I wish w3c would release html 4.02 or something that allowed topmargin, leftmargin, margintop and marginheight.
Then I could make 100% w3c compliant sites that worked in all browsers.
I'm to the point now where I'm starting to say "screw the older browsrs, I'm just going to write w3c compliant code and not worry about it." but the sad fact is that a lot of people are still using older browsers, especially on older platforms. They're not the majority but I don't want to screw anyone over.
I still don't see why?
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I assume the people you know are at least semi-tech savvy people.
I know in the past, corporate america was notorious for making copies of Windows and handing it out to co-workers. Throwing in a crack is enough work and adds enough uncertainty that I think it's slowing these sort of copiers down.
I don't want to worry about dependencies either...
I'm currently using SuSE but I'm starting to hate it. I used to love it. I've tried yast, apt4rpm and fou4s and I still run into dependency hell. (Still can't get the latest version of gnucash on my 8.1 laptop!)
I tried switching to gentoo but I couldn't get the sucker to compile.
My mother doesn't like to see blood. It makes her nautious (sp?) but there are a lot of great movies with great plots. If simple things like replacing the bloody scenes out of movies could be done by flipping a switch why not?
I mean, it's not like everyone would be forced to watch it the way one person sets it up.
Geez people. I mean this is about the equivalent of me ripping the DVD and editing it to my tastes before showing it only it saves me hours of work.
It's not about learning. This is no different than wal-mart selling albums with the cuss words taken out. It's the consumers right to buy it that way if they choose.
The things that I'd want to remove are things that I know all about. Doesn't mean I want to watch them.
As a consumer I absolutely love Missouri's list. I *never* want to receive unsolicited calls.
I have *never* purchased anything through an unsolicited call.
The Missouri No Call list SAVES telemarketing companies money because they don't have to waste their time or mine calling me. I pay for my phone service and I should be in control of who is allowed to use it and who isn't allowed.
The MO NO Call list still lets non-profit orgs and existing business relationships through. I don't really want calls from non-profit groups either, but they are fairly rare.
I did have a weird call today, some company called claiming to be a Domain Notification service and they had some information they wanted to fax me because their email system was down. I couldn't get them to tell me their name. She just kept saying, we're a "domain name notification service."
Consequently, Missouri HB228 is trying to create a No Email list. It has flaws in it's present state but we're working on making it beneficial to everyone except spammers.
It's only excessive to those that are planning on breaking the law.
$1000 litter fine to me seems great because I like clean highways and I throw my trash in the car.
Just like in my town all the speed limit signs have "double fines" on them which seems excessive to me, but that's because I occassionally speed and run the risk of being caught.
The goal of being excessive is to prevent the crime from happening.
If they switched from a monetary penalty to a community service penalty, would 100 days of community service be acceptable?
If you think so, then that's the sort of thing you need to write your representatives about.
It sounds to me like you're ripper doesn't support CDDB. Thus you're using a bandaid solution to a temporary problem.
I agree with you about the music theft. I had my window busted and my CDs stolen as have friends of mine.
In these instances, I think the rightful owners should be allowed to continue owning their music. However, we currently have no way to validate this.
What if we built a system that was guaranteed privacy and you could register your CDs with them and download your music as often as you like for the rest of your life... Oh crap, that's DRM.
Seriously though, everyone slams DRM, but it could have some good uses if it were done correctly. It could make stealing CDs obsolete because without the correct rights, you couldn't play them anyway.
Not that I think DRM is the solution, I just think that in the right hands (us) we could make it benefit both the consumer and the artists.
copyright violation is essentially the theft of potential profit right? Profit for the artists, profit for the money hungry record labels and profit for the end chain distributors.
If you have the copyright/patent/trademark on something and I create a near perfect copy and start giving it to people. Am I not robbing you of credit and profit that you could have made?
I understand what you're saying, but according to our current laws (regardless of how bad they suck.) copyright violation is every bit the same as theft.
I understand exactly what you're saying and yes if we lived in a perfectly ethical/moral world where everyone agreed on ethics and morals that would work great.
