Yeah but thats not very exciting is it?... "Just another merger"... but the more you can make it sound like the entire future of Linux depends on this single deal, the more attention you get...
with the combined effort, and more importantly financial backing, Yahoo could over a year or two become equal or even greater than Google in many possibly most ways, even if they have to do it by buying out smaller companies, thus buying loyalty aswell as new customers.
Semi-valid arguement, however its not really *where* the story originates, but how many people it reaches... some people (myself included) dont like Ars Technica, mainly because its a pain in the Ars, too much advertising, links, way too much focus on bullshit rather than the story (I mean the layout of the site, not the articles)... and its about a third as speedy as/.
What/. need is a forum on itself (Maybe there is but only for "Subscribers" ?) or atleast a poll now and again about "How could/. improve ths site?"
This is basically Offtopic, but harvesting anything from the moon (He3) seems inherintly dangerous given the whole mass/gravity thing, you'd be playing around with the whole tidal system, messing with countless amounts of animals brains(including our own) and navigation "systems"... plus factoring in things like the impact of landing, and taking off...
"Uhh... Sir? We seemed to have caused the moon to break free from Earth orbit"
"No time to worry about that, we have bigger fish to fry! all the sea life is dying"
Im fairly confident that the earth is relatively impervious to our existance (in that it will still rotate, and life will still exist, including our own species) if all we are doing is basically dissorganizing materials in our little bubble... but messing with the moon, kinda scary...
Sure there is the arguement that *however many* tons of debris lands on the earth and moon every day, its sort of a natural distibution based partly on chaos, and partly on gravity... but we always do things in an ordered fashion...with general disregard for what it may effect... carving "CHA" into the moon... Sponsered by Ikea... then wondering why grass refuses to seed anymore...
Bullshit, its not doing anything to gaming, certainly not killing it...you even said it yourself...
"...amount of PC players currently playing CoD4 Multiplayer (which was fantastic)."
What it may be doing is reducing the size of the large gaming developement studios... and in many cases thats no real loss, its not like creating a video game costs much money ($300 for a Desktop at DEll or whatever, done), you can get hundreds of people to Beta test "just for fun", and distribution is essentially free with the internet, if its a successful enough game, you could sell it (as in the right to distirbute) to gaming magazines and even make back profit, not to mention donations, and awards/grants etc.
Yeah... but is she cute?... whoops, I mean... did her job envolved taking apart computers? just because you know someone who got hired as a Secretary, or a Proof-Reader of E-Mails or something doesnt mean the entire organization is faulty...
I was not talking about the legalities, I was simply (agreeing by) stating that the tax does apply to CD's...
However, this tax does not apply to P2P, or any other method of transporting/containing digital music (yet)
Nor did I say that I was refering to the payment of the artists, I was saying it from the perspective of the CRIA, as in they are making some revenue from the said CD Tax... but not as much as they would like because its an avoidable and somewhat dated media now... hence: "but the current implimention wont last long"
Exactly, and furthermore the next time some third-world countries government (monopoly) opts for genocide, there's no point in bitching and moaning every time someone dies, you should just go live in a cave till its over...
I never said its NOT a Race, I said It SHOULD NOT be a Race, at least not the way they are, or have been "racing" in the past, where the loser might cause nuclear warfare or something... but compition for who makes what parts, and so forth, is almost a must if you want the best products and tools to get the job done...
Who says it has to obscure anything?... a ToolTip can be drawn anywhere, even a newb programmer can figure out where the edges of the control is and draw the ToolTip outside that area, you can also Enable/Disable ToolTips quite easily, and if you really wanted to get into it, you could make a custom component that has a "Do Not Show Again" option...
If I want to Micro-Manage my URL's I'll use Opera, or Avant...lol... Bookmarking means its (relatively) perminent, I dont want to have to click 'Add' when its already in my URL History, and then click Delete afterwards when im done with it (if I even needed it)...
"Micro-Managing" your URL history is handy when you are refencing stuff, and then it just automatically clears it out afterwards once you stop using it for awhile...
Opera specifically has a Self-Managed URL History called "Top 10" that quickly shows you your "Top 10" most frequented URLS since the browser was lasted Started/Launched...
No one said that any of it has to be manditory, or even on by default... by why not an option? its almost "Hello World!" level programming...
"Both "ordinary" CD-Rs and CD-RWs and their "Audio" counterparts can be used to copy music, and both are commonly used for this purpose. In fact, in volume terms, most CDs used to copy music are "ordinary" CD-Rs and CD-RWs (subject to a levy of 21), not "Audio" products (subject to a levy of 77)."
However, this obviously doesnt apply to P2P, and most people dont burn music to CD's anymore, its from PC to MP3 Player, or some FlashMemory device...
