I am a legitimate user of Windows. I know I am, because I bought a licenced copy from a reputable dealer. Thus, I figure, I don't need the WGA to *tell* me if I have a legitimate copy. I *do* have a legitimate copy.
And Microsoft doesn't get to know anything else about anything I do, or affect me. The idea that I can be held hostage because I don't want to trust software from Microsoft. Well, that's kind of crazy.
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But, increased productivity does suit the corporation's needs.
The way to decide whether to implement a change is to determine if the cost to implement will cause an in crease in revenue in the long run.
Allowing techincal drawings to be printed faster, increasing the productivity of that department, can be translated into decreased costs, in the long run it's cheaper to do.
However, I've seen systems that were implemented without cost/benefit analysis or, more likely, were analyzed but changed dramatically during the project, obliterating any benefit from the project. And often the cause was on the development side: insufficient requirements gathering or a love of cutting edge technology completely unsuited to the task (How often have you seen 'modernizing' as the reason for a project when the goal was to get some developers experience in the latest greatest thing? I've seen it way too often.}
Looking at the changes to the user experience document from MS, it seems to me that this may be trivial in the long run.
You can't pass "PARAM" lines with clear text data, but you *can* pass DATA lines with base64 encoded data. So what do we need to do? Encode our PARAM data lines, of course.
This may break the patent... and it may not, depending on the way it was written (anyone have a link to the patent itself?) If not, then all we need are some good mime-encoders. The main bad part, I guess, is getting away from standard HTML, but then you were doing that anyway when you embedded a plugin...
IM can be very useful. It's faster than email (and while email can be sent very quickly, getting a response back quickly due to the human element) can be difficult. It's better than phone for a lot of reasons: First, there's no mistaking what someone says for detailed things. If were're talking about code here, it's wonderful.
Also, if you're in a big enough organization (I used to work for one of the top 5 american banks), you wind up in more phone meetings than anything else, waiting for your turn to speak.
In the meantime, you can IM with the others on your team who are reporting, getting thigns ready to do it as efficiently as possible (and get us all off the stupid phones).
IM is going to become more, not less, important in business as time goes on.
A griefer is a player whose goal is to ruin the experience for other people. IT's analagous to Bartle's Player Killer, but in a game with no killing (Or player killing) the behaviours are different, and so is the name.
The only way to give safety is to eliminate weapons of mass destruction from rogue states.
The only way to give safetly is to eliminate the anger and hatred that make people want to destroy. No, I don't think it's likely, but it's about as likely as what you suggest.
I don't live under a rock, but I don't have or know much about cell phones. I just don't see why I have to have a chain attached to my hip all the time, and prefer not to have that gadget.
From the article on GigaLaw: [Web users who disable graphics]are committing copyright infringement because they are interfering with Web publishers' exclusive right to control how their pages are displayed.
Whoa! What right to control how their pages are displayed? As somone has worked for years on the web, the one truism that I've leared is that I can't control how something is going to be displayed. I can make suggestions, but that's about it.
Anyone know if this is a real "right" or if it's just someone blowing hot air?
1) There is only *ONE* game for the X-Box, that is only an X-Box title, that I'm interested in (and that's Munch's Odyssey, and it isn't a very strong interest). Why would I want to spend 5 hundred dollars -- buying four games I don't want, just to get an X-Box and single game I want?
2) I've got a lot of PS1 games I like already. I'm not going to buy a PS2 until it breaks, but when it does, I'll buy a PS2, and still be able to play all these games I like already. -- When you buy a new PC, why don't you buy a Mac? Backward compatability is one major reason.
3) I'm buying a PS2 not only to run older games, but to run the newer games as well -- plus, I won't have to shell out for a DVD player. I'm trying to figure out why anyone who has a PS1 (and likes it) *wouldn't* upgrade to a PS2 at some time in the future.
The test that was faulty was *not* used as the basis for termination. It was used as a basis to determine the necessity of *another* test, amniocentesis, which is risky for both the mother and the fetus. (This information is clearly outlined in the article)
In other words, getting this test wrong put 150 women at greater risk for a test later in their pregnancy. Obviously the test was eventually done, that's how the four women who had fetuses with down syndrome were informed of it.
