From 86f541276ad26392909e73395e0dddf21ce678f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matěj Cepl
gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons
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+ I've tried several times OpenSync and SyncEvolution, and it simply made a bigger mess than anything else. Unfortunately my time didn't stretch far enough to dig into these issues.
And yes, ActiveSync seems to be the only usable alternative now. But it seems requires a bigger infrastructure. So if Zarafa can fill that gap, is easy to install and maintain I really welcome it! But I just wish the Zarafa installation and configuration could be as "easy" as Zimbra can be, with integrated anti-virus and spam filtering out-of-the-box.
I am not a sys-admin by nature, and tickling SMTP servers to do a good job just isn't my favourite cup of fun. IMAP/POP servers on the other hand are easier to setup for me. But SMTP server config - for me, that's just yuck! Which is why I like the Zimbra installation process. It works out of the box, and provide me with the tools needed to tweak just those few things I really care about. But Zimbra's open source version lacks a decent synchronisation module - and it eats memory and CPU resources.
Having that said ... Thunderbird and Lightning is a good step forward. But Lightning is still cumbersome to really use efficiently. And synching more calendars makes Lightning freeze Thunderbird for a minute when the update time has arrived. It still lacks a real killer app which really can directly compete with Outlook. Now there's just a lot of attempts of such a killer app.
Evolution is a good attempt, but the instability makes it less ideal. And I've grown fond of the user experience in Thunderbird, which fits my taste very well. Evolution just lacks the "final touch" on the user experience. And Evolution might not be ideal if you want to replace Outlook on Windows. Not sure about OSX, though.
]]> +I'd recommend taking a look at Memotoo - it's a web-based service using mainly SyncML to sync with, well, lots of things. It's worked pretty well for me so far - I had the one instance where client and server got irrepairably out of sync, and that was using SyncEvolution. It doesn't really fix the problems with existing Linux synchronisation solutions, but it does take a lot of the pain out of using them.
]]> +DAViCal allready supports CardDAV. I have seen it in action.
I provide daily DAViCal builds at http://yum.felixmoeller.de/. If you are interested in them I am more than happy to talk to you via mail.
Personally I currently operate a CalendarServer trunk snapshot. Which does all the nice stuff of sending invitations out and so on. You do not have to host any mail service yourself. Mine uses IMAP and SMTP from fastmail (needs +-addressing...).
I have a package for that too. But thats still quiet hacky therefore no public builds yet.
]]> +s/print/press/
… in Gnome 2 you can change shortcut of any application just by selecting the item in menu and pressing the desired shortcut.]]>
+ About changing accels on the fly, I consider that a gimp 0.x misfeature. But somehow, it has survived into GNOME3, and if you do
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface
]]> +if you do
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface can-change-accels true
it will still work.
]]> +What happens is that pressing Alt-Z repeatedly moves the focus between all the widgets that share the same mnemonic.
That's actually not correct, the first Alt-Z opens the "Zobrazit" (View) menu and that ends circling. One has to press Esc to close the menu and then press Alt-Z again. Seems kind of broken, but better than nothing.
Thanks
]]> +IIRC part of the point of some of those projects is to develop protocols for this sort of thing (I think Diaspora is doing protocol documentation for everything new they come up with so once they get something significant going and stabilized someone could do a competing implementation)
]]> +However, that was not my main point, which is that I don't see any advantage in maintaining yet another server and creating yet another inbox I have to check separately.
]]> +So how about more typical phone-like comparison?
How is the GPS connection? With N900, GPS without an internet connection (roaming) is just plain useless, and the built in maps software is extremely slow.
Battery life?
What about actual calls? The N900 just cant decide if it wants to display the call UI is landscape or portrait, switching between each other, it frequently takes 5s till I can accept the call at all.
General UI performance? On my N900, especially rotation is extremely sluggish, as is most of the other UI, very unpleasant.
You could also install the upcoming Debian armhf port.
]]> +Yes, it can get really complicated when you have connected both mono headphones and stereo listening device, but apart from that I don't see anything that complicated.
]]> +I seriously hope you'd find a good podcast client (and blog about it :)).
]]> +I am the developer of SwallowCatcher. First of all, the release you are referring to is 0.2.0 not 2.0, i.e. it is still pre-1.0 by a long way.
