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I agree, for the reasons you've stated as well as others. While I do think being able to properly label adult content is important, its better achieved through a meta tag, the class attribute, or in the case of a link, the rel attribute.

With the HTML5 and XHTML movements a primary focus has been on eliminating non-semantic tags like div and span. Its a noble pursuit, but I think in the witch-hunt to eliminate general purpose, non-semantic tags a monster has been created. When all elements must be semantic, we need many more to achieve the same goals.

Microformats are an example of doing it the right way. Instead of creating new HTML elements to represent each concept, microformats use an existing, general purpose attribute (class) to convey meaning.

I'm all for adding new elements when they make sense, but a NSFW element feels like a step backwards.
Maybe it's just me, but I sense desperation here. I don't really see Flash beating out HTML5, even if they make their own office apps with it.
It's been (well, is in the process of being) done - http://redcareditor.com/

It's already useable, if you can deal with the pain of the installation process.
Indeed, this is what I was thinking. Perhaps the key is to successively (and slowly) converge on the positive.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=648717
The reason that short, frequent publishing is so pervasive on the web is that you have to compete with everything else on the internet that is shiny, flashing, and begging for your attention. I think that we, as humans, have a predilection to focus on real-time updates, on what's happening NOW. It is the only reason that I can possibly understand the success of things like Twitter or Facebook status updates.

Furthermore, there are so many benefits to publishing frequently that it's hard to argue against it. For instance, if you publish frequently, you will have a better Google ranking, be seen as an "active" member of the community, get more links on social news sites that link submissions to URLs, constantly show up in peoples' RSS readers, etc. Also, if you write a long, substantive article, many people will not take the time to read it. Most will just skim to see if there's anything interesting, and if they don't find anything, they will leave.

Also, if you want to make money on the Internet, it's something that you need to do daily, or at least very regularly. Dollars follows peoples' eyeballs, and peoples' eyeballs follow constantly updated content. I can't think of an example off the top of my head of a blogger, videoblogger, etc. making a living by posting infrequent posts but I can list a couple dozen people that make very good money with either gawker-like blogs on certain topics, a regularly updated promotional (video)blog, or through advertising dollars on popular YouTube channels.

I know in my rational mind that it is probably better to read content-rich articles on the web, but my reptilian mind is constantly drawn to the new, the hot, the now. Until somebody finds a solution, there will always be a short battle with myself every time I fire up Google reader or think of checking HN.
how exactly is you answer related to the link ?
I'm sick of these stupid titles that don't tell you anything except, "Click me, CLICK ME!"

A lot of blogs do this, but TechCrunch really takes the cake.
Ask HN: How do I install Firefox when Windows 7 doesn't ship with IE8 ?
It seems that windows 7 will not be shipped with IE8 at least in Europe. Then how exactly will I download firefox on it :(
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I believe this link was flagged and killed when posted before.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=523065
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=544076

Does HN not remember flagged/killed posts?
Some people are just DYING to win.
Even if the methods you defend were the most effective (and they're not), you are either assuming everyone wants to slave away for the "greater good" or that they should do so regardless. In other words, you have decided that the goal of breeding "experts" ought to be paramount for everyone. I can assure you that you are not qualified to make this claim, and no one else is either.
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Although they obviously have room for improvement, rigid schools do not lend themselves to a more flexible approach like this one.

To use a more extreme example, let's say a general wants to introduce more flexibility in the way his military is run. How far can that really go?
I like how it's OK to propose blocking content if it's "not safe for work", but how everyone gets upset when you talk about blocking advertisements. (Hence the lack of an <advertisement> tag.)
Both Rails and web2py follow "convention over configuration" while Django follows "configuration over convention". Each has pros and cons but coming from a Rails background you'll probably find web2py closer.
This looks very intriguing. Unfortunately, I can't find a free copy of this paper nor any articles talking about it. Can anyone else dig up either a copy or some additional information?
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telnet on port 80.
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I think his point is that it isn't Cocoa itself which makes the new version faster and more extensible: It's the rewriting process. The new codebase has presumably been better structured to be faster and more extensible.

As John Gruber has said "Cocoa is just an API. It is not some sort of magic technology where you just sprinkle a ton of square brackets in your source code and you instantly get a better UI." (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/10/30/cocoa-finder)
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So, the Post is not a real newspaper, right? Some kind of tabloid type thing. I dunno that anyone takes them seriously, do they?
I believe the whole point of proposing a calculus question was that most entry-level office workers won't be able to answer it.
At first, I thought this was a great idea. Then I realized that not everyone has easy access to computers. Poorer kids might be left behind. One can print e-books, but that sometimes ends up costing quite a bit, too.

