Imagine - a Star Dreck^WTrek that has somewhat sensible science and stories!
Imagine - you and your friends getting sued into oblivion by Paramount!
The Star Trek mythology does not belong to you. It will someday, assuming the core concepts of copyright are ultimately upheld, but today it doesn't. Feel free to create your own science fiction universe and create all the programming you want within it, but without a known brand name attached to it, good luck getting any viewership.
Yes, I'm confused about how someone who makes less than $40k/yr would be able to afford to buy $149,850 worth of widgets. I'm sure the state's tax auditors would share my confusion.
All IE needs to be good is: tabbed browsing, popup blocker, standards compliance, and fewer security issues. Sounds simple, doesn't it? Firefox was able to do it, let see if, given enough time Microsoft can do the same.
Sure, why not. After all, it only took the Firefox team... um... how many years has it been again since Netscape scrapped the Navigator codebase and started over from scratch?
If it takes Microsoft another seven years to catch up to Firefox's state of the art, they might as well concede the browser war right now. Someone break the bad news to Gartner.
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Of all the HDTV capture cards on the market, which will ignore the "broadcast flag"? Which ones work in Windows, and which ones work on Linux?
I'm talking without any knowledge of what's out there, but if I were designing an HDTV capture card I would make sure that the hardware didn't do anything with any flags in the data stream except pass them on to the driver/OS and let them decide how to handle them.
There's no value to having separate hardware versions for each region the device is sold in, depending on whether the government there has tried to make it illegal for consumers to timeshift and format-shift broadcast content...
I hear the president of Coca-Cola has also issued a press release declaring Coke to be more delicious than Pepsi.
Also, what's with Microsoft buying an antivirus product? Haven't they already had one since DOS 6.0, or was MSAV.EXE merely licensed temporarily from another company?
N8F8, the only moral I learned from your story is that you were a brat during your college days. Maybe you still are.
You didn't offer any proof that your lab professor was a "Libbie", just that she was a dishonest teacher. You didn't offer any proof that she was representative of the entire Biology community, either, but you certainly remembered to allege that she was in all bold lettering.
I'm also having trouble feeling sorry for you for getting a B (O AS IN OH NOES!!!) on one assignment. C'mon dog, it's not like she FAILED you for being honest.
You seem to think that gathering together the OSS graphics apps, cleaning them up, tying them together, making their interfaces consistent with Mac OS X and Windows UI guidelines, and putting this all in a nice pretty box is not part of the "hard work" of developing a software product.
If all those tasks are so easy, why haven't we seen anyone accomplish them yet?
Each person makes the best possible tool for the application and not stifle creativity or new solutions to the UI by trying to make things "marketable" as a package.
The graphical user interface is over twenty years old at this point. There are very few UI problems left for which solutions aren't already extant and appropriate. Don't make the mistake of dimissing two decades' worth of precedents for the sake of "creativity".
User interface isn't about making a product "marketable". It's about making a product "good". Users don't typically see how your application operates behind the scenes, nor do they care. The good-ness of your application will be judged almost entirely on how easy you make it for users to accomplish their tasks, and often that is measured by how similar it feels to other products that they already know.
You are apparently named after two of the leadingmakers of quality acoustic guitars.
Do you have an electric cousin named Fender Gibson?
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Yeah, well I don't think that Unix distributions should include the find command!
I would seriously hope that the sysadmins are competent enough to do a recursive ls and pipe that into grep when they want to locate a file with a particular name!
(Seriously, what's wrong with providing toolsets to administrators that would like to use them?)
And at $150/GB, iPod shuffles aren't expensive? That's a couple orders of magnitude more per gigabyte than the lastest crop of 3.5" internal Winchester drives...
Does the NBC Nightly News start up with a banner ad saying, "This broadcast best viewed on RCA Televisions"?
No, but it may say "Broadcast in HDTV" (and/or Stereo) "where available".
The difference between television standards and web standards is, if your TV doesn't support the top-of-the-line feature set, it will degrade gracefully to something that's mostly the same but not as nice -- analog NTSC if you don't have an HDTV receiver, or monophonic sound if you don't have stereo speakers.
Web browsers don't degrade anywhere near so gracefully, and it's partly the fault of the standards (ever look at a CSS-coded web page with stylesheets disabled?), and partly the fault of browser writers who have determined that it's preferable to implement a standard INCORRECTLY than to omit it altogether.
I would LOVE to see mass transit options integrated into these mapping services, but I'm not holding my breath. The obstacle as I see it is finding a way to keep route information from all the various mass transit services accurate.
Driving directions are comparatively easy. Roads will either be there, or won't, and they change maybe once, twice a year at most? But train or bus routes can be different every day, or even at different times of the same day! Users would need to specify not only where they are going, but also when.
