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I'm also a big proponent of writing to the language's strengths.
You can't really write a web application using a (single) language, though; you need to have some degree of expertise in HTML and CSS AND Javascript AND whatever language(s) your server-side code is written in...
I can see some appeal in toolkits that unify everything into just one language, for the developer's convenience. It's still pretty much impossible that the output of such a toolkit will be anywhere near as elegant or efficient as natively developed code in each area.
All that was decided is that storing an entry in RAM constitutes making a record, even if it's of the most temporary variety.
Just as importantly, it was determined -- correctly so -- that in this particular situation, there was no technological barrier preventing the defendant could not accommodate the limited discovery request from the plaintiff.
Defendant's argument against logging was basically "We can't do this because we don't already do this."
...its a luxury not a basic utility. Bullshit, this is 2007, not 1997.
Your swear word and patently obvious observation about the date doesn't change the fact that high-speed internet service is still a luxury and not a basic utility.
Maybe the typical Slashdotter could not tolerate a life of 50Kbps data transfers, but millions of people can and do. Including, quite possibly, your grandparents. The average person still does not NEED a fast Internet connection in the same way we need electricity or indoor plumbing.
No, probably not. Unless the Getty Image content was presented in an educational or critical context (e.g., "see how this copyright holder has used watermarking to reduce the value of unlicensed copies?"), there is most likely no valid "fair use" exemption which would apply.
If you are looking for a completely GUI drive *nix I would say OS X is your best bet
A good marketing manager should never say "Our product comes pretty close to meeting your needs, but we're not willing to go that last mile, so I think you should go to our competitor instead." You may not work as a Marketing Manager for Linux, but as an informal advocate, your stance should be the same.
What Linux needs GUI usability expertise. And that doesn't mean support for transparent widgets or yet another window manager -- it means somebody who understands the psychological and sociological aspects of human-computer interaction, and can put a consistent and accessible veneer on top of one of the most technically refined operating systems there is.
Apple accomplished this when they developed OS X, because they had HCI experts on staff. What is holding the Linux community back?
This is not a theater system, so complaining about seams misses the point entirely.
I can't think of a large-format display usage that WOULDN'T benefit from seamlessness. I don't know why you think it's only relevant to movie theaters.
Here you might see someone talking about "Feisty Fawn" (Ubuntu 7.4) or "Longhorn" (Windows Vista) or "Moonshine" (Fedora 7) but you won't see any of those products marketed by anything other than their actual brand name.
SAP and Oracle are company names, and products inherit from that.
Sort of: the company that originally produced the Oracle RDBMS was named "Software Development Laboratories", and then "Relational Software", before ultimately renaming itself after its flagship product.
If music is only stored as an MP3 than yes we will be loosing some of the music.
Aaargh. LOSING~! L-O-S-I-N-G. That spells "moon", laws yes.
Now that I've gotten my spelling peeve out of the way, I'd like to point out that losing some of the sonic fidelity is not the same as losing some of the music. Reducing bitrate may distort the timbre of the music somewhat, but the lyrics, chord progressions, rhythms, etc. of the music remain intact, and those are sufficient -- at least under copyright law -- to define the musical work.
Family is the last place you go to. When someone goes to family, it means they've run out of reasons. It is not a generic catch-all phrase used in political circles. It says a lot about what's going. You just don't get it because you've never gone back to family before so you never understand why it's used. To you, it's still an excuse.
This is only true in Nora Ephron movies and on VH1's "Rock of Love".
If Rove hasn't been caring about his family enough to spend sufficient time with them for the past 30 years, then he probably hasn't had an epiphany now about what's really important.
The Dems were also trying to distance themselves from the Clintons at the end of Bill's terms in office.
Which was, in retrospect, an incredibly dumb thing to do. The Clinton Administration was marked by a general trend of peace and prosperity, and while Bill Clinton's personal exploits were shameful, his job approval rating remained quite high. If Gore had campaigned on a platform of "keep doing what my predecessor did, except I'm faithful to my wife", he very well could have had an undisputable win in 2000.
I just hope that some people finally put their vote where their mouth is a vote third parties.
I hope that some third-party candidates appear on the scene that actually have the qualifications needed to serve in office. I don't care how long you've been publishing your pamphlet or running your oil fields, if you haven't already been elected to city, county, state or federal government, I don't trust you to lead my nation.
The political machine will chew you up if you don't have experience operating it.
Karl Rove will show how his underhanded life will play against George Bush and Co when he starts blathering about every bad thing he and his buddies in the White House did during his tenure. And you can bet that it would happen if he did face jail time.
As long as there is a Republican president, Karl Rove will never face jail time.
