Followed by the fact that the Mormon is the one with only one wife. I find that highly amusing.
Ever since the late 1890s, the official, "revealed" position of the LDS church has been that polygamy is no longer required / sanctioned-- ever since Congress threatened to withhold statehood to Utah if they did not abandon the practice.
"Seized as evidence" means its unlikely to be left with a running uplink to the internet.
And frankly, thats a good thing; if you were arrested on murder charges and a key piece of evidence (which you knew would exonerate you) was on a computer, would you want that left running, with a connection to the internet?
Your pessimism and apathy does LOADS to fix a percieved issue. Way to discourage people from trying to make a difference. I suppose instead of writing to congress, youd feel better writing to Google and Wikipedia to tell them that they wasted their time yesterday during the blackout.
For context, thats about 1 large oil tanker every 5 seconds. Its a lot, but think how puny an oil tanker is compared to the size of the ocean, and then factor in that thats only surface area.
If you read through the article, the problem isnt resistance, its disagreement about how to run the fiber. Noone wants Google to abandon the project, they just cant agree on how to implement it.
Does anyone else have a nagging feeling that Nintendo is doomed in the next console cycle?
No, because Nintendo has received cynicism every new console generation since the N64, and last I checked the Wii mopped the floor with the Xbox and PS3 for about 4 straight years, and followed it up by annihilating the PSP in sales with their DS.
And if I recall correctly, this was the Wii which was panned prior to its release for its bad graphics, stupid name, and awkward controllers, which turned out to be some of the reasons that everyone loved the thing.
So no, any speculation about how Nintendo is dying will be unconvincing until the numbers are actually out.
Java, PDF, and Flash all are executable binary formats. Their primary purpose is not to display images, but to run code.
You do realize that Java, PDF, and Flash are implemented in activeX in IE, right? NPAPI IS Mozilla's ActiveX.
Im pretty sure for the longest time (possibly even now) that none of that code was sandboxed, either, unless you're using chrome (and techincally, I believe Flash in chrome uses Pepper, not NPAPI).
The term orthagonal has a meaning referring to two elements at 90-degree angles with each other: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonality It has somewhat different meanings depending on the context, but most involve the idea of perpendicular, non-overlapping, varying independently, or uncorrelated.
There are many ways to use it, and your claim that it ONLY means "independent" is definitely wrong-- ask any professional mathematician.
As long as they release all the specs and dont act anticompetitively (constantly change the standard and strongarm vendors to comply), that wouldnt be a problem at all.
IIRC, a lot of the HTML5 stuff was based on stuff people had started doing outside the spec since HTML 4 was so limited. What, is all progress supposed to cease until the W3C gets its collective act together and makes an executive decision about what the web wants?
Yes, it does, one of its common meanings / usages is "something that is at odds with"; much like two orthagonal lines do not "agree" with each other, and are "at odds".
AFAIK the problem was never "innovation", which is what OP is accusing Google and MS of, it was the way MS pushed innovation, and then subtly sabotaged efforts to make compliant implementations (like, by only releasing part of a spec, or by leaving the spec open so that various compliant implementations would have different renderings, with MS's being the only correct one).
The comparison to ActiveX is retarded anyways, since Firefox already has that: its called NPAPI, and its used for flash, silverlight, and all the other things that make the web go round.
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Followed by the fact that the Mormon is the one with only one wife. I find that highly amusing.
Ever since the late 1890s, the official, "revealed" position of the LDS church has been that polygamy is no longer required / sanctioned-- ever since Congress threatened to withhold statehood to Utah if they did not abandon the practice.
About 6 months ago I couldnt get rid of mod points quick enough-- every week I got a new batch.
Not sure if its karma based or if the system is just bizarre like that.
Note to everyone, still probably not a good idea to try this-- the diesel in the pan may not be flammable, but any vapors that it gives off would be.
Internet discussions are all fun and games until someone burns their eyebrows off.
Right, because VGA graphics cards and adapters will be illegal, and the gestapo will go house to house looking for hidden DVI monitors?
forced obsolescence.
I dont think that means what you think it means.
So to be clear, OP is complaining that someone who didnt actually break a US law isnt actually in prison. How terrible.
