It ain't due to people sticking with companies they "know and trust" -- it's because there's no real choice. Here in the Tampa Bay area (Verizon country!) the only alternative local phone services are aimed at people who Verizon won't serve, and charge ridiculous rates besides. They're for people who bank at check-cashing places.
Not only that, but Verizon never delivered my friggin' phone books for this year! Bastards!
This is an almost Orwellian tale that should send a wake-up call to all the DSL
ISPs.
Yeah, and that wake-up call will say: All call center employees must sign strict NDAs that forbid them from discussing what goes on at work.
If anyone in authority sees this, the thing they'll be most concerned about is revealing that everyone's a supervisor. They're just trying to cover their own asses; they can't save anyone else, even if they wanted to.
My question then is this, why doesn't he take the same effort that has been put into releasing the countless VHS re-releases of StarWars into releasing a DVD set? I don't understand I guess...
Probably because VHS is a lot more fragile than DVD -- tape will wear out, but discs won't (theoretically).
3. It will be a lot easier to preserve digital films... People could go to a theater in the year 3001 and see Star Wars Episode II in the same sharpness and quality as when it was originally released.
This assumes that whatever format that the movie is stored in is still readable in a thousand years. There are 20-30 year old computer files that are effectively lost now because there's no way to read them. Microsoft Projector 3005 may not support those archaic formats from the twentieth century.
In the electoral vote count perhaps, but not in the popular vote, which is what I meant when I said that the guy that the least number of people want to see become president, will become president.
I think one of the third party candidates is closer to being "the guy that the least number of people want to see become president."
In conclusion, I don't want Deja, and anyone who does want it will either be A) A zealot we admire but secretly resent; or B) A big businessman with a stupid business plan and no soul.
I don't see a longer appeal period as being a bad thing. Before we rule on a trial as important as this one -- one that could affect the entire software industry -- we really need to consider every possible angle and repercussion of the decision. [emphasis added]
Um, the trial will only affect Microsoft and, at most, future aspiring monopolists.
Granted, this wouldn't be astoundingly great, and it wouldn't offer solutions for font specification, spacing, etc., but why doesn't someone make a client that interprets *text* as
text and _text_ as text?
You mean like setext? (Which appears mostly defunct, alas.)
Then, Paul says,
people both in the free software community and the rest of the world seemed to associate the MetaLab name almost entirely with the software aspect of the site (which only makes up about half of it), and when the latest sponsor, red hat center, donated $4 million to the project, a name change was in order -- but not to one that had either redness or hatness in it.
CSS was implemented because HTML was never meant to be used for page layout. And every CSS-supporting browser I've seen lets you turn it off, allowing you to make anyone's Web site look silly on your system if you want.
If you're gonna have ISBNs automatically go to a Web site, it would be better to have 'em go to something like ISBN.nu, which lists prices at many stores, not just the dreaded Amazon.
You'd be surprized at who came out on top. The ugliest of the lot won.
Well, iCab may be ugly, but it's still in beta! Sheesh.
It's been my default browser for a while -- it's great being able to set which sites can use JavaScript and can open new windows, and filtering ads, and all sorts of nifty stuff.
Yes, it's unusual enough for a Big Company to open source something, but the really bizarre thing is that this is *Disney*! Giving something away! When was the last time you got *anything* free from Disney?
MailExpire lets you set up temporary forwarding addresses that you can delete at any time. Very handy if you think someone might spam you -- you can cut them off when they get obnoxious.
-jon
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Of course, it isn't TOO LATE for this to happen, but there better be a central keyword registry or Netscape and Microsoft will fight with registries of their own. Fun fun fun.
You mean like Netscape's Internet Keywords and RealNames'/Microsoft's Internet Keywords? (M$ owns 20% of RN.) And, of course, AOL's keywords.
The Goog isn't the only search engine to use it -- AltaVista, Dogpile, Go, iWon, LookSmart, MetaCrawler, and MSN do, too. But who uses them anymore?:) And there's keywords.com, but I imagine they'll be trounced or bought by RealNames soon.
When is Microsoft going to stop being reactionary and predatory and start providing meaningful solutions to problems.
Creativity isn't in their DNA -- all they know how to do is "embrace and extend." Look at it from their point of view: They've managed industry domination without doing new things, so why should they start now?
iCab for the Mac lets you toggle whether JavaScript can open new windows or not. Too bad we'll never see a similar feature in Netscape or IE, now that mainstream sites (like AOL and MSN...and Disney, for Pete's sake!) use pop-ups.
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It ain't due to people sticking with companies they "know and trust" -- it's because there's no real choice. Here in the Tampa Bay area (Verizon country!) the only alternative local phone services are aimed at people who Verizon won't serve, and charge ridiculous rates besides. They're for people who bank at check-cashing places.
