Yes exactly! A friend gave me his 3rd gen iPod recently and I've been unable to feel for the buttons without looking at the unit, since the moment my finger finds one, it's pressed. Give me real buttons that I can find by touch, then decide whether to press. Looking at later iPod designs, it appears this is how they work (at least Rev, Menu, Play/Pause, and Fwd).
I still use Mac OS 10.3.9, which prevents me from using the latest version of Safari. A few days ago a friend was over and complaining about problems Safari was having, so I downloaded Firefox 2. I haven't looked back. Funny how the latest Firefox works as far back as Mac OS 10.2, while Apple's Safari requires the latest Mac OS version. Even if the latest Safari did work on my machine, I doubt it'd compare with the features I'm coming to enjoy in Firefox.
so now spammers get to pay to send their spam? If their spam will be guaranteed to be delivered, and they choose to pay for it, what good is a spam filter on a server for?
Making spammers pay for each message would kill the cost-effectiveness of it.
Yes, I realize that if someone puts in enough effort and analysis, they could probably sift out the false signal, but it's that very effort that makes it cost prohibitive to do it across a broad scale.
Except that you only have to do it once, since the same algorithm would be used on each person's web browser.
And of course there is always the defense: I didn't visit that web site, my computer constantly does a random walk of the internet.
I thought the point was to keep them from casually snooping on your legal activities, not to hide illegal activities. Kind of like the people still complaining about Apple for removing DRM but still putting your name into the file in case you try to infringe on the copyright.
And to help keep the ISPs in line, it ups the volume of records they have to keep by 500 fold.
Install filter before logs are made. Problem solved.
Companies already keep logs of who bought what. Even grocery stores do if you use a credit card!
So your point must be about your name being put into the file. OK, so the bad guys find a bunch of anarchist songs on your computer; do you think they care whether your name is in the files themselves? The fact that you have them on your computer is enough to show them that they are among your interests.
Reminds me of the recent Greenpeace report on Apple, mainly containing groundless claims that in the end were mainly due to Apple not trumpeting the eco-friendly things they were already doing. In this case, Google is going to have lots of user data simply because lots of people use it many times a day to search for things. I think big companies shouldn't give in to these underhanded tactics, since it only encourages more of this crap from organizations that should have more integrity.
The main problem with rolling your own if you aren't a lawyer is that you don't really know what it means. As a non-lawyer, I prefer to choose a licnese that has been written with the help of a lawyer.
This article is as simple and provocative as its title suggests: it explores the legal implications of the word fuck. The intersection of the word fuck and the law is examined in four major areas: First Amendment, broadcast regulation, sexual harassment, and education. The legal implications from the use of fuck vary greatly with the context. To fully understand the legal power of fuck, the nonlegal sources of its power are tapped. Drawing upon the research of etymologists, linguists, lexicographers, psychoanalysts, and other social scientists, the visceral reaction to fuck can be explained by cultural taboo. Fuck is a taboo word. The taboo is so strong that it compels many to engage in self-censorship. This process of silence then enables small segments of the population to manipulate our rights under the guise of reflecting a greater community. Taboo is then institutionalized through law, yet at the same time is in tension with other identifiable legal rights. Understanding this relationship between law and taboo ultimately yields fuck jurisprudence.
Our kids understand that the use of those words simply is a sign to people of how dumb and inarticulate you are.
I hear this claim a lot, but it doesn't hold. Fuck, shit, damn, etc. are words that if used sparingly, express one's frustration better than a full sentence. If your claim were really true, what would be so special about these words that prevents them from having meaning like other words?
No, the whole idea of freedom of speech is to be able to criticize the government without fearing illegal retaliation from said government. It's not simply about being able to say whatever you want wherever you want.
Apparently some people think of the airwaves as being in people's homes, which is more of a property issue, even though said people can turn off their TV/radio if they don't want that content decoded.
Even though it was modded funny, it's good advice: if most of your data is not something you created on your own, either directly or indirectly as a part of using the computer, it's possible to replace it from an outside source if lost. All you really need a backup of is your unique data.
Yes, precisely, I want the lid down at all times possible because I don't want anything falling in there. It nicely solves the "problem" of the seat position when one is done: it's always down (under the lid), and when anyone needs to use it, they either lift just the lid or the lid and the seat at the same time. If your partner has a problem with this, congratulations, you've been given an early notification that you should dump him/her right now.
Sorry, I wasn't clear on my critique; it was about the redundancy of the phrases, not their meaning. Cold, fast, and far require no use of the words "temperature", "speed", or "distance", since those are implied.
I guess there are more people buying "democracy", so our public "representatives" can lower their rates since they will be selling more of their "services".
