Even though you were right, you left your opponents no room to do anything other than change the rules. And so the rules change, and we can only hope for another Scopes Monkey Trial.
Sorry, got lost pouring that out to the world (finally) and forgot my conclusion! The point of the parent post is:
Let your children learn about the world around them via science, which is a process to do as best as possible to gather unbiased facts about any subject.
Teach them to tie it into your religion on your own time. It's possible, and it usually works.
My tax dollars do not pay to support your religion, and your tax dollars shouldn't be used to support mine. This is how we maintain FREEDOM OF RELIGION, which is one of the founding principals of the United States of America. If you don't like it, well, there is the door. Come visit whenever you want, the door is always open (let's hope, but that's a whole other topic).
...and I thank you for thinking carefully (and critically!) before replying.
There is no reason that any of this cannot be tied into your faith.
Did God take 7 ACTUAL EARTH DAYS to form all of creation? How is that possible...there where no "Earth days" when he started!
"God" is really just all of nature and existence around you (in the end, after all, it IS what created you and everything else). Those of ancient times simply personified it because they didn't have any explanation for natural occurrence taking place without some type of living being being the cause (Volcanos caused by underground demons? Floods caused by angry gods of the sea?)
Likewise, they decided on an arbitrary time frame because they had no concept of "billions".
If you ask me, knowing that the God I learned about for 9 years of Catholic school is in fact the world around me (including myself, and you too) and that (just about) all the lessons in those religious texts where written in order to guide the mindset of those who followed them to prevent disease, war, poverty, and ultimately the failure of our species, is in fact much more amazing to me than thinking there is a big ghostly guy in the sky behind golden gates who keeps tabs on everyone at all times. Really.
Just because I don't choose to perceive God as a being doesn't mean the concept of God can't apply to what I know about the world.
All this talk about preserving and protecting the Earth's environment and we still insist on encroaching on the desert. Won't this eventually have a biological and meteorological effect on the planet as well?
I'm going to burn some mod points and ask why this isn't possible if you SSH into an OS X box.
It's fair to link to an explanation if I've missed something, and no, this is not typical sarcastic geek doubt, I'd genuinely like to know.
...there reason they're called "STANDARDS" is because they're the STANDARD. You can't just make up your own way and expect everyone to follow you, then we'd have NO STANDARDS and the web, for example, would have many ways of doing things and would end up being a horribly broken mess, causing headaches for both designers and users alike, and as a result we'd see people arguing furiously over what constitutes a standard.
When I read the title of your post, I thought they where going to start making gauze underwear.
Nothing quite like that "Imhotep" look to help protect yourself against the Colorado quick-step...
To maintain compatibility and be secure by default we didn't want to invoke fallback either, as original web authors might not have intended this behavior. As we all know, developers (developers, developers, developers) NEVER intend for a fallback resource to be utilized when primary resources fail. Microsoft has once again taken the initiative to embrace the developer community as a loving parent and save us from our own incompetent, foolish selves.
"What does 'It's not a bug, it's a feature' mean, daddy?"
It's amazing that this shit still goes on. This dumbass says "fuck apple" because neither he nor his wife could be bothered to read a manual, and the goes and calls people defend Apple products a "cult".
People who like Apple products have had to put up with shit like this for years, myself included. You couldn't figure out a fucking iPod, and WE'RE the idiots? Go drink your Brawndo, douchebag.
Or you can buy a Mac, and not have to worry about all that bullshit.
You know, some people don't feel like constantly tweaking configs, running scans, and performing software updates should be a required part of the computer experience (and I happen to agree).
Seriously though, to a non-American there is such a phenomenal... arrogance to all of this. Trust me, Americans feel like this is arrogant bullshit, too. We have to foot the bill, and we're starting to edge toward that point where it's going to be hard for us to get essentials soon. It isn't yet, but the signs are there.
