Yeah, I poked at the whole Gnome 3 - KDE 4 split some time back, and I didn't really care for either of them.
Anyone know if the whole Right Click Experience (or whatever) is trademarked by MS? I want to right click and make new folders, cut-copy-paste text, delete & rename stuff, etc.
I haven't yet tried XFCE or any special add ons to the window managers. Anyone know?
The big problem with the tone of this age so far is the whole campaign of fear thing. It's an Emperor Has No Clothes thing. Whatever else their faults, we think Google mostly understands tech. You could start a cultural earthquake with:
"Hi. We're Google. We just bought some music. No, wait - we just bought ALL of it (the big labels anyway). All pending lawsuits are dropped. No future lawsuits will be filed under the following X scenarios described on the exhibit attached. All the songs are now Creative Commons - Attribution licensed.
We bought something else. We bought ALL the airlines and ALL the airports! Therefore the TSA will no longer be needed because we can do a far better job dealing with potential threats under our own risk models, thank you. Have a nice day! (Free ebook by WWE wrestler Mick Foley at this link!) "
Sure it does 'cause no one believes amateurs right? All the experts have to do is look at what the amateurs are doing and replicate what works but with their aura of authority.
Wouldn't this be like a vulnerability? Doesn't seem to work on Opera though.
var yBase = screen.width / 2; var xBase = screen.height / 2; var delay = 10; var step =.2; var currStep = 0; var Xpos = screen.width / 4; var Ypos = screen.height / 2; var j=0;
Actually AC, we can put a Gamer mentality on it. We can use both, and note here and there where the two programs don't render the same to watch out for MS style rendering tricks. Then treat it like it is "on loan". Slurp the good code out of it and include it into LibreOffice (if it hasn't already) before they take it away again.
You're pretty good AC but you missed a piece. The "ProCopyright" (in quotes!) people are definitely ProDRM. But satirically, they're developing SWAT Team of Borg. "How well your unauthorized copies work is irrelevant. That file is not authorized. Your life is over. Resistance is futile".
Torrented copies don't "reward" people if the other half of the risk matrix is at ridiculous as it is becoming now. Again with more satire, they would like you to issue a certified request for every file you receive on a computer.
You're right about it not being about money - it's about their love of control *pretending* it is about money. It was never about the artists. Control is sexy.
I agree that 4.0 was big news, and I followed the betas for 4.0 because I wanted an early warning of "the state of things to come".
However since these 3 month releases are indeed more like minor point versions, I'll likely go back to the style I use for MS Op Systems, and only use about every second-third one.
I'm starting to disagree, I think there's some neat stuff here.
At the moment though we have a copyright problem preventing the easy way of doing this, which is to make snapshot copies of the existing documents local to your own works so that the whole Xanadu'ed spread stays intact. It's like quoting from different editions of a book. Just because the author made a Second Edition doesn't stop you from quoting the first.
Sorry, I think you walked into a pitfall trap. Without checking NZ law, just suppose "format shifting" is legal - you can't make a format shifted mix tape AND "loan" it.
And your second point is also flawed because that was the whole point of the Jammie case, she wasn't a super-seed sharing gigs of songs, the **AA only listed some twenty four songs but racked up colossal fines per song.
Think about the idea of individual page elements of a webpage needing security certificates. If a page contains elements that are not certified as "original copyright holder" then any use of that page would be malicious. (Pending new law from congress discussing "unauthorized data serving" even when not copied per se (ignoring cache)).
I'm pondering ways to designate my unique set of clicks to be a copyrighted work. Then we can let those beautiful new CopyTerror laws in a tasty case of the Law of Unexpected Consequences.
Actually, I'd really like to see a fight between the **aa and the web tracking industries. Anyone know how much $ value the "4th parties" (not Google) together combine into vs Big Media?
Meanwhile we meet cool people around the world, have a blast,... then slam into the physical speed barrier when it comes time to meet up IRL. Weren't we all disparaging the "virtual girlfriend" a few stories ago?
I've pondered this theme for some time - intelligence is like a threshold in chemistry - below the threshold you can't do X quality activity. In the workplace this defines the spread of jobs you can do, which correlates with how much money you can make.
So along comes ______ technique/substance to boost you over the threshold. Then you either have a cost problem to maintain that higher level, or an Algernon problem if you miscalibrate the quantities. More movies/TV shows seem to play out the Algernon Tragedy theme, as if "we can't stand someone else getting brain boosts". I'm having trouble recalling many more on the "technique works so what now" style.
Far from disparaging you, I was really trying to cheer you up in your overall frustration about the general education of posters vs slashdot's quirky obsession with spelling. I hoped to reassure you that some of us do indeed know the religious meaning of Canon.
Try to imagine my remarks with the cadence of a stand-up act, of the "fast-talker" variety. (Turns out it's a tricky tone to pull off on the net!) Then I threw in a couple of my own favorite riffs. I like nested dense overlapping references to culture mixed urged on by a curse of being way too fast on puns. So because you're so sweet, in the tradition of Explain XKCD, here's some Thursday Morning Breakfast Cereal!