Another reason to get this test right is so that the amnicentesis can be done much earlier in the pregnancy, preferrably during the first trimester when an abortion is a viable option.
Whether you agree with abortion or not, it is the mother's choice, and I can respect the desire to limit suffering in the world, especially for your children.
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Um, Lego *is* a noun.
I've always said "Hand me that pail of Legos".
Now, the Lego Corporation (or whatever their name is) probably doesn't want their trademark watered down that way, but tough. Look at how people use the word, in order to understand it. Pedantry is for geeks. Oh, right...
Part of the point, I think, is not to argue the technologies, but the products that are available at a certain cost. Where I live, the costs of cable vs DSL are about the same, but the overall throughput on the cablemodem is higher.
The cable company is always tuning the system, so while we do experience slowdowns, they rarely last for more than a day, and we're back up to our normal speed quickly.
We also have a gateway/router setup, with five computers (soon to be 7) on our network, all being used in the evenings, again without noticable slowdowns in gameplay or web access, etc.
It is certainly true that cable has a serious growth limitation, and that when DSL providers start offering higher speeds at lower prices, many of us using cable will switch. But for now, this is the most cost-effective system available.
And, unlike what another poster said, we've got pretty much whatever access we desire -- I read my email from work via my home linux machine, frex.
I've solved more technical problems with google (and deja before it) by taking the error I was getting and pasting it into the search criteria. Or paraphrasing the problem and searching in the appropriate group.
I've rarely found something so esoteric that *someone* hasn't asked the question. (Occasionally -- very occasionally -- I find something no one *responds* to...)
I've solved problems co-workers have spent days on, just by going to google/deja and searching. At one job, I taught people how to do the searches themselves as a research tool...
All cats respond to their names, they just don't deign to tell you what they are.
The one we call Maggie is really "sound of can opener" The one we call Kapua is secretly "bag of kitty food being shaken" and lastly, the one we have named most accurately: Curious-about-Bowls, is "Sound of human eating cereal."
OK, I run netscape on my linux box at home, and have the big three (Netscape, Opera, and IE) on my windows system at home, as well)
I periodically download mozilla and attempt to run it, but it rarely lasts for more than a few minutes. Even with the cable modem, it takes longer to download that it runs, and since it takes windows with it, I'm not too interested in running it.
Given that, Here's what I have to say about Opera. It supports the standards. It doesn't try to do mail or news (and fail, like the other two). It's lightweight, and *works*.
When they get a Linux version of it, I'll probably even buy it. Sure, I'd run an OpenSource option that was as good as Opera, but there isn't one yet. If mozilla works by then, I'll use it. But I don't think it will be.
With CSS, what are you going to use it for? Pull down menus like microsoft.com? I guess that is one thing, but you don't need it. Simple things like highlighting links and removing the underline are supported in both browsers and don't change anything for text-mode browsers. Quite simply, I want to use CSS for positioning, font choice, color, etc. IE, all of the *presentation* aspects. SO I created a web page that did just that. And it crashed Netscape. It crashed Netscape under windows, *and* under linux. But it wouldn't crash Netscape if I turned off JavaScript. Interesting that...there was no JavaScript on the page. I'd run Mozilla, it does a decent job of CSS, but it won't run on my computer. It won't compile either. *sigh* GenericJoe
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Forget that.
I am a legitimate user of Windows. I know I am, because I bought a licenced copy from a reputable dealer. Thus, I figure, I don't need the WGA to *tell* me if I have a legitimate copy. I *do* have a legitimate copy.
And Microsoft doesn't get to know anything else about anything I do, or affect me. The idea that I can be held hostage because I don't want to trust software from Microsoft. Well, that's kind of crazy.
But, increased productivity does suit the corporation's needs.
The way to decide whether to implement a change is to determine if the cost to implement will cause an in crease in revenue in the long run.
Allowing techincal drawings to be printed faster, increasing the productivity of that department, can be translated into decreased costs, in the long run it's cheaper to do.
