Often, poisons are helpful in small doses. Then they are called medicines. Like Digitalis, which you really should avoid chewing on in general, but is useful for some heart conditions. In small doses.
Alcohol is also a poison to the body, but we still drink it...
How many years have you been sleeping in a cave? People have been buying ring tones for their phones for a decade now. Why make it into an apparent Apple issue? It's not. People happily paid $1 for short, crap, mono midi attempts at renditions of known tunes back in the day. AND THEY LIKED IT!
When people then are asked to identify the "so many web pages" they invariably come up with some shitty Active/X reliant application. And no, Opera will not support that.
However: If I see a site that does not work in Opera and an equivalent site that does, I conclude the author of the first site has a problem - not Opera. Saying that Opera should have even more error correction than today is like the doctor in the classic joke:
- Doctor, it hurst when I do this! - Then don't do it!
HTML was designed to present information in a way the USER preferred. Your use of "properly" means the web page designer has some right to overrule the user's preferences. Which seems to be the way things are headed, tragically...
The best character in Voyager was the holographic doctor, though he got some of his best lines in the First Contact movie, where he is asked to delay some of the Borg coming through a doorway after Picard. "I am a doctor, not a doorstop!"
The lack of a sexual education, parents neglecting their duty to have "The Conversation" etc. is not caused by porn. It's not porn's problem.
If a child is never taught that hitting people is wrong, and start hitting people after watching an action movie, should we ban the entire production of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill fisticuffs movies?
Exactly: It's like all those "viruses" in emails that aren't viruses but trojans. Does it really matter to the end user who gets infected whether it's called a virus or a trojan? It's still malware.
Sure, if you instead expected there to be something.
It's a bit like if your house has been robbed and the police take a crime scene photograph of your livingroom without the TV. The essential element is precisely the missing TV - but you cannot see it.
Personally I was looking forward to getting Transformers on Blu-Ray. Now I probably will end up getting it on DVD instead, which is fine because
1) They are oh so much cheaper than any of the two new formats * and 2) DVDs look great upscaled to 720p over HDMI from my PS3.
* There are more formats coming, but mostly limited to Asia.
So in my case at least, studios dropping Blu-Ray does not translate to more HD-DVD sales but more "old" DVD sales, keeping the established format alive longer. Dunno if that ass their intended consequence though.
A lot of Mac gaming "died" when Microsoft bought Bungie (Marathon, the Myth series) to make Halo. Had they not, the world might have been a different place.
Of course, most strategy games and FPSes - ironically, including Halo - get ported to Mac anyway.
That last part is hard to do with a phone conversation, legally anyway.
As I understand it, it's perfectly legal to record any conversation to which you are a party, as long as it's stated up front before any recording takes place. "This conversation may be recorded for quality purposes" in Direct Marketing and all that jazz.
The right to copy bank notes are covered by a totally different law. And unless I'm not mistaken, the copyright lies with the U.S. Mint or somesuch. Whoever has the rights assigned by the artist making the engravings, in any case.
But if all it takes is deleting some file it's not an effective measure, and thus not protected by the DMCA? Or? (Disclaimer: I am not a [pimple on society's butt].)
It's sort of like that "copy-protection scheme" that some CDs used that was thwarted simply by (sensibly) disabling autostart in the CD drive options in Windows, or holding Shift as you insert the disc: Not effective.
We use a (non-persistent) session cookie as a technical measure to prevent copyright violations. By closing down the browser you will be "deleting" the session cookie and thus violate the DMCA! Moahahaha!
If the Christian book store sold a sanitized Hustler with no sexual content, or the adult bookstore sold a version of the Bible with all the boring non-sex edited out (and called it The Bible), you would have a point.
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Often, poisons are helpful in small doses. Then they are called medicines. Like Digitalis, which you really should avoid chewing on in general, but is useful for some heart conditions. In small doses.
Alcohol is also a poison to the body, but we still drink it...
Maybe he didn't want to bloat that thread further? :)
You might as well wait a little longer for 10.5/Leopard then. No need to buy Tiger unless you feel you have to have it RIGHT NOW like.
(I havent verified it but I assume Leopard also has PowerPC/G4-5 support.)
