It is nothing like that at all!! You're spreading more FUD than BSA could possibly due with their letters. 1) BSA did not impersonate anyone or show any signs of pretending to be a government agency. 2) They did not say that anything was wrong with the files, they only said that they owened them. 3) You're a dufus.
I'd love to say you're right, but IE6 renders the spiral page just fine. At least on my WinXP box. Granted I had to crank open an IE window to find out since I use Mozilla. Adoption of standards by all browsers is of course the goal.
I'm sure many won't like this, but what about civilian travel. The Russians got $20 mil a pop for a ride in a noisy capsule. Imagine what you could get for a ride in the Shuttle. Hell, take out all of the science, build a passenger compartment in the payload bay and put 20 people in it. 20x20 mil = 400 million. If I recall, it currently costs $500 million per launch the shuttle, including astronaut training and maintenance. If you're payload has no science, you'll save the money on developing the experiments and you won't have to train as many astronauts. The "passenger" compartment can be isolated from the cabin so you don't have to train the "dumb civilians".
*Ahem* allow me to direct your attention to Best Buy, hardley bargain shopping. This has a 40GB HD, DVD/CD-RW, 6xUSB ports. You will have to add in a monitor, I know these can be had cheaper elsewhere, and you won't have Firewire, WhoopEE! We throw in some more RAM for $20 and a microphone for $5 and we're done for under $700. Granted this is walking into BB with no sales. If you shop around even a little, you can knock off $100 easy. Yes, you don't have OSX. Damn, I want my screen to look pretty too, SKIN IT! Oh, and did I mention that there are about a trillion software packages that will run on this box, some are even free! And if you even bring up component quality, let me ask you how much you'll be using this machine of yours in 3 years when some of my parts just might start showing some wear?
Please, in a world where people have to look at the bottom line, buying a Mac is like buying a Jaguar delivery vehicle. It's just not neccesary.
If you're a student who drives a Mercedes and has enough money for a new Mac, I highly doubt that you're in the same situation most students are. Those people telling you you're stupid for buyting the Mercedes...they're right. All the Mercedes tells people is that A) I have lots of money! or B) I'm in debt to my eyebrows. If you have the cash to burn, great for you. For those of us who live in the real world, we'll just get by with more preformance for less money and leave looking good to you rich guys.
you can get it brand new for under a thousand bucks. Not bad.
Not bad except that I can buy a PC for about $500 with twice the RAM. Slap in a wireless card for another $100 and I'm still $400 below the apple, granted, I won't get the cool new OS, but who has $400 to flush?
I am no lawyer, but these seem like seemingly trivial patents. How do these things get through the system? Are the patents more complex than presented here on/. and actually do contribute to something or are the patent clerks just overworked and underpaid. It would be nice to do a followup on all the patents/. has listed to see if they are still in effect or have been thrown out as dumb.
I just opened a guest account on freemail.fm today. I'm going to try it out to see how well it works. My other "free" IMAP account at freeshell has been unresponsive for 2 days, so I'm thinking of switching. Anyway, the point is that fastmail has a way to copy all of your imap content. It actually conects to your old account and uses some method to transfer them all, folders and all. I haven't tried it yet, since I can't connect to freeshell yet, but that might be an option if you're looking for another provider.
People are saying who cares: 1) You have to be 2 feet from the tire. 2) You already have license plates 3) This just IDs the tire, not you 4) No one cares about you
Now I'm not a paranoid freak, but these are just stupid arguments as I'll demonstrate. 1) When you pull through the drive through at McD's and the Bank, you are less than 2 feet and sit there for quite some time. McD's might like to now that VIN #12345 always orders a BigMac, and by linking your VIN to you, they know what you like. 2) Yes, but license plates can not be read without direct line of site, by a computer, for little or no cost. 3) This ties the tires to the VIN of your car, which IDs you. 4) The government may not be trying to track me down, but companies would love to have a way to track their customers.
Let's all not get too paranoid, but at least think things through.
We've had 10 digit dialing here in KC for a while now, and this never made sense to me. If the "switch" knows the number that is dialing out, and sees a request for a 7 digit number, why can't the phone company just tack on the first 3, or 4, numbers of the requesting phone? If I'm dailing out from 913-498-2001 and I dial 345-1234, can't the phone system just append the 913 from my number? Heck you could apply that so that you only have to dial 4 numbers for people in the same exchange. This seems like a really simple solution, so I'm probably missing something. Someone please straighten me out.
