Why shouldn't I be able to include [video] startrek.flv [/video] in my HTML and IE9 play it? It sounds like MS is trying to kill Adobe the same way they killed DR-DOS. ("Microsoft Co-President Jim Allchin stated in a memo, 'If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry. Any discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.'")
This seems dumb. Why shouldn't I be able to include startrek.flv in my HTML and IE9 play it? This smells like Windows 3 where MS locked-out alternative DOSes like DR-DOS from working. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
One reason other countries life expectancies are higher is because they "massage" the numbers. Take infant mortality for example. Most countries don't include those deaths of individuals below age 1 in their life expectancy figures. The US does, and naturally that makes the overall number drop much, much lower.
Comparing stats is not enough. You have to make sure the stats were arrived at via the same methodology, and in this case, they were not. So no direct comparison can be made.
>>>You are including promised payouts which will be covered by future pay-in
No. You're wrong. I'm taking the current national debt (12.8 trillion) and dividing by the number of households (100 million) and arriving at $128,000 per home. Simple.
As for rationing I'd rather see it happen naturally, through the free market, then via bribing politicians or administrators to gain "special favors". I'm also concerned about racism creeping-in, if those administrators don't like certain groups, like blacks or asians or Jews, and denying care to them.
>>>SHAME on you for trying to pollute political discourse
Jimmy Carter called me a racist. So have other high-ranking Democrats. What do you call that? Isn't that "polluting" the political discourse? But never mind; that's okay because they are on your team.
I'm sorry. The government rations medicine in the UK. And France. And Germany. And Canada. But you're right..... they won't do it here. Here it will be different.:=|
National debt - $128,000 per US household and still rising + 10,000 per year.
Ahhhh not so fast. Doctors are now saying there's such a thing as "thin fat" where you weigh few pounds, and appear slim, but your body's fat percentage is over 22%, and that's bad. I just saw a report about this on the Today Show - you can have a low BMI but still be fatty.
>>>I always accessed my Usenet groups via the Internet anyway
I used a 1 kbit/s modem (yes very slow). My messages are still archived on google groups, and I wish there was a way to erase them, because it's somewhat embarrassing to read posts from your teenage self 25 years ago (especially the typos).;-)
You post a question on rec.arts.tv like, "When does the new season of TNG start?", wait for the midnight syncing between your local BBS and the rest of the nation, and then you come back tomorrow morning to learn the answer. If you're lucky. Sometimes you had to wait 2 days for a reply.
Ooops. I should have said the internet was born in 1983. "The first TCP/IP-based wide-area network was operational by January 1, 1983 when all hosts on the ARPANET were switched over from the older NCP protocols." - wikipedia
Holy crap. I thought the $3 per day my Motel 6 was charging was high ($90 a month). I wonder why disney's so greedy? I told my motel that I'd just use dialup (free) because you don't really need high speed unless you're streaming TV shows, and I could get them via the free cable hookup instead.
When I was staying at "ValuePlace" hotel in Oklahoma, they used ethernet hookups for each room. $10 per week. Not bad at all. And the Best Western in Charlotte NC provided me with free ethernet. Best deal ever.
I thought Gopher was okay, but not near as exciting as my first exposure to Amiga Mosaic web browser. After all, it had teh 4000-color pron.;-) Plus exciting sites like this one: http://web.archive.org/web/19961114151757/http://scifi.com/ - I mean how cool is that? It's animated and colorful.:-)
Aside -
Looking at that schedule reminds me how cool Sci-Fi Channel used to be. Weekend Anime. Inside Space reports. Sci-Fi Trader. Sci-Fi Buzz. FTL Newsfeed. It was like a geek paradise for fandom. Today's channel is more akin to watching the TNT channel - ordinary and nothing special.
Beat me to it. The summary should read "Get yourself a piece of pre-world wide web history," since gopher came AFTER the birth of the internet (1981) but before the widespread usage of the web (circa 1993).
If only the State governments were that smart. Who the hell knows what's inside the Diebold voting machines? When working with the Defense Department we're expected to provide all the code for review.
Actually TVs are required to be NTSC and ATSC compatible, and you are free to use any TV you want.
i.e. NBC can't say only GE sets are allowed - all other brands will be blocked from watching NBC programs. So your analogy is bad. ----- As for the iPhone, on one hand Jobs is talking about "open web standards" and yet at the same time I can't use anything but Safari and Webkit to browse that web.
>>>Because those things aren't the web, those are browsers which are tools used to access the web. Get the difference?
No. If the web is supposed to be "open" according to Jobs own words, then I should be able to use whatever tools I want. Flash or not flash. Firefox or not firefox. But the latter is not allowed on the iPhone. Jobs is being hypocritical..... like Sony with their PS3 (can't use linux).
>>>pricing of petrol which tends to get more expensive on Thursday->Saturdays and during holidays/long weekends
So?
Hotels do the same thing. It's not a crime. It's supply-and-demand. Demand goes up; hotel price goes up. Demand goes down; price goes down, in order to attract people.
I like the cut of your jib (I like how you think).
PLUS because the bait-and-switch refund would be what you originally paid (say $400) and prices have dropped since then ($300), you'd actually have a shiny-new PS3 console plus some spare cash.
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Why shouldn't I be able to include [video] startrek.flv [/video] in my HTML and IE9 play it? It sounds like MS is trying to kill Adobe the same way they killed DR-DOS. ("Microsoft Co-President Jim Allchin stated in a memo, 'If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry. Any discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.'")
This seems dumb. Why shouldn't I be able to include startrek.flv in my HTML and IE9 play it? This smells like Windows 3 where MS locked-out alternative DOSes like DR-DOS from working. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
One reason other countries life expectancies are higher is because they "massage" the numbers. Take infant mortality for example. Most countries don't include those deaths of individuals below age 1 in their life expectancy figures. The US does, and naturally that makes the overall number drop much, much lower.