This is no longer America. Hasn't anyone notices we've dropped the "A" from USA and now it's just "United States"? I'm sure it wasn't done with the intent to signal change, but it's almost Freudian in the way even our name has become more draconian and imperialist. The powerhungry politicians have AGAIN ruined a nation formed around the principle of NOT BEING RULED OVER BY POWERHUNGRY OVERCONTROLING DOUCHEBAGS, and again it will crumble, just like all the previous empires in history.
Nice try, America, but humanity still wasn't ready.
There's a difference between accent/dialect and being a lazy bastard.
-or and -our have quite different pronunciations, and the way we pronounce color over here, sounds nothing like colour. It has nothing to do with being lazy. This difference is more like cockney (sp?) vs. standard British English. ...However, I bet lazy has a lot to do with all that extra effort you put into verifying the spelling of "cockney", right?
Legally, you're correct. It is infringement. Radiohead may not care, and allow this redistribution, as is their right under Copyright law, but that is up to them, not the law itself.
it's one piece of software on your machine that doesn't really interact with the others all that much. Not to be snarky, but it's the one piece of software on your machine (besides the OS) that DOES interact with all the others, so it is certainly nice to have full disclosure when it does!
This is not good for `science', because in the absence of the patent issue companies would be free to direct their R&D to whatever technology they wanted, rather than solving an already-solved problem.
I find that statement only partially true; while it is good economically for a company to not need to waste money on completed R&D, it's also sad when two people have the power to halt the entire technology sector of one of the largest nations on Earth. Without patents, it'd be awful when I went to sell my idea to Microsoft and they turned me down flat, and then in 6 months my idea is on store shelves.
Someone should invent a new type of patent system that works out all these situations. Maybe different types of patents, like small inventor patents and patents for large companies, etc....and then Patent their system;-)
You would have to have some pretty good filtering technology to filter out someones brain waves from another room with all the other ambient electromagnetic radiation going around. A standard action potential only fluctuates the membrane voltage by about 120 mV. Meanwhile, a CRT, which actually is vulnerable to Van Eck Phreaking, requires a voltage of 32,000 volts to display an image on the screen. ...and even if a device was built which could seperate out the magnetic fields from other objects in the room, you could simply jam it by tucking refrigerator magnets in your tinfoil hat!
Silly government, thoughts are for citizens!
On a slightly more serious note, it sounds like they're giving up on having most browsers support CSS styling of XML, and just adding new tags that serve no point other than being CSS targets. Semantically, what's the difference between:
<div class="article">...</div>
And:
<article>...</article>
Answer: Nothing. One is easier to type and less verbose, and the CSS selector rule saves a single character. <div class="article">...</div> means absolutely nothing, context-wise. The "article" class is a style, designed by the developer. It tells nothing of context, only pretty colors and fonts. Now, the <article> TAG has a defined meaning to a browser, and in case you'd like to step outside that box which you seem to prefer thinking in, let me refresh you by reminding you that FireFox, IE, Opera, and Safari are NOT the only way one is meant to access HTML documents.
The whole fucking point of HTML is to CATEGORIZE DATA in a way that can be meaningfully interpreted regardless of context.
CSS and JavaScript are ways to build on this content for richer environments, sure, and I'm very grateful to have them. HOWEVER, they are tools to accent the underlying information, not to define the interpretation of that information.
How much better do you think these changes (HTML 5's new tags) can make search engines? Accessibility (think Braille readers for example)? The countless possibilities I haven't even thought about?
It seems we've got such a heavy case of A.D.D. these days, we've forgotten the entire point of HTML.
If you want to be able to develop web-based applications with fancy GUIs, etc. Then I'm all for it. But let's introduce a whole new schema for that designed from the ground up. Hell, design a new protocol to go with it; secure connections, stateful and persistent sessions built in, server-pushed updates, and all without kludges. Simplified Internet Transport Engine (site://catchy.name.even).
It just gets me up in arms that HTML was designed for a very specific purpose (that all content could be a cross-referenced and easily indexable and presentable in any way), and we're trashing that notion because it's all about flashy colors and thin-client capability.
