with the quote in the summary (merely skimmed through the boring, boring article) Most of us are decent people, and we'll treat female gamers with the same respect as anyone else (however much that may happen to be). Most gamers aren't dickhead teenagers, and most games aren't misogenistic trash.
Everyone, including female gamers, has to put up with the stupid minority. From what I saw and heard during the months I managed to do this on Xbox Live, I learned that girls are just as good at this as guys.
Girls are people, people are good at dealing with other people and the stupid shit they do. I think they (journalists) get so tied up in thinking about them being "girls" that they forget that class girl extends person.
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It was in fact a joke.
Submitter must be pretty badly out of the loop.
Give us some power over our own work please. Some of us work like Slashdot editors, with a tendency toward dupes and typos.
You might want to consider notifying del.icio.us in some way before creating a slash subdomain on their server for them. Your plan is in the wrong order.
So you're the rich brother-in-law who's also an expert fisherman. The point is that we're jealous of you and we hate you.
At no point has he claimed to be a "great hacker". In fact, he's played up the fact that what he did took little more than a bit of research. Of course, in the real world, the very best all work like this. It's only in the world of script kiddies that it's considered uncool to stand on the shoulders of giants.
There was another /. article about this guy a while back, about the fact that the US wanted him. There was an interview. I don't remember very well, but I think he said he was disappointed (also I imagine I'd remember if he'd said he'd found something).
You, my friend, are doing too many things. Stop trying to solve the wrong problem, and just get yourself fired instead.
Also, are you saying that there's no Google social network yet? It's inhabited almost exclusively by Brazilians, and is spammy as hell, but it's definitely a Google social network. It's invite only, but I don't think it's in beta (they bought it). It should be though, what with such a devastating donut famine.
It's a social calendar: You put some stuff up, make it viewable to your friends, then check their calendar to see when they get out of class so you can call them.
The internet isn't the place to be plotting your coup d'etat anyway.
The alternative is that after you type in the terms, they return a page saying "Lalalalala we're not listening! We care about our users' privacy!" Instead, the choice of whether or not to make the information exchange is left to the individual.
The other point about getting annoyed and stopping using it isn't the coercive threat you make it out to be, just a comment that I've invested a lot of time in learning GIMP, and it'd be too frustrating to keep using krita if it turned into too much of a leap from GIMP.
But seriously, I'm not the kind of user that can give useful feedback or suggestions, at least not beyond the level of the point you've already seen. Similarly, that menu is called "Filter" instead of "Filters", which breaks the standard in both GIMP and Krita (all the others are plural). Probably changed by now though - Slackware is a little behind.
No no, relax. Not a personal thing, just a probability thing. I wasn't saying anything about you, just that the other guy sounded like the kind of gamer who'd be hanging around lots of other fairly hardcore gamers at LAN parties, and you didn't. If anything you should be flattered!
Mixing in those circles, his claim is perfectly plausible, and the underlying idea that gamers aren't the clueless morons that Slate (read: Dell) makes them out to be, is certainly correct.
- "a company they believe understands them"
- "PC Giant"
- "market clout"
- "premium relationships"
- "first to market"
- "hottest technologies"
There are glowing reviews, there are biased reviews, there are paid ads masquerading as reviews, then there is this.I'm going to post a link to this story whenever Slate tries to say anything of importance from now on.
Just as soon as it passes the Volkerding test, my friend. All this stability comes at a price.
Where is this wiki? Is it available from the internet? Maybe if you can't answer for some job-related reason, some other helpful AC can come along with a link to anything similar they may know of...
Corporations are probably the originators and are definitely the carriers. It spread pretty much in the opposite direction to bird flu, and is currently mutating to the point where it can spread from the corporate killbot drones to normal humans. It's already mutated and spread to other kinds of animal, such as politicians and law enforcement.
We normal people are all that's left. And to make things even more exciting: Our plane leaves in a half hour!
For a while now, I've been kseriously konsidering setting up a kampaigny site like knames.org or some such, where I would have a database of bad KDE app names, along with suggested changes, and maybe a wiki for initial input of user-contributed names.
While end kusers have no right to tell kdevelopers how to name their work, I think that in a "Desktop Environment", it bekomes a kusability issue. KDE isn't known for karing about kusability, but when the required kwork can be done by shell scripts and regexes, what's the kexcuse?
And yes, using Windows does make you a part of that user group. It labels you as similar to the AOL grannies, the gamers, the script kiddies, the warez crowd... just as using Linux labels me as similar to the FSF disciples, the sandals-and-ponytail hackers, and the Gentoo ricers. Labels are dumb and mostly meaningless, but that doesn't make them incorrect as the general grouping terms that they are. People tend to take and use them as insults, so for the sake of my own peace of mind, the first thing I do when one enters my brain is to chmod -x its ass.
I hope they organise the filters in the same way as GIMP as the featurelist grows (obviously right now there's no need for a Blur submenu with only one blur option, for example). Actually, I'll be annoyed and stop using it if they don't. So far, the emboss submenu seems justified, but it's little touches like calling it "edge detection" instead of "edge detect" that they need to watch out for.
From a journalism point of view, normal gamers are a non-story. Each has their own trials and tribulations which they duly deal with and grow from - boring stock human stuff - and hard to make-believe a problem out of. But the Suicide Girls (who I first heard of in this article) provide for nice eye candy photos to break up the long text, as well as being easy to write about.
Everyone, including female gamers, has to put up with the stupid minority. From what I saw and heard during the months I managed to do this on Xbox Live, I learned that girls are just as good at this as guys.
Girls are people, people are good at dealing with other people and the stupid shit they do. I think they (journalists) get so tied up in thinking about them being "girls" that they forget that class girl extends person.
Note that I distance myself from the overall racist theme of that blog.
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