Sounds like Gnome 3. Except in their case, it wasn't just a mere opinion, it was design theory that dictated that common work flows should take more effort than before. So there!
]]>Could the Trumpolini administration deport Superman as an illegal alien because he has no visible means of support?
]]>Now days if you want to exist without docs you'll be regulated to hanging out in a corner of nearest Home Depot/Lowe's parking lot at sun up.
]]>We were talking about using garlic rubbed on finger tips as a smelly training aid to teach oneself to stop touching your face for Covid-19 reasons. Which got me thinking. Can Vampires get the flu? Are they immune to all infectious diseases? If they could catch HIV or CJD mad cow disease, I think we would have heard. And they are supposed to have miraculous healing powers and so a super-powerful immune system. I get the impression they generally avoid bodily contact and self-isolate except with their few victims. So presumably they don't spread diseases much except for their own. So are there any written descriptions of Nosferatu or any of his minions catching a cold?
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This observation goes back at least to the makers of Word Perfect, which was an excellent word processor in its day; they observed that 90% of the users only used 10% of the features (and that they could ship a much smaller product if it had been the same 10%). Pretty much any large system will be able to do many things that most users need rarely or never, for the few who do want them.
Wanting an outrageous example I thought up writing boustrophedon text in landscape mode - and then, curious, I googled. It turns out that LibreOffice has been asked about that more than once. It does both LTR and RTL just fine but word wrap doesn't yet handle realtime boustrophedon typing and users must flip alternate lines manually. This is, amazingly, a known request and on their to-do list, presumably very far down.
]]>As far as code support for features is concerned, I'm supporting code that includes what we call 'mosaic printing' - i.e. it prints a single 'image' over more than one sheet. I think we had one customer in the late 1990s that needed this, and I don't think they still use it, whoever they were. But it'd be more work to take this feature out than to leave it in. At least, more work if we don't factor in the test costs for each release ...
1The text may well be a different font size for every character, so can't use the built-in OS support. I think Qt actually has the support I'd require.
]]>I could be wrong, but I got the impression that werewolves are kind of 5-10 years ago too, coinciding with the vampires. […] And if we're really unlucky, the next big thing will be films glorifying hybrid war spun up by national propaganda divisions.
Hmm, that's also kind of 10-20 years ago. There was this drama series which was basically one long national propaganda advertisement for torture and any other crime a big state actor could commit during asymmetrical warfare.
]]>I first came across the term in the Korbluth-Pohl novel Wolfbane, probably when it was first published. Still worth a quick read.
]]>Could they? Probably not, if only because shipping anyone to Krypton is problematic at best. (What do they do with former Soviet Union citizens who have never been to the Russian Federation? It must have come up.) Would they? Probably; the whole "truth, justice, and the American Way" schtick labels him as disloyal to Donald.
Naturally this has come up before; the lovely Law & the Multiverse blog addressed Superheroes and Immigration Status and could hardly have omitted Kal-El's case.
There's also this essay which helpfully brings up the Nationality Act of 1940 and related legislation. Of particular interest is 8 USC § 1401(f) which establishes that infants of unknown parentage found in the US are presumed to be US citizens. If a baby is found in Kansas, rocket or no rocket, the kid's American and Lex Luthor only has until Clark's 21st birthday to prove otherwise.
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