The Bush docterine has in fact, been highly successful. We have not been attacked at home again since 911. There is no getting around that fact.
This is a totally fallacious argument. It assumes that we would have been attacked had the Bush "doctrine" not been in effect. That we haven't says nothing BUT that we haven't. You'll need to demonstrate causality.
A small clarification. HTTP is not based on HTML, it is the protocol used for the transport of HTML. I can use HTTP to transmit all kinds of data, not just HTML.
Let's see...reduce the current customer base by 6.5 million paying customers and what do you have? That's a pretty major loss by anyone's standards. Go for it, Virgin. Make their day.
Actually, that won't even do the trick. The trick is to keep the money from the interests that seek this crap in the first place. Treat modern copyright for what it is - a defect - and avoid buying stuff (where practical) that suffers from this defect. Remind the producers where their paycheck comes from.
Am I the only one who sees something bad about that?
Not necessarily - it does impose some constraints so that the results will be reasonably good. Of course, you can take a hatchet to what they give you and create a mess out of it, but you can do that with anything.
Kudos to Viacom - they're moving in the right direction. Now, content providers need to focus on the quality of their product - quit compressing the hell out of it so that it looks so bad that one could easily mistake it for something that preceded the original broadcast by a decade or so.
Awesome history there. It's sad to see that all your work was lost - I know that feeling.
Hypercard was indeed an amazing product, but I will never understand why certain decisions were made. For example, why did Atkinson choose to have hypercard objects violate Apple's own user interface guidelines? Why wasn't color ever considered? (Well, it was eventually, but the solution seemed like a clumsy afterthought).
I think even today something like Hypercard (included as part of an OS) would be very useful, with some major updates, of course, to take advantage of more recent technology. If nothing else, it could provide a world of experimentation and enjoyment for young people.
It's actually quite funny to see this...the doze crowd is more than willing to toss rotten tomatoes at OpenOffice for its quirks, but this....THIS....in Excel even, is rediculous.
I didn't thing it was possible for such a basic function to be so broken - especially in a 3.0 release. Sure enough, I created a simple set of seven values in a column, one of them a numeric value based on the sum of numbers in another column, and it *completely* messes up the sort. While I do have respect for what they've accomplished, they need to get this kind of stuff fixed. Soon.
Hm, I haven't noticed these cameras. At walmart. Oh...maybe it's because I've set foot in there only about twice over the last five years. The best part about it is that I don't recall ever having regretted it.
My guess...just a different application of the theory behind the "Trusted Computing Platform". I'm wondering if the "protection" this is supposed to offer is really for someone else's benefit.
My understanding is that it wasn't rushed through - the original draft was debated for about three weeks, and had very strong bipartisan support. Enter Bush & Co stage left. They took the bill, modified it quite substantially, and then after having had the presses run overtime printing it through the night, made it available the morning of the vote. Nobody had a chance to read it, much less understand its implications.
What puzzles me is why Congress even voted on this version rather than tossing every copy into a bonfire, and then re-scheduling a vote for the original version. Then, they blew it a second time when they voted to re-authorize it.
Suffice it to say that the Bush regime is largely to blame for the PATRI0T act, but the fact that it's still here means there more than enough blame to go around.
I agree...I wholly don;'t understand some of Pidgin's design decisions. It was so frustrating I stopped using it in favor of Miranda. Miranda could use some UI work itself (NOT BY DEVELOPERS!), but it seemed less of a pain.
So THAT'S the plan...they're going to embrace the linux server space with clueless windows admins, who, through their own incompetence, will slowly extinguish any interest in Linux. Once you can get someone to play the role of a "connect the dots" admin, you can make all kinds of interesting things happen.
They may have "hurt their fans," but what they did was a business decision. It was theirs to make. Contrary to popular belief, I don't think "making music" is at all about "pleasing fans". I think it's about creative expression. Period. If you're doing it to make money, you're doing it for the wrong reason.
I don't think so...the point is that the copyright holder has every right to decide the contract by which one will legally acquire something they've created. If you don't like the fact that their music isn't free, fine, but they did nothing wrong by insisting that people actually pay them for the music they're enjoying.
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Contributory negligence. Lawsuit, anyone?
Too bad they can't mod up to 6, because this certainly deserves it.
The Bush docterine has in fact, been highly successful. We have not been attacked at home again since 911. There is no getting around that fact.
This is a totally fallacious argument. It assumes that we would have been attacked had the Bush "doctrine" not been in effect. That we haven't says nothing BUT that we haven't. You'll need to demonstrate causality.
