Actually in Britain, you still have to pay the tax (i.e. Licence Fee), even if you NEVER watch the BBC channels financed by that fee. Saying that you only watch ITV and Channel 4 or indeed Sky Satellite (which are all financed by advertising or separate subscription fees), is not justification when questioned about your lack of licence. Unless you physically get your TV "neutered" so it cannot receive those wavelengths, you have to pay.
Of course I'm going on 20 year old memories here, but I doubt if the situation has changed much since. So we already have "taxes" for things we don't use.
When you consider that a CD costs maybe 25 cents, and possibly the actual artist gets another 25 cents, the remaining 9 dollars and 50 cents is ALREADY "RIAA TAX".
So you choose... of all the failed attempts (DRM, suing the disabled and children, getting ISPs to find you guilty without trial) etc, a simple tax would seem to be the most sensible solution.
But whenever someone makes a sensible solution, then we get to see the REAL face of P2P... those who will ALWAYS want something for nothing.
And to the other assholes who say "I don't download, why should I subsidise others ?". A download tax subsidising other people is no different from the way your income taxes subsidise your healthcare system, the raods you never use but are built anyway, the pension being paid to your retired grandmother etc etc.
What about all the other phaser settings ?
"Limp,"
"Bit of a Cough,"
"Depression,"
"Bad Eyesight,"
"Ice Cream Van Nearby,"
"Sudden Interest In Botany,"
"Water In The Ear After Swimming,"
"Left The Oven On At Home."
If the tax REALLY meant that we were free to download whatever we wanted, and the RIAA / MPAA extortion tax had already been paid, we could do away with all the ISP torrent throttling / shaping, and all the frivolous lawsuits (which lets face it, we pay for anyway in terms of other taxes).
Yes, when the price of a recordable DVD is 12 pesos (25 us cents). Add on packaging, artwork, distribution, etc... if they can afford to sell them HERE for 5 dollars, why does it cost you guys 15 dollars for the same thing ?
It's a valid point you make about cinema tickets, and out here it's still a regular form of entertainment, as a cinema ticket will cost about 2 dollars 50. However, if you want to watch a movie twice, you might as well just buy the DVD.
Once you can get your head around the fact that this is a British guy in a dress, and IF you can manage to understand the accent, then maybe you'll learn something.
"You say erb, and we say herb... because there's a fucking 'H' in it".
It's only when you adopt something that breaks a standard or is in conflict with a standard that it becomes a problem
Fine, I agree with you 100%.
So when you implement innerHTML on your web page, and then display it in a TRULY standards compliant browser, it will for all intents and purposes BE broken. It will not work. (That's what broken means).
So please stop calling Firefox "standards compliant" !
Now, for your next assignment, please show me which part of w3c is "broken" or "in conflict with" by Microsoft's ActiveX container ? That's right kids, nowhere, because ActiveX was NEVER part of the w3c, anymore than innerHTML was.
Quite simply Firefox chose to implement innerHTML (because it is useful), but chose not to implement ActiveX. Instead they quietly implemented plugins and the whole XPI thing (again not part of the w3c), but that's okay because it's not MS.
I'm not on a paycheck from them either, and I use both MS at home, and Linux at work.
I just want this goddamn hypocrasy to stop. NEITHER MSIE NOR Firefox are w3c compliant to the exact letter of the standard, so trying to say one is and one isn't is just utter BS or fanboyism.
Can you please explain why Firefox supports innerHTML, considering it is a Microsoft invention, and NOT STANDARDS BASED (as this seems so important you had to capitalize it) ?
Oh yes, I forgot, be standards compliant, unless it affects your market share. Bravo, Firefox. You stick to your guns, and the lemmings will keep trotting out their tired mantras.
Ditto the Philippines, where you can get original Warner Bros and other movie studios movies on VCD for 75 pesos (1 dollar 50), and DVD for 250 pesos (5 dollars).
There is no incentive for pirated movies here (although they do still try to hawk their crappy copies for 50 pesos outside the shopping malls, but only as a side business to all the other tat they sell).
But why will you pay 2/3rds for a crap copy, when you can buy the original for still next to nothing.
And that is what the RIAA / MPAA morons haven't realised yet. Make the product a reasonable price, and it will sell, instead of playing extortion games and crippling the enjoyment of legitimate potential buyers, an dthen trying to claim how much they "lost" to piracy. A hell of a lot less than they lost to their own blinkered shortsightedness.
With luck, there'll be enough left over for Boxing Day.
Seriously though, why go through all the hassle of cloning an old family pet ? Are they expecting to get the same dog again next time ? Animals, like humans, are just glorified conditional response networks. Unless that dog is going to experience exactly the same things as the first one, and form the identical neural patterns, it WON'T be the same dog.
The same could be said for human cloning... apart from a good source of compatible replacement organs, a clone will never be the same as the original.
a good manager will check your plans, then quietly observe as the experts 'do their thing' and occasionally inquires to the status (AKA can I help)?
How I wish... in the real world, there are 4 levels of bug tracking that my boss uses.
