Just annecdotal, since I don't have numbers to back it up, but comment pages seem a LOT faster with the cut over from YUI. The lil floating comment bar used to be PAINFULLY slow in letting me scroll through.
... but there is one thing that the government could do to help solve this. Get the FCC to revise their statement that the cable companies are indeed Common Carriers on their Internet Service and not just their IP phone services. That would at least help those of us stuck with Comcast as a sole high-speed provider some sort of recourse beyond a gamble on a class-action suit that may or may not go anywhere.
It used to be worse than that. The client systems that they sent to Stock Traders of any large-ish volume was SCO Unix prior to the MS switch. I used to dread the phone calls from the stock traders that I used to work with when that sucker would throw craps. oi.
Let's play this one out a bit. You work for a company that makes widgets. Your company is really really good at making widgets. Janitorial services are definitely not the forte of anyone directly responsible for the normal operations of making and selling these widgets.
Why add an in-house service that you're obviously not good at when there are plenty of local janitorial service companies that you can contract out to and be more capable of at least telling whether or not the contracted company is doing a good or bad job at it?
Note, I do know that it's harder to tell on some things whether the contracted company is doing a good job without internal working knowledge. But janitation... pretty easy to tell that the toilets, bathrooms, carpets aren't being cleaned.
IANAL blah blah blah....
But in this case, they don't have grounds for a counter-suit... Yet. The RIAA has really painted themselves into a corner and this exactly the outcome the Defense would want in this case. If the judge dismisses with prejudice, they have an opening to at least get the cost of all the lawyer's fees back. If the RIAA proceeds to trial, fails to prove a prima facia case (black letter law requirements of bringing a case to court) for the copyright infringement, this gives the Defense grounds for a counter-suit. A counter-suit that attaches not only the legal fees for the previous court case but also the following court case AND punitive damages.
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I prefer my children to be more free-ranged. Ear tag and brand them to allow for quick identification should someone attempt to horn-in on my 'herd'.
Seriously.... This isn't a tech problem, this is a human problem. Get on the school district's case about this through any and all public means.
If you're the typical Slashdot reader, you probably have natural cup sizes of As or Bs already.
There, fixed that for ya!
Just annecdotal, since I don't have numbers to back it up, but comment pages seem a LOT faster with the cut over from YUI. The lil floating comment bar used to be PAINFULLY slow in letting me scroll through.
Yup, about 63% larger.
US Population: 301,139,947
EU Population: 490,426,060
Well, we know that one blog post equals a billion people. So there's over 12 billion people experiencing this problem!
Ahhhh Family Guy. You've taught us well.
Don't worry! They'll let you know between water boarding sessions at Gitmo.
... but there is one thing that the government could do to help solve this. Get the FCC to revise their statement that the cable companies are indeed Common Carriers on their Internet Service and not just their IP phone services. That would at least help those of us stuck with Comcast as a sole high-speed provider some sort of recourse beyond a gamble on a class-action suit that may or may not go anywhere.
It used to be worse than that. The client systems that they sent to Stock Traders of any large-ish volume was SCO Unix prior to the MS switch. I used to dread the phone calls from the stock traders that I used to work with when that sucker would throw craps. oi.
Let's play this one out a bit. You work for a company that makes widgets. Your company is really really good at making widgets. Janitorial services are definitely not the forte of anyone directly responsible for the normal operations of making and selling these widgets.
Why add an in-house service that you're obviously not good at when there are plenty of local janitorial service companies that you can contract out to and be more capable of at least telling whether or not the contracted company is doing a good or bad job at it?
Note, I do know that it's harder to tell on some things whether the contracted company is doing a good job without internal working knowledge. But janitation... pretty easy to tell that the toilets, bathrooms, carpets aren't being cleaned.
IANAL blah blah blah.... But in this case, they don't have grounds for a counter-suit... Yet. The RIAA has really painted themselves into a corner and this exactly the outcome the Defense would want in this case. If the judge dismisses with prejudice, they have an opening to at least get the cost of all the lawyer's fees back. If the RIAA proceeds to trial, fails to prove a prima facia case (black letter law requirements of bringing a case to court) for the copyright infringement, this gives the Defense grounds for a counter-suit. A counter-suit that attaches not only the legal fees for the previous court case but also the following court case AND punitive damages.