Now, I like standards as much as the next guy, but don't dilute yourself. Standards bodies typically move much slower than the market so the market must move forward without them.
That is a really poor excuse for not supporting existing standards. W3C is an 'industry standard' standards body, and as such moves faster than recognised standards organisations.
CSS2 is 4 years old, and still IE has by far the worst support for it of any major browser. I don't really object to vendors producing eye candy stuff like coloured scrollbars; when they do it and can't get the basics right (like taking until version 6 to understand difficult concepts like 'width') you have to question their motives.
HP having good compilers? These are the same people with the *abysmal* C++ compiler, the one years behind everyone else?
Thay have Compaq's compiler people too (or had actually). A lot of the folks who used to write the backend code for Alphas have gone to Intel to do the equivalent on the Itanium.
Example: There is a mandatory 9.6 microsecond gap between attemps to transmit frames on the ethernet (this is a minimum limit). In 10Mbps, this is 96 bits worth of time. In 100, it's 960..
Wrong. It's constant in bit times, so it's 96 bits whatever the speed. At 100MB/s it's 0.96 microseconds etc.
They held the businessmen as prisoners of war for several weeks and only released the German after an envoy from the German government was sent to negotiate. This was basically de facto recognition of Sealand's soveriegnty
That's a laughable claim; the job of the German consular officials is to protect the lives of their citizens. Extracting a hostage, without making any concession whatsoever was a good days work. I could hold a hostage and demand that a priest got sent in to negotiate but it wouldn't make me God would it?
People are not magically attracted to buttons.. Most looked at it, but they avoided pushing it.
In a sufficiently large group there is always someone; remember the goldfish in a blender?
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I wonder if there's a list of printers and/or phones that perform in such a manner. I'm not sure if the law would deem such behavior as "anti-competitive", but I as a customer certainly find it so, as well as offensive.
It's certainly on the list of things the EU competition commissioner is looking at. At least for inkjet refills.
As the article mentions, there was an prophecy that Troy was safe as long as the Palladium remained in the city.
However, a band of smart geeks (erm Greeks) found a back door into the city, disabled the protection mechanism thus leaving the city wide open to attack.
C.S. Lewis wrote an article about this sometime in the 50's or 60's. His basic argument pondered several questions: do aliens have a soul? Are they, too, fallen, and therefore need a redeemer, or do they not sin?
And it was also a favourite topic in SF of that era. In Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles one of the missionaries is fascinated by these questions. And, less sympathetically, in Harrison's "The Streets of Ashkelon" the aliens start off innocent and only become fallen because of the missionary's attempt to redeem them.
Someone once said, "you don't really learn anything about comparative biology by only looking at one ecosystem". The same is probably true about religion.
So.. who 'owns' the information about your signal? Did it mention in your contract that your phone company can use your signal information to track you? I bet it didn't!
We are in the kind of wierd situation at the moment were it would be illegal to use data associated with individuals like this. However, the phone companies have to retain it for RIP purposes.
Anyone seriously worried about privacy would use a prepaid mobile (cash payment, no contract).
Well, yes, I don't think many people but the most hardcore of standards purists could claim that IE isn't pretty good at following the rules.
Call me a standards purist if you like but IE has improved form poor to merely passable in its standards support. They fixed several annoying bugs in IE5 but they still have a hell of a long way to go. It took them until version 6 to get difficult concepts like 'width' and 'height' correct.
Or you could just encrypt your email. Now there's a thought.
That does no good at all. We are talking about ISPs retaining mail headers; similar to the telco keeping records of numbers dialled, so the cops can try to identify contacts. What you need is a secure anonymizing service in a different jurisdiction.
Not that encrypting your mail isn't a good idea too - but this legislation isn't about wiretaps.
You're missing the point, and in another way, totally wrong. You say that Samba copies "the corporates," but I'd like to know what corporation wrong software that lets Windows and Linux, HPUX, Solaris, IRIX, and more all communicate together as easily as they can with samba.
That's *is* the point though isn't it: Samba is a fine product but is a reverse engineered implementation of a protocol filled with legacy cruft and backwards compatibility bugs.
The question is, why isn't there a better solution based on an open specification? Why aren't we all using something like DCE/DFS or Coda?
After living in the EU for a short while, I can say virtually all electronic items (as with everything else) sometimes cost up to almost double what we pay
That's been true for almost forever, whereas the environmental laws are comparatively recent. In the UK £1 gets you 1$ of electronic goods, and we have nothing like as strict laws as some parts of mainland Europe.
Folks are slowly getting less tolerant of it; unfortunately stuff like PAL/NTSC, DVD region encoding makes buying imports non-trivial.
The bad news: They still haven't quite understood the situation yet, based on the article taken from the City of Battle Creek page:
It seems to have got a bit jumbled on its way through the press office. The direct quotes make more sense. Sure, if I received a piece of mail that crashed my server I might at first assume it was a deliberate DoS. It takes a bit of experience to realise that you have to look deeper.