Comparing stats is not enough. You have to make sure the stats were arrived at via the same methodology, and in this case, they were not. So no direct comparison can be made.
>>>You are including promised payouts which will be covered by future pay-in
No. You're wrong. I'm taking the current national debt (12.8 trillion) and dividing by the number of households (100 million) and arriving at $128,000 per home. Simple.
As for rationing I'd rather see it happen naturally, through the free market, then via bribing politicians or administrators to gain "special favors". I'm also concerned about racism creeping-in, if those administrators don't like certain groups, like blacks or asians or Jews, and denying care to them.
Saw palmetto doesn't do crap. And it's never been "proven" to prevent prostate enlargement or cancer. It's nothing but hearsay.
Propecia on the other hand (the stuff for baldness) has been shown to help the prostate.
>>>SHAME on you for trying to pollute political discourse
Jimmy Carter called me a racist. So have other high-ranking Democrats. What do you call that? Isn't that "polluting" the political discourse? But never mind; that's okay because they are on your team.
Wow.
I moved Jenny McCarthy to my "formerly hot" list along with Carol Alt and Deanna Troi (Star trek).
I'm sorry. The government rations medicine in the UK. And France. And Germany. And Canada. But you're right..... they won't do it here. Here it will be different. :=|
National debt -
$128,000 per US household and still rising + 10,000 per year.
>>>I'm still under 130 pounds
Ahhhh not so fast. Doctors are now saying there's such a thing as "thin fat" where you weigh few pounds, and appear slim, but your body's fat percentage is over 22%, and that's bad. I just saw a report about this on the Today Show - you can have a low BMI but still be fatty.
"We need to cut back on the quantity of medicine used, in order to improve efficiency." - Barak Obama last week.
>>>I always accessed my Usenet groups via the Internet anyway
I used a 1 kbit/s modem (yes very slow). My messages are still archived on google groups, and I wish there was a way to erase them, because it's somewhat embarrassing to read posts from your teenage self 25 years ago (especially the typos). ;-)
Ahhh the good old days.
You post a question on rec.arts.tv like, "When does the new season of TNG start?", wait for the midnight syncing between your local BBS and the rest of the nation, and then you come back tomorrow morning to learn the answer. If you're lucky. Sometimes you had to wait 2 days for a reply.
Ooops. I should have said the internet was born in 1983. "The first TCP/IP-based wide-area network was operational by January 1, 1983 when all hosts on the ARPANET were switched over from the older NCP protocols." - wikipedia
Holy crap. I thought the $3 per day my Motel 6 was charging was high ($90 a month). I wonder why disney's so greedy? I told my motel that I'd just use dialup (free) because you don't really need high speed unless you're streaming TV shows, and I could get them via the free cable hookup instead.
When I was staying at "ValuePlace" hotel in Oklahoma, they used ethernet hookups for each room. $10 per week. Not bad at all. And the Best Western in Charlotte NC provided me with free ethernet. Best deal ever.
Wasn't the pre-WWW Usenet technically a separate network (like Fidonet) from the internet?
I thought Gopher was okay, but not near as exciting as my first exposure to Amiga Mosaic web browser. After all, it had teh 4000-color pron. ;-) Plus exciting sites like this one: http://web.archive.org/web/19961114151757/http://scifi.com/ - I mean how cool is that? It's animated and colorful. :-)
Aside -
Looking at that schedule reminds me how cool Sci-Fi Channel used to be. Weekend Anime. Inside Space reports. Sci-Fi Trader. Sci-Fi Buzz. FTL Newsfeed. It was like a geek paradise for fandom. Today's channel is more akin to watching the TNT channel - ordinary and nothing special.
Beat me to it. The summary should read "Get yourself a piece of pre-world wide web history," since gopher came AFTER the birth of the internet (1981) but before the widespread usage of the web (circa 1993).
Apple is to GE -as- blocking web browser choice, is to forbidding you to attach a DVR to the GE-TV.
If only the State governments were that smart. Who the hell knows what's inside the Diebold voting machines? When working with the Defense Department we're expected to provide all the code for review.
>>>the Mozilla folks have chosen not to develop
If Firefox and seaMonkey are open source, couldn't one of us simply port the code over to the iPhone? I'm surprised nobody's done it yet.
Actually TVs are required to be NTSC and ATSC compatible, and you are free to use any TV you want.
i.e. NBC can't say only GE sets are allowed - all other brands will be blocked from watching NBC programs. So your analogy is bad. ----- As for the iPhone, on one hand Jobs is talking about "open web standards" and yet at the same time I can't use anything but Safari and Webkit to browse that web.
>>>Because those things aren't the web, those are browsers which are tools used to access the web. Get the difference?
No. If the web is supposed to be "open" according to Jobs own words, then I should be able to use whatever tools I want. Flash or not flash. Firefox or not firefox. But the latter is not allowed on the iPhone. Jobs is being hypocritical..... like Sony with their PS3 (can't use linux).
>>>The EU minimum warranty is 24 month
Maybe it's time I leave the US and move to the EU. Is it true they give out free apartments and guaranteed jobs? ;-)
>>>pricing of petrol which tends to get more expensive on Thursday->Saturdays and during holidays/long weekends
So?
Hotels do the same thing. It's not a crime. It's supply-and-demand. Demand goes up; hotel price goes up. Demand goes down; price goes down, in order to attract people.
I like the cut of your jib (I like how you think).
PLUS because the bait-and-switch refund would be what you originally paid (say $400) and prices have dropped since then ($300), you'd actually have a shiny-new PS3 console plus some spare cash.