Secondly, f-droid. The original version of SwallowCatcher that appeared in f-droid was pulled in by the project maintainers. They appear not to have noticed that there is a new version out. They do have a submission process via their forum, but I can't see how to create an account on their site in order to post it!
Thirdly, if you are having problems with SwallowCatcher and can reproduce them, please post an android logcat of your session, and the URL of the feed in question. This will help me debug the problem. :-)
Cheers,
Rob Connolly
]]> +I am the developer of SwallowCatcher. Thanks for mentioning my project, even if you aren't completely happy with it. I acknowledge that the software has some problems, but it is still pretty early in development. My main problem has not been with the Android platform itself, but with finding time to work on the project. My last few months have been incredibly busy and its hard to summon the energy to code in the evenings after that's what I've been doing all day at work!
Anyway, I appreciate your feedback. If we can cooperate over solving your problems than hopefully we'll end up with better software for everyone.
Cheers,
Rob Connolly
]]> +And yes, it is obvious that even f-droid repository as smoothly as it could. We'll see, hopefully this will get sorted out eventually.
]]> +mitmanek:clone $ git clone git://gitorious.org/json_diff/mainline.git json_diff]]> +
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/clone/json_diff/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 96, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (89/89), done.
remote: Total 96 (delta 17), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (96/96), 731.75 KiB | 508 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (17/17), done.
mitmanek:clone $ cd json_diff/
mitmanek:json_diff (master) $ python json_diff.py test/old.json test/new.json
{
"append": {
"c": 3,
"daughter": {
"name": "Maruška"
}
},
"remove": {
"b": 2,
"son": {
"name": "Janošek"
}
},
"update": {
"a": 2
}
}
mitmanek:json_diff (master) $
Small complaint: The "this search" link actually ends up in "The search named all NEW has not been made visible to you."
]]> +But I am sure, exactly you can imagine a bugzilla saved query ;).
]]> +Thanks for sharing!
peace
]]> +Passion for Roses -- Peter Beales
]]> +Gmail offline was built atop WebSQLDatabase. This meant it was limited to browsers supporting WebSQLDatabase, which pointedly did not include Firefox and IE. There were two reasons WebSQLDatabase was used instead of IndexedDB:
(1) WebSQLDatabase matched up well with the existing, Gears-based implementation of offline Gmail, making porting more feasible. (This should be kind of obvious since Gears was the source of the WebSQLDatabase proposal to begin with.)
(2) IndexedDB was simply not mature enough at the time, in spec or implementation, to build a complex product like Gmail atop.
Unfortunately, when combining this with various other Gears-like needs that only Chrome implemented at the time, you got a product that only worked in Chrome.
No one on the Chrome or Gmail teams liked this state of the world, and thankfully, it's not going to continue into the indefinite future. Work on an IndexedDB-based version of offline Gmail is in progress. I don't know when it will be released, but it should allow other browsers to access offline Gmail. (Hooray!)
As for the rest of bullet 1, I can't say it seems very accurate either. We definitely still have groups and individuals that promote and talk about the open web, HTML5, etc. As for the "Chrome-first" bit, the specific cases I've seen have all been ones where the "Chrome-first"-ness is because Chrome has been first to implement some particular proposal that that app wants. This shouldn't be too hard to understand: browser vendors have finite resources and choose to focus them on different places, so generally different browsers take the lead on different standards implementations. Chrome's priorities are often informed by other app teams at Google, so it happens a lot of the time that what Chrome does first and what some app wants are related. However, to my knowledge, a lot of effort goes into ensuring that standards are being proposed, that we support other browsers when feasible to do so, etc.
I don't have the knowledge to speak to your other bullets, but I can definitively say from the Chrome/web/apps side of things that Google has not lost sight of its principles.
]]> +With Dart, the infamous "Chrome first" memo (http://pastebin.com/NUMTTrKj), Native Client, the Chrome-only Chrome app store, Google-sponsored sites that deliberately only work in Chrome (e.g. http://getcrackin.angrybird..., there's clearly a big effort on to create a universe of Chrome-only content.
]]> +Second, just to be clear: all I have all publicly available information (and certainly not all of them), so this was written mostly based on how things feel looking from outside.
]]> +Second, Mozilla did a lot of wrong decisions:
- no clear statement for or against XUL
- starting the WebSQL IndexedDB trouble
- jetpack vs. classic add-ons
- rapid release cycles with broken add-ons.
