I don't fear AT&T, Sprint or Cisco. If they decide to do a certain thing, the consumer can always tell them to shove it and move on to something else.
Such as? What if the "something else" tells you "sorry, initial costs are too high compared to market potential, unless you want to pay me $2000 a month for your access. Go to Sprint."? At some point you run out of 'something else'.
Then you realize: Free market is just a theory, it has a lots of holes in it, and you either decide you can do without the monopoly goods you wanted, or pay the requested price.
I'd say the US has come a long way in 200 years, while China is still just as oppresive as it ever was, maybe more so.
There is a huge, gaping hole where your knowledge of the feudalistic and oppressive Chinese emperors (and the powers behind the throne) should have been.
Oh, and remember to smile when the WoD "cops" break down your door in their hunt for drug users.
Well, in a true capitalist society they can charge whatever the hell they want.
There is no such thing as a true capitalist society. Replacing a democratic, elected government with a small number of large corporations is not progress.
Sort of like leeches in nature, except leeches don't whine to the government.
... and people who didn't like AT&T's practices in the sixties could just mail a letter instead of using the phone, and people who didn't like Standard Oil's monopoly could use the bicycle.
You see, it's not just a question of consumer choice of Windows or not, it's also on the application level, where many documents are shipped in "lock'em'in" MS Word format, for instance. There is less and less choice open to the consumer - basically, Bill becomes Stalin.
that has historically been a graphic oriented medium...
First error: "Hyper Text Markup Language" only got support for images a couple of years after it was invented, and just because NCSA added it to an early Mosaic.
point and click is just a little difficult when you can't see to point...
Second error: There is no requirement that the user must use a mouse and GUI. The first web "browsers" ran on dumb text terminals: You entered the number of the link you wanted to visit.
Yes, this does cause a problem with a lot of fancier features that use fancy interfaces.
No, it does not - unless the document author doesn't know HTML. There is no need for "text only" when HTML has good support for "text and (text or images)" in the form of e.g. ALT. Saying that there is a need for a "text only" version of a page is the same as saying that you need to make different coffee cups for left- and right-handed people.
to no longer allow images, boldface tags, italics, frames support...
I wonder if the original story was posted in order to lure all the just-out-of-their-diapers web DUH-digners out of the woodwork. There is a frighteningly large number of "I haven't got a clue" articles from people who haven't learned that HTML is designed to gracefully degrade in environments that don't support a given fanciness.
To the clueless army of "content is what?" strawman posters: There is no need to remove anything - HTML provides the option of including an image - if a browser doesn't render it, the world does not end.
Once it had become brail and physical it was no longer part of the Web, was it?
Are you trolling on purpose, or are you really this dense?
HTML (electronic) documents are separate from their eventual presentation no matter what that presentation is. Do you consider the glass screen in front of you, where electron beams illuminate coloured dots part of the Web? is the collection of magnetic ones and zeroes which at some point stores these "words" part of the Web? If I choose another font than the one the author saw when they wrote a web page - do I disconnect myself from the Web?
The Web is visual.
No it is not. Some of the various presentations of web content are visual. Have you ever used a search engine? Do you think they work by painting "pictures" of the web pages before deciding what phrases should select them? Have you at all any idea about the technology?
The Star Wars trilogy was actually *conceived* as a trilogy.
Not according to producer Gary Kurtz: To quote an interview in SFX Magazine:
When
Star Wars was made, there was no thought of making any more films. It wasn't until it was finished and it was clear that it was going to be popular with audiences that the idea began.
Was a blatant rip off from Hitchikers guide to the Galaxy.
I think the right words are "homage to". Or are all the other mutants a rip-off of "Nightbreed"?:-)
Still a really good movie, though, as could be expected from Verhoeven. Arnie even gets a great one-liner or two: "Consider this a divorce."
(Even if they (as always) take too many liberties wrt. Dicks source material (short story named We Will Remember it for You, Wholesale if memory serves).
I thought about that too, but the picture was really good when I just turned down the brightness of my monitor.
Experimenting with resolutions can also help: Films that looked bad on 1280x1024@60Hz here were much better at 1152x768@75Hz. Or perhaps that was my eyes thanking me for upping the refresh rate.:-)
(For completeness, my setup is a Dxr2 x4 set run through a Matrox Millennium G200 w/8Mb to a Viewpoint/Viewsonic 17" monitor, with all the latest drivers and firmware and whatnot, using Windows 95 OSR 2.5. Why I don't use the S-Video connector? My TV is broken.)
The obvious corollory to this is wondering if God knew which side the burger was going to land on once it fell.