Which side of the streets do the WAAAAAAHmbulances drive on in your country?
What you should be complaining about is the lack of non-US companies that are willing or capable of innovating in the ways that Google has. What's stopping them?
A simple test for "Wilmington, DE to Jersey City, NJ" in my case renders a misplaced blue line that I can't quite make sense of.
I just tested the same route, and it looks about right to me. Only difference I'd make if I were giving directions myself would be to take the Turnpike to exit 14C rather than swith to US 1/9 for the last leg into Jersey City. But that's largely a matter of personal preference and where exactly in JC you're headed.
I'm a fan of the classic Simpsons arcade game! You know, the one with up to 4 players that wasted an incredible amount of quarters?
That was the one that was licensed by Konami, and was basically the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game with new graphics. And it was killer.
Unfortunately all the other Simpsons games of the era were licensed by Ack! Lame! (say it out loud), and sucked eggs on toast. (As did most games from that publisher, and most console games written by people with American names during that era.)
I was once jealous that a friend of mine had played all the way through to the end of the NES game "Bart vs. the Space Mutants" and I had never gotten past level three. Now, I just feel sorry for him.
The Apple OS has been "stabilized" for 20 years now; still no games.
The Apple OS has been through ten major releases, some of which teetered on the brink of total incompatibility with each other, and countless minor releases. Macs came with a tiny built-in monochrome display for about the first eight years of its existance -- totally inappropriate for gaming, as anyone who remembers playing "Dark Castle" can testify.
Apple has done a good job of maintaining smooth upgrade paths -- even as the hardware platform migrated from 68000-based to PowerPC-based -- but I'd hardly say that the OS has been "stabilized" for 20 years. Since the intro of OS X a few years ago, well, maybe.
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how do you know for sure if someone is older than the appropriate age for the legal jurisdiction in which the download takes place?
The short answer is, you don't. You forward it to the police and let them make that determination.
And if you have any doubt, any worry that you may be incurring liability on yourself, just go ahead and delete it.
Imagine - a Star Dreck^WTrek that has somewhat sensible science and stories!
Imagine - you and your friends getting sued into oblivion by Paramount!
The Star Trek mythology does not belong to you. It will someday, assuming the core concepts of copyright are ultimately upheld, but today it doesn't. Feel free to create your own science fiction universe and create all the programming you want within it, but without a known brand name attached to it, good luck getting any viewership.
I remember our programming instructor in sixth grade teaching us about this logic operator is BASIC.
No you don't.
"isNot" is not equal to "is not equal to".
(Hint: one compares value, the other, identity.)
Yes, I'm confused about how someone who makes less than $40k/yr would be able to afford to buy $149,850 worth of widgets. I'm sure the state's tax auditors would share my confusion.
I'm surprised there still are any serial burglars out there.
Would have thought that they'd have all upgraded to USB burglary or FireWire burglary by now.
Recall.
TOTAL Recall?
I can't afford these mileage taxes for my Mars cab service! I got five four kids to feed!
All IE needs to be good is: tabbed browsing, popup blocker, standards compliance, and fewer security issues. Sounds simple, doesn't it? Firefox was able to do it, let see if, given enough time Microsoft can do the same.
Sure, why not. After all, it only took the Firefox team... um... how many years has it been again since Netscape scrapped the Navigator codebase and started over from scratch?
If it takes Microsoft another seven years to catch up to Firefox's state of the art, they might as well concede the browser war right now. Someone break the bad news to Gartner.
Of all the HDTV capture cards on the market, which will ignore the "broadcast flag"? Which ones work in Windows, and which ones work on Linux?
I'm talking without any knowledge of what's out there, but if I were designing an HDTV capture card I would make sure that the hardware didn't do anything with any flags in the data stream except pass them on to the driver/OS and let them decide how to handle them.
There's no value to having separate hardware versions for each region the device is sold in, depending on whether the government there has tried to make it illegal for consumers to timeshift and format-shift broadcast content...
I hear the president of Coca-Cola has also issued a press release declaring Coke to be more delicious than Pepsi.
Also, what's with Microsoft buying an antivirus product? Haven't they already had one since DOS 6.0, or was MSAV.EXE merely licensed temporarily from another company?
LokiTorrent, a popular torrent bootlegger site
.torrent files from popular trackers, make copies of them, and then post those .torrent copies on Usenet!
I'm a torrent bootlegger.
I download
N8F8, the only moral I learned from your story is that you were a brat during your college days. Maybe you still are.
You didn't offer any proof that your lab professor was a "Libbie", just that she was a dishonest teacher. You didn't offer any proof that she was representative of the entire Biology community, either, but you certainly remembered to allege that she was in all bold lettering.
I'm also having trouble feeling sorry for you for getting a B (O AS IN OH NOES!!!) on one assignment. C'mon dog, it's not like she FAILED you for being honest.