In fact, when browsing with Firefox, Google's suggestion to upgrade to a "modern browser" of course is cynical. But there is some truth in it, unfortunately.
]]> +Concerning your other points, you are just missing the information ... by following Jetpack/Add-on SDK channels I got plenty of information about XUL and Add-on SDK. And I am clearly persuaded that MoFo (and Microsoft) rejected WebSQLDB mostly on technical merits ... that as I said is unfortunate, but understandable.
]]> +Regarding the other points: Of course you get information on a technical level But there is no clear vision anymore.
You can see that Mozilla currently tries everything at once:
- browser
- mobile
- app store
- boot to gecko
Maybe they should focus a bit...
]]> +I think that's the difference though. Mozilla's mission is one about user choice and freedom and looking at the long term health of the web. So we do have to complain and sound whiny when we see huge important web companies not taking standards based development seriously and setting an example to webdevs everywhere that writing a WebSQL only website is a fine thing to do.
Google's mission on the other hand is either "Get all the information" or "Don't be evil" depending on the day. Its not "Be good!", and that gives them the freedom to do a lot more and do it quickly because its not 'evil' in the eyes of the average user. I think Mozilla's stuck in a hard place explaining that to people. Google can say things along the lines of "We love HTML so much we're going to extend it even more!" and those users are instantly confused all over again. Releasing source code, or even writing a standard and throwing it at the W3C is not enough. Standards based development is about working with other companies, which inherently means compromise and slows things down. I fear that this drive to move as fast as humanly possible will eventually kill standards entirely.
> XUL: does it have future or html5 is the only future?
Mozilla removed support for XUL in websites over a year ago. Most of what people loved about XUL is being ported to HTML5 in one way or another. Same tech. Different names.
> Your old add-on technology was deprecated and Jetpack is like copying Webkit and
> Chromium teams' decisions.
This is not true. Jetpack provides an API to make extension development easier, but the old tech hasn't been deprecated.
I'm not involved in anything Dart-related so I can't speak to that. I have no idea how compelling it is, how likely to ever be shipped in volume, etc. The "infamous" memo you cite seems to be about Dart, so I'll lump that in with Dart.
Again, if Google makes specs for Dart open, welcomes external input, and executes it in a way that allows other vendors to implement or reimplement freely, I'm not sure what's wrong with that world. Are there signs that is not happening?
As for the Chrome app store, I have asked the folks in charge of that numerous times about other browsers and how we can make sure to avoid lock-in. My impression is that while it's a difficult question, since part of the value proposition for authors is supposed to be "having a known set of target capabilities for the browser", there have been significant and ongoing talks with some Mozilla folks to try and reach a shared viewpoint on what an app is, how one is defined, the capabilities, putting them in stores, etc. I sat at at least one lunch meeting involving Mozilla folks discussing this so I know there's some truth to this. I don't know how far it goes, but the desire to collaborate seems to be present.
As for Angry Birds, I really have no idea how the contract is structured, but it strikes me that phrasing like "deliberately only work in Chrome" implies purposeful intent on Google's side to ensure the resulting experience is degraded and denied to all other browsers. In a different case that I _do_ have more specifics for, I know that what happened was that the vendor contracted to do the work came back with something that only worked in Chrome, and the team then spent the day or two before launch trying to see if they could retrofit other browser support into the product, but ultimately didn't make it. While I have no idea whether anything similar happened in this case, it seems irresponsible to me to assume and imply nefarious intent on Google's part when you don't have supporting data. Unless you have some you'd like to share.
I guess overall I feel disappointed that you're clearly frustrated, roc, because you're a smart guy, I've worked with you in the long past, and my desire is for our teams to get along well and for members of both teams to have confidence that the other team really is trying to do right by the world -- which both companies' teams are. I guarantee you that if I see things that sound like "Chrome-only", I speak up and fight them. But I really don't see all that many. I just don't subscribe to the view of the world it seems like you're convinced of.
]]> +NaCl
replaced with ActiveX
and IE instead of Chrome. I cannot avoid feeling some similarity.</dd>http://www.google.com/chrome
</dd>Sorry, but that's simply not the case. If HTML5 would only have other tag names, fine. But what about the key features of XUL?
- overlays
- xbl
- localization
As for your other paragraph, I don't think you're saying anything that in any way contradicts something I said.