So, the answer is "its been partially paid for", or possibly its even been entirely paid for, but the current implimention wont last long...
"A recent recalculation has revealed that the amount of oil buried underneath the ground in Northern Alberta was not millions of barrels - but trillions. Alberta's internationally recognised reserves are now put at 175 billion barrels of crude. Only Saudi Arabia has bigger reserves."
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4649580.stm)
I live in Alberta, my family and many people I know are involved in the industry (although not I personally so dont hate me for killing seals and fish) I can attest to the fact we have a lot of oil...
The US has no need to invade us for our oil, because they already have, most of the companies sucking out the black gold are American, probably nearly half the population of Alberta (among other Provinces) are now Americans (among other countries), aswell as many large aswell as small businesses...
There wont be a big grand parade of artillery for the US to invade Canada, it'l just happen slowly overtime...
I never said I condoned the practice... but it is a well used practice, most prolificly during a war (major or minor) how many people join up because "I HATE THOSE F'N COMMIES!!!" It is War after all, which always envolves (at least the intent of) killing, and who is willing to kill people they dont hate? Soldiers are just civilians with weapons.
And sure this specific job is for the most part intelligence gathering/tampering... its still just another means to the end of outflanking your enemies, which as harmless as it may appear is still effectively terrorism, they are "attacking" other countries "computers", which inevitably means those countries will retaliate.
The Government is there to (try and) "Keep The Peace" the Military is there to kill them when that fails...or at best, threaten to kill them...
It doesnt matter how bad the job may be, someone will always apply... but what does their "sorry attempts to recruit" have to do anything with the actual job they would be doing? or even the benifits they may receive for said job?
I can easily see someone with the "right stuff" applying because of the medical insurance, or maybe even because they hate another country... the military has never really been against that, nevermind the "ladder" effect that such a Job could climb... after 10 years maybe they'd end up being the head of the NSA or something...
Me personally, i'd be ruled out (instantly because im Canadian) because I'd inevitably faulter and forgo my secret plot to give away their secrets... "tee hee"...
Yes I do, but how many average users are going to know that? I'd be willing to bet that the Parent didnt even know that...besides, thats only one of many features that its lacking in comparison to Opera, Avant, etc. There isnt much coding invlived to add a context menu on right-click, or even a tooltip saying "Yadda Yada for Yada!"
True, to a point... but if you consider that most web browers now (Opera, IE, FireFox, Safari) generally use about 80MB's of memory (if you've been browsing for a bit)... consider Windows95, or even Windows98... which used about the same memory and processor footprint... and I would consider them to be far more "featured" than Web Browsers.
lol... "they might as well not try to do a "native" theme at all."
Yeah, who are they to try and attempt something?... speaking of that, who the hell is Mozilla to release a Beta FireFox?... may aswell not try to do a "FireFox" build at all...
Themes are (usually) much the same as software itself, you piss around with your Alpha's get it working "pretty good" relase some Beta's... get it working to a certain proximety to the desired effect (I dont think any major software has ever been released exactly as it was desired)... and keep working on it from there... "trying" is more important than succeeding, because if you never tried, its impossible to succeed...
"immediately load urls I click on them from the address bar"
thats a fairly trivial gripe, and a lot of the time you may not want to actually navigate to the URL, but simply put it in the TextBox/Address bar to copy the URL...
Although admittedly I dislike FireFox almost to the point of hate (I prefer Opera, or even Safari or Konqueror, although Phoenix was a kickass browser)... I think they should improve the AddressBar/Dropdown to incorporate things like being able to remove a URL from the list, or right-click a URL in the list and "Open In New Tab"
Something a few IE Shell/Clones have like Avant, and I think Maxthon does aswell... Opera has te dropdown addressbar toolbar which, you can add any button/textbox/favorites you want to it... FireFox doesnt seem to have any sort of ability like that, at least not without hunting down some obscure add-on or something.
But what if they never do? you are simply hoping for the downfall of our beloved society at a much quicker rate.
Most of the "citizens" feel powerless to do anything because they are not rich enough, they arent some CEO of some big company, and most of them forget what it was like "before" since this has been an ongoing trend for the last 100 years really.
Even protesting seems dangerious now (although it always was really) because they are told by the media that if they protest, the police will come and tear gas you, and shoot rubber bullets, but thats "ok" because they are police, and the police know what to do, so i'll just sit here and watch TV, and maybe someday i'll be able to go outside again.
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Yeah but thats not very exciting is it?... "Just another merger"... but the more you can make it sound like the entire future of Linux depends on this single deal, the more attention you get...