It's one more sysadmin that's learnt that the hard way.
That's one point that's interesting.. The US as a whole probably has the cleanest vehicals around...one of those cars must put out as much pollution at 10 or so of the US's automobiles.
I'm afraid that's bull. In terms of local pollution, it's true that emission controls do improve the local environment, particularly in urban areas.
However, in terms of the CO2 they produce, which is their main contribution to greenhouse gase production, it's just marginal efficiency gains. Worth having but not very significant. A fuel hog produces more CO2: end of story.
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What you get up to in your spare time is your own affair ;)
Worry not. Most of your users won't bother to tell you if your pages are buggy - they'll just go somewhere else.
Your attitude is not new: just go back through old Usenet postings and read the 'why should I care if my pages only look good in Netscape?' posts.
Still, if your employers are happy to pay you twice: once for IE only pages, and again next year for cross-platform ones why should you care either?
That is a really poor excuse for not supporting existing standards. W3C is an 'industry standard' standards body, and as such moves faster than recognised standards organisations.
CSS2 is 4 years old, and still IE has by far the worst support for it of any major browser.
I don't really object to vendors producing eye candy stuff like coloured scrollbars; when they do it and can't get the basics right (like taking until version 6 to understand difficult concepts like 'width') you have to question their motives.
It's widely available. Here, for example. Other jurisdictionshave adopted it as a model.
Thay have Compaq's compiler people too (or had actually). A lot of the folks who used to write the backend code for Alphas have gone to Intel to do the equivalent on the Itanium.
I see Barbie's having a bad hair day-
"Barbie Girl" is protected free speech.
Welcome back then, Yoda.
In the UK, a proposal to store Acts of Parliament on paper was thrown out for this reason. We still use dead goats: no not for that - for writing on.
Wrong. It's constant in bit times, so it's 96 bits whatever the speed. At 100MB/s it's 0.96 microseconds etc.
That's a laughable claim; the job of the German consular officials is to protect the lives of their citizens. Extracting a hostage, without making any concession whatsoever was a good days work. I could hold a hostage and demand that a priest got sent in to negotiate but it wouldn't make me God would it?
As my old maths teacher once said, "All good mathematicians are lazy but, unfortunately for you, not all lazy people are good mathematicians."
In a sufficiently large group there is always someone; remember the goldfish in a blender?
It's certainly on the list of things the EU competition commissioner is looking at. At least for inkjet refills.
However, a band of smart geeks (erm Greeks) found a back door into the city, disabled the protection mechanism thus leaving the city wide open to attack.
I wouldn't recommend using one as a way to tamperproof your PC though. The radiation causes parity errors.
And it was also a favourite topic in SF of that era. In Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles one of the missionaries is fascinated by these questions. And, less sympathetically, in Harrison's "The Streets of Ashkelon" the aliens start off innocent and only become fallen because of the missionary's attempt to redeem them.
Someone once said, "you don't really learn anything about comparative biology by only looking at one ecosystem". The same is probably true about religion.
We are in the kind of wierd situation at the moment were it would be illegal to use data associated with individuals like this. However, the phone companies have to retain it for RIP purposes.
Anyone seriously worried about privacy would use a prepaid mobile (cash payment, no contract).
Call me a standards purist if you like but IE has improved form poor to merely passable in its standards support. They fixed several annoying bugs in IE5 but they still have a hell of a long way to go. It took them until version 6 to get difficult concepts like 'width' and 'height' correct.
That does no good at all. We are talking about ISPs retaining mail headers; similar to the telco keeping records of numbers dialled, so the cops can try to identify contacts. What you need is a secure anonymizing service in a different jurisdiction.
Not that encrypting your mail isn't a good idea too - but this legislation isn't about wiretaps.
Who brought the Soviet Union into it?
WTF is BDS? Did you do too much LDS in the 60's?
That's *is* the point though isn't it: Samba is a fine product but is a reverse engineered implementation of a protocol filled with legacy cruft and backwards compatibility bugs.
The question is, why isn't there a better solution based on an open specification? Why aren't we all using something like DCE/DFS or Coda?
That's been true for almost forever, whereas the environmental laws are comparatively recent. In the UK £1 gets you 1$ of electronic goods, and we have nothing like as strict laws as some parts of mainland Europe.
Folks are slowly getting less tolerant of it; unfortunately stuff like PAL/NTSC, DVD region encoding makes buying imports non-trivial.
It seems to have got a bit jumbled on its way through the press office. The direct quotes make more sense. Sure, if I received a piece of mail that crashed my server I might at first assume it was a deliberate DoS. It takes a bit of experience to realise that you have to look deeper.
It's one more sysadmin that's learnt that the hard way.
I'm afraid that's bull. In terms of local pollution, it's true that emission controls do improve the local environment, particularly in urban areas.
However, in terms of the CO2 they produce, which is their main contribution to greenhouse gase production, it's just marginal efficiency gains. Worth having but not very significant. A fuel hog produces more CO2: end of story.