"Seized as evidence" means its unlikely to be left with a running uplink to the internet.
And frankly, thats a good thing; if you were arrested on murder charges and a key piece of evidence (which you knew would exonerate you) was on a computer, would you want that left running, with a connection to the internet?
It would, however, prevent you from using any sort of cloud hosting if you want to keep your data private.
2 words: Encrypted Archive.
And btw, I dont recall a "no encryption" clause in SOPA, PIPA, or whatever else.
Redundancy is built into MegaUpload too unless you do something silly like delete the file you care about off of your local computer after uploading.
If they can crack your encrypted zip file in a few minutes, then youve done something horribly wrong.
Protip, ROT13 is encoding, not encryption.
Your pessimism and apathy does LOADS to fix a percieved issue. Way to discourage people from trying to make a difference. I suppose instead of writing to congress, youd feel better writing to Google and Wikipedia to tell them that they wasted their time yesterday during the blackout.
All this, of course, ignores that Congress and the whitehouse have ALREADY backpedeled on SOPA and that its sounding dead in the water at this point. But yea, the people can make no difference at all, keep telling yourself that.
For context, thats about 1 large oil tanker every 5 seconds. Its a lot, but think how puny an oil tanker is compared to the size of the ocean, and then factor in that thats only surface area.
If you read through the article, the problem isnt resistance, its disagreement about how to run the fiber. Noone wants Google to abandon the project, they just cant agree on how to implement it.
Copper corrodes far worse than silver does.
Does anyone else have a nagging feeling that Nintendo is doomed in the next console cycle?
No, because Nintendo has received cynicism every new console generation since the N64, and last I checked the Wii mopped the floor with the Xbox and PS3 for about 4 straight years, and followed it up by annihilating the PSP in sales with their DS.
And if I recall correctly, this was the Wii which was panned prior to its release for its bad graphics, stupid name, and awkward controllers, which turned out to be some of the reasons that everyone loved the thing.
So no, any speculation about how Nintendo is dying will be unconvincing until the numbers are actually out.
Java, PDF, and Flash all are executable binary formats. Their primary purpose is not to display images, but to run code.
You do realize that Java, PDF, and Flash are implemented in activeX in IE, right? NPAPI IS Mozilla's ActiveX.
Im pretty sure for the longest time (possibly even now) that none of that code was sandboxed, either, unless you're using chrome (and techincally, I believe Flash in chrome uses Pepper, not NPAPI).
Flash, Java, and the other NPAPI plugins dont do that in firefox? Silly me, I thought thats where all those viruses came from.
The term orthagonal has a meaning referring to two elements at 90-degree angles with each other:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonality
It has somewhat different meanings depending on the context, but most involve the idea of perpendicular, non-overlapping, varying independently, or uncorrelated.
There are many ways to use it, and your claim that it ONLY means "independent" is definitely wrong-- ask any professional mathematician.
You mean like Linus Extended Minix as Linux? And for the record, android uses a Linux kernel, and is technically as much Linux as Debian and CentOS.
Filename completion: Learn to use it.
No hardlinks? That wont have any impact?
Most of the rest could be good to see go.
You do realize that BSD license lets you take the source, modify it, and tack your own proprietary license on top of it, right?
Its not viral, like GPL.
Neither embracing nor extending are the evil part, and Google doesnt have a history of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
As long as they release all the specs and dont act anticompetitively (constantly change the standard and strongarm vendors to comply), that wouldnt be a problem at all.
IIRC, a lot of the HTML5 stuff was based on stuff people had started doing outside the spec since HTML 4 was so limited. What, is all progress supposed to cease until the W3C gets its collective act together and makes an executive decision about what the web wants?
Yes, it does, one of its common meanings / usages is "something that is at odds with"; much like two orthagonal lines do not "agree" with each other, and are "at odds".
AFAIK the problem was never "innovation", which is what OP is accusing Google and MS of, it was the way MS pushed innovation, and then subtly sabotaged efforts to make compliant implementations (like, by only releasing part of a spec, or by leaving the spec open so that various compliant implementations would have different renderings, with MS's being the only correct one).
The comparison to ActiveX is retarded anyways, since Firefox already has that: its called NPAPI, and its used for flash, silverlight, and all the other things that make the web go round.