Besides which, the honor among scoundrels cannot be discounted. Think of the way miscreants like Oliver North and G. Gordon Liddy refused to rat out the men that gave them their orders, and their subsequent lionizations.
Maybe 1023 tons of TNT is what fits on a standard truck, so it would be handier than that stupid 1000 for a kiloton.
Are those "long" tons (2240lb), "short" tons (2000lb), or "metric" tons (1000kg)?
Ambiguous terms of measurement do exist outside of the computer industry, too -- which, I should point out, is actually "the software development industry" plus "the hardware manufacturing industry" plus "the IT service industry" and so forth.
Drive manufacturers have always used base-10 prefixes to describe the capacity of winchester drives. It's not a marketing ploy, it's historic convention.
It's not like this has been common knowledge for years. Oh wait... Yes it has.
To Slashdotters, maybe. The average multimedia consumer has little to no understanding of the differences between high- and standard-definition TV formats to begin with, much less the alphabet soup of DVI/DRM/HDMI/HDCP/YPrPb/MRUEQ. I think if it weren't for the cryptic "resolution too high" warning that allegedly accompanies this downsampling, Joe Video would never even notice that something was amiss.
A grocery store doesn't charge you for a full loaf of bread and then tell you sorry, you can have only two slices because they sold that same loaf to 9 other people.
Bad example. Think instead of an all-you-can-eat buffet.
In a town of 1000 people, the buffet does not need to build a dining room with 1000 seats, nor does it need to have a kitchen that can turn out food for 1000 people per hour, because everybody in town does not eat at the same time in the same place. They could very well have only 100 seats and still have enough food and seating to satisfy every customer that comes in the door.
Thing about space is, there's so much resources up there for the taking that just about anyone who manages to "mine" just one asteroid, or crater on the Moon, or the atmosphere of a gas giant, is going to be rich beyond the ability of Earth's markets to measure.
Rubies cost thousands of dollars per carat because they are so rare. What do you think is going to happen to the price of rubies once a space prospector finds a meteorite containing tons of ruby and the rare gem's rarity goes through the floor?
Selfish because you don't think your children, or your neighbors children, or anybody's grandchildren should get the same thrill you did when you first saw the Shuttle take off in grade school.
The first Shuttle launch I saw in grade school was the Challenger, you insensitive clod!
Anyway, if the rest of the human race has the same anger issues you do, I think I'd actually prefer not to accompany you guys out to the space colony...
one really serious omission from HTML and other "generic" markups which can be read widely is proper support for rendering of mathematical equations
I'm sure to scientists, this is a serious omission. But as a former liberal arts major, my web browsing rarely takes me to pages that contain equations so complex that they cannot be represented in plain UTF-8, even if that means substituting '/' for fraction lines and so forth.
Should HTML be required to support rendering of sheet music as well? It's a similar niche requirement, and in both cases I think the answer is "required? no."
Besides which, the W3C already has a MathML spec for presenting mathematical equations. Firefox renders it natively, and plugins exist for IE. How much more does the W3C need to do?
I think, to the potential copyright infringer, that the difference between $0.68 and $0.98 for an MP3 file is not enough to sway their choice. At either of those prices, the convenience of buying and being done with it measures the same against searching for black-market music repositories, filtering out invalid/mislabeled content, etc.
We already have XML. With that, we can define and use any schema we need.
The great thing about standards is that there's so many of them. If that's true, then it must be even greater to allow anybody to create their own standard. That's the situation that XML has given us.
To a text-to-speech converter, layout is one-dimensional. To a web browser, layout is three-dimensional (yes, three: z-index indicates how far "in front of" or "behind" one element is to another, though flattening this layout space to a 2-D display reduces the perception of a Z-axis somewhat).
Talk about getting something backwards. MP3 is the defacto standard. WAV? OMG WTF. Way to waste bandwidth.
MPEG Layer 3, while the defacto standard, is also a patent-encumbered format. It makes sense not to saddle browser authors with a compulsory licensing fee.
Not sure how WAV is any better, though, as it's a Microsoft proprietary file container. I also didn't see any detail about which codec(s) must be supported; would support for just uncompressed PCM be sufficient? What about ADPCM and its variants? uLaw? What about an MP3 audio stream stored in a WAV container?
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I'm also a big proponent of writing to the language's strengths.
You can't really write a web application using a (single) language, though; you need to have some degree of expertise in HTML and CSS AND Javascript AND whatever language(s) your server-side code is written in...
I can see some appeal in toolkits that unify everything into just one language, for the developer's convenience. It's still pretty much impossible that the output of such a toolkit will be anywhere near as elegant or efficient as natively developed code in each area.