Time, is what you are missing...
with the combined effort, and more importantly financial backing, Yahoo could over a year or two become equal or even greater than Google in many possibly most ways, even if they have to do it by buying out smaller companies, thus buying loyalty aswell as new customers.
Semi-valid arguement, however its not really *where* the story originates, but how many people it reaches... some people (myself included) dont like Ars Technica, mainly because its a pain in the Ars, too much advertising, links, way too much focus on bullshit rather than the story (I mean the layout of the site, not the articles)... and its about a third as speedy as /.
/. need is a forum on itself (Maybe there is but only for "Subscribers" ?) or atleast a poll now and again about "How could /. improve ths site?"
What
Yeah man, you said it...
This is basically Offtopic, but harvesting anything from the moon (He3) seems inherintly dangerous given the whole mass/gravity thing, you'd be playing around with the whole tidal system, messing with countless amounts of animals brains(including our own) and navigation "systems"... plus factoring in things like the impact of landing, and taking off...
"Uhh... Sir? We seemed to have caused the moon to break free from Earth orbit"
"No time to worry about that, we have bigger fish to fry! all the sea life is dying"
Im fairly confident that the earth is relatively impervious to our existance (in that it will still rotate, and life will still exist, including our own species) if all we are doing is basically dissorganizing materials in our little bubble... but messing with the moon, kinda scary...
Sure there is the arguement that *however many* tons of debris lands on the earth and moon every day, its sort of a natural distibution based partly on chaos, and partly on gravity... but we always do things in an ordered fashion...with general disregard for what it may effect... carving "CHA" into the moon... Sponsered by Ikea... then wondering why grass refuses to seed anymore...
Bullshit, its not doing anything to gaming, certainly not killing it...you even said it yourself...
"...amount of PC players currently playing CoD4 Multiplayer (which was fantastic)."
What it may be doing is reducing the size of the large gaming developement studios... and in many cases thats no real loss, its not like creating a video game costs much money ($300 for a Desktop at DEll or whatever, done), you can get hundreds of people to Beta test "just for fun", and distribution is essentially free with the internet, if its a successful enough game, you could sell it (as in the right to distirbute) to gaming magazines and even make back profit, not to mention donations, and awards/grants etc.
Yeah... but is she cute?... whoops, I mean... did her job envolved taking apart computers? just because you know someone who got hired as a Secretary, or a Proof-Reader of E-Mails or something doesnt mean the entire organization is faulty...
All your boxen are belong to us...
I was not talking about the legalities, I was simply (agreeing by) stating that the tax does apply to CD's...
However, this tax does not apply to P2P, or any other method of transporting/containing digital music (yet)
Nor did I say that I was refering to the payment of the artists, I was saying it from the perspective of the CRIA, as in they are making some revenue from the said CD Tax... but not as much as they would like because its an avoidable and somewhat dated media now... hence: "but the current implimention wont last long"
Don't forget the Toasters... with wings...
Exactly, and furthermore the next time some third-world countries government (monopoly) opts for genocide, there's no point in bitching and moaning every time someone dies, you should just go live in a cave till its over...
I never said its NOT a Race, I said It SHOULD NOT be a Race, at least not the way they are, or have been "racing" in the past, where the loser might cause nuclear warfare or something... but compition for who makes what parts, and so forth, is almost a must if you want the best products and tools to get the job done...
Who says it has to obscure anything?... a ToolTip can be drawn anywhere, even a newb programmer can figure out where the edges of the control is and draw the ToolTip outside that area, you can also Enable/Disable ToolTips quite easily, and if you really wanted to get into it, you could make a custom component that has a "Do Not Show Again" option...
If I want to Micro-Manage my URL's I'll use Opera, or Avant...lol... Bookmarking means its (relatively) perminent, I dont want to have to click 'Add' when its already in my URL History, and then click Delete afterwards when im done with it (if I even needed it)...
"Micro-Managing" your URL history is handy when you are refencing stuff, and then it just automatically clears it out afterwards once you stop using it for awhile...
Opera specifically has a Self-Managed URL History called "Top 10" that quickly shows you your "Top 10" most frequented URLS since the browser was lasted Started/Launched...
No one said that any of it has to be manditory, or even on by default... by why not an option? its almost "Hello World!" level programming...
I'd consider blood to have a "sweet metallic" sort of smell to it...
It does actually, because it shouldnt be a Race... it should be a team effort...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing_in_Canada
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/news/c20032004fs-e.html
"Both "ordinary" CD-Rs and CD-RWs and their "Audio" counterparts can be used to copy music, and both are commonly used for this purpose. In fact, in volume terms, most CDs used to copy music are "ordinary" CD-Rs and CD-RWs (subject to a levy of 21), not "Audio" products (subject to a levy of 77)."
