We have bandwidth usage caps in Australia and they suck big time. It varies between ISPs, but some charge additional fees (usually not too much) for exceeding bandwidth, but most cap the speed down to a ridiculous 64kbps! For someone like myself, who often exceeded usage (especially given that the bandwidth cap was so low), it was unbearable. My bandwidth cap was just 6GB when I was stuck on an ADSL1 plan due to lack of support for ADSL2+ at the exchange; the ADSL2+ plan for the same price was, I believe, 40GB (split between peak and off-peak periods, giving 20GB each). Even the 40GB was too low sometimes when I was able to get ADSL2+.
CDs won't be completely replaced until the music industry starts selling downloads in lossless formats, like FLAC. Currently, there are a few independents that sell such formats, but AFAIK, none of the major labels do.
Evolution itself may not be totally incompatible some religious ideas (except creationism), but any rational, logically thinking person should realise that all religions are complete nonsense.
Those of us who are not in the USA can't buy from Amazon's MP3 store, so they're still losing a huge market that will, as a result, continue to rely on file sharing services. I look forward to the day when there are no regional restrictions for digital media download services.
obviously, I can't know for sure, but of those I know about (either because they told me or I found it), they all do. But I don't care anyway, it's not as if it matters.
Public domain isn't the worst at all. Personally, I release almost everything I create into the public domain cause I really don't care what people want to do with it and it's easier than messing around figuring out which licence to use.
Since attribution is a moral right that isn't lost by releasing things into the public domain, I don't really see much practical difference between that and an attribution-only licence or really permissive licence like MIT. Although, I don't really care if people give me attribution or not either, but most people who've reused my stuff seem ethical enough to do so anyway.
XP behaved this way too. You had to be a member of the Administrators group, or the 'Network Operators' group to do a manual release/renew. You can also just unplug and re-plug the network cable.
Note that I said I was logged in as an administrator, so I should have had the right by default, and that it was a wireless network, so I couldn't just unplug the cable.
Although it certainly had it's problems, at least Win ME was usable. Vista gets in the way of absolutely everything! I have never been so irritated with an OS in under 5 minutes of use, until vista came along.
Using a friend's laptop running vista, logged in as an administrator, trying to copy harmless files from a public folder on my mac to the my documents folder on vista was forbidden. I had to copy to my Win XP machine first and then from there to Vista. Once tried to use ipconfig/release and/renew to fix a conflicting IP address, but it gave permission denied error! I had to explicitly select Run As Administrator from the context menu to get elevated permissions just to run ipconfig. Bloody oath! Also, the windows explorer UI is so bloody awful and unusable, it's not even funny.
Seriously, if my only choice was ME or Vista, I'd go back to ME any day. But luckily I can just stick with OS X Leopard and Win XP.
The resulting phone is beautiful. Its aspirations to Appleness are evident immediately: there's the nearly buttonless façade, the huge black expanse of screen, the iPod-like control dial that both spins through lists and clicks at the four compass points...
It made me seriously question whether the photo shown along side was actually the phone they were talking about. That thing is seriously the ugliest phone I've seen in a long time and reminds me of something from the late '90s. Seriously, how could anyone possibly look at that phone and think it's even remotely inspired by the iPhone/iPod?!
"A buttonless facade"??? What the? There are 7 buttons plus the wheel on the front, plus another 20 with the keyboard pulled out. Maybe I just don't understand what "buttonless" means these days".
It's quite likely that NBC has existing deals with various broadcasters in other countries and if NBC started releasing their content directly to consumers in those countries, it would devalue that content for the broadcasters. How many viewers are going to bother watching the show broadcast on their local network when they've already downloaded and viewed the episode 6 months earlier directly from NBC? Of course, this is already starting to happen anyway with Bit Torrent.
What the networks should do is simultaneously distribute the shows to their own regions with their own local advertisements. So basically the same as the traditional model, except the broadcast medium is the internet and there's no 6-12 month delay for those who can't wait to see it on TV. (Although there may still be a delay for those that need dubbing or subtitles done for local languages, but even those regions should release the English-only versions immediately).
It's only available in the USA, it's IE only and uses Windows Media DRM. I wonder how difficult it will be to find an open proxy in the US, download the files with IE and then strip the DRM. Anyone know what quality these videos are? Am I better off just downloading some HDTV or DVD rips via bittorrent?
The whole hard drive industry quotes storage capacities in base 10 SI units. Just because some ignorant consumers don't understand the difference between a Gigabyte and a Gibibyte doesn't mean that Seagate should have to pay for their ignorance. The customer got what he paid for. He should instead sue Operating System vendors for calculating storage capacities in base 2 and reporting as GB instead of either calculating in decimal or reporting as GiB.
Facebook should not have deleted the group, they should have respected the right to free speech. Who cares if some overly sensitive religious fanatics get offended by someone disrespecting their religion? Personally, while I respect everyone's right to believe what they like, I have no respect for any religion at all. Any anti-religious movements of any kind are ok (in fact, they should be encouraged), on the condition that they're peaceful and don't advocate violence against anyone.