Not only that, but Verizon never delivered my friggin' phone books for this year! Bastards!
-jon
This is an almost Orwellian tale that should send a wake-up call to all the DSL
ISPs.
Yeah, and that wake-up call will say: All call center employees must sign strict NDAs that forbid them from discussing what goes on at work.
If anyone in authority sees this, the thing they'll be most concerned about is revealing that everyone's a supervisor. They're just trying to cover their own asses; they can't save anyone else, even if they wanted to.
-jon
It wasn't up when I submitted the article, I swear! :)
-j
Try http://channel.nytimes.com/2000/11/27/technology/2 7NET.html. (Props to Jorn Barger for pointing out the channel.nytimes.com backdoor.)
-jon
My question then is this, why doesn't he take the same effort that has been put into releasing the countless VHS re-releases of StarWars into releasing a DVD set? I don't understand I guess...
Probably because VHS is a lot more fragile than DVD -- tape will wear out, but discs won't (theoretically).
3. It will be a lot easier to preserve digital films... People could go to a theater in the year 3001 and see Star Wars Episode II in the same sharpness and quality as when it was originally released.
This assumes that whatever format that the movie is stored in is still readable in a thousand years. There are 20-30 year old computer files that are effectively lost now because there's no way to read them. Microsoft Projector 3005 may not support those archaic formats from the twentieth century.
-jon
I think one of the third party candidates is closer to being "the guy that the least number of people want to see become president."
--jon
Another way to be invisible: Don't order from Amazon. Here's more info from ISBN.nu.
-jon
Gore's stand on the enviorment is laudable, but rather too extreme for my point of view.
That's okay -- he's mostly talk, and has actually done very little of what he promised.
-jon
In conclusion, I don't want Deja, and anyone who does want it will either be A) A zealot we admire but secretly resent; or B) A big businessman with a stupid business plan and no soul.
Paul Allen!
-jon
(Alternate question for Al Gore: How come you never updated your "secret message" in the source of your site's front page?)
-jon (Vote Nader, rah rah rah!)
I don't see a longer appeal period as being a bad thing. Before we rule on a trial as important as this one -- one that could affect the entire software industry -- we really need to consider every possible angle and repercussion of the decision. [emphasis added]
Um, the trial will only affect Microsoft and, at most, future aspiring monopolists.
-j
In another Supreme Court refusal to hear a case...
Man, those justices are lazy!
-j
You mean like setext? (Which appears mostly defunct, alas.)
-j
From the story above (emphasis added):
-jon
Yeah, Jack Valenti using email. If he has an email address, he probably has his secretary print out all his messages for him.
-jon
CSS was implemented because HTML was never meant to be used for page layout. And every CSS-supporting browser I've seen lets you turn it off, allowing you to make anyone's Web site look silly on your system if you want.
-jon
If you're gonna have ISBNs automatically go to a Web site, it would be better to have 'em go to something like ISBN.nu, which lists prices at many stores, not just the dreaded Amazon.
-j
You'd be surprized at who came out on top. The ugliest of the lot won.
Well, iCab may be ugly, but it's still in beta! Sheesh.
It's been my default browser for a while -- it's great being able to set which sites can use JavaScript and can open new windows, and filtering ads, and all sorts of nifty stuff.
-j
Yes, it's unusual enough for a Big Company to open source something, but the really bizarre thing is that this is *Disney*! Giving something away! When was the last time you got *anything* free from Disney?
-j
MailExpire lets you set up temporary forwarding addresses that you can delete at any time. Very handy if you think someone might spam you -- you can cut them off when they get obnoxious.
-jon
Of course, it isn't TOO LATE for this to happen, but there better be a central keyword registry or Netscape and Microsoft will fight with registries of their own. Fun fun fun.
You mean like Netscape's Internet Keywords and RealNames'/Microsoft's Internet Keywords? (M$ owns 20% of RN.) And, of course, AOL's keywords.
-j
The Goog isn't the only search engine to use it -- AltaVista, Dogpile, Go, iWon, LookSmart, MetaCrawler, and MSN do, too. But who uses them anymore? :) And there's keywords.com, but I imagine they'll be trounced or bought by RealNames soon.
Now that I'm completely off-topic...
-j
Creativity isn't in their DNA -- all they know how to do is "embrace and extend." Look at it from their point of view: They've managed industry domination without doing new things, so why should they start now?
-jon
iCab for the Mac lets you toggle whether JavaScript can open new windows or not. Too bad we'll never see a similar feature in Netscape or IE, now that mainstream sites (like AOL and MSN...and Disney, for Pete's sake!) use pop-ups.
-jon