However, this obviously doesnt apply to P2P, and most people dont burn music to CD's anymore, its from PC to MP3 Player, or some FlashMemory device...
So, the answer is "its been partially paid for", or possibly its even been entirely paid for, but the current implimention wont last long...
"A recent recalculation has revealed that the amount of oil buried underneath the ground in Northern Alberta was not millions of barrels - but trillions. Alberta's internationally recognised reserves are now put at 175 billion barrels of crude. Only Saudi Arabia has bigger reserves."
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4649580.stm)
I live in Alberta, my family and many people I know are involved in the industry (although not I personally so dont hate me for killing seals and fish) I can attest to the fact we have a lot of oil...
The US has no need to invade us for our oil, because they already have, most of the companies sucking out the black gold are American, probably nearly half the population of Alberta (among other Provinces) are now Americans (among other countries), aswell as many large aswell as small businesses...
There wont be a big grand parade of artillery for the US to invade Canada, it'l just happen slowly overtime...
I never said I condoned the practice... but it is a well used practice, most prolificly during a war (major or minor) how many people join up because "I HATE THOSE F'N COMMIES!!!" It is War after all, which always envolves (at least the intent of) killing, and who is willing to kill people they dont hate? Soldiers are just civilians with weapons.
And sure this specific job is for the most part intelligence gathering/tampering... its still just another means to the end of outflanking your enemies, which as harmless as it may appear is still effectively terrorism, they are "attacking" other countries "computers", which inevitably means those countries will retaliate.
The Government is there to (try and) "Keep The Peace" the Military is there to kill them when that fails...or at best, threaten to kill them...
It doesnt matter how bad the job may be, someone will always apply... but what does their "sorry attempts to recruit" have to do anything with the actual job they would be doing? or even the benifits they may receive for said job?
I can easily see someone with the "right stuff" applying because of the medical insurance, or maybe even because they hate another country... the military has never really been against that, nevermind the "ladder" effect that such a Job could climb... after 10 years maybe they'd end up being the head of the NSA or something...
Me personally, i'd be ruled out (instantly because im Canadian) because I'd inevitably faulter and forgo my secret plot to give away their secrets... "tee hee"...
Yes I do, but how many average users are going to know that? I'd be willing to bet that the Parent didnt even know that...besides, thats only one of many features that its lacking in comparison to Opera, Avant, etc. There isnt much coding invlived to add a context menu on right-click, or even a tooltip saying "Yadda Yada for Yada!"
True, to a point... but if you consider that most web browers now (Opera, IE, FireFox, Safari) generally use about 80MB's of memory (if you've been browsing for a bit)... consider Windows95, or even Windows98... which used about the same memory and processor footprint... and I would consider them to be far more "featured" than Web Browsers.
lol... "they might as well not try to do a "native" theme at all."
Yeah, who are they to try and attempt something?... speaking of that, who the hell is Mozilla to release a Beta FireFox?... may aswell not try to do a "FireFox" build at all...
Themes are (usually) much the same as software itself, you piss around with your Alpha's get it working "pretty good" relase some Beta's... get it working to a certain proximety to the desired effect (I dont think any major software has ever been released exactly as it was desired)... and keep working on it from there... "trying" is more important than succeeding, because if you never tried, its impossible to succeed...
"immediately load urls I click on them from the address bar"
thats a fairly trivial gripe, and a lot of the time you may not want to actually navigate to the URL, but simply put it in the TextBox/Address bar to copy the URL...
Although admittedly I dislike FireFox almost to the point of hate (I prefer Opera, or even Safari or Konqueror, although Phoenix was a kickass browser)... I think they should improve the AddressBar/Dropdown to incorporate things like being able to remove a URL from the list, or right-click a URL in the list and "Open In New Tab"
Something a few IE Shell/Clones have like Avant, and I think Maxthon does aswell... Opera has te dropdown addressbar toolbar which, you can add any button/textbox/favorites you want to it... FireFox doesnt seem to have any sort of ability like that, at least not without hunting down some obscure add-on or something.
Psycho_Killer Qu'est-ce que c'est?
I'd sort of like to believe that were true...
But what if they never do? you are simply hoping for the downfall of our beloved society at a much quicker rate.
Most of the "citizens" feel powerless to do anything because they are not rich enough, they arent some CEO of some big company, and most of them forget what it was like "before" since this has been an ongoing trend for the last 100 years really.
Even protesting seems dangerious now (although it always was really) because they are told by the media that if they protest, the police will come and tear gas you, and shoot rubber bullets, but thats "ok" because they are police, and the police know what to do, so i'll just sit here and watch TV, and maybe someday i'll be able to go outside again.