Level 1 - An email entitled "can you fix this ?".
Level 2 - An email entitled "why isn't it fixed yet ?" (which arrives 15 minutes after the Level 1).
Level 3 - An email entitled "URGENT - fix it now !!!" (complete with red exclamation mark, which arrives about an hour after the Level 3).
Level 4 - An email entitled "It's taking too long, leave it, we'll live with it" (the closest I come to closing something out - usually about 2 days after the Level 3).
Well, he seems to have taken a pretty laid back approach to that over the last 200 years, if the global warming^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcooling^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hclimate change are to be believed.
Man, apparently, was made in God's image... so maybe sometimes God has an off-day, and just says "fuck it, let them blow themselves up". One more thing for the believers to worry about he he.
And "Windows 7 Ballmer Edition" comes with the flying chairs screensaver, the developers, developers, developers audio track when you login, and a free sweatstained shirt with 2 buttons missing.
and getting a superior, virus proof operating system
Reality check...
Might (or might not) work with your network / wlan Might (or might not) run your favorite games Might (or might not) open the XLS file your boss just sent you Might (or might not) get a virus, depending on if you install stuff as root.
Until you eliminate the "might nots", it'll always be a hobbyist / source code hacker environment, maybe suitable for granny who only surfs the web and reads email, not something you could seriously use in the workplace.
I work as a web programmer, and at the very least I'm going to have open (in fact I'm looking at them right now).
A mail client A browser (or three), while testing compatibility A text editor Windows Explorer An SSH client A SCP client Skype
It's simply too time consuming to be opening / closing stuff every time I need to look at a file, test a web page, upload / download something from a server, talk to my boss / coworkers etc.
Also, got the whole lot on my quickstart bar, so in the morning, I just open up windows, and click across the icons one by one to start my work day with everything I need.
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Actually in Britain, you still have to pay the tax (i.e. Licence Fee), even if you NEVER watch the BBC channels financed by that fee. Saying that you only watch ITV and Channel 4 or indeed Sky Satellite (which are all financed by advertising or separate subscription fees), is not justification when questioned about your lack of licence. Unless you physically get your TV "neutered" so it cannot receive those wavelengths, you have to pay.
Of course I'm going on 20 year old memories here, but I doubt if the situation has changed much since. So we already have "taxes" for things we don't use.
When you consider that a CD costs maybe 25 cents, and possibly the actual artist gets another 25 cents, the remaining 9 dollars and 50 cents is ALREADY "RIAA TAX".
So you choose ... of all the failed attempts (DRM, suing the disabled and children, getting ISPs to find you guilty without trial) etc, a simple tax would seem to be the most sensible solution.
But whenever someone makes a sensible solution, then we get to see the REAL face of P2P ... those who will ALWAYS want something for nothing.
And to the other assholes who say "I don't download, why should I subsidise others ?". A download tax subsidising other people is no different from the way your income taxes subsidise your healthcare system, the raods you never use but are built anyway, the pension being paid to your retired grandmother etc etc.
I'd just hoped for one second that someone in authority had actually done the math and said ...
"Let's see, 25 million homes x 20 quid = 500 million quid. We give that to the music and film industry, then tell them to STFU and leave us alone".
Ah well back to the drawing board :-(
What about all the other phaser settings ? "Limp," "Bit of a Cough," "Depression," "Bad Eyesight," "Ice Cream Van Nearby," "Sudden Interest In Botany," "Water In The Ear After Swimming," "Left The Oven On At Home."
Bean, is that you ?
Schrodingers Webpage ?
The experiment was both a success and a failure until the article was read, thus collapsing the waveform into one state or the other.
Even using Unicode, shouldn't it only take 32 bits to store 2 characters, not 35 ?
Or are the extra 3 bits some kind of error correction code, in case a stray Boson-Higgins comes along and reverses the spin of the electrons ?
No, let me guess, the advent of holographic storage means yet another character encoding to deal with.
If the tax REALLY meant that we were free to download whatever we wanted, and the RIAA / MPAA extortion tax had already been paid, we could do away with all the ISP torrent throttling / shaping, and all the frivolous lawsuits (which lets face it, we pay for anyway in terms of other taxes).
Yes, when the price of a recordable DVD is 12 pesos (25 us cents). Add on packaging, artwork, distribution, etc ... if they can afford to sell them HERE for 5 dollars, why does it cost you guys 15 dollars for the same thing ?
It's a valid point you make about cinema tickets, and out here it's still a regular form of entertainment, as a cinema ticket will cost about 2 dollars 50. However, if you want to watch a movie twice, you might as well just buy the DVD.
Go have a look at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hJQsvoY6VU
Once you can get your head around the fact that this is a British guy in a dress, and IF you can manage to understand the accent, then maybe you'll learn something.
"You say erb, and we say herb ... because there's a fucking 'H' in it".
It's only when you adopt something that breaks a standard or is in conflict with a standard that it becomes a problem
Fine, I agree with you 100%.
So when you implement innerHTML on your web page, and then display it in a TRULY standards compliant browser, it will for all intents and purposes BE broken. It will not work. (That's what broken means).