]]> +However, I haven't done enough research and thinking into NaCl to decide what I think about it yet, and the post itself hasn't been written yet.
]]> +I completely agree with you on the subject of browser share - it's hard to feel bad that Firefox's growth has seemingly stalled when the other story is that most people currently browse the web with a modern, performant, extensible browser. That's huge.
]]> +chrome filled the void.
]]> +So yes, to do an apples to apples comparison, fresh installs of browsers is needed and to be honest, all versions of every major browser are quite speedy at bootup when they're fresh.
]]> +BrowserId solves several headaches for developers (no complicated login systems or password storage, password reset/retrieval, etc. required) and makes life much easier for users too. That's criticial: it needs to be easier for developers AND users. And it is. There are no serious contenders that satisfy both these requirements. (OpenID has awful end-user usability.) It's win/win for all but the majors, and so should (to use evolutionary game theory terminology) invade and become the dominant strategy.
The only reason I can see this might not happen is if Mozilla fails to market it properly. This would include: not releasing a 1.0; making revisions to the API that keep breaking things; talking up the security, without pointing out how easy is it is for both website developers and users to actually use (to most people, security is boring and actually quite negative once you get past the bullet point "* It's secure!"); creating a slow login page (e.g. currently, it's far too slow!); etc.
Note: I'm not saying Mozilla has made these marketing mistakes yet --- because I assume they haven't started marketing it yet. In fact, I think the approach so far has been pretty good (i.e. deploying to Mozilla sites; simple sample code; allowing logins from a webserver rather than restricting it's usage to browsers that have implemented it; etc.) So like I said, I think you're being too pessimistic about BrowserId. I think it's future is bright.
]]> +However, in terms of EDI I don't see any future until most important governments participate and I see at least one which won't.
]]> +Anyway, to answer some of your questions, RoundCube can support multiple account with a plug-in, but not copy messages between them. The one webmail program that I found that support multiple addresses is phlymail, which has a lite version, which is open source (under MPL). I tried it some time before then forgot about it, I'm going to reinstall it in these days.
]]> +Look for example at the praise and the success that Sparrow got. It's very easy to explain: very damn fast program with unified inbox and most of the native gmail features (labels, priority inbox, fast reply, conversation view), and a (very few) extra: dropbox and facebook integration.
It just worked. Even if the search function is not very well advanced: no Boolean logic for example.
]]> +But claiming this everywhere, massively, helps a large amount of companies and individual developers. People will claim these "it could be true" "omg lets not miss the band wagon" as they're easy, small lies, that, when claimed by a large amount of people, may actually become true.
And thus, yes, gmail's and other's multi accounts still sucks hairy balls.
Mobile mail clients do work with multi account, but they're far from great.
Replace email by any other activity that requires login, it's about the same: unflexible.
Desktop apps are generally more mature in that regard.
]]> +The truth is that when I left thunderbird for Sparrow, basically none of these features where working. Conversation needed a buggy add-on and there were long blog post explaining that no-one was brave enough to look-at the more-than-outdated code of the "view pane". Even if Mo Messaging hass been founded, the project looked like it was dying, the lightning project announced for years was making very slow progress and so on…
I completely agree with you, the web-app fashion is over-hyped and there is definitely a place for standalone email clients (to take that only example). The fact that Sparrow succeeded and not Thunderbird is a proof that people don't all fell for the hype, but really that there exists a big problem with Thunderbird as it is right now.
If the Mozilla community does not want to admit it, there is no more hope in the future of Thunderbird.
]]> +Universal in the sense that they weren't geared towards one particular purpose such as communication or entertainment, and that even plain users would often implicitly use some variety of scripting or programming to make the machine a part of their natural workflow.
Independent in the sense that they could accomplish this without the processing power or storage capacity of other machines, and of course in the sense that both hardware and software would more often than not come from a variety of vendors.
Today's devices are the opposite of all that. That's why you're confused.
The new generation of users are raised not to have that impulse. You don't start with an idea, but with a software that enables you to have that idea. The means create the needs. It's not: "How do I organise my friends in convenient subgroups using Facebook?" It's: "Oh look, Google+ has circles!" It's not: "How can I make my pictures look more appealing when I publish them online?" It's: "Oh look, Instagram has filters!"