Perhaps it is possible that everyone who visited [blackboxvoting.org] is now in the airline shit list database.
Or perhaps its okay to make wild accusations without having a shred of direct, or even circumstancial, evidence.
You seem to think that gathering together the OSS graphics apps, cleaning them up, tying them together, making their interfaces consistent with Mac OS X and Windows UI guidelines, and putting this all in a nice pretty box is not part of the "hard work" of developing a software product.
If all those tasks are so easy, why haven't we seen anyone accomplish them yet?
Each person makes the best possible tool for the application and not stifle creativity or new solutions to the UI by trying to make things "marketable" as a package.
The graphical user interface is over twenty years old at this point. There are very few UI problems left for which solutions aren't already extant and appropriate. Don't make the mistake of dimissing two decades' worth of precedents for the sake of "creativity".
User interface isn't about making a product "marketable". It's about making a product "good". Users don't typically see how your application operates behind the scenes, nor do they care. The good-ness of your application will be judged almost entirely on how easy you make it for users to accomplish their tasks, and often that is measured by how similar it feels to other products that they already know.
You are apparently named after two of the leading makers of quality acoustic guitars.
Do you have an electric cousin named Fender Gibson?
Yeah, well I don't think that Unix distributions should include the find command!
I would seriously hope that the sysadmins are competent enough to do a recursive ls and pipe that into grep when they want to locate a file with a particular name!
(Seriously, what's wrong with providing toolsets to administrators that would like to use them?)
they didn't focus on providing elements like DB connectivity or GUI frameworks as standard
Hmm, sounds like maybe they didn't understand application domains all that well, after all.
And at $150/GB, iPod shuffles aren't expensive? That's a couple orders of magnitude more per gigabyte than the lastest crop of 3.5" internal Winchester drives...
I'd like to see whatever it is that would get one into the Darwin Awards using the Shuffle.
How many can you swallow?
Does the NBC Nightly News start up with a banner ad saying, "This broadcast best viewed on RCA Televisions"?
No, but it may say "Broadcast in HDTV" (and/or Stereo) "where available".
The difference between television standards and web standards is, if your TV doesn't support the top-of-the-line feature set, it will degrade gracefully to something that's mostly the same but not as nice -- analog NTSC if you don't have an HDTV receiver, or monophonic sound if you don't have stereo speakers.
Web browsers don't degrade anywhere near so gracefully, and it's partly the fault of the standards (ever look at a CSS-coded web page with stylesheets disabled?), and partly the fault of browser writers who have determined that it's preferable to implement a standard INCORRECTLY than to omit it altogether.
I would LOVE to see mass transit options integrated into these mapping services, but I'm not holding my breath. The obstacle as I see it is finding a way to keep route information from all the various mass transit services accurate.
Driving directions are comparatively easy. Roads will either be there, or won't, and they change maybe once, twice a year at most? But train or bus routes can be different every day, or even at different times of the same day! Users would need to specify not only where they are going, but also when.
Better than this US-only shit
Which side of the streets do the WAAAAAAHmbulances drive on in your country?
What you should be complaining about is the lack of non-US companies that are willing or capable of innovating in the ways that Google has. What's stopping them?
A simple test for "Wilmington, DE to Jersey City, NJ" in my case renders a misplaced blue line that I can't quite make sense of.
I just tested the same route, and it looks about right to me. Only difference I'd make if I were giving directions myself would be to take the Turnpike to exit 14C rather than swith to US 1/9 for the last leg into Jersey City. But that's largely a matter of personal preference and where exactly in JC you're headed.
I'm a fan of the classic Simpsons arcade game! You know, the one with up to 4 players that wasted an incredible amount of quarters?
That was the one that was licensed by Konami, and was basically the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game with new graphics. And it was killer.
Unfortunately all the other Simpsons games of the era were licensed by Ack! Lame! (say it out loud), and sucked eggs on toast. (As did most games from that publisher, and most console games written by people with American names during that era.)
I was once jealous that a friend of mine had played all the way through to the end of the NES game "Bart vs. the Space Mutants" and I had never gotten past level three. Now, I just feel sorry for him.
The Apple OS has been "stabilized" for 20 years now; still no games.
The Apple OS has been through ten major releases, some of which teetered on the brink of total incompatibility with each other, and countless minor releases. Macs came with a tiny built-in monochrome display for about the first eight years of its existance -- totally inappropriate for gaming, as anyone who remembers playing "Dark Castle" can testify.
Apple has done a good job of maintaining smooth upgrade paths -- even as the hardware platform migrated from 68000-based to PowerPC-based -- but I'd hardly say that the OS has been "stabilized" for 20 years. Since the intro of OS X a few years ago, well, maybe.