I just found an article about a Italian owned restaurant in Philly has a sign requiring English when ordering. Read more

It appears he is causing a lot of controversy, but I applaud him. Yeah I know I’m a horrible person, I expect people that move to a country that uses English as the primarily language to actually have to learn the language. He said nobody has been turned away, and I doubt he has had only English speaking customers. If I was visiting France I would try my absolute hardest to order in French, unless approached in English, but I would at least try because having an English speaking waiter would mean he could help me. I don’t understand how people can get mad at someone for that, you are in America, this country speaks English if you aren’t willing to adapt to how things operate in a country to need to leave. Hell English is about the most universal language in this world, do you think you would have an easier time in China speaking English or Arabic, English or Spanish it would be good to learn it even if you don’t plan on staying in the country.

I sometimes feel bad about the things I say, and that proves a lot of the points I try to make. This country is made to feel guilty for the things it doesn’t do for visitors and immigrants. If I say something about someone from another country should learn the language I am 99.9% sure there are a few people who think I am an asshole, but if I went to their country they would be making comments about me behind my back, the incompetent American and his unwillingness to adapt to other cultures. I thought that was one of the reasons the French hate Americans, we go over there and aren’t willing to try to blend in with the culture we just act American and do whatever we want. How is that any different from someone from another country coming in and expecting people know their language. One reason America sucks so bad is because we have no culture, we have about 500 cultures that don’t get along. It sucks, I wish we had more things here that made us great other than the freedom to say whatever you want.

In the article it mentioned how a customer came to the window and the clerk helped them through the process, I see that as being more helpful than anything. If this man was turning people away and wasn’t budging then you could possibly say something, but he isn’t. There is also a comment in the article about someone saying they hoped the building burned down. The man states that you should speak English in a English speaking country and you want his entire business to burn down. That also proves some of the statements I have made in the past about how you can do something that ranks a 2 out of 10, and someone you said it about has to reply with a 8 out of a 10.

I mentioned a few things before about what needs to be changed in the future and when speaking with a friend he mentioned a interview with one of the creators of TCPIP and how he (the developer) felt a new protocol needed to be created. A lot of standards are being pushed off to the side and in a lot of ways it is just making things worse. There are a lot of sites that are not validating their code and this site is one of them, but I never planned on going this long before I created a new design. All of the sites I make are XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS2 valid and that is important; it makes sure that if the browser is written properly it will display as it should and in a lot of ways it shows you know what you are doing.

Anyway back on topic, as I said in the other post a protocol change to web:// or www:// or something should be done to distinguish it from anything else. This v3.0 of the web will be outlined to the public long before it is released so that hardware can be brought up to date with what will be required. It should be a standard of at least IE7, Firefox 2, and any other browsers at their most recent version since IE7 was released. 1024 resolution would be the minimum, maybe 1280 depending on when this would be implemented, but sometimes even for me 1280 is too small on a 19inch monitor so maybe 1152.

A major thing will need to be a policy on domain names. In the last paragraph you probably noticed I said www:// and the reason is I think all www prefixes should be eliminated; obviously other subdomains should be kept if needed, but www is usually linked back to the root of the domain anyway, it just seems pointless. All domains must show that they are being used for something valid and I guess in some ways sites dedicated strictly for ads would be considered “something”, but it needs to be a blog or something with real content. Basically no squatters, and I think this would need to be something monitored by a neutral organization sorta like net nanny. No pornography, no warez, those things can stay on the old web, I’m sure people reading that are annoyed, but here is the deal, if I am looking at porn I am not there to watch the little spinners twirl as I wait for my image to display I am wanting to see boobie tassles flying around in the air and screaming. If I am looking for illegal software I am looking for illegal software, not cool ajax effects to show me the serial number flipping through the screen into the div it will ultimately be displayed in.

Web 3.0 would be to clean up the web, make things work the way they should and know that everyone on the protocol has at least a certain level of computer hardware or certain software and if they do not that is their fault. A lot of people are off dialup, unfortunately I am still on it, but only because people here are stupid and I have to be here for the time being. I actually have a fiber line that runs parallel to my driveway, I guess it is time to get the shovels. With most off of dialup and bandwidth getting cheaper there should be no more cutting corners will bad design. No more animated GIF files no more 36 point fonts that flash. Ads should probably be Flash and Javascript required since most of these sites will have a flavor of Ajax integrated.

I’m not dumb, I know that is a lot to have happen and a lot of work to maintain, but with all of the volunteers that are available on the internet I think it is doable. The internet is shit in a lot of ways there are so many sites that are abandoned and run by people who have no idea what is going on, this could be the chance to change a lot of that.

That is the error I received while checkout source code today; the fix is very simple, sorta. This error happens for Mac and Windows users where the lack of case sensitivity is not taken into account. In Windows ‘test’ is the same as ‘Test’ so if you have files named that way it will conflict. When you get this error it will tell you what file it could not move so you need to find that file using a repo browser and see what file is conflicting with it. You may need to save each file individually (right click on it, Save As, if using TortoiseSVN) and compare the two to see which you need to keep. Once you have determined which one can be removed, right click on it in the repo browser and select Delete. Don’t worry, if needed you can always recover the file later, I mean shit, isn’t that why we use it in the first place? You should now be able to check out the repository.

Your other choice is to check it out on a linux machine and remove the files you do not want or only use the files on the Linux machine. I am unfortunately on dialup and this code was about 60mb, which is about 4 hours of time. I was on a 10mbit connection when I had the error occur and only had Backtrack with me and had a real hard time trying to get subversion running without development tools I needed. Sounds to me like I need to finally setup Slackware on the lappy.