All that was decided is that storing an entry in RAM constitutes making a record, even if it's of the most temporary variety.
Just as importantly, it was determined -- correctly so -- that in this particular situation, there was no technological barrier preventing the defendant could not accommodate the limited discovery request from the plaintiff.
Defendant's argument against logging was basically "We can't do this because we don't already do this."
...its a luxury not a basic utility.
Bullshit, this is 2007, not 1997.
Your swear word and patently obvious observation about the date doesn't change the fact that high-speed internet service is still a luxury and not a basic utility.
Maybe the typical Slashdotter could not tolerate a life of 50Kbps data transfers, but millions of people can and do. Including, quite possibly, your grandparents. The average person still does not NEED a fast Internet connection in the same way we need electricity or indoor plumbing.
It's probably fair-use anyway.
No, probably not. Unless the Getty Image content was presented in an educational or critical context (e.g., "see how this copyright holder has used watermarking to reduce the value of unlicensed copies?"), there is most likely no valid "fair use" exemption which would apply.
If you are looking for a completely GUI drive *nix I would say OS X is your best bet
A good marketing manager should never say "Our product comes pretty close to meeting your needs, but we're not willing to go that last mile, so I think you should go to our competitor instead." You may not work as a Marketing Manager for Linux, but as an informal advocate, your stance should be the same.
What Linux needs GUI usability expertise. And that doesn't mean support for transparent widgets or yet another window manager -- it means somebody who understands the psychological and sociological aspects of human-computer interaction, and can put a consistent and accessible veneer on top of one of the most technically refined operating systems there is.
Apple accomplished this when they developed OS X, because they had HCI experts on staff. What is holding the Linux community back?
This is not a theater system, so complaining about seams misses the point entirely.
I can't think of a large-format display usage that WOULDN'T benefit from seamlessness. I don't know why you think it's only relevant to movie theaters.
Here you might see someone talking about "Feisty Fawn" (Ubuntu 7.4) or "Longhorn" (Windows Vista) or "Moonshine" (Fedora 7) but you won't see any of those products marketed by anything other than their actual brand name.
Are "Ubuntu" and "Vista" and "Fedora" any better?
SAP and Oracle are company names, and products inherit from that.
Sort of: the company that originally produced the Oracle RDBMS was named "Software Development Laboratories", and then "Relational Software", before ultimately renaming itself after its flagship product.
If music is only stored as an MP3 than yes we will be loosing some of the music.
Aaargh. LOSING~! L-O-S-I-N-G. That spells "moon", laws yes.
Now that I've gotten my spelling peeve out of the way, I'd like to point out that losing some of the sonic fidelity is not the same as losing some of the music. Reducing bitrate may distort the timbre of the music somewhat, but the lyrics, chord progressions, rhythms, etc. of the music remain intact, and those are sufficient -- at least under copyright law -- to define the musical work.
Family is the last place you go to. When someone goes to family, it means they've run out of reasons. It is not a generic catch-all phrase used in political circles. It says a lot about what's going. You just don't get it because you've never gone back to family before so you never understand why it's used. To you, it's still an excuse.
This is only true in Nora Ephron movies and on VH1's "Rock of Love".
If Rove hasn't been caring about his family enough to spend sufficient time with them for the past 30 years, then he probably hasn't had an epiphany now about what's really important.
Bush doesn't care about his lack of popularity as he's already accomplished most of his goals.
Like reforming immigration, privatizing Social Security, and establishing an independent, democratic, and peaceful Iraqi state?
The Dems were also trying to distance themselves from the Clintons at the end of Bill's terms in office.
Which was, in retrospect, an incredibly dumb thing to do. The Clinton Administration was marked by a general trend of peace and prosperity, and while Bill Clinton's personal exploits were shameful, his job approval rating remained quite high. If Gore had campaigned on a platform of "keep doing what my predecessor did, except I'm faithful to my wife", he very well could have had an undisputable win in 2000.
I just hope that some people finally put their vote where their mouth is a vote third parties.
I hope that some third-party candidates appear on the scene that actually have the qualifications needed to serve in office. I don't care how long you've been publishing your pamphlet or running your oil fields, if you haven't already been elected to city, county, state or federal government, I don't trust you to lead my nation.
The political machine will chew you up if you don't have experience operating it.
Karl Rove will show how his underhanded life will play against George Bush and Co when he starts blathering about every bad thing he and his buddies in the White House did during his tenure. And you can bet that it would happen if he did face jail time.
As long as there is a Republican president, Karl Rove will never face jail time.
Besides which, the honor among scoundrels cannot be discounted. Think of the way miscreants like Oliver North and G. Gordon Liddy refused to rat out the men that gave them their orders, and their subsequent lionizations.