Actually, the article element and the other new sectioning elements are also important for the heading level algorithm. When used, the heading level is determined by the number of nested sections, not just the numbered heading element. So you're no longer restricted to the 6 levels provided by the h1 to h6 elements and you no longer have to worry about changing the heading number when moving content around. e.g. An article on one page may begin with a 2nd level heading, but on another page, it may need to be a 3rd or 4th level.
The other advantage is for authors, since it's possible to replace dozens of div elements with other appropriate elements, it makes it easier to maintain the code because, for example, it's easier to match up a <article> with </article>, than it is to match up <div class="article"> with the correct </div>, especially when there are many divs used.
Parent is redundant, the moderator probably just didn't get it. It's funny for the obscure Space Balls reference (except that correct the quote is actually "Why didn't [anyone] tell me my ass was so big!?".)
Microsoft have been using holographic images on discs as an piracy countermeasure for years. The only remotely interesting thing that the articles answers is who were the three guys, but it seemed fairly obvious to me that they would have been Microsoft employees.
Yes, and The Gospel of the Flying Spagetti Monster teaches that all the evidence was planted by the FSM in an effort to test the faith of Pastafarians.
have about 9Gb of music in Ogg Vorbis format and they don't support it
Unfortunately, one of the major reasons why Microsoft and Apple don't support Ogg Vorbis/Theora is fear of submarine patents. It's actually safer for them to pay the MPEG LA and implement patent-encumbered formats, than it is to risk believing that Ogg Vorbis and Theora really are royalty-free.
Not content with the fact we will die in less than ten billionths of the time interval discussed in this story, some of us still obsess with thinking we know the answers to the universe.
No-one knows for certain the answers to the universe. Like most things in science, it's a theory. There's obviously some evidence to support it now, but it's always possible that new evidence will improve our understanding of the issue. It doesn't matter that we will all die long before this ever occurs, it helps to satisfy our curiosity.
How will this affect your behaviour today? Will you re-think going to that club? Will you pick up an extra piece of litter? Will you go and buy up all the compressed helium you can find?
It's not about that at all. It's about learning and improving our understanding of the universe, not providing immediate benefits to our everyday lives.
Seriously.. can't we just leave the Big Answers to the Religions?
No, I'd rather get answers from people who actually study and look for the right answers, instead of leaving it up to blind faith.
This is a perfect example of why domain names should not be a commodity that can be hoarded and resold. Currently,.au domains can't be sold or auctioned, they can only be leased from accredited registrars. AFAIK, the auDA is the only domain authority that gets this right, I just hope they keep it that way.
You're better off using numeric or hexadecimal character references instead, or just encoding the file in UTF-8 and using whatever character you need directly. Although, it would have really helped if XML 1.0 had predefined the entire set of entity references defined HTML4, instead of amp, lt, gt, quot and apos. Then they all could have been used without a DTD.
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We have bandwidth usage caps in Australia and they suck big time. It varies between ISPs, but some charge additional fees (usually not too much) for exceeding bandwidth, but most cap the speed down to a ridiculous 64kbps! For someone like myself, who often exceeded usage (especially given that the bandwidth cap was so low), it was unbearable. My bandwidth cap was just 6GB when I was stuck on an ADSL1 plan due to lack of support for ADSL2+ at the exchange; the ADSL2+ plan for the same price was, I believe, 40GB (split between peak and off-peak periods, giving 20GB each). Even the 40GB was too low sometimes when I was able to get ADSL2+.
CDs won't be completely replaced until the music industry starts selling downloads in lossless formats, like FLAC. Currently, there are a few independents that sell such formats, but AFAIK, none of the major labels do.
Evolution itself may not be totally incompatible some religious ideas (except creationism), but any rational, logically thinking person should realise that all religions are complete nonsense.
Those of us who are not in the USA can't buy from Amazon's MP3 store, so they're still losing a huge market that will, as a result, continue to rely on file sharing services. I look forward to the day when there are no regional restrictions for digital media download services.
obviously, I can't know for sure, but of those I know about (either because they told me or I found it), they all do. But I don't care anyway, it's not as if it matters.
Public domain isn't the worst at all. Personally, I release almost everything I create into the public domain cause I really don't care what people want to do with it and it's easier than messing around figuring out which licence to use.
Since attribution is a moral right that isn't lost by releasing things into the public domain, I don't really see much practical difference between that and an attribution-only licence or really permissive licence like MIT. Although, I don't really care if people give me attribution or not either, but most people who've reused my stuff seem ethical enough to do so anyway.
Or are people suggesting that all patent owners are patent trolls? (A position with which I would largely agree, BTW.)
Not all patent owners are patent trolls. Only those that use their patents to sue people and get in the way of progress and innovation.