If you're doing T&M (Time and Material) work then you should be able to hire on a few more people. Tell the client that if they want a properly functional application then it may cost slightly more but you can get it done in the time frame. Then you sit down and do all of the planning and specing you need. Bring in a decent coder or two, bang out the code then finish up the testing on your own. This shouldn't increase your overall costs too much, it may reduce your take of the deal slightly, but if you're desperate for work some is better than none. I was recently in the same situation and this worked great for me.
I think you're a little misguided on what is interesting. The fact that there is such a thing is interesting. What OS it runs is really of little consequence.
I understand that copyrights may become effectively exclusive via something called extensions, but I don't really understand what the extension is, or why it is granted. Does there have to be some kind of improvment done to the work for it to qualify for this extension? Can a work receive multiple extensions? Can that go on forever?
What were the original reasons for creating a public domain, and what have been the arguments against that to get this law passed?
I have a couple of comments on this. 1) Most of these changes have been antcipated for a long time. applet has been deprecated sine HTML 4.0. The functionality of the H/Section tags is much better than H1-6. The formatting aspects of H1-6 can easily be accomplished through CSS. The same can be said for all of the symantic tags like cite, acronym, quote and so on. Use XML to create your own tags and CSS to give them formatting. Then use whatever engine, it may nto be a browser, to handle your new tags in whatever way is neccesary. There are so many possible specific instances that browsers can't, and shouldn't, be required to handle all of them.
2) Knowing that it will take a while before the standards are adopted, whatever they are, is all the more reason to come out with standards that are so different from the current standards. If you try to make small incremental fixes through standards recomendations, you will languish in constant browser lag time and nothing substantial will change in a uniform way. Instead you will get browser manufacturers creating their own tags to handle these situations and they will undoubtedly be incompatible with other browsers.
This a good thing. Prepare for the standards to be implemented now, so you won't be caught off guard when browsers finally start implementing them.
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It is nothing like that at all!! You're spreading more FUD than BSA could possibly due with their letters.
1) BSA did not impersonate anyone or show any signs of pretending to be a government agency.
2) They did not say that anything was wrong with the files, they only said that they owened them.
3) You're a dufus.
SQL Server!
You can always count on the French to take the idealistic option.
I think you're right, although the article is pretty senstionalistic (sp?) as well.
and ultimately we'll have something that can solve every problem in infinitesimal time
Yes, but what problems will it solve? The asking of questions comes from humans and their inate curiosity.
Would this include liability for charges made on a CC after the number was hacked out of a "secure" database?
I'd love to say you're right, but IE6 renders the spiral page just fine. At least on my WinXP box. Granted I had to crank open an IE window to find out since I use Mozilla. Adoption of standards by all browsers is of course the goal.
correct me if I'm worng, but is it quite a bit easier to get the heart attached than it is to get it to function correctly?
I'm sure many won't like this, but what about civilian travel. The Russians got $20 mil a pop for a ride in a noisy capsule. Imagine what you could get for a ride in the Shuttle. Hell, take out all of the science, build a passenger compartment in the payload bay and put 20 people in it. 20x20 mil = 400 million. If I recall, it currently costs $500 million per launch the shuttle, including astronaut training and maintenance. If you're payload has no science, you'll save the money on developing the experiments and you won't have to train as many astronauts. The "passenger" compartment can be isolated from the cabin so you don't have to train the "dumb civilians".
Just to avoid retyping all this, I'll direct you here
*Ahem* allow me to direct your attention to Best Buy, hardley bargain shopping. This has a 40GB HD, DVD/CD-RW, 6xUSB ports. You will have to add in a monitor, I know these can be had cheaper elsewhere, and you won't have Firewire, WhoopEE! We throw in some more RAM for $20 and a microphone for $5 and we're done for under $700. Granted this is walking into BB with no sales. If you shop around even a little, you can knock off $100 easy. Yes, you don't have OSX. Damn, I want my screen to look pretty too, SKIN IT! Oh, and did I mention that there are about a trillion software packages that will run on this box, some are even free! And if you even bring up component quality, let me ask you how much you'll be using this machine of yours in 3 years when some of my parts just might start showing some wear?
Please, in a world where people have to look at the bottom line, buying a Mac is like buying a Jaguar delivery vehicle. It's just not neccesary.
If you're a student who drives a Mercedes and has enough money for a new Mac, I highly doubt that you're in the same situation most students are. Those people telling you you're stupid for buyting the Mercedes...they're right. All the Mercedes tells people is that A) I have lots of money! or B) I'm in debt to my eyebrows. If you have the cash to burn, great for you. For those of us who live in the real world, we'll just get by with more preformance for less money and leave looking good to you rich guys.
you can get it brand new for under a thousand bucks. Not bad.