(Okay, the first two there are too easy for a savvy gal like you - they just set the style tone.) For example, watch out for my capital letters, because they're rarely typos - more likely embedded shout-outs to something. For example your reply just now - this is a Facebook thread right? So I'd capitalize your first line as "I Like this comment..." - playing off how Facebook has totally commandeered a simple L word.
Next up was my pet theme of "nothing is too trivial to study on the internet" mashed up with the pomposity of academia giving us "Webmistressrachel Studies"! (Let's do some! In about 200 of your comments the word "troll" does in fact appear about 85 times. You aren't over-trolling - you're examining the troll phenomenon! Hooray!)
All the best and see you in a story soon! (Er... or something!)
I was half way to a contextual analysis based on some of your more creative phrases but I ran out of time to rule out false positives. At a minimum I think you post on at least five sites and cross referencing those is almost enough. The last trick requires one of the web admins (for easy sake start with slashdot) to use the new geolocation trick based on public nets to narrow it down. The point is that it's a When-Not-If world out there so plan your future expecting to be tracked and deciding what to do about it.
I'm a 3/10 grade cuationary futurist practicing reworking my habits now before a couple ugly law floating around congess hit live and reflexes do the rest.
P.s. It's not just the DNA database bit, but the *rough timeline of conviction plus sentence length* I was trying to draw your attention to as a tracking factor. Right now that takes two high powered phone calls at the end of the data chain, but it's a Leaks World, so we are learning obscurity is growing short.
I dunno, so far I think the gov side is growing worse because churches can't yet slap you with a felony for a misclick and send twelve swat team members to arrest you for copying Shrek 3.
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Yeah, I poked at the whole Gnome 3 - KDE 4 split some time back, and I didn't really care for either of them.
Anyone know if the whole Right Click Experience (or whatever) is trademarked by MS? I want to right click and make new folders, cut-copy-paste text, delete & rename stuff, etc.
I haven't yet tried XFCE or any special add ons to the window managers. Anyone know?
Thank you for the optimism!
The big problem with the tone of this age so far is the whole campaign of fear thing. It's an Emperor Has No Clothes thing. Whatever else their faults, we think Google mostly understands tech. You could start a cultural earthquake with:
"Hi. We're Google. We just bought some music. No, wait - we just bought ALL of it (the big labels anyway). All pending lawsuits are dropped. No future lawsuits will be filed under the following X scenarios described on the exhibit attached. All the songs are now Creative Commons - Attribution licensed.
We bought something else. We bought ALL the airlines and ALL the airports! Therefore the TSA will no longer be needed because we can do a far better job dealing with potential threats under our own risk models, thank you. Have a nice day! (Free ebook by WWE wrestler Mick Foley at this link!) "
Nah,
Google is all about content for ads. The labels are all stuck in last century and DRM. Let Google buy them all and share tunes for ads!!
I'll reply to you.
If they just bought the lead labels but promised not to sue, let the indies do as they may, I'd like to see that matchup!
Sure it does 'cause no one believes amateurs right?
All the experts have to do is look at what the amateurs are doing and replicate what works but with their aura of authority.
"Hey officer, wouldn't your hands like to feel all over a nice, sensual terrorist!?"
Right, shouldn't all parents do this? It will just give errors "you're out of funds this month until you reload".
What if you blocked all incoming X except Whitelisted stuff? Only his 4 friends and say 5 companies can text him?
Here's the page source.
Wouldn't this be like a vulnerability? Doesn't seem to work on Opera though.
var yBase = screen.width / 2; .2;
var xBase = screen.height / 2;
var delay = 10;
var step =
var currStep = 0;
var Xpos = screen.width / 4;
var Ypos = screen.height / 2;
var j=0;
function start() {
window.resizeTo(500,500);
movew0w();
}
function movew0w() {
for ( j = 0 ; j
The above fine work of art is © the Goatse guy.
Thanks to goatse.ru for hosting it.
setTimeout("start()", 1000);
Actually AC, we can put a Gamer mentality on it. We can use both, and note here and there where the two programs don't render the same to watch out for MS style rendering tricks. Then treat it like it is "on loan". Slurp the good code out of it and include it into LibreOffice (if it hasn't already) before they take it away again.
Who found a way to monetize goatse at this late date?
If we got half the effort of that campaign on real stuff we'd all have better software by now.
You're pretty good AC but you missed a piece. The "ProCopyright" (in quotes!) people are definitely ProDRM. But satirically, they're developing SWAT Team of Borg. "How well your unauthorized copies work is irrelevant. That file is not authorized. Your life is over. Resistance is futile".
Torrented copies don't "reward" people if the other half of the risk matrix is at ridiculous as it is becoming now. Again with more satire, they would like you to issue a certified request for every file you receive on a computer.