The new generation of users doesn't think of webmail as a crummy interface to a powerful system. The ideas they have about e-mail are the ones their webmail enables them to have. If their webmail can't do two accounts, then you better not have two accounts, since e-mail obviously isn't meant to do that. It's this conceptual shift that will eventually kill the personal computer and the free internet.
]]> +Well, many times to be frank ... "modern programs don't use text files, just binary data/databases", "command line is obsolete", "in future programs will be written only in C++ or Visual Basic", "Internet Explorer won and independent browsers are done".
It always expects that the current silliness will continue without regards to the real usefulness of such fad and that users are idiots who won't find out that silliness is just silly.
]]> +Also for contacts, I had the insight to add all my contacts to Google way back in case I ever lost my phone. The problem is that after importing all the contacts from my last SIM card and importing my contacts from Google, I now have duplicates of nearly every contact. It's a real pain to try deleting them, but at least the view in the contact list is the only problem (everywhere else it understands there are multiple contact names for the same number).
Last, the browser. The only two really big problems I have with it is the speed (mostly for watching Youtube videos) and the UI's features (such as settings, accessing the URL bar quickly, etc). I know the latter will eventually arrive, but I hope speed is something that's just a matter of updating the software...
]]> +Well, the biggest problem (aside from crazily small fonts) is that there is NO credentials store at all (even less the one synced via Firefox Sync, which I expected as certain to be present).
]]> +Yes confused. When I quote someone it doesn't mean I agree with him or her. It is a reference point in the discussion. I'm working on Mozilla Web compatibility Team and before that at Opera on exactly the same type of issues. :) So I share your pain, even more so that I have to try to convince on a daily basis all these web sites doing things wrong. I guess I should try to write a blog post about what I exactly do every day and the little daily frustration. It is a zen art ;)
]]> +So for me,
http://groups.google.com/d/...
redirects (eventually) to
https://groups.google.com/f...
which can be viewed in raw HTML as
https://groups.google.com/f...
Google Groups seems a perfect use-case for extreme-progressive-enhancement, but what would I know.
regards,
Sean
I will just have to repeat this here again.
Evil are created by those who think themselves are so righteous.
]]> +https://github.com/getpelic...
I still can't quite decide whether this is incredibly clever or incredibly stupid.
]]> +
<iq from="romeo@example.net/orchard" type="set" id="all3">
<query xmlns="jabber:iq:privacy">
<list name="all-sub-example">
<item type="subscription" value="none" action="deny" order="11"/>
</list>
</query>
</iq>
And of course, once this is in the server, it works equally well without regards to the client used.
]]> +I think with Google as your client it should be easy to simply refuse to answer any questions about non-public Google-related information. Same goes for Google employees. The kind of question in my example, where refusing to answer gives away the answer, is relatively rare.
I think that Jesus, per the Sermon on the Mount, generally expects us to take an expansive view of the commandments, and treating "don't bear false witness" as an admonition against lying in general is reasonable. But I agree that the situation is more nuanced than what I wrote. I've updated my post to link here.
]]> +I'm currently playing with Markdown output and pandoc conversion...
]]> +The tool I'd really like ported to Linux is Larson's perm.exe decision tree builder...
]]> +File a ticket with as detailed specification as possible to VO issue tracker, and somebody may take a look at it.
]]> +TITLE
__Cost Preference
____COST: 25 CENTS
______TASTE: TART
________ACTION: DRINK COKE
______TASTE: SWEET
________DRINK ROOT BEER
____COST: 30 CENTS
______DRINK PEPSI
__Color Preference
____COLOR: BROWN
______COST: 25 CENTS
________ACTION: DRINK COKE
______COST: 30 CENTS
________DRINK PEPSI
____COLOR: TAN
______DRINK ROOT BEER
__Taste Preference
____TASTE: TART
______COST: 25 CENTS
________DRINK COKE
______COST: 30 CENTS
________DRINK PEPSI
____TASTE: SWEET
______DRINK ROOT BEER
The output tree need not be balanced.
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]]> +And then the second biggest mistake was that she's still never added to the trio. Harry has Ron and Hermione who know everything that's going on with the Horcruxes and the fight against Voldemort, and Ginny isn't told all those things - even after Harry breaks up with her to go hunting. Without being included in that knowledge, she can never break into the foreground and become a protagonist. Harry's love interest ought to be someone he trusts and confides in more than anyone else, but Ginny has never been given any special trust beyond what eg Luna has, and vastly less than Hermione.