So please stop calling Firefox "standards compliant" !
Now, for your next assignment, please show me which part of w3c is "broken" or "in conflict with" by Microsoft's ActiveX container ? That's right kids, nowhere, because ActiveX was NEVER part of the w3c, anymore than innerHTML was.
Quite simply Firefox chose to implement innerHTML (because it is useful), but chose not to implement ActiveX. Instead they quietly implemented plugins and the whole XPI thing (again not part of the w3c), but that's okay because it's not MS.
I'm not on a paycheck from them either, and I use both MS at home, and Linux at work.
I just want this goddamn hypocrasy to stop. NEITHER MSIE NOR Firefox are w3c compliant to the exact letter of the standard, so trying to say one is and one isn't is just utter BS or fanboyism.
Can you please explain why Firefox supports innerHTML, considering it is a Microsoft invention, and NOT STANDARDS BASED (as this seems so important you had to capitalize it) ?
Oh yes, I forgot, be standards compliant, unless it affects your market share. Bravo, Firefox. You stick to your guns, and the lemmings will keep trotting out their tired mantras.
If 90% are speeding, then perhaps it tells you that the speed zoning is inappropriate ?
And last time I checked, 90% would usually be considered "most" ... making your second point somewhat moot.
Ditto the Philippines, where you can get original Warner Bros and other movie studios movies on VCD for 75 pesos (1 dollar 50), and DVD for 250 pesos (5 dollars).
There is no incentive for pirated movies here (although they do still try to hawk their crappy copies for 50 pesos outside the shopping malls, but only as a side business to all the other tat they sell).
But why will you pay 2/3rds for a crap copy, when you can buy the original for still next to nothing.
And that is what the RIAA / MPAA morons haven't realised yet. Make the product a reasonable price, and it will sell, instead of playing extortion games and crippling the enjoyment of legitimate potential buyers, an dthen trying to claim how much they "lost" to piracy. A hell of a lot less than they lost to their own blinkered shortsightedness.
Remember, a dog is not just for Christmas.
With luck, there'll be enough left over for Boxing Day.
Seriously though, why go through all the hassle of cloning an old family pet ? Are they expecting to get the same dog again next time ? Animals, like humans, are just glorified conditional response networks. Unless that dog is going to experience exactly the same things as the first one, and form the identical neural patterns, it WON'T be the same dog.
The same could be said for human cloning ... apart from a good source of compatible replacement organs, a clone will never be the same as the original.
10,000 NOPs do not an application make.
Anyone can do thousands and millions of lines of code in Assembler :-P
a good manager will check your plans, then quietly observe as the experts 'do their thing' and occasionally inquires to the status (AKA can I help)?
How I wish ... in the real world, there are 4 levels of bug tracking that my boss uses.
Level 1 - An email entitled "can you fix this ?".
Level 2 - An email entitled "why isn't it fixed yet ?" (which arrives 15 minutes after the Level 1).
Level 3 - An email entitled "URGENT - fix it now !!!" (complete with red exclamation mark, which arrives about an hour after the Level 3).
Level 4 - An email entitled "It's taking too long, leave it, we'll live with it" (the closest I come to closing something out - usually about 2 days after the Level 3).
One-in-a-million chances crop up nine times out of ten
Welcome to Slashdot, where moderations made by people with opinions are always wrong if they disagree with your own opinion.
God will not let man destroy the earth.
Well, he seems to have taken a pretty laid back approach to that over the last 200 years, if the global warming^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcooling^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hclimate change are to be believed.
Man, apparently, was made in God's image ... so maybe sometimes God has an off-day, and just says "fuck it, let them blow themselves up". One more thing for the believers to worry about he he.
So put your erection in the black hole, and give humanity a 5 hour reprieve then.
And "Windows 7 Ballmer Edition" comes with the flying chairs screensaver, the developers, developers, developers audio track when you login, and a free sweatstained shirt with 2 buttons missing.
"Mac OS X Extreme" for people with more money than sense.
I though merely have ANY flavour of Mac OSX implied that ?
and getting a superior, virus proof operating system
Reality check ...
Might (or might not) work with your network / wlan
Might (or might not) run your favorite games
Might (or might not) open the XLS file your boss just sent you
Might (or might not) get a virus, depending on if you install stuff as root.
Until you eliminate the "might nots", it'll always be a hobbyist / source code hacker environment, maybe suitable for granny who only surfs the web and reads email, not something you could seriously use in the workplace.
But then you could say the same of my Nokia E90.
I'm the complete opposite.
I work as a web programmer, and at the very least I'm going to have open (in fact I'm looking at them right now).
A mail client
A browser (or three), while testing compatibility
A text editor
Windows Explorer
An SSH client
A SCP client
Skype
It's simply too time consuming to be opening / closing stuff every time I need to look at a file, test a web page, upload / download something from a server, talk to my boss / coworkers etc.
Also, got the whole lot on my quickstart bar, so in the morning, I just open up windows, and click across the icons one by one to start my work day with everything I need.