String theory doesn't predict anything. Its not testable. Its not science. Its caused some interesting advances in math to solve certain aspects of it, but thats about it. Doesn't this mean that even if it's just an interesting exercise, that it's all been worthwhile in the end?
First of all I'm not entirely sure the treasury department has much to do with the declining value of the dollar. Unless they start printing solid gold bills, I doubt there's much they can do to raise its value.
Secondly, if your business suffers noticably from having bills provided in slightly varying sizes, then darwin has stated that your business was not fit to be.
I'm sure less mistakes in the money handling and disables people having an easier time making purchases would make up for any inconvenience to you. If not, then see above.
People were *NOT* using property owned by Universal. At least in a large degree, if at all.
They were using originally created artwork, granted referencing Serenity/Firefly.
Why on earth you'd do anything to the fanbase, that was pretty much responsible for giving you the money to make this movie break even, and would keep doing so indefinitely with some goodwill, I will never ever understand.
Oh, except of course if the people in charge were found to be ignorant asshats.
So it has a fairly obscure feature that won't be used by a vast majority of IE/Web users.
I think plain old RSS would've been more than enough. It wouldn't have taken much time or any measurable chunk of developer resources compared to other work.
Comparing that to more complete CSS support is laughable. It must be clear to everyone that making life easier for every developer out there, in having developing towards standards rather than browsers come closer to reality, would improve the intarnets for everyone vastly more than anything else possibly could in the long run.
It would free up an insane amount of resources that could be spent on far more positive things.
But of course, getting closer to completing CSS support would have taken quite a while, and this was as the man himself points out, a finite amount of time before release. If indeed adding the RSS did take a lot of resources I'm sorry, you should've prioritized differently.
I don't mean this as flamebait but isn't RMS irrelevant already? Back when it needed a knowledgable geek champion who understood the situation at the time, RMS was great.
Sigh, so now freedom for everyone everywhere is unrealistic an irrelevant?
Alright so that might be slightly simplistic, but I very much doubt the man has his values are much different from what they were.
The *climate* around the man has changed though. And isn't it wise to ask oneself that if the same ideas sound silly now, that were fantastic and revolutionary then, is it really the ideas that are at fault? Or could it be the world that's somehow slightly askew?
I mean, what was once a conservative party with values of fiscal responsibility, is now something quite different.
Nations and values change, but I really doubt that freedom has gone out of fashion, even though it might not be entirely convenient at all times, I still thing it's a fairly Good Thing to strive for.
And, since "most people" include a very large population world wide of youngsters or people from developing countries, this might be the only chance they have to get that software at all.
At least legally.
Is it such a horrible thing if these people do get this software, and perhaps speed up the development of their region of the world a bit, so as in the end they can be the ones contributing back to us?
See taking care of your fellow man might seem to be the right thing to do, but in the end it's just the most advanced form of selfishness out there. It's proven time and time again that what's good for the world will in the end be good for you and your children.
I'm not really against the WTO as such, or rather I don't really have an informed opinion.
But I'm not so sure about the "fortunately" part of your post. Like with a lot of freedoms and righs the US takes for granted, such as freedom of speech, having it written in law is but one thing.
You can have all the freedom of speech you want, if half the nation impose self censorship due to various moral, ethical or religious reasons, you don't really have anything resembling free speech.
The WTO might not have the right to strike down US law, but in reality, isn't this precisely what their power is? Few nations can survive the trade tariffs for very long if they're hefty enough and hitting the right market. So if the WTO really wants, can't it stop pretty much any behavior its members find abhorrent enough?
It's not really related I guess, but it just scares me how we so blindly stare at our rights written on paper, and nearly never watch as those papers become more and more meaningless out there in the real world, where we self regulate or otherwise undermine the intent of the freedoms in question.
So what you're telling us, is that if we sit down around a table and figure out all the angles and velocities, any tom, dick & harry, regardless of talent or god-given motor skills, could beat the vast majority of regular participants in any competitive sport?