...but saying that leveling is great (as in fun) part of the game is like saying that working on the assembly line is the most interesting job in the world. As someone who has never played WoW before, I just have to ask: Isn't the whole point of the game to create a character and then level that character up? Did I miss something?
Slashdot Mirror
Even though you were right, you left your opponents no room to do anything other than change the rules. And so the rules change, and we can only hope for another Scopes Monkey Trial.
That is called "cheating to get your way".
It's a sin. Where is their God now?
/lol but true
Sorry, got lost pouring that out to the world (finally) and forgot my conclusion! The point of the parent post is:
Let your children learn about the world around them via science, which is a process to do as best as possible to gather unbiased facts about any subject.
Teach them to tie it into your religion on your own time. It's possible, and it usually works.
My tax dollars do not pay to support your religion, and your tax dollars shouldn't be used to support mine. This is how we maintain FREEDOM OF RELIGION, which is one of the founding principals of the United States of America. If you don't like it, well, there is the door. Come visit whenever you want, the door is always open (let's hope, but that's a whole other topic).
...and I thank you for thinking carefully (and critically!) before replying.
There is no reason that any of this cannot be tied into your faith.
Did God take 7 ACTUAL EARTH DAYS to form all of creation? How is that possible...there where no "Earth days" when he started!
"God" is really just all of nature and existence around you (in the end, after all, it IS what created you and everything else). Those of ancient times simply personified it because they didn't have any explanation for natural occurrence taking place without some type of living being being the cause (Volcanos caused by underground demons? Floods caused by angry gods of the sea?)
Likewise, they decided on an arbitrary time frame because they had no concept of "billions".
If you ask me, knowing that the God I learned about for 9 years of Catholic school is in fact the world around me (including myself, and you too) and that (just about) all the lessons in those religious texts where written in order to guide the mindset of those who followed them to prevent disease, war, poverty, and ultimately the failure of our species, is in fact much more amazing to me than thinking there is a big ghostly guy in the sky behind golden gates who keeps tabs on everyone at all times. Really.
Just because I don't choose to perceive God as a being doesn't mean the concept of God can't apply to what I know about the world.
All this talk about preserving and protecting the Earth's environment and we still insist on encroaching on the desert. Won't this eventually have a biological and meteorological effect on the planet as well?
But, there's like, 12 cup holders in here...
I'm going to burn some mod points and ask why this isn't possible if you SSH into an OS X box. It's fair to link to an explanation if I've missed something, and no, this is not typical sarcastic geek doubt, I'd genuinely like to know.
...there reason they're called "STANDARDS" is because they're the STANDARD. You can't just make up your own way and expect everyone to follow you, then we'd have NO STANDARDS and the web, for example, would have many ways of doing things and would end up being a horribly broken mess, causing headaches for both designers and users alike, and as a result we'd see people arguing furiously over what constitutes a standard.
Like now.
Get it?
nVidia seems to be a litte late to this game. ;-)
When I read the title of your post, I thought they where going to start making gauze underwear. Nothing quite like that "Imhotep" look to help protect yourself against the Colorado quick-step...
To maintain compatibility and be secure by default we didn't want to invoke fallback either, as original web authors might not have intended this behavior. As we all know, developers (developers, developers, developers) NEVER intend for a fallback resource to be utilized when primary resources fail. Microsoft has once again taken the initiative to embrace the developer community as a loving parent and save us from our own incompetent, foolish selves.
"What does 'It's not a bug, it's a feature' mean, daddy?"
"I'll tell you when you're older."
It's amazing that this shit still goes on. This dumbass says "fuck apple" because neither he nor his wife could be bothered to read a manual, and the goes and calls people defend Apple products a "cult".
People who like Apple products have had to put up with shit like this for years, myself included. You couldn't figure out a fucking iPod, and WE'RE the idiots? Go drink your Brawndo, douchebag.