"Butter-side" down. This follows because the supreme force of the Universe - All Things' Inherent Awfulness, last seen in the avatar Sgt. Murphy - says so. The force is so strong that The Ten Commandments originally started like this:
You shall put no gods before me. I might stumble.
You shall make no image of what's in the Heavens, on the Earth, in the waters or between them. You'll only get the colors all wrong, or it won't be in focus, or somebody will sue you for royalties because they happen to be in it.
You shall... beep... please insert another quarter to continue.
Remember the five physical states of matter: Solid, liquid, gas, plasma, and broken.
Oh, and remember to check out rec.humor.oracle once in a while.:-)
Yes, but the GUI designer uses WFC instead of Swing. That alone sucks smelly gym socks. Though WFC is a reasonably good component set, it's tied 100% to Win32.
Until MS come to their senses (and make a Java 2 oriented "VJ++ 2000" or whatever), it cannot beat e.g. JBuilder 3, since JBuilder uses Swing.
Micros~1's 1.1.x JVM and compiler are faster than Sun's, though.
... and it's full of Jews, so Marlon Brando was also "right". People still (rightly) attacked him for the way he expressed his views on the matter. McCarthy was wrong because he wanted to deny (and denied them, since he got that power) the right to be communists.
(He was also wrong in assuming all atheists were communists. It appears your beloved Government hasn't woken up on that yet, and still has that "under God" bit in the Pledge.)
I remember reading a Usenet post from someone who moved from Norway from California. She said that she paid just as much in taxes "back there", but as opposed to the taxes she paid in Norway, she didn't see the money be put to any good use for the society the "state" was supposed to be for.
I like my freedom.
The U.S. idea of freedom is limited by the allmighty Dollar, by who has the biggest gun (surprise, it's the Government), and that noone gives your name to your fascist War on Drugs. The European idea of freedom, on the other hand, is that you contribute to society, which in return provides, so that you are free to do what you please.
The thought "MS IIS 4.0 thinks the administrator probably just forgot to turn on NTLM challenge/response authentication for that page, and decides to do so itself" comes to mind... I'm not certain they use that, but I've run into IIS doing shit like that before.
MS IIS seems written for a closed NT network. No "World Wide" there, unless you fight it using pitchfork()s.
If it weren't for MS, the computing industry wouldn't have grown as fast as it has.
This assumes that without Micros~1 there would have been a vacuum, which is a fallacy: The computing industry was thriving quite well even outside the (initially) limited world that was Microsoft. If IBM had chosen CP/M instead, you can bet Microsoft would have continued writing software for that platform (which they already did AFAIK), but then they would have been a smaller player, and Digital Research a major one, instead of dwindling down to a bite-size company to be swallowed by whomever (Corel?).
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Such as? What if the "something else" tells you "sorry, initial costs are too high compared to market potential, unless you want to pay me $2000 a month for your access. Go to Sprint."? At some point you run out of 'something else'.
Then you realize: Free market is just a theory, it has a lots of holes in it, and you either decide you can do without the monopoly goods you wanted, or pay the requested price.
There is a huge, gaping hole where your knowledge of the feudalistic and oppressive Chinese emperors (and the powers behind the throne) should have been.
Oh, and remember to smile when the WoD "cops" break down your door in their hunt for drug users.
There is no such thing as a true capitalist society. Replacing a democratic, elected government with a small number of large corporations is not progress.
Sort of like leeches in nature, except leeches don't whine to the government.
... and people who didn't like AT&T's practices in the sixties could just mail a letter instead of using the phone, and people who didn't like Standard Oil's monopoly could use the bicycle.
You see, it's not just a question of consumer choice of Windows or not, it's also on the application level, where many documents are shipped in "lock'em'in" MS Word format, for instance. There is less and less choice open to the consumer - basically, Bill becomes Stalin.
First error: "Hyper Text Markup Language" only got support for images a couple of years after it was invented, and just because NCSA added it to an early Mosaic.
point and click is just a little difficult when you can't see to point...
Second error: There is no requirement that the user must use a mouse and GUI. The first web "browsers" ran on dumb text terminals: You entered the number of the link you wanted to visit.
No, it does not - unless the document author doesn't know HTML. There is no need for "text only" when HTML has good support for "text and (text or images)" in the form of e.g. ALT. Saying that there is a need for a "text only" version of a page is the same as saying that you need to make different coffee cups for left- and right-handed people.
I wonder if the original story was posted in order to lure all the just-out-of-their-diapers web DUH-digners out of the woodwork. There is a frighteningly large number of "I haven't got a clue" articles from people who haven't learned that HTML is designed to gracefully degrade in environments that don't support a given fanciness.
To the clueless army of "content is what?" strawman posters: There is no need to remove anything - HTML provides the option of including an image - if a browser doesn't render it, the world does not end.