It's a blanket statement and a silly one at that.
Especially twitch gaming has very much to do with spatial perception, reaction times and of course tons and tons of experience.
But even so, no matter how much you "figure" out an RTS for instance, I challenge you to travel to korea and try to make name for yourself as a starcraft player. Those guys had talent, and then put in a helluva lot of hard work to get where they are. Just like with any skill.
Contrary to what you believe, most people that write the games suck at them, and so do the QA crowd. They don't spend enough time actually competing and will never ever *have* 18hrs a day, 7 days a week to spend on the game. And will thus suck mightily compared to any half decent "gamer" with no interesting in anything but playing and competing at a high level. Oh and let's not forget, seemingly endless amounts of spare time.
Partly, the US audience is to blame--which gets higher ratings: political instability, or missing white girl of the month?
I respectfully disagree.
Human nature might be drawn to disaster, color and bright lights, but that does not give the news media a valid excuse for eliminating any form of fair and biased news reporting, replacing it with partisan propaganda and/or pure tabloid infested entertainment segments. All disguised as fairly objective news reporting.
You know that giving in to every vice or bad thought that crosses your mind will lead to disaster for you personally. Having someone grant your every brief thought or desire, would be the worst gift you could ever receive.
Yes, the news media would get lower ratings if they actually reported the news as best they could, instead of striving to entertain everyone with spectacular fluff. But if you want to compare yourself ratings wise to american idol or ripley's belive it or not, you're probably in the wrong business.
Less people will be interested in the news if facts and truth and the world in general is mostly what you get reported. But on the other hand a lot more would get actual information. The end result would be incredibly positive and definitely a huge net gain, even if you lost viewers. And if in the end it lead to even a slight enligthenment of the general public over a seemingly extensive period of time, then any benefit in that area would be completely priceless.
So your proposal is to stop allowing people to profit from their creations?
So people profit and are earning what they're supposed to with the current system do they ?
This must be why Peter Jackson is suing to see a more than pathetic part of the revenue of Lord of the Rings.
They charge an arm and a leg for the movie and are making billions of billions of dollars of profit. Not on everything that's produced, granted, but on more than to keep them afloat. (It could be argued that they'd earn a lot more if they were to offer people what they wanted, the services and goods at a decent price and at the convenience of the cutstomer...but that might just be a pipe dream in the current climate).
It's well known that studios, to avoid paying the creators of any piece or art their due value, pad the value of services provided during creation so that the artist will see little to no profit. The alternative is to go online and market it yourself, which might be an even less profitable endeavour, with only certain factor being the uncertainty of the outcome.
I fail to see how DRM does anything but protect the status quo where we're at the mercy of the studios and record companies, not the creators, and are forced to pay a price something isn't worth because this particular market is far from competitive.
Why pay you ask?
Well maybe some of us can live without any form of media entertainment, but I sure as hell don't really want to.
As pins can be recorded in a number of cheap and non-invasive ways, at least in here in Sweden the banks and CC companies have had to go back on the claim.
No one can be held responsible for loss of pin, even if its kept on a note in the wallet next to the CC, reading: MY SECRET VISA PIN, in big fat glow-in-the-dark letters.
Most regulars cards have decent limits for what you can withdraw in a single purchase and over a period of say seven consecutive days.
The signature, as is shown in the article, doesn't have to be forged. You can pretty much put down whatever the hell you want in 99.9% of the cases. How many signature experts work at best buy or turkey hill you reckon?
A wireless webcam, card copier eqipment and a cheap ATM front mockup will set you back a measly few dollars. Its one of the most common ways to copy a card, read the CC#, the pin, all in one swipe.
Often enough the victim doesn't know he/she's been had until the bill shows up or the card company calls about strange charges.
Depending on the quality of the ATM front or the cam setup, the scam might be discovered in a day or two. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesnt. If so they move to another area, as discovery of the equipment doesn't have to leave any trace back to the villains what so ever.