Not bad except that I can buy a PC for about $500 with twice the RAM. Slap in a wireless card for another $100 and I'm still $400 below the apple, granted, I won't get the cool new OS, but who has $400 to flush?
I am no lawyer, but these seem like seemingly trivial patents. How do these things get through the system? Are the patents more complex than presented here on /. and actually do contribute to something or are the patent clerks just overworked and underpaid. It would be nice to do a followup on all the patents /. has listed to see if they are still in effect or have been thrown out as dumb.
I just opened a guest account on freemail.fm today. I'm going to try it out to see how well it works. My other "free" IMAP account at freeshell has been unresponsive for 2 days, so I'm thinking of switching. Anyway, the point is that fastmail has a way to copy all of your imap content. It actually conects to your old account and uses some method to transfer them all, folders and all. I haven't tried it yet, since I can't connect to freeshell yet, but that might be an option if you're looking for another provider.
I thought SQL Server used port 1433. What am I thinking of?
People are saying who cares:
1) You have to be 2 feet from the tire.
2) You already have license plates
3) This just IDs the tire, not you
4) No one cares about you
Now I'm not a paranoid freak, but these are just stupid arguments as I'll demonstrate.
1) When you pull through the drive through at McD's and the Bank, you are less than 2 feet and sit there for quite some time. McD's might like to now that VIN #12345 always orders a BigMac, and by linking your VIN to you, they know what you like.
2) Yes, but license plates can not be read without direct line of site, by a computer, for little or no cost.
3) This ties the tires to the VIN of your car, which IDs you.
4) The government may not be trying to track me down, but companies would love to have a way to track their customers.
Let's all not get too paranoid, but at least think things through.
Or maybe regulate them to have reflectors. Let's all try to think just a little before we post. Um kay?
We've had 10 digit dialing here in KC for a while now, and this never made sense to me. If the "switch" knows the number that is dialing out, and sees a request for a 7 digit number, why can't the phone company just tack on the first 3, or 4, numbers of the requesting phone? If I'm dailing out from 913-498-2001 and I dial 345-1234, can't the phone system just append the 913 from my number? Heck you could apply that so that you only have to dial 4 numbers for people in the same exchange. This seems like a really simple solution, so I'm probably missing something. Someone please straighten me out.
If you're doing T&M (Time and Material) work then you should be able to hire on a few more people. Tell the client that if they want a properly functional application then it may cost slightly more but you can get it done in the time frame. Then you sit down and do all of the planning and specing you need. Bring in a decent coder or two, bang out the code then finish up the testing on your own. This shouldn't increase your overall costs too much, it may reduce your take of the deal slightly, but if you're desperate for work some is better than none. I was recently in the same situation and this worked great for me.
Wouldn't it make sense to have bigger tires on the bike? Not only for handling terrain, but it would take a lot less pedaling.
I think you're a little misguided on what is interesting. The fact that there is such a thing is interesting. What OS it runs is really of little consequence.
I understand that copyrights may become effectively exclusive via something called extensions, but I don't really understand what the extension is, or why it is granted. Does there have to be some kind of improvment done to the work for it to qualify for this extension? Can a work receive multiple extensions? Can that go on forever?
What were the original reasons for creating a public domain, and what have been the arguments against that to get this law passed?
Enlighten me!
I have a couple of comments on this.
1) Most of these changes have been antcipated for a long time. applet has been deprecated sine HTML 4.0. The functionality of the H/Section tags is much better than H1-6. The formatting aspects of H1-6 can easily be accomplished through CSS. The same can be said for all of the symantic tags like cite, acronym, quote and so on. Use XML to create your own tags and CSS to give them formatting. Then use whatever engine, it may nto be a browser, to handle your new tags in whatever way is neccesary. There are so many possible specific instances that browsers can't, and shouldn't, be required to handle all of them.
2) Knowing that it will take a while before the standards are adopted, whatever they are, is all the more reason to come out with standards that are so different from the current standards. If you try to make small incremental fixes through standards recomendations, you will languish in constant browser lag time and nothing substantial will change in a uniform way. Instead you will get browser manufacturers creating their own tags to handle these situations and they will undoubtedly be incompatible with other browsers.
This a good thing. Prepare for the standards to be implemented now, so you won't be caught off guard when browsers finally start implementing them.
Just curious, what other places do you visit to get a well balanced view of the IT community? I like /., but it does get a bit extreme for me too.