So, I really like the idea of Harry/Ginny, there's lots of hints of how she would be great for him, but canon dropped that ball, twice.
You're also quite correct that we don't see how she changed from Chamber of Secrets to Order of the Phoenix. We're told that she was actually fiery and outspoken all along, Harry just didn't see it. But if she's to play a major role, we really should be shown.
]]> +Absolutely agree. I have a lot of problems with most Harmony stories (see other posts on this blog), but one thing I have to give them is that JKR completely missed that dating is also about something else than snogging. She completely missed on friendship, cooperation, doing something together. I can somehow understand perhaps a little bit reasons why Harry would like to at least pretend publicly that he broke up with Ginny (although, The Trace is the worst plotcrutch in the history of plotcrutches), but I cannot understand that at least whole summer she didn't cooperate with them on planning (perhaps, the daughter of Molly Weasley would tell them that food is important ;)). And what would happen, if The Trio was killed while camping? Knowledge of horcruxes dies, Voldemort wins and lives forever, the end of story. Wow!
]]> +Petunia Evans, Tomb Raider was fun :)
]]> +The House of the Seven Gables, from what I can tell on its Wikipedia page, is not a romance, so it isn't going to have the same reasons for going into fine detail.
]]> +I started Notebooks and Letters, but wasn't all that impressed by it. I guess it felt like "canon, except giving Ginny's moments to Hermione", kind of like how the movies gave Ron's best lines to Hermione. I liked Hermione Granger and the Goblet of Fire better; it has a really organic relationship development, with a compelling reason, namely, Harry believed that Hermione hadn't put her name in the Goblet of Fire, when hardly anyone else did, and so they drew closer over the course of the year.
]]> +Interesting. The Pureblood Pretense series steps in this direction, but I would say that it also steps back from the modern aspect of Harry Potter - especially in Britain. The American Institute of Magic has a more modern feel, starting from Archie's flight on an aeroplane and continuing in that vein, but Hogwarts and British society are firmly in an older age. And it works, because Harry's parents are alive, so she's much less exposed to the nonmagical world than canon Harry was. There's no electricity in their home, she didn't go to a muggle primary school, her whole life is in the magical world, so it can be more Victorian than canon without losing cohesion.
And it makes some sense, too, when magical society is overall in much better condition than canon, with no civil war. With more magical neighbours around, less reason for anyone to hide, and prejudiced segregationist laws promoted by Riddle's "Save Our World" party, it's logical that the Wizarding world is more culturally disconnected.
]]> +You're right that online publishing allows vastly longer stories that a commercial publisher would not allow (they would be, at the very least, put under the knife and sliced to a fraction of their length). I'm not so sure, though, that that length is inherently bad. Insofar as it results from a lack of review and editing, perhaps it is bad, but insofar as it merely reflects the fact that we don't need to cut down trees to print it, I appreciate the opportunity to see more of what the author wanted to write. And The Accidental Animagus felt, to me, less stretched out and less of a drag than eg the Silmarillion.
Certainly some readers prefer things they can quickly finish, and certainly there are stories that pack a 50,000-word story into 500,000 words, but I think there is still an audience for stories that simply have a lot to say.
]]> +Also, the elephant scene always annoys me, because in the books, Gimli won their contest, but the movies had to give the win to the sexier and more popular character.
]]> +Also, there's mention in some of the author notes that she felt there weren't enough good fem!Harry stories, and wanted to give it a try.
]]> +The Bible speaks approvingly of Rahab, who did something very similar for the Israelite spies in Jericho.
At the same time, I would hesitate to condemn someone who refused to lie even in such a cause. Honesty at all costs is worthy of respect, and there are worse fates than martyrdom.
]]> +Not entirely bad, but built on sand. Advancing technology without changing human hearts will just hand more power to the selfish. Advancing understanding of how to rationally work toward your goals, without first embedding the love of neighbor as oneself, likewise.
]]> +Interesting, I missed that about book!fight v film!fight. I thought that films were mostly faithful with regards to books.