Here's what I consider better links (I have way too much free time, I admit it):
Back in 2004, Jamie Cansdale released a free Visual Studio addin to help developers build unit tests. His only problem was that he enabled his addin for all versions of VS - including the Express addition which isn't supposed to support addins. After over a year of trying to talk with Microsoft and understand how and why he was in violation of their license agreement, during which they would never explain specifically which clause in the license was being violated, they sent the lawyers after him and pulled his MVP status. To top it all off, Jamie is actually a Java developer by day; his addin was originally developed just as a hobby project. A full account is available on his blog, including all email correspondence he had with Microsoft and the now 3 letters received from Microsoft lawyers. The lead product manager for Visual Studio Express has posted a response to Jamie's posts.
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Seriously, RTFM first.
Yes exactly! A friend gave me his 3rd gen iPod recently and I've been unable to feel for the buttons without looking at the unit, since the moment my finger finds one, it's pressed. Give me real buttons that I can find by touch, then decide whether to press. Looking at later iPod designs, it appears this is how they work (at least Rev, Menu, Play/Pause, and Fwd).
I still use Mac OS 10.3.9, which prevents me from using the latest version of Safari. A few days ago a friend was over and complaining about problems Safari was having, so I downloaded Firefox 2. I haven't looked back. Funny how the latest Firefox works as far back as Mac OS 10.2, while Apple's Safari requires the latest Mac OS version. Even if the latest Safari did work on my machine, I doubt it'd compare with the features I'm coming to enjoy in Firefox.
They were "collecting data on US citizens". I guess that's the modern way to say they were spying.
Making spammers pay for each message would kill the cost-effectiveness of it.
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Probably because cyclists put virtually no wear on a road?
Except that you only have to do it once, since the same algorithm would be used on each person's web browser.
I thought the point was to keep them from casually snooping on your legal activities, not to hide illegal activities. Kind of like the people still complaining about Apple for removing DRM but still putting your name into the file in case you try to infringe on the copyright.
Install filter before logs are made. Problem solved.
Companies already keep logs of who bought what. Even grocery stores do if you use a credit card!
So your point must be about your name being put into the file. OK, so the bad guys find a bunch of anarchist songs on your computer; do you think they care whether your name is in the files themselves? The fact that you have them on your computer is enough to show them that they are among your interests.
Reminds me of the recent Greenpeace report on Apple, mainly containing groundless claims that in the end were mainly due to Apple not trumpeting the eco-friendly things they were already doing. In this case, Google is going to have lots of user data simply because lots of people use it many times a day to search for things. I think big companies shouldn't give in to these underhanded tactics, since it only encourages more of this crap from organizations that should have more integrity.
So, we need to convert our traffic into bloated HTML code or something. Would use even more bandwidth, but that's what they get.
Not a dupe! Yesterday's article appeared as scattered graphics and didn't display properly.
I think you mean
15 PROFIT
otherwise it'll never be executed and you might as well have written
30 REM PROFIT
The main problem with rolling your own if you aren't a lawyer is that you don't really know what it means. As a non-lawyer, I prefer to choose a licnese that has been written with the help of a lawyer.
Mod parent up. An author who makes the GPL/LGPL into an EULA for their program clearly doesn't even understand the license at its most basic level.
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I hear this claim a lot, but it doesn't hold. Fuck, shit, damn, etc. are words that if used sparingly, express one's frustration better than a full sentence. If your claim were really true, what would be so special about these words that prevents them from having meaning like other words?
No, the whole idea of freedom of speech is to be able to criticize the government without fearing illegal retaliation from said government. It's not simply about being able to say whatever you want wherever you want.
Apparently some people think of the airwaves as being in people's homes, which is more of a property issue, even though said people can turn off their TV/radio if they don't want that content decoded.
Even though it was modded funny, it's good advice: if most of your data is not something you created on your own, either directly or indirectly as a part of using the computer, it's possible to replace it from an outside source if lost. All you really need a backup of is your unique data.
Yes, precisely, I want the lid down at all times possible because I don't want anything falling in there. It nicely solves the "problem" of the seat position when one is done: it's always down (under the lid), and when anyone needs to use it, they either lift just the lid or the lid and the seat at the same time. If your partner has a problem with this, congratulations, you've been given an early notification that you should dump him/her right now.
Hey, that serves both genders equally (badly), and pleases the greens because the "flush" is the water you use to wash your hands!
Sorry, I wasn't clear on my critique; it was about the redundancy of the phrases, not their meaning. Cold, fast, and far require no use of the words "temperature", "speed", or "distance", since those are implied.
I guess there are more people buying "democracy", so our public "representatives" can lower their rates since they will be selling more of their "services".
Are cold temperatures like fast speeds and far distances?