This might sound crazy, but didn't the Soviets solve this problem decades ago? The commies believed that education should be for all, and they had amazing math and physics books which were also really cheap!! And this were GREAT books. Stuff written by Landau & Lifschitz, Arnol'd, Gelfand, etc. These books were translated to Spanish so that the Cubans and other Latin-Americans could read them. They were translated to Portuguese so people in Brazil had access to good books at affordable prices. Why is it that only in the U.S. can't people have access to good books at affordable prices? Is the textbook cartel's lobbying that powerful???
One more reason why we should not buy Closed source software.
As I mention above, I bet they wouldn't be able to answer an even simpler question. Requiring application of product rule "raises the bar" a bit too high.
Yep I do remember it being posted before too, but was it flagged and removed ?!
There's a pdf link in the article.
The only valid conclusion to be drawn out of this 'study' is that push polling works. If you get people to affirm a view and then you ask then a logically related question they are likely to bend the answer to be logically consistent with the first statement. For them to go on and try correlate these results with a 'past study' stretches things beyond dubious.
What a stupid "bash M$ and hit front page on digg" article.

As a bunch of the TC comments pointed out -- the $0.14/meal is the figure directly from the charity. They're not taking them out to a restaurant - it's a food bank with simple food sourced in bulk. The $.14/meal could be easily met at scale.
I don't disagree, but I can only assume Allan reached a point where maybe all the features/fixes to-be-implemented warranted a near-total rewrite as opposed to individually fixing or implementing them.

Plus, the CJK fixes in particular he's discussed literally now years ago were supposed to involve Core Text, which I believe was new to Leopard, which was then in turn a fairly new thing. Perhaps in addition to his shortsightedness/disinterest/whatever it may have been that he didn't consider that cjk would be an issue, new APIs and more made the idea of a rewrite more appealing.
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Reminds me of http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/how-i-built-a-working...
I think he was referring to what people consider to be a life-threatening illness.

Then again, who's to say what an illness is. Are illnesses only thing that have an immediate threat on your life? What about ones that stop you from doing your job? What about conditions that stop you from living your life normally?

In my country and culture, psychological and mental illnesses, which are also "real illnesses" by medical terms, are also given the same stare.
OLPC has a solution to that, IIRC each unit needs to be regularly in contact with a base station at the school or it disables itself. Or you could just have remote disabling on-demand like BlackBerry.
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How can you be sure that you will love some kinda work, I mean, can't there be people who may not love any kinda work. Why is it a given that there is some work/profession which has been ordained for you !
I suspect they will include some mechanism that makes it easy to get IE8 (a one-click-download icon on the desktop, for example).
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Again this is an example of people who have no idea what is actually going on in schools trying to make policy without consulting those who do know what goes on in schools

I hear this argument all the time from people who want to silence debate on education but the fact is: we all went to school. We are all as qualified as anyone else to comment on it.
I thoroughly enjoy the absolute ripping the author gets in the comment section. Ignoring Microsoft's other philathropic efforts, $1 million is still more good than he will ever bring about in his entire life.
Images of Organizations by Gareth Morgan. (http://www.amazon.com/Images-Organization-Gareth-Morgan/dp/1...)

It looks at organizations with the help of different perspectives. Definitely an enlightening experience to read it and very helpful later on.
Well, yes and no. A games developer will do whatever they can to get realistic fluid simulation, for example. People already use more compute power for fog and smoke in games than was used on the weather 20 years ago...

Remember history. Anything people could do on the "mainframe", they eventually wanted to on the desktop.
Stackless is inspired in that paradigm too.
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I actually thought the title is justified in this case.

I'd love to see the 8 meals that could be bought for $1.15.
Wealth of Nations, although it won't teach you anything directly about management it is good introduction to economics which is essential in any management role. Best of all it is free!
Three books that really show the good, bad and ugly about building businesses from scratch and scaling them to significance:

1. How to Get Rich (http://bit.ly/xGdV8)

2. Small Giants (http://bit.ly/WpvGa)

3. The Knack (http://bit.ly/OcKa9)

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A warning though - many 'start-up to success' books are, in my view, hampered by what I consider exceptional circumstances in the story. So you'll find a sentence/paragraph/page that basically says "so then I managed to raise $350,000 from XYZ to get me started", or "then I got stuck in a lift with Jeff Bezos for 72 hours and managed to convince him to invest". Which is great for their story, but it may or may not reflect your story.