However, I've seen systems that were implemented without cost/benefit analysis or, more likely, were analyzed but changed dramatically during the project, obliterating any benefit from the project. And often the cause was on the development side: insufficient requirements gathering or a love of cutting edge technology completely unsuited to the task (How often have you seen 'modernizing' as the reason for a project when the goal was to get some developers experience in the latest greatest thing? I've seen it way too often.}
How is this really different than the other MMORPG's?
It surely isn't different than my experiecnes with E&B, EQ, or even ToonTown
Happily a non MMORPGer
Looking at the changes to the user experience document from MS, it seems to me that this may be trivial in the long run.
... and it may not, depending on the way it was written (anyone have a link to the patent itself?) If not, then all we need are some good mime-encoders. The main bad part, I guess, is getting away from standard HTML, but then you were doing that anyway when you embedded a plugin...
You can't pass "PARAM" lines with clear text data, but you *can* pass DATA lines with base64 encoded data. So what do we need to do? Encode our PARAM data lines, of course.
This may break the patent
IM can be very useful. It's faster than email (and while email can be sent very quickly, getting a response back quickly due to the human element) can be difficult. It's better than phone for a lot of reasons: First, there's no mistaking what someone says for detailed things. If were're talking about code here, it's wonderful.
Also, if you're in a big enough organization (I used to work for one of the top 5 american banks), you wind up in more phone meetings than anything else, waiting for your turn to speak.
In the meantime, you can IM with the others on your team who are reporting, getting thigns ready to do it as efficiently as possible (and get us all off the stupid phones).
IM is going to become more, not less, important in business as time goes on.
And then there was the radio shack guy who tried to sell me terminal emulation software for my vt100.
and setting the more off on all those MUDs because I read faster than 2400 baud...
A griefer is a player whose goal is to ruin the experience for other people. IT's analagous to Bartle's Player Killer, but in a game with no killing (Or player killing) the behaviours are different, and so is the name.
*geek*
(By which I mean, damn, you got to it before I did...)
The only way to give safety is to eliminate weapons of mass destruction from rogue states.
The only way to give safetly is to eliminate the anger and hatred that make people want to destroy. No, I don't think it's likely, but it's about as likely as what you suggest.
And rogue states aren't the only problem.
Yeah, but now you *aren't*
It's a self-fixing exploit!
I don't live under a rock, but I don't have or know much about cell phones. I just don't see why I have to have a chain attached to my hip all the time, and prefer not to have that gadget.
So I didn't know what the heck MMS was either.
From the article on GigaLaw:
[Web users who disable graphics]are committing copyright infringement because they are interfering with Web publishers' exclusive right to control how their pages are displayed.
Whoa! What right to control how their pages are displayed? As somone has worked for years on the web, the one truism that I've leared is that I can't control how something is going to be displayed. I can make suggestions, but that's about it.
Anyone know if this is a real "right" or if it's just someone blowing hot air?
GenericJoe
Didn't Luke say the same thing about his father?
Hey, maybe she'll be the new Dark Lady of the Sith or something...
GenericJoe
I Hated hearing that.
No, really, really.
GenericJoe
Well try this on for size:
1) There is only *ONE* game for the X-Box, that is only an X-Box title, that I'm interested in (and that's Munch's Odyssey, and it isn't a very strong interest). Why would I want to spend 5 hundred dollars -- buying four games I don't want, just to get an X-Box and single game I want?
2) I've got a lot of PS1 games I like already. I'm not going to buy a PS2 until it breaks, but when it does, I'll buy a PS2, and still be able to play all these games I like already. -- When you buy a new PC, why don't you buy a Mac? Backward compatability is one major reason.
3) I'm buying a PS2 not only to run older games, but to run the newer games as well -- plus, I won't have to shell out for a DVD player. I'm trying to figure out why anyone who has a PS1 (and likes it) *wouldn't* upgrade to a PS2 at some time in the future.
The main reason I'm not buying a Palm (or any handheld device) is because it's *too* small. Maybe I'm spoiled because my first was an Apple Newton.
Maybe I want something more than something to keep track of schedules and appointments. I can do that fine with my brain.
Still waiting for the webpads to come down to a reasonable price.