I dont really see how cameras and card copiers couldnt let you easily forge a signature as well btw.
Since thousands of people are being fooled by this, how exactly can the card companies/banks effectively argue that its your own damn fault?
Why is "it's as simple as" always followed by something no normal human being that is not a hardcore computer user would never ever in his or her lifetime, ever consider doing to save their lives?
And no one seems fit to question the number of jobs Bush claims would be lost?
No one even asks whether it's all just a load of FUD which has no basis in truth. and that not only might slow down the rapid climate changes, but also not hurt a single job anywhere, ever ?
This is slashdot, the hell-hounds of FUD-spotting should be running rampant and see this for what it is.
This has nothing to do with jobs, other than in the sense that mentioning them might allow Bush to do what he pleases.
Not that he really needs excuses anymore. You guys just basically gave him the key to the country and a pat on the back, while you collectively decided to look the other way and let the overlord of the end justifying the means runs your country.
Now this is obviously not scientific, but it doesn't appear that java is hurting. In fact, it looks like if you wanted to improve your chances of employment, you're better off reading one of those java books.
Well, should one not also take into consideration the fact that Java is somewhat older and more well established?
Java might not be 'hurting' just yet, but it sure has some serious competition. The fact that there already is this big a demand for.Net out there is in my mind pretty impressive. It bodes 'well' for the future of.Net and should be attractive to a number of people out there. Namely the ones aching to become programmers or just fighting their way into a seriously competitive market.
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I for one welcome our new multi-colored, combinable overlords!
First of all I'm not entirely sure the treasury department has much to do with the declining value of the dollar. Unless they start printing solid gold bills, I doubt there's much they can do to raise its value.
Secondly, if your business suffers noticably from having bills provided in slightly varying sizes, then darwin has stated that your business was not fit to be.
I'm sure less mistakes in the money handling and disables people having an easier time making purchases would make up for any inconvenience to you. If not, then see above.
Jesus Christ.
People were *NOT* using property owned by Universal. At least in a large degree, if at all.
They were using originally created artwork, granted referencing Serenity/Firefly.
Why on earth you'd do anything to the fanbase, that was pretty much responsible for giving you the money to make this movie break even, and would keep doing so indefinitely with some goodwill, I will never ever understand.
Oh, except of course if the people in charge were found to be ignorant asshats.
That could explain a lot.
So it has a fairly obscure feature that won't be used by a vast majority of IE/Web users.
I think plain old RSS would've been more than enough. It wouldn't have taken much time or any measurable chunk of developer resources compared to other work.
Comparing that to more complete CSS support is laughable. It must be clear to everyone that making life easier for every developer out there, in having developing towards standards rather than browsers come closer to reality, would improve the intarnets for everyone vastly more than anything else possibly could in the long run.
It would free up an insane amount of resources that could be spent on far more positive things.
But of course, getting closer to completing CSS support would have taken quite a while, and this was as the man himself points out, a finite amount of time before release. If indeed adding the RSS did take a lot of resources I'm sorry, you should've prioritized differently.
I don't mean this as flamebait but isn't RMS irrelevant already? Back when it needed a knowledgable geek champion who understood the situation at the time, RMS was great.
Sigh, so now freedom for everyone everywhere is unrealistic an irrelevant?
Alright so that might be slightly simplistic, but I very much doubt the man has his values are much different from what they were.
The *climate* around the man has changed though. And isn't it wise to ask oneself that if the same ideas sound silly now, that were fantastic and revolutionary then, is it really the ideas that are at fault? Or could it be the world that's somehow slightly askew?
I mean, what was once a conservative party with values of fiscal responsibility, is now something quite different.
Nations and values change, but I really doubt that freedom has gone out of fashion, even though it might not be entirely convenient at all times, I still thing it's a fairly Good Thing to strive for.
Most people want free as in beer software yes.
And, since "most people" include a very large population world wide of youngsters or people from developing countries, this might be the only chance they have to get that software at all.
At least legally.