(Turns off images) It already is. Lots of nice alt texts for images - they should have TITLEs for A elements as well, but it's a start.
Are you trolling on purpose, or are you really this dense?
HTML (electronic) documents are separate from their eventual presentation no matter what that presentation is. Do you consider the glass screen in front of you, where electron beams illuminate coloured dots part of the Web? is the collection of magnetic ones and zeroes which at some point stores these "words" part of the Web? If I choose another font than the one the author saw when they wrote a web page - do I disconnect myself from the Web?
The Web is visual.
No it is not. Some of the various presentations of web content are visual. Have you ever used a search engine? Do you think they work by painting "pictures" of the web pages before deciding what phrases should select them? Have you at all any idea about the technology?
Not according to producer Gary Kurtz: To quote an interview in SFX Magazine:
I think the right words are "homage to". Or are all the other mutants a rip-off of "Nightbreed"? :-)
Still a really good movie, though, as could be expected from Verhoeven. Arnie even gets a great one-liner or two: "Consider this a divorce."
(Even if they (as always) take too many liberties wrt. Dicks source material (short story named We Will Remember it for You, Wholesale if memory serves).
I have a (patent pending) process you can use instead: Don't read stories that don't interest you.
Basically, two things happen:
It's like clockwork, really. Cause and effect/drivel.
Experimenting with resolutions can also help: Films that looked bad on 1280x1024@60Hz here were much better at 1152x768@75Hz. Or perhaps that was my eyes thanking me for upping the refresh rate. :-)
(For completeness, my setup is a Dxr2 x4 set run through a Matrox Millennium G200 w/8Mb to a Viewpoint/Viewsonic 17" monitor, with all the latest drivers and firmware and whatnot, using Windows 95 OSR 2.5. Why I don't use the S-Video connector? My TV is broken.)
"Butter-side" down. This follows because the supreme force of the Universe - All Things' Inherent Awfulness, last seen in the avatar Sgt. Murphy - says so. The force is so strong that The Ten Commandments originally started like this:
Remember the five physical states of matter: Solid, liquid, gas, plasma, and broken.
Oh, and remember to check out rec.humor.oracle once in a while. :-)
Yes, but the GUI designer uses WFC instead of Swing. That alone sucks smelly gym socks. Though WFC is a reasonably good component set, it's tied 100% to Win32.
Until MS come to their senses (and make a Java 2 oriented "VJ++ 2000" or whatever), it cannot beat e.g. JBuilder 3, since JBuilder uses Swing.
Micros~1's 1.1.x JVM and compiler are faster than Sun's, though.
No, they are not. However, there are other implementations that are, such as Kaffe.
It will take them one month to become really good at Java, less than the time taken with the extra work introduced by C++.
Around here, more and more former C++ programmers are flocking to Java.
If I read it right, Visa and Mastercard already have paid: It's the card companies who take the loss - the gambling orgs have their pay.
... and it's full of Jews, so Marlon Brando was also "right". People still (rightly) attacked him for the way he expressed his views on the matter. McCarthy was wrong because he wanted to deny (and denied them, since he got that power) the right to be communists.
(He was also wrong in assuming all atheists were communists. It appears your beloved Government hasn't woken up on that yet, and still has that "under God" bit in the Pledge.)
I remember reading a Usenet post from someone who moved from Norway from California. She said that she paid just as much in taxes "back there", but as opposed to the taxes she paid in Norway, she didn't see the money be put to any good use for the society the "state" was supposed to be for.
I like my freedom.
The U.S. idea of freedom is limited by the allmighty Dollar, by who has the biggest gun (surprise, it's the Government), and that noone gives your name to your fascist War on Drugs. The European idea of freedom, on the other hand, is that you contribute to society, which in return provides, so that you are free to do what you please.
"know HTML, and not from someone who relies on the browser's error correction?
The thought "MS IIS 4.0 thinks the administrator probably just forgot to turn on NTLM challenge/response authentication for that page, and decides to do so itself" comes to mind... I'm not certain they use that, but I've run into IIS doing shit like that before.
MS IIS seems written for a closed NT network. No "World Wide" there, unless you fight it using pitchfork()s.
Just don't expect the commercial software industry to not try and cover their costs through sales. TANSTAAFL.
Or are you among the OSS advocates who are advocates because they like free (beer) software?
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This assumes that without Micros~1 there would have been a vacuum, which is a fallacy: The computing industry was thriving quite well even outside the (initially) limited world that was Microsoft. If IBM had chosen CP/M instead, you can bet Microsoft would have continued writing software for that platform (which they already did AFAIK), but then they would have been a smaller player, and Digital Research a major one, instead of dwindling down to a bite-size company to be swallowed by whomever (Corel?).