Maybe 1023 tons of TNT is what fits on a standard truck, so it would be handier than that stupid 1000 for a kiloton.
Are those "long" tons (2240lb), "short" tons (2000lb), or "metric" tons (1000kg)?
Ambiguous terms of measurement do exist outside of the computer industry, too -- which, I should point out, is actually "the software development industry" plus "the hardware manufacturing industry" plus "the IT service industry" and so forth.
Drive manufacturers have always used base-10 prefixes to describe the capacity of winchester drives. It's not a marketing ploy, it's historic convention.
It's not like this has been common knowledge for years. Oh wait... Yes it has.
To Slashdotters, maybe. The average multimedia consumer has little to no understanding of the differences between high- and standard-definition TV formats to begin with, much less the alphabet soup of DVI/DRM/HDMI/HDCP/YPrPb/MRUEQ. I think if it weren't for the cryptic "resolution too high" warning that allegedly accompanies this downsampling, Joe Video would never even notice that something was amiss.
A grocery store doesn't charge you for a full loaf of bread and then tell you sorry, you can have only two slices because they sold that same loaf to 9 other people.
Bad example. Think instead of an all-you-can-eat buffet.
In a town of 1000 people, the buffet does not need to build a dining room with 1000 seats, nor does it need to have a kitchen that can turn out food for 1000 people per hour, because everybody in town does not eat at the same time in the same place. They could very well have only 100 seats and still have enough food and seating to satisfy every customer that comes in the door.
Thing about space is, there's so much resources up there for the taking that just about anyone who manages to "mine" just one asteroid, or crater on the Moon, or the atmosphere of a gas giant, is going to be rich beyond the ability of Earth's markets to measure.
Rubies cost thousands of dollars per carat because they are so rare. What do you think is going to happen to the price of rubies once a space prospector finds a meteorite containing tons of ruby and the rare gem's rarity goes through the floor?
Selfish because you don't think your children, or your neighbors children, or anybody's grandchildren should get the same thrill you did when you first saw the Shuttle take off in grade school.
The first Shuttle launch I saw in grade school was the Challenger, you insensitive clod!
Anyway, if the rest of the human race has the same anger issues you do, I think I'd actually prefer not to accompany you guys out to the space colony...
one really serious omission from HTML and other "generic" markups which can be read widely is proper support for rendering of mathematical equations
I'm sure to scientists, this is a serious omission. But as a former liberal arts major, my web browsing rarely takes me to pages that contain equations so complex that they cannot be represented in plain UTF-8, even if that means substituting '/' for fraction lines and so forth.
Should HTML be required to support rendering of sheet music as well? It's a similar niche requirement, and in both cases I think the answer is "required? no."
Besides which, the W3C already has a MathML spec for presenting mathematical equations. Firefox renders it natively, and plugins exist for IE. How much more does the W3C need to do?
fortunately newer languages solve this with labeled loops and break and continue ; no goto needed.
0x05 dollars says that "break (loop-label)" and "goto (post-loop-label)" compile to almost identical opcodes.
You don't think higher price = harder access? :P
I think, to the potential copyright infringer, that the difference between $0.68 and $0.98 for an MP3 file is not enough to sway their choice. At either of those prices, the convenience of buying and being done with it measures the same against searching for black-market music repositories, filtering out invalid/mislabeled content, etc.
We already have XML. With that, we can define and use any schema we need.
The great thing about standards is that there's so many of them. If that's true, then it must be even greater to allow anybody to create their own standard. That's the situation that XML has given us.
Layout is really a 2D constraint problem.
For rendering to a sheet of paper, maybe.
To a text-to-speech converter, layout is one-dimensional. To a web browser, layout is three-dimensional (yes, three: z-index indicates how far "in front of" or "behind" one element is to another, though flattening this layout space to a 2-D display reduces the perception of a Z-axis somewhat).
Talk about getting something backwards. MP3 is the defacto standard. WAV? OMG WTF. Way to waste bandwidth.
MPEG Layer 3, while the defacto standard, is also a patent-encumbered format. It makes sense not to saddle browser authors with a compulsory licensing fee.
Not sure how WAV is any better, though, as it's a Microsoft proprietary file container. I also didn't see any detail about which codec(s) must be supported; would support for just uncompressed PCM be sufficient? What about ADPCM and its variants? uLaw? What about an MP3 audio stream stored in a WAV container?
I would have preferred HTML 5 to add things that I could use (perhaps an include or multi-file-select)
Or how about a combobox form widget! Faking such a control in the existing HTML language requires a ridiculous amount of Javascript and cleverness...