]]> +It is much more interesting than the summary makes it sound, though. My initial impression from reading the summary was that it would be a canon rehash, but with Harriett in the girls' dorm, maybe befriending Lavender and Parvati instead of Ron. It's actually nothing like that. The world is very AU, and despite following some canon events, it generally feels like a whole new storyline. Harry is a very different person, too, which I attribute to her different upbringing; she's very goal-driven, very organised, but socially inept, partially as a result of her obsessive focus on brewing, and partly because she keeps secrets from everyone. I think that radically changing her like that was probably good for making the storyline fresh; it gives her a very different schooling experience from canon.
]]> +And that's one of tropes which securely kill any my interest in a story.
]]> +The second film was way off. Most of it focused on the Battle of the Hornburg, which in the book was a minor early skirmish that was always skewed heavily in favour of the defenders.
The third film wasn't terrible IIRC, but it took a big scalpel to the book and sliced out lots and lots of the story in order to finish in time.
]]> +Any idea whether the author would be open to a beta-read?
]]> +I would probably define it more in terms of simply treating people differently because of the race they were born into.
]]> +The typical modern legal position of allowing unilateral no-fault divorce, however, goes too far. It gives too much of the power to the unfaithful; yes, there may be cases where an innocent party has cause to leave a marriage but could not prove a case in court, but there are far more cases where such a rule makes it too easy for someone to abandon their obligations and leave a spouse in the lurch.
]]> +It may well be true that people have such attractions through no choice of their own; my aim isn't to condemn anyone. Merely to point out that the difference between heterosexuality and homosexuality is much more than a difference of eg preferring chocolate or strawberry ice-cream.
]]> +I've come across people who hope for a secular humanist future where immortality and perhaps even resurrection are in reach, so things can actually matter. But when you extrapolate it further, considering the eventual death of the sun and even the heat death of the universe, ultimately such a faith must either still be futile, or else it must include a hope of effectively becoming God - immortal and able to reverse entropy & reshape universes.
]]> +And yes, the story needs some work, but even more than grammar errors (I am not a native English speaker, so I am more tolerant towards those, I guess) is eliminating some chapters, which really don't bring much than repeating what the sentence in the books says diluted into whole chapter. On the other hand, there are some chapters which are really stellar ones. I have even write my sub-fanfiction to it.
]]> +Also, you may believe that “Good and Evil are mortal concepts that in no way matter to Magic Itself.” but that is purely in your head and again, there is no canonical basis for this statement.
]]> +:g
, for example::g/ssr#oldnumber/s/\d+/newnumber/g
You can even start with a visual selection to limit `:g` to the selected section of a file rather than the whole file.
]]> +So how important to Harry can she really be? Harry isn't even thinking about her in more than a passing way throughout the entire Battle of Hogwarts.
]]> +> “We won!” yelled Ron, bounding into sight and
> brandishing the silver Cup at Harry. “We won! Four
> hundred and fifty to a hundred and forty! We won!”
>
> Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him;
> she had a hard, blazing look in her face as she threw
> her arms around him. And without thinking, without
> planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty
> people were watching, Harry kissed her.
>
> After several long moments — or it might have been half
> an hour — or possibly several sunlit days — they broke
> apart. The room had gone very quiet. Then several people
> wolf-whistled and there was an outbreak of nervous
> giggling. Harry looked over the top of Ginny’s head to
> see Dean Thomas holding a shattered glass in his hand,
> and Romilda Vane looking as though she might throw
> something. Hermione was beaming, but Harry’s eyes sought
> Ron. At last he found him, still clutching the Cup and
> wearing an expression appropriate to having been clubbed
> over the head. For a fraction of a second they looked at
> each other, then Ron gave a tiny jerk of the head that
> Harry understood to mean, Well — if you must.
>
> The creature in his chest roaring in triumph, he grinned
> down at Ginny and gestured wordlessly out of the
> portrait hole. A long walk in the grounds seemed
> indicated, during which — if they had time — they might
> discuss the match.
That's IT. There is absolutely nothing more (and even some
stuff is more about other peoples' jealousy than the
relationship between Harry and Ginny itself). Two small
paragraphs. You know all those lovely scenes between Harry
and Ginny on the shores of the Black Lake, where they
explain each other to themselves? Harry's explaining how
he was lost in his romantic feelings for the past two
years? And of course, Harry's returning to Ginny after the
Battle? Yup, that's all just fanfictions. There is nothing
like that in the books (that chapter 37 is really badly
missing).
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