So if you are going to try to learn lessons from the stories of others, and just to be clear let me say I believe this is a good way of learning, make sure you understand the differences between their story and yours and how those differences change the dynamics of starting and scaling a business.
> I'd tell them how much money I've won (or lost), not the intricate details of how I play.

If only my poker pro friends were as considerate.

Seriously though, in the long run the money is the metric. Holding your own against great players won't pay the bills. Finding weak players at decent stakes is where it is at and as such this is part of the game.
I'm assuming Windows still ships with the command-line FTP client, and ftp.mozilla.org works just as well as it ever did...
Download it somewhere else first, then you have many choices for transferring it over. USB drive, network share drive, dropbox, etc.
Underscores are there to mark 'magic' stuff. That's a good reason for the slight ugliness.
This is low. Despising Microsoft for giving money for a free product to charity. It's just not right.
Use wget (http://pages.interlog.com/~tcharron/wgetwin.html)
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mnemonicsloth, thank you for the response I appreciate the time and effort that went into writing it. Both (a), (b), and (c) have been incorrectly dismissed.

(a) does not beg the question, we can see this is so if we more obviously differentiate between productive-society and productive-people; I don't understand why you confused the issue by opting for the same word. So the argument becomes:

1. A productive-society is one with productive-people.//
2. Productive-people are attained through people practicing.//
3. So, a productive-society is attained through people practicing.//

We can make this even more clear by exchanging 'productive people' for 'talented people':

1. A productive society is one with talented people.//
2. Talented people are made through practice.//
3. So, a productive society is made through practice.//

(b) does not beg the question, it is easy to equate 'Having practiced a lot' and 'Practicing a lot' given the impression of circularity. We can simplify the argument to make it clearer (also your first premise is v. unclear). Instead:

1. A productive society is one in which everyone is practiced.//
2. Being practiced requires 100,000h of practice.//
3. A productive society is one in which everyone has had 100,000 of practice.//

(c), being a tautology does not invalidate an argument.

Being a logic student I love all this, awaiting your reply.
Software vendors (Acer, HP etc..) will most likely install an open source web browser in any shop bought computer.
You'll probably be able to just use an http address in the windows explorer, or failing that you can use the built-in PowerShell. e.g. http://bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2006/11/25/PowerShe...
Maybe they should include IE6 so it's possible to download an actual browser with it:)
There is a nice API urldownloadtofile - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms775123(VS.85).aspx

If you have Visual Studio by any chance, you can try that...

If there is Windows Scripting Host installed with Windows 7 by default, you can try exploring that too... maybe some createobject()s will help

Then why not boot into a live Ubuntu and get firefox for windows, reboot and have fun surfing the net
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How do you download that without a browser? Surely it's the same problem as downloading Firefox?
That's not the point of the article though. I agree that it's a bit misleading for Microsoft to say it's giving away 8 free meals for every download, just to promote it's own agenda (IE8 advertising). As the author stated, Microsoft should have just came clean and said it was donating $1 per download to fight hunger in America.
No, these are not just racks and racks of individual machines. It presents the programmer with a single system image - it "looks" like one huge expanse of memory.
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Because TechCrunch have never, ever published rumours, unofficial videos or information, and as such have a right to get pissed when others do the same.

Give me a break.
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Yay for Linux for mums! Put my mother on Linux, too, and she is doing fine.

Explaining how to do stuff in OS X would have been a nightmare. Start with "actually clicking the 'x' does not close the application".

Everybody should have a mum to explain computer apps to, puts things into perspective.
I don't believe that to be the case. Our temperaments are quite hard-wired in our brains.

IMO a better approach is to:

- honestly learn about oneself, including the sides one or others might deem negative

- accept oneself as such

- learn to balance things in life so that one's personality fits best amongst them

This way for example an intravert person can push their "outgoing side" a bit when it's needed, charging their batteries while that's not necessary, and make most of their lives doing something where solitary is a benefit.

When the everyday experience is positive, the personality tends to shift towards positive. But that is not because of telling oneself "I can do it, I can do it" but because of the daily experience simply indicates success.