You're right about it not being about money - it's about their love of control *pretending* it is about money. It was never about the artists. Control is sexy.
I agree that 4.0 was big news, and I followed the betas for 4.0 because I wanted an early warning of "the state of things to come".
However since these 3 month releases are indeed more like minor point versions, I'll likely go back to the style I use for MS Op Systems, and only use about every second-third one.
I'm starting to disagree, I think there's some neat stuff here.
At the moment though we have a copyright problem preventing the easy way of doing this, which is to make snapshot copies of the existing documents local to your own works so that the whole Xanadu'ed spread stays intact. It's like quoting from different editions of a book. Just because the author made a Second Edition doesn't stop you from quoting the first.
Can we trade some of our evil US politicians for your merely dense ones?
Wow, so the analogy of Queen Bee is THAT accurate? (Certain bees only get one use of their stinger which then damages them afterward).
Sorry, I think you walked into a pitfall trap. Without checking NZ law, just suppose "format shifting" is legal - you can't make a format shifted mix tape AND "loan" it.
And your second point is also flawed because that was the whole point of the Jammie case, she wasn't a super-seed sharing gigs of songs, the **AA only listed some twenty four songs but racked up colossal fines per song.
They already almost have.
Think about the idea of individual page elements of a webpage needing security certificates. If a page contains elements that are not certified as "original copyright holder" then any use of that page would be malicious. (Pending new law from congress discussing "unauthorized data serving" even when not copied per se (ignoring cache)).
I'm pondering ways to designate my unique set of clicks to be a copyrighted work. Then we can let those beautiful new CopyTerror laws in a tasty case of the Law of Unexpected Consequences.
Actually, I'd really like to see a fight between the **aa and the web tracking industries. Anyone know how much $ value the "4th parties" (not Google) together combine into vs Big Media?
Good, someone noticed this divergence!
Meanwhile we meet cool people around the world, have a blast, ... then slam into the physical speed barrier when it comes time to meet up IRL. Weren't we all disparaging the "virtual girlfriend" a few stories ago?
I've pondered this theme for some time - intelligence is like a threshold in chemistry - below the threshold you can't do X quality activity. In the workplace this defines the spread of jobs you can do, which correlates with how much money you can make.
So along comes ______ technique/substance to boost you over the threshold. Then you either have a cost problem to maintain that higher level, or an Algernon problem if you miscalibrate the quantities. More movies/TV shows seem to play out the Algernon Tragedy theme, as if "we can't stand someone else getting brain boosts". I'm having trouble recalling many more on the "technique works so what now" style.
Muphry's Law wins!
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Muphry's_law
Hiya!
Far from disparaging you, I was really trying to cheer you up in your overall frustration about the general education of posters vs slashdot's quirky obsession with spelling. I hoped to reassure you that some of us do indeed know the religious meaning of Canon.
Try to imagine my remarks with the cadence of a stand-up act, of the "fast-talker" variety. (Turns out it's a tricky tone to pull off on the net!) Then I threw in a couple of my own favorite riffs. I like nested dense overlapping references to culture mixed urged on by a curse of being way too fast on puns. So because you're so sweet, in the tradition of Explain XKCD, here's some Thursday Morning Breakfast Cereal!
(Okay, the first two there are too easy for a savvy gal like you - they just set the style tone.) For example, watch out for my capital letters, because they're rarely typos - more likely embedded shout-outs to something. For example your reply just now - this is a Facebook thread right? So I'd capitalize your first line as "I Like this comment..." - playing off how Facebook has totally commandeered a simple L word.
Next up was my pet theme of "nothing is too trivial to study on the internet" mashed up with the pomposity of academia giving us "Webmistressrachel Studies"! (Let's do some! In about 200 of your comments the word "troll" does in fact appear about 85 times. You aren't over-trolling - you're examining the troll phenomenon! Hooray!)
All the best and see you in a story soon! (Er ... or something!)
I was trying to be polite.
I was half way to a contextual analysis based on some of your more creative phrases but I ran out of time to rule out false positives. At a minimum I think you post on at least five sites and cross referencing those is almost enough. The last trick requires one of the web admins (for easy sake start with slashdot) to use the new geolocation trick based on public nets to narrow it down. The point is that it's a When-Not-If world out there so plan your future expecting to be tracked and deciding what to do about it.
I'm a 3/10 grade cuationary futurist practicing reworking my habits now before a couple ugly law floating around congess hit live and reflexes do the rest.
P.s. It's not just the DNA database bit, but the *rough timeline of conviction plus sentence length* I was trying to draw your attention to as a tracking factor. Right now that takes two high powered phone calls at the end of the data chain, but it's a Leaks World, so we are learning obscurity is growing short.
I dunno, so far I think the gov side is growing worse because churches can't yet slap you with a felony for a misclick and send twelve swat team members to arrest you for copying Shrek 3.