How many years have you been sleeping in a cave? People have been buying ring tones for their phones for a decade now. Why make it into an apparent Apple issue? It's not. People happily paid $1 for short, crap, mono midi attempts at renditions of known tunes back in the day. AND THEY LIKED IT!
Well since it's not a problem for pet dogs or pet cats, I am sure it's not a problem for pet humans either...
Mandatory Dilbert quote: "Would it help if I said you resources are our best assets?"
When people then are asked to identify the "so many web pages" they invariably come up with some shitty Active/X reliant application. And no, Opera will not support that.
However: If I see a site that does not work in Opera and an equivalent site that does, I conclude the author of the first site has a problem - not Opera. Saying that Opera should have even more error correction than today is like the doctor in the classic joke:
- Doctor, it hurst when I do this!
- Then don't do it!
HTML was designed to present information in a way the USER preferred. Your use of "properly" means the web page designer has some right to overrule the user's preferences. Which seems to be the way things are headed, tragically...
Except that would be Battlestar Galactica with Borg in place of the Cylons...
The best character in Voyager was the holographic doctor, though he got some of his best lines in the First Contact movie, where he is asked to delay some of the Borg coming through a doorway after Picard. "I am a doctor, not a doorstop!"
The lack of a sexual education, parents neglecting their duty to have "The Conversation" etc. is not caused by porn. It's not porn's problem.
If a child is never taught that hitting people is wrong, and start hitting people after watching an action movie, should we ban the entire production of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill fisticuffs movies?
Exactly: It's like all those "viruses" in emails that aren't viruses but trojans. Does it really matter to the end user who gets infected whether it's called a virus or a trojan? It's still malware.
That's one ROYAL Albert Hall!
Sure, if you instead expected there to be something.
It's a bit like if your house has been robbed and the police take a crime scene photograph of your livingroom without the TV. The essential element is precisely the missing TV - but you cannot see it.
Personally I was looking forward to getting Transformers on Blu-Ray. Now I probably will end up getting it on DVD instead, which is fine because
1) They are oh so much cheaper than any of the two new formats * and
2) DVDs look great upscaled to 720p over HDMI from my PS3.
* There are more formats coming, but mostly limited to Asia.
So in my case at least, studios dropping Blu-Ray does not translate to more HD-DVD sales but more "old" DVD sales, keeping the established format alive longer. Dunno if that ass their intended consequence though.
A lot of Mac gaming "died" when Microsoft bought Bungie (Marathon, the Myth series) to make Halo. Had they not, the world might have been a different place.
Of course, most strategy games and FPSes - ironically, including Halo - get ported to Mac anyway.
Funny, Overrated, I don't care, just use those mod points so that they re-renter the pool. I want some too! Damn mod point hoggers.
There is a pool, right? I bet there is a pool. Full of moist mod points just waiting to be used by horny slashdotters. Ooh.
This just in: Films still come at eleven. Watch our inquisitive documentary "But Which Time Zone?" right after these messages.
That last part is hard to do with a phone conversation, legally anyway.
As I understand it, it's perfectly legal to record any conversation to which you are a party, as long as it's stated up front before any recording takes place. "This conversation may be recorded for quality purposes" in Direct Marketing and all that jazz.
The right to copy bank notes are covered by a totally different law. And unless I'm not mistaken, the copyright lies with the U.S. Mint or somesuch. Whoever has the rights assigned by the artist making the engravings, in any case.
A seat belt is a $0 body guard. Use it or be declared an infant, unfit to care for your own well-being.
But if all it takes is deleting some file it's not an effective measure, and thus not protected by the DMCA? Or? (Disclaimer: I am not a [pimple on society's butt].)
It's sort of like that "copy-protection scheme" that some CDs used that was thwarted simply by (sensibly) disabling autostart in the CD drive options in Windows, or holding Shift as you insert the disc: Not effective.
We use a (non-persistent) session cookie as a technical measure to prevent copyright violations. By closing down the browser you will be "deleting" the session cookie and thus violate the DMCA! Moahahaha!
At least the analogies don't involve cars. Remember: Car analogies are the last resort of the incompetent!
They did a DHTML version of Lemmings, so why not?
(I am lazy, google it.)
If the Christian book store sold a sanitized Hustler with no sexual content, or the adult bookstore sold a version of the Bible with all the boring non-sex edited out (and called it The Bible), you would have a point.