Another example might be a person who wants to start a business. While one might benefit by "just doing it" and smashing obstacles one by one, another one might benefit most by making a careful study before doing the "move". Neither of these persons probably don't perform optimally (who of us does?), since the first one doesn't think enough before acting, and the other thinks too far. But for both of them, their approach is the most benefical, since in both cases their confidence to what they are doing rises the most, and on a realistic basis.
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Wtf? Are you seriously suggesting that Windows 7 will ship without any browser? Do you really believe that that is possible? Really?
A $200 billion company can afford to donate more than an individual?
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Starting with Vista, Windows has not shipped with its telnet client installed.
I think it's great that you want to start a business, but I think you'll need to improve your overall skill level before you can take a serious shot at it. My advice to you, as a seventeen-year-old entrepreneur wannabe, is:

- Work on the basics. Learn to read and write fluent English (this is necessary even if English isn't your native language, at least if you want to be based in the US). Learn some programming, learn some web development, get some real world experience. Get a programming job somewhere (preferably web programming), or work on an open source project.

- Saying things like "What is the problem?", with a question mark, makes it sound like you're doing a homework assignment in high school, and that's an instant giveaway that you don't have any experience. Real business plans- in fact, real documents of any sort (see, eg., Viaweb's business plan at http://www.paulgraham.com/vwplan.html)- aren't written by going down a list of pre-prepared questions and answering them in sequence.

- The most important component of a business isn't the idea; it's the ability to adjust what you're doing, so that you can succeed even given a bunch of disasters (and there will be a bunch of disasters). This requires flexibility and determination first and foremost.

- Cut down on typos! Nobody will see what your ideas are if they're in documents full of typos (trust me on this). Online spellcheckers are readily available (http://www.spellchecker.net/spellcheck/).

- Is your figure of "400 million" worldwide? A majority of the world's population still doesn't have Internet access. A more realistic figure would be thirty million. And, why restrict yourself to teenagers? Why not everyone?

Reply to this comment if you're interested in contacting me.
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Agreed. $0.14 is a bowl of potato soup.
In Europe it won't ship with IE: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8096701.stm
Well that is how they interpreted the court orders. The court says they meant MS should present a choice, though. Which I consider madness: why force a company to ship the products of it's competitors???
I guess that solves half of the problem - allowing you to compare results between engines should keep them "honest".

But the barrier to entry for a new engine would remain as high, or?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1265933&cid=28303943 on how to use FTP in windows command line.
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Haha this reminds me that funny "use case" of IE: "downloading Firefox"

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Also, help flesh out the list of books for startups I just created for HN on my site:

http://www.stormweight.com/lists/books-for-startups?p=OyAXcZ
The Mythical Man Month is an IT management classic that's worth its time, though I can't say that I've read a dearth of management books.
And each book had three chapters about Marxist-Leninist theory at the beginning!
I use it for the Javascript debugging tools. I've found that the user-interface is nicer than Firebug.
Indeed, in fact they'll probably install IE8, firefox, and something else, so the end result for the consumer won't be all that different.

Although I'm basically pro-regulation (that is, I think governments should be able to act on behalf of consumers when they're being given a raw deal), the EU is going overboard with this. Microsoft is not such a terrible ogre and doesn't make it difficult for me to use alternatives to its own software.

OK, so I'm a nerd and Joe or Jane Blow doesn't know that well why one browser is better than another or how they might benefit. But I don't see how that's Microsoft's fault, nor do I see how they've done ~$1.5 billion of damage to consumers. Is everyone in the EU $3 worse off because of IE? Really? I can think of a LOT of businesses that have done a lot more damage - to the environment, indirectly to people's health, and so forth - than Microsoft has.

(long rumination on anti-trust regulation deleted, but) it rather disturbs me that the two biggest fines levied for supposed malfeasance have both been on computer corporations, who do more than most industries to democratize innovation and economic opportunity. I feel the EU is just demanding these big fines because the companies can pay, rather than because of real injury they have created.

A typical American cellphone contract is far more economically punishing than the lost productivity due to having to install a non-IE browser by your own damn self.
Influence is the most thought-provoking, and occasionally uncomfortable, book I've read in years. Absolutely loved it. Friends got sick of me recounting the anecdotes from the book, because I just couldn't stop talking about it.
What is the "business reason" for KDE's coupling of KHTML thoroughly into its shell? Why do we assume that such a decision would be made only for business reasons?