Is it such a horrible thing if these people do get this software, and perhaps speed up the development of their region of the world a bit, so as in the end they can be the ones contributing back to us?
See taking care of your fellow man might seem to be the right thing to do, but in the end it's just the most advanced form of selfishness out there. It's proven time and time again that what's good for the world will in the end be good for you and your children.
Think big people.
I'm not really against the WTO as such, or rather I don't really have an informed opinion.
But I'm not so sure about the "fortunately" part of your post. Like with a lot of freedoms and righs the US takes for granted, such as freedom of speech, having it written in law is but one thing.
You can have all the freedom of speech you want, if half the nation impose self censorship due to various moral, ethical or religious reasons, you don't really have anything resembling free speech.
The WTO might not have the right to strike down US law, but in reality, isn't this precisely what their power is?
Few nations can survive the trade tariffs for very long if they're hefty enough and hitting the right market. So if the WTO really wants, can't it stop pretty much any behavior its members find abhorrent enough?
It's not really related I guess, but it just scares me how we so blindly stare at our rights written on paper, and nearly never watch as those papers become more and more meaningless out there in the real world, where we self regulate or otherwise undermine the intent of the freedoms in question.
Err...
So what you're telling us, is that if we sit down around a table and figure out all the angles and velocities, any tom, dick & harry, regardless of talent or god-given motor skills, could beat the vast majority of regular participants in any competitive sport?
It's a blanket statement and a silly one at that.
Especially twitch gaming has very much to do with spatial perception, reaction times and of course tons and tons of experience.
But even so, no matter how much you "figure" out an RTS for instance, I challenge you to travel to korea and try to make name for yourself as a starcraft player. Those guys had talent, and then put in a helluva lot of hard work to get where they are. Just like with any skill.
Contrary to what you believe, most people that write the games suck at them, and so do the QA crowd. They don't spend enough time actually competing and will never ever *have* 18hrs a day, 7 days a week to spend on the game. And will thus suck mightily compared to any half decent "gamer" with no interesting in anything but playing and competing at a high level. Oh and let's not forget, seemingly endless amounts of spare time.
Partly, the US audience is to blame--which gets higher ratings: political instability, or missing white girl of the month?
I respectfully disagree.
Human nature might be drawn to disaster, color and bright lights, but that does not give the news media a valid excuse for eliminating any form of fair and biased news reporting, replacing it with partisan propaganda and/or pure tabloid infested entertainment segments. All disguised as fairly objective news reporting.
You know that giving in to every vice or bad thought that crosses your mind will lead to disaster for you personally. Having someone grant your every brief thought or desire, would be the worst gift you could ever receive.
Yes, the news media would get lower ratings if they actually reported the news as best they could, instead of striving to entertain everyone with spectacular fluff. But if you want to compare yourself ratings wise to american idol or ripley's belive it or not, you're probably in the wrong business.
Less people will be interested in the news if facts and truth and the world in general is mostly what you get reported. But on the other hand a lot more would get actual information. The end result would be incredibly positive and definitely a huge net gain, even if you lost viewers. And if in the end it lead to even a slight enligthenment of the general public over a seemingly extensive period of time, then any benefit in that area would be completely priceless.
So your proposal is to stop allowing people to profit from their creations?
So people profit and are earning what they're supposed to with the current system do they ?
This must be why Peter Jackson is suing to see a more than pathetic part of the revenue of Lord of the Rings.
They charge an arm and a leg for the movie and are making billions of billions of dollars of profit. Not on everything that's produced, granted, but on more than to keep them afloat. (It could be argued that they'd earn a lot more if they were to offer people what they wanted, the services and goods at a decent price and at the convenience of the cutstomer...but that might just be a pipe dream in the current climate).
It's well known that studios, to avoid paying the creators of any piece or art their due value, pad the value of services provided during creation so that the artist will see little to no profit. The alternative is to go online and market it yourself, which might be an even less profitable endeavour, with only certain factor being the uncertainty of the outcome.
