If people replying to your sig annoy you, wouldn't constantly changing it only illicit more responses, since there's constantly new verbiage to respond to? People used to comment on my sig all the time, but now that it's been around for a couple years, it's fairly rare to get a response.
The truth is, Apple is a marketing based company even more than Microsoft is. That's not an insult at all (I happen to think marketing and sales are as important as the tech itself). Yes, apple has geeks working in company, but would it have enough geeks to put every knob and button on their applications to make them enterprise-ready? I would say no.
Again, it's not a bad thing, it's just not their focus. Apple doesn't want knobs and buttons, they want an intuitive UI and consumer friendly products. It's very difficult to marry that with the robustness required for enterprise software.
Couldn't help one more query (a little more sensible) where I eventually found the definition...
Accessibility is often abbreviated to the numeronym a11y, where the number 11 refers to the number of letters omitted. This parallels the abbreviations of internationalization and localization as i18n and l10n respectively.
Agreed. Unless the EFF did something extraordinary, asking a judge for a $400k recovery is a little like a 4-year old excitedly asking for a billion pounds of ice cream from Santa. It isn't going to happen and it makes you look very amateurish.
There is one and only reason I think a fee like this makes sense: publicity.
While I agree that the penalties allowed under DCMA are out of line and ridiculous, the law is not a tit-for-tat system of retribution. It is the law and it is meant to be applied on the specific issues by themselves.
And as alluded to in the essay above, setting a precedent for excessive legal fees has negative consequences of its own, even to the "good" guys.
But it was fairly obvious. I was consistently given mod points for years, until I moderated the heck out of a story in which I was of the complete opposite opinion of 80% of the comments in the story. So I positively moderated those that agreed with my point of view (and made valid, logical points). Within one month of my moderation, I lost the ability to obtain mod points for 13 months (kind of an interesting-to-know timeframe).
I have found that I get metamoderated into oblivion (and therefore lose my mod-points) if I moderate a discussion in a way which does not fit the general opinion of most slashdot users.
That's the negative aspect of the/. moderation system, it encourages groupthink and censorship.
But yes, I agree, it is certainly the worst - except for everything else.
Can we please stop comparing oppressive theocracies to the governments of the USA, UK, (insert democratic power here)? It's just silly.
Yeah, each of our respective countries has their issues, but comparing us to an actual, honest to goodness repressive regime does nothing but diminish the plight of those truly suffering.
Oh, really? You think the/. corporate overlords (for example) wouldn't take a good, hard look at this offer and try to play Google against msft? Hell, I would. Especially given the/. techie user base which 1) knows how to block ads and 2) knows how to find a site w/o first typing it into Google.
Though the two criteria above certainly don't fit many websites out there, I still believe websites as businesses wouldn't mind at all playing Google against msft. In fact, one could make a very good argument that Google receives a disproportiate amount of revenue from the websites they point to. The market will decide this question. And though I think this type of Internet partitioning has the potential to pull the Internet apart I still have to admit it's an interesting idea.
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good post. thx
Yep, exactly
If people replying to your sig annoy you, wouldn't constantly changing it only illicit more responses, since there's constantly new verbiage to respond to? People used to comment on my sig all the time, but now that it's been around for a couple years, it's fairly rare to get a response.
:)
(yes, irony intended
The truth is, Apple is a marketing based company even more than Microsoft is. That's not an insult at all (I happen to think marketing and sales are as important as the tech itself). Yes, apple has geeks working in company, but would it have enough geeks to put every knob and button on their applications to make them enterprise-ready? I would say no.
Again, it's not a bad thing, it's just not their focus. Apple doesn't want knobs and buttons, they want an intuitive UI and consumer friendly products. It's very difficult to marry that with the robustness required for enterprise software.
Accessibility is often abbreviated to the numeronym a11y, where the number 11 refers to the number of letters omitted. This parallels the abbreviations of internationalization and localization as i18n and l10n respectively.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_accessibility
Will someone please inform a person too lazy to do more than a couple quick google searches, what, precisely "a11y work" is?
I can infer by context, but a concrete definition is always best for the geek brain.
Flowers + alcohol = good time
:)
Don't be a geek and try to over engineer valentine's day. Keep it simple and if she likes you, good things follow
It's a wink, and probably both.
Worked for the jem hadar, right?
+1 sarcasm
Awesome
Agreed. Unless the EFF did something extraordinary, asking a judge for a $400k recovery is a little like a 4-year old excitedly asking for a billion pounds of ice cream from Santa. It isn't going to happen and it makes you look very amateurish.
There is one and only reason I think a fee like this makes sense: publicity.
While I agree that the penalties allowed under DCMA are out of line and ridiculous, the law is not a tit-for-tat system of retribution. It is the law and it is meant to be applied on the specific issues by themselves.
And as alluded to in the essay above, setting a precedent for excessive legal fees has negative consequences of its own, even to the "good" guys.
Unless the cycle time of disruptive innovation is shortening...
Here's a snazzy vid on Nokia Morph for those less inclined to expend the effort reading... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs
You cannot reboot your brain if it crashes. From my perspective... no thanks, at least for the foreseeable future.
I think he had some interesting points, but it could've been summed up in a couple paragraphs.
how do you determine your meta-mod status?
Guessing.
But it was fairly obvious. I was consistently given mod points for years, until I moderated the heck out of a story in which I was of the complete opposite opinion of 80% of the comments in the story. So I positively moderated those that agreed with my point of view (and made valid, logical points). Within one month of my moderation, I lost the ability to obtain mod points for 13 months (kind of an interesting-to-know timeframe).
I have found that I get metamoderated into oblivion (and therefore lose my mod-points) if I moderate a discussion in a way which does not fit the general opinion of most slashdot users.
/. moderation system, it encourages groupthink and censorship.
That's the negative aspect of the
But yes, I agree, it is certainly the worst - except for everything else.
Can we please stop comparing oppressive theocracies to the governments of the USA, UK, (insert democratic power here)? It's just silly.
Yeah, each of our respective countries has their issues, but comparing us to an actual, honest to goodness repressive regime does nothing but diminish the plight of those truly suffering.
Oh, really? You think the /. corporate overlords (for example) wouldn't take a good, hard look at this offer and try to play Google against msft? Hell, I would. Especially given the /. techie user base which 1) knows how to block ads and 2) knows how to find a site w/o first typing it into Google.
Though the two criteria above certainly don't fit many websites out there, I still believe websites as businesses wouldn't mind at all playing Google against msft. In fact, one could make a very good argument that Google receives a disproportiate amount of revenue from the websites they point to. The market will decide this question. And though I think this type of Internet partitioning has the potential to pull the Internet apart I still have to admit it's an interesting idea.
I have very similar thoughts as the parent. The only difference is that I'm in favor of it
Here's the guy (mister_playboy) that does it... he forgot to hit the anon button a while back... what's the point?
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1391719&cid=29633239
Interesting points, I will consider them. Thanks.
Metric shit-ton? Hak5 FTW!
I've just ordered that book, _War is a Racket_
I've never heard of it before, but I read the Wikipedia article and it seemed pretty interesting. I hope it's worth a read?