Note that I said I was logged in as an administrator, so I should have had the right by default, and that it was a wireless network, so I couldn't just unplug the cable.
Although it certainly had it's problems, at least Win ME was usable. Vista gets in the way of absolutely everything! I have never been so irritated with an OS in under 5 minutes of use, until vista came along.
/release and /renew to fix a conflicting IP address, but it gave permission denied error! I had to explicitly select Run As Administrator from the context menu to get elevated permissions just to run ipconfig. Bloody oath! Also, the windows explorer UI is so bloody awful and unusable, it's not even funny.
Using a friend's laptop running vista, logged in as an administrator, trying to copy harmless files from a public folder on my mac to the my documents folder on vista was forbidden. I had to copy to my Win XP machine first and then from there to Vista. Once tried to use ipconfig
Seriously, if my only choice was ME or Vista, I'd go back to ME any day. But luckily I can just stick with OS X Leopard and Win XP.
When I read this in the article:
It made me seriously question whether the photo shown along side was actually the phone they were talking about. That thing is seriously the ugliest phone I've seen in a long time and reminds me of something from the late '90s. Seriously, how could anyone possibly look at that phone and think it's even remotely inspired by the iPhone/iPod?!
"A buttonless facade"??? What the? There are 7 buttons plus the wheel on the front, plus another 20 with the keyboard pulled out. Maybe I just don't understand what "buttonless" means these days".
It's quite likely that NBC has existing deals with various broadcasters in other countries and if NBC started releasing their content directly to consumers in those countries, it would devalue that content for the broadcasters. How many viewers are going to bother watching the show broadcast on their local network when they've already downloaded and viewed the episode 6 months earlier directly from NBC? Of course, this is already starting to happen anyway with Bit Torrent.
What the networks should do is simultaneously distribute the shows to their own regions with their own local advertisements. So basically the same as the traditional model, except the broadcast medium is the internet and there's no 6-12 month delay for those who can't wait to see it on TV. (Although there may still be a delay for those that need dubbing or subtitles done for local languages, but even those regions should release the English-only versions immediately).
It's only available in the USA, it's IE only and uses Windows Media DRM. I wonder how difficult it will be to find an open proxy in the US, download the files with IE and then strip the DRM. Anyone know what quality these videos are? Am I better off just downloading some HDTV or DVD rips via bittorrent?
The whole hard drive industry quotes storage capacities in base 10 SI units. Just because some ignorant consumers don't understand the difference between a Gigabyte and a Gibibyte doesn't mean that Seagate should have to pay for their ignorance. The customer got what he paid for. He should instead sue Operating System vendors for calculating storage capacities in base 2 and reporting as GB instead of either calculating in decimal or reporting as GiB.
Awesome! Analogue sounds better and now you ca plug it into a computer and digitize it!
Facebook should not have deleted the group, they should have respected the right to free speech. Who cares if some overly sensitive religious fanatics get offended by someone disrespecting their religion? Personally, while I respect everyone's right to believe what they like, I have no respect for any religion at all. Any anti-religious movements of any kind are ok (in fact, they should be encouraged), on the condition that they're peaceful and don't advocate violence against anyone.
Actually, the article element and the other new sectioning elements are also important for the heading level algorithm. When used, the heading level is determined by the number of nested sections, not just the numbered heading element. So you're no longer restricted to the 6 levels provided by the h1 to h6 elements and you no longer have to worry about changing the heading number when moving content around. e.g. An article on one page may begin with a 2nd level heading, but on another page, it may need to be a 3rd or 4th level.
The other advantage is for authors, since it's possible to replace dozens of div elements with other appropriate elements, it makes it easier to maintain the code because, for example, it's easier to match up a <article> with </article>, than it is to match up <div class="article"> with the correct </div>, especially when there are many divs used.
Parent is redundant, the moderator probably just didn't get it. It's funny for the obscure Space Balls reference (except that correct the quote is actually "Why didn't [anyone] tell me my ass was so big!?".)
It said 8m long, not 8m tall.
Microsoft have been using holographic images on discs as an piracy countermeasure for years. The only remotely interesting thing that the articles answers is who were the three guys, but it seemed fairly obvious to me that they would have been Microsoft employees.
Yes, and The Gospel of the Flying Spagetti Monster teaches that all the evidence was planted by the FSM in an effort to test the faith of Pastafarians.
I wonder if its anything like the creation exhibit in this Simpsons clip.
This is a perfect example of why domain names should not be a commodity that can be hoarded and resold. Currently, .au domains can't be sold or auctioned, they can only be leased from accredited registrars. AFAIK, the auDA is the only domain authority that gets this right, I just hope they keep it that way.
You're better off using numeric or hexadecimal character references instead, or just encoding the file in UTF-8 and using whatever character you need directly. Although, it would have really helped if XML 1.0 had predefined the entire set of entity references defined HTML4, instead of amp, lt, gt, quot and apos. Then they all could have been used without a DTD.