Ship High In Transit
Or you can buy a Mac, and not have to worry about all that bullshit. You know, some people don't feel like constantly tweaking configs, running scans, and performing software updates should be a required part of the computer experience (and I happen to agree).
Ignore All Rules
Well, wouldn't that make a mirror that only hosted binaries illegal?
Not that is has any bearing on the MPAA's case, as they made modifications.
This is no longer America. Hasn't anyone notices we've dropped the "A" from USA and now it's just "United States"? I'm sure it wasn't done with the intent to signal change, but it's almost Freudian in the way even our name has become more draconian and imperialist. The powerhungry politicians have AGAIN ruined a nation formed around the principle of NOT BEING RULED OVER BY POWERHUNGRY OVERCONTROLING DOUCHEBAGS, and again it will crumble, just like all the previous empires in history.
Nice try, America, but humanity still wasn't ready.
...if your coworkers PUT the pictures there. I smell troll...
-or and -our have quite different pronunciations, and the way we pronounce color over here, sounds nothing like colour. It has nothing to do with being lazy. This difference is more like cockney (sp?) vs. standard British English.
...However, I bet lazy has a lot to do with all that extra effort you put into verifying the spelling of "cockney", right?
pwn3t!
Legally, you're correct. It is infringement. Radiohead may not care, and allow this redistribution, as is their right under Copyright law, but that is up to them, not the law itself.
Your reasoning is an example of the fallacy of the broken window.
This is not good for `science', because in the absence of the patent issue companies would be free to direct their R&D to whatever technology they wanted, rather than solving an already-solved problem.
I find that statement only partially true; while it is good economically for a company to not need to waste money on completed R&D, it's also sad when two people have the power to halt the entire technology sector of one of the largest nations on Earth. Without patents, it'd be awful when I went to sell my idea to Microsoft and they turned me down flat, and then in 6 months my idea is on store shelves. Someone should invent a new type of patent system that works out all these situations. Maybe different types of patents, like small inventor patents and patents for large companies, etc.I can't find the violin. It's much, much too tiny.
On a slightly more serious note, it sounds like they're giving up on having most browsers support CSS styling of XML, and just adding new tags that serve no point other than being CSS targets. Semantically, what's the difference between:
<div class="article">...</div>
And:
<article>...</article>
Answer: Nothing. One is easier to type and less verbose, and the CSS selector rule saves a single character. <div class="article">...</div> means absolutely nothing, context-wise. The "article" class is a style, designed by the developer. It tells nothing of context, only pretty colors and fonts. Now, the <article> TAG has a defined meaning to a browser, and in case you'd like to step outside that box which you seem to prefer thinking in, let me refresh you by reminding you that FireFox, IE, Opera, and Safari are NOT the only way one is meant to access HTML documents.
The whole fucking point of HTML is to CATEGORIZE DATA in a way that can be meaningfully interpreted regardless of context.
CSS and JavaScript are ways to build on this content for richer environments, sure, and I'm very grateful to have them. HOWEVER, they are tools to accent the underlying information, not to define the interpretation of that information.
How much better do you think these changes (HTML 5's new tags) can make search engines? Accessibility (think Braille readers for example)? The countless possibilities I haven't even thought about?
It seems we've got such a heavy case of A.D.D. these days, we've forgotten the entire point of HTML.
If you want to be able to develop web-based applications with fancy GUIs, etc. Then I'm all for it. But let's introduce a whole new schema for that designed from the ground up. Hell, design a new protocol to go with it; secure connections, stateful and persistent sessions built in, server-pushed updates, and all without kludges. Simplified Internet Transport Engine (site://catchy.name.even).
It just gets me up in arms that HTML was designed for a very specific purpose (that all content could be a cross-referenced and easily indexable and presentable in any way), and we're trashing that notion because it's all about flashy colors and thin-client capability.
...but saying that leveling is great (as in fun) part of the game is like saying that working on the assembly line is the most interesting job in the world. As someone who has never played WoW before, I just have to ask: Isn't the whole point of the game to create a character and then level that character up? Did I miss something?