I fail to see how DRM does anything but protect the status quo where we're at the mercy of the studios and record companies, not the creators, and are forced to pay a price something isn't worth because this particular market is far from competitive.
Why pay you ask?
Well maybe some of us can live without any form of media entertainment, but I sure as hell don't really want to.
As pins can be recorded in a number of cheap and non-invasive ways, at least in here in Sweden the banks and CC companies have had to go back on the claim.
No one can be held responsible for loss of pin, even if its kept on a note in the wallet next to the CC, reading: MY SECRET VISA PIN, in big fat glow-in-the-dark letters.
Most regulars cards have decent limits for what you can withdraw in a single purchase and over a period of say seven consecutive days.
The signature, as is shown in the article, doesn't have to be forged. You can pretty much put down whatever the hell you want in 99.9% of the cases. How many signature experts work at best buy or turkey hill you reckon?
Actually, no, not at all.
A wireless webcam, card copier eqipment and a cheap ATM front mockup will set you back a measly few dollars. Its one of the most common ways to copy a card, read the CC#, the pin, all in one swipe.
Often enough the victim doesn't know he/she's been had until the bill shows up or the card company calls about strange charges.
Depending on the quality of the ATM front or the cam setup, the scam might be discovered in a day or two. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesnt. If so they move to another area, as discovery of the equipment doesn't have to leave any trace back to the villains what so ever.
I dont really see how cameras and card copiers couldnt let you easily forge a signature as well btw.
Since thousands of people are being fooled by this, how exactly can the card companies/banks effectively argue that its your own damn fault?
Actually Opera Software AS is a Norwegian company, Nokia however is Finnish as you say.
As a proper link:
m s_interroperability
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/11/hakon_on_
Opera 8 beta 1 has been out for quite a while, gmail functions pretty darn well there.
I believe beta 2 will be out RSN.
Why is "it's as simple as" always followed by something no normal human being that is not a hardcore computer user would never ever in his or her lifetime, ever consider doing to save their lives?
So...."smoking is bad" is an american thing?
Jesus, what american workplaces does *not* have one third of it's employees either stealing breaks to smoke or smoking on their *actual* breaks?
At least in the rather large percentage of folk that make up blue collar americans. Like it or not.
*plonk*
Actually in the new technology preview there's a button on each tab by default.
Firefox users might appreciate this.
As with most things, you can can configure this and just use middle click or a gesture or whatever your little heart desires to close tabs.
And no one seems fit to question the number of jobs Bush claims would be lost?
No one even asks whether it's all just a load of FUD which has no basis in truth. and that not only might slow down the rapid climate changes, but also not hurt a single job anywhere, ever ?
This is slashdot, the hell-hounds of FUD-spotting should be running rampant and see this for what it is.
This has nothing to do with jobs, other than in the sense that mentioning them might allow Bush to do what he pleases.
Not that he really needs excuses anymore. You guys just basically gave him the key to the country and a pat on the back, while you collectively decided to look the other way and let the overlord of the end justifying the means runs your country.
May god have mercy on your souls.
They called up the winnder of the nobel price in medecine on the swedish radio yesterday.
He was suprised that they called and he seemed surprised that anyone knew of him, let alone his phone number.
When asked how he was gonna celebrate he was quiet for a little while, then stated: Well...I'm going to have a cup of coffee I think.
No one drives a backhoe or dumptruck around town just to look cool.
Yes they do.
They're called Hummers.
Now this is obviously not scientific, but it doesn't appear that java is hurting. In fact, it looks like if you wanted to improve your chances of employment, you're better off reading one of those java books.
.Net out there is in my mind pretty impressive. It bodes 'well' for the future of .Net and should be attractive to a number of people out there. Namely the ones aching to become programmers or just fighting their way into a seriously competitive market.
Well, should one not also take into consideration the fact that Java is somewhat older and more well established?
Java might not be 'hurting' just yet, but it sure has some serious competition.
The fact that there already is this big a demand for