But we don't. We live in a world where if you put your music out for other legitimate owners to download, you're going to tempt non-legit owners to grab it.
I personally think that unless there is some way for the legit owner to verify that they do indeed own the copyrighted material, they shouldn't be allowed (enabled?) to download the music.
I mean it's like saying, I'm going to sell newspapers and put them out on the street corner to sell. All subscribers are allowed to take one. Non subscribers aren't. The only difference is that you aren't losing money when people "steal" your music since it's a potentially a perfect digital copy.
Alright I'm done. People will never agree on this subject. I understand most of the sides of the argument. There just isn't a perfect solution.
Fining the crap out of people just happens to be the one that the people we voted in chose.
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I wish w3c would release html 4.02 or something that allowed topmargin, leftmargin, margintop and marginheight.
Then I could make 100% w3c compliant sites that worked in all browsers.
I'm to the point now where I'm starting to say "screw the older browsrs, I'm just going to write w3c compliant code and not worry about it." but the sad fact is that a lot of people are still using older browsers, especially on older platforms. They're not the majority but I don't want to screw anyone over.
Is there any explanation to why she baked it?
I understand what you're saying, SuSE is really easy to use as long as you don't step over it's boundaries.
I use it on all my production servers but I have problems when SuSEConfig takes over my configs and I have no way to tell it not to touch them.
And dependency problems all over the place.
As long as you use SuSE in it's out of the box form only using yast to update it's packages (SLOWER THAN MOLASSES!) you'll probably be okay.
I've got a lot of situations where I needed non-standard configurations which is where problems came up.
For the desktop user, SuSE is almost there in my opinion.
I assume the people you know are at least semi-tech savvy people.
I know in the past, corporate america was notorious for making copies of Windows and handing it out to co-workers. Throwing in a crack is enough work and adds enough uncertainty that I think it's slowing these sort of copiers down.
I think Microsoft had a huge success with Windows Activation. Once they integrate that into pro, I think their piracy level will drop a ton.
Sure, some people will find a crack for it, but Joe Blow can't hand it off to his co-workers without additional work.
I'm only talking about the US. In China where illegal software is usually sold, I'm sure it will be a cracked version that's sold.
Don't they have a contract with the owners of SCO that mentions that they'll never make a unix like OS?
I don't want to worry about dependencies either...
I'm currently using SuSE but I'm starting to hate it. I used to love it. I've tried yast, apt4rpm and fou4s and I still run into dependency hell.
(Still can't get the latest version of gnucash on my 8.1 laptop!)
I tried switching to gentoo but I couldn't get the sucker to compile.
I guess I'm going to try debian next.
Personally, I would have written a movie that involved Q.
My mother doesn't like to see blood. It makes her nautious (sp?) but there are a lot of great movies with great plots. If simple things like replacing the bloody scenes out of movies could be done by flipping a switch why not?
I mean, it's not like everyone would be forced to watch it the way one person sets it up.
Geez people. I mean this is about the equivalent of me ripping the DVD and editing it to my tastes before showing it only it saves me hours of work.
It's not about learning. This is no different than wal-mart selling albums with the cuss words taken out. It's the consumers right to buy it that way if they choose.
The things that I'd want to remove are things that I know all about. Doesn't mean I want to watch them.
There are certain movies that are great, but not quite acceptable for my family to watch.
With a technology like this, you could tell the DVD player what's appropriate for the audience.
It would be a really great solution to show certain movies in schools too.
As a consumer I absolutely love Missouri's list.
I *never* want to receive unsolicited calls.
I have *never* purchased anything through an unsolicited call.
The Missouri No Call list SAVES telemarketing companies money because they don't have to waste their time or mine calling me. I pay for my phone service and I should be in control of who is allowed to use it and who isn't allowed.
The MO NO Call list still lets non-profit orgs and existing business relationships through. I don't really want calls from non-profit groups either, but they are fairly rare.
I did have a weird call today, some company called claiming to be a Domain Notification service and they had some information they wanted to fax me because their email system was down. I couldn't get them to tell me their name. She just kept saying, we're a "domain name notification service."