GenericJoe
The test that was faulty was *not* used as the basis for termination. It was used as a basis to determine the necessity of *another* test, amniocentesis, which is risky for both the mother and the fetus. (This information is clearly outlined in the article)
In other words, getting this test wrong put 150 women at greater risk for a test later in their pregnancy. Obviously the test was eventually done, that's how the four women who had fetuses with down syndrome were informed of it.
Another reason to get this test right is so that the amnicentesis can be done much earlier in the pregnancy, preferrably during the first trimester when an abortion is a viable option.
Whether you agree with abortion or not, it is the mother's choice, and I can respect the desire to limit suffering in the world, especially for your children.
GenericJoe
Um, Lego *is* a noun.
I've always said "Hand me that pail of Legos".
Now, the Lego Corporation (or whatever their name is) probably doesn't want their trademark watered down that way, but tough. Look at how people use the word, in order to understand it. Pedantry is for geeks. Oh, right...
GenericJoe
"Give me a marketing budget large enough, and I will hype to the world!"
Or something like that.
Part of the point, I think, is not to argue the technologies, but the products that are available at a certain cost. Where I live, the costs of cable vs DSL are about the same, but the overall throughput on the cablemodem is higher.
The cable company is always tuning the system, so while we do experience slowdowns, they rarely last for more than a day, and we're back up to our normal speed quickly.
We also have a gateway/router setup, with five computers (soon to be 7) on our network, all being used in the evenings, again without noticable slowdowns in gameplay or web access, etc.
It is certainly true that cable has a serious growth limitation, and that when DSL providers start offering higher speeds at lower prices, many of us using cable will switch. But for now, this is the most cost-effective system available.
And, unlike what another poster said, we've got pretty much whatever access we desire -- I read my email from work via my home linux machine, frex.
So, for us, cable is much better.
I've solved more technical problems with google (and deja before it) by taking the error I was getting and pasting it into the search criteria. Or paraphrasing the problem and searching in the appropriate group.
...)
I've rarely found something so esoteric that *someone* hasn't asked the question. (Occasionally -- very occasionally -- I find something no one *responds* to
I've solved problems co-workers have spent days on, just by going to google/deja and searching. At one job, I taught people how to do the searches themselves as a research tool...
Very cool, and glad more of it is on-line now!
GenericJoe
All cats respond to their names, they just don't deign to tell you what they are.
The one we call Maggie is really "sound of can opener" The one we call Kapua is secretly "bag of kitty food being shaken" and lastly, the one we have named most accurately: Curious-about-Bowls, is "Sound of human eating cereal."
OK, I run netscape on my linux box at home, and have the big three (Netscape, Opera, and IE) on my windows system at home, as well)
I periodically download mozilla and attempt to run it, but it rarely lasts for more than a few minutes. Even with the cable modem, it takes longer to download that it runs, and since it takes windows with it, I'm not too interested in running it.
Given that, Here's what I have to say about Opera. It supports the standards. It doesn't try to do mail or news (and fail, like the other two). It's lightweight, and *works*.
When they get a Linux version of it, I'll probably even buy it. Sure, I'd run an OpenSource option that was as good as Opera, but there isn't one yet. If mozilla works by then, I'll use it. But I don't think it will be.
Even *if* knowledge and technology are 'unbounded'
most resources will still be finite.
There is only one earth, and things that are found
only there. Yes, we may be able to get at
more, later, but that isn't guaranteed
there is no reason to ruin what we have, to use it
up, even with a certainty of 'getting it elsewhere'
With CSS, what are you going to use it for? Pull down menus like microsoft.com? I guess that is one thing, but you don't need it. Simple things like highlighting links and removing the underline are supported in both browsers and don't change anything for text-mode browsers. Quite simply, I want to use CSS for positioning, font choice, color, etc. IE, all of the *presentation* aspects. SO I created a web page that did just that. And it crashed Netscape. It crashed Netscape under windows, *and* under linux. But it wouldn't crash Netscape if I turned off JavaScript. Interesting that...there was no JavaScript on the page. I'd run Mozilla, it does a decent job of CSS, but it won't run on my computer. It won't compile either. *sigh* GenericJoe