Cancel your internet subscriptions. Cancel your cell phone accounts. Don't think these companies won't be screaming bloody murder.
A small clarification. HTTP is not based on HTML, it is the protocol used for the transport of HTML. I can use HTTP to transmit all kinds of data, not just HTML.
I wonder this will work against the Bane in Tabula Rasa...red armor paint, here I come!
Let's see...reduce the current customer base by 6.5 million paying customers and what do you have? That's a pretty major loss by anyone's standards. Go for it, Virgin. Make their day.
Actually, that won't even do the trick. The trick is to keep the money from the interests that seek this crap in the first place. Treat modern copyright for what it is - a defect - and avoid buying stuff (where practical) that suffers from this defect. Remind the producers where their paycheck comes from.
Am I the only one who sees something bad about that?
Not necessarily - it does impose some constraints so that the results will be reasonably good. Of course, you can take a hatchet to what they give you and create a mess out of it, but you can do that with anything.
Kudos to Viacom - they're moving in the right direction. Now, content providers need to focus on the quality of their product - quit compressing the hell out of it so that it looks so bad that one could easily mistake it for something that preceded the original broadcast by a decade or so.
Thank you for the info!
Your point is totally valid. It did seem however, like other products (SuperCard for example) incorporated color without too much trouble.
And I remember Nine to Five Software and Reports for Hypercard - that was one product that really opened Hypercard up for more serious applications.
Awesome history there. It's sad to see that all your work was lost - I know that feeling.
Hypercard was indeed an amazing product, but I will never understand why certain decisions were made. For example, why did Atkinson choose to have hypercard objects violate Apple's own user interface guidelines? Why wasn't color ever considered? (Well, it was eventually, but the solution seemed like a clumsy afterthought).
I think even today something like Hypercard (included as part of an OS) would be very useful, with some major updates, of course, to take advantage of more recent technology. If nothing else, it could provide a world of experimentation and enjoyment for young people.
It's actually quite funny to see this...the doze crowd is more than willing to toss rotten tomatoes at OpenOffice for its quirks, but this....THIS....in Excel even, is rediculous.
I didn't thing it was possible for such a basic function to be so broken - especially in a 3.0 release. Sure enough, I created a simple set of seven values in a column, one of them a numeric value based on the sum of numbers in another column, and it *completely* messes up the sort. While I do have respect for what they've accomplished, they need to get this kind of stuff fixed. Soon.
I like pies, cake, ice cream, all that stuff. But I rarely buy it. My philosophy is simple: you can't eat what you don't have.
Cisco has them.
Hm, I haven't noticed these cameras. At walmart. Oh...maybe it's because I've set foot in there only about twice over the last five years. The best part about it is that I don't recall ever having regretted it.
My guess...just a different application of the theory behind the "Trusted Computing Platform". I'm wondering if the "protection" this is supposed to offer is really for someone else's benefit.
Simple...it's a chapter from Microsoft's own playbook: embrace and extinguish.
My understanding is that it wasn't rushed through - the original draft was debated for about three weeks, and had very strong bipartisan support. Enter Bush & Co stage left. They took the bill, modified it quite substantially, and then after having had the presses run overtime printing it through the night, made it available the morning of the vote. Nobody had a chance to read it, much less understand its implications.
What puzzles me is why Congress even voted on this version rather than tossing every copy into a bonfire, and then re-scheduling a vote for the original version. Then, they blew it a second time when they voted to re-authorize it.
Suffice it to say that the Bush regime is largely to blame for the PATRI0T act, but the fact that it's still here means there more than enough blame to go around.
I agree...I wholly don;'t understand some of Pidgin's design decisions. It was so frustrating I stopped using it in favor of Miranda. Miranda could use some UI work itself (NOT BY DEVELOPERS!), but it seemed less of a pain.
So THAT'S the plan...they're going to embrace the linux server space with clueless windows admins, who, through their own incompetence, will slowly extinguish any interest in Linux. Once you can get someone to play the role of a "connect the dots" admin, you can make all kinds of interesting things happen.
They may have "hurt their fans," but what they did was a business decision. It was theirs to make. Contrary to popular belief, I don't think "making music" is at all about "pleasing fans". I think it's about creative expression. Period. If you're doing it to make money, you're doing it for the wrong reason.
I don't think so...the point is that the copyright holder has every right to decide the contract by which one will legally acquire something they've created. If you don't like the fact that their music isn't free, fine, but they did nothing wrong by insisting that people actually pay them for the music they're enjoying.