Consequently, Missouri HB228 is trying to create a No Email list. It has flaws in it's present state but we're working on making it beneficial to everyone except spammers.
RPM is not a good format for upgrading between major versions.
It's only excessive to those that are planning on breaking the law.
$1000 litter fine to me seems great because I like clean highways and I throw my trash in the car.
Just like in my town all the speed limit signs have "double fines" on them which seems excessive to me, but that's because I occassionally speed and run the risk of being caught.
The goal of being excessive is to prevent the crime from happening.
If they switched from a monetary penalty to a community service penalty, would 100 days of community service be acceptable?
If you think so, then that's the sort of thing you need to write your representatives about.
You're probably right.
Copyright infringement is pretty dang close to theft.
However, the end result is an "unethical" loss regardless of how you term it.
It's not pareto optimal.
It sounds to me like you're ripper doesn't support CDDB. Thus you're using a bandaid solution to a temporary problem.
I agree with you about the music theft. I had my window busted and my CDs stolen as have friends of mine.
In these instances, I think the rightful owners should be allowed to continue owning their music. However, we currently have no way to validate this.
What if we built a system that was guaranteed privacy and you could register your CDs with them and download your music as often as you like for the rest of your life... Oh crap, that's DRM.
Seriously though, everyone slams DRM, but it could have some good uses if it were done correctly. It could make stealing CDs obsolete because without the correct rights, you couldn't play them anyway.
Not that I think DRM is the solution, I just think that in the right hands (us) we could make it benefit both the consumer and the artists.
With your logic. Why would anyone buy music?
Why isn't all music simply digitally copied and handed out to be downloaded by all?
Why would an artist ever even consider using a record label?
Because of that POTENTIAL loss of profit you speak of... that's why.
Some numbers had to be put down.
Excessive is in the eye of the beholder.
They could have made it $.01 and 1 day of jail per MP3/OGG, who is to say that's not excessive?
I mean is a $1000 fine excessive for people who throw litter on the highways?
A number had to be picked, $1000 is what the people we voted for chose.
copyright violation is essentially the theft of potential profit right? Profit for the artists, profit for the money hungry record labels and profit for the end chain distributors.
If you have the copyright/patent/trademark on something and I create a near perfect copy and start giving it to people. Am I not robbing you of credit and profit that you could have made?
I understand what you're saying, but according to our current laws (regardless of how bad they suck.) copyright violation is every bit the same as theft.
I understand exactly what you're saying and yes if we lived in a perfectly ethical/moral world where everyone agreed on ethics and morals that would work great.
But we don't. We live in a world where if you put your music out for other legitimate owners to download, you're going to tempt non-legit owners to grab it.
I personally think that unless there is some way for the legit owner to verify that they do indeed own the copyrighted material, they shouldn't be allowed (enabled?) to download the music.
I mean it's like saying, I'm going to sell newspapers and put them out on the street corner to sell. All subscribers are allowed to take one. Non subscribers aren't. The only difference is that you aren't losing money when people "steal" your music since it's a potentially a perfect digital copy.
Alright I'm done. People will never agree on this subject. I understand most of the sides of the argument. There just isn't a perfect solution.
Fining the crap out of people just happens to be the one that the people we voted in chose.
I would go to jail for what I believe in.
But I do believe that theft is theft.
Everyone gets pissed off when someone threatens to take away their pirated music and videos.
If you want to make a backup of your music and videos fine, but don't share them out to other people to freely copy.
I'm mostly guessing it's Russian. I don't recognize it as any other language and it usually comes from an unmasked .ru domain.
In Soviet Russia...
That is incredibly helpful and well written.
You just gained a fan!
4 numerical digits... So it would take 9999 tries to guess the password?
That's not very secure if you ask me.
This is really offtopic, but I figure there are a lot of w3 savvy people reading this column.
Is there a correct way to put flash on a page and pass validator.w3c.org for valid HTML 4.01?
Cheap RFID tags
I had no idea they were so cheap. I did some research and found the above link.