When I logged in using Chromium on my Linux system, the "Call" button was greyed out. It always worked in the previous versions, but now it suddenly didn't - nice of Microsoft not to warn me about this and making me find out the hard way as I was about to start an important business call.
Talk about failing silently with no information on the website why or how to fix the problem. So what worked? Logging in using Firefox with the user-agent changed to Windows/Edge. And the "Call" button came back!
Frankly, I don't understand why anyone uses Skype anymore. It's 2019 and there are better gratis alternatives out there.
Why couldn't the hotel have easily made the shot themselves? Some architectural photography is hard, and requires lots of creativity and imagination to have the effect it should. But what's special about this photo, apart from the view? Any competent pro or experienced amateur with the right equipment and access to the room at the right time would have been able to take a similar photo.
I don't know what kind of lifestyle you're having, but most people earning a professional salary won't make more than about 3 million euros in their whole working life (say, 40 years after graduating from uni, which also typically takes a long time); for unskilled jobs that figure is a lot less
IANAL, but isn't copyright infringement only a criminal offence if done for profit? So it couldn't even get you a criminal trial let alone a jail sentence (which is usually reserved for serious crimes, repeat offenders, etc.)
Individual likes music. Buys music. Distributes it to friends and family. Gets caught by the RIAA and gets slapped with a criminal record.
Bankrupted, maybe, but you can't get a criminal record by being sued. That's for criminal cases (which have a much higher burden on proof and wouldn't be profitable).
If we are to progress as a species we must respect Darwin's laws that have helped us evolve to the advanced state that (most) of us are in. I suggest that we all have a go at trying to fight the problem by selling those much-touted "penis enlargement pills", substituting the mystery ingredient for poison. This should rid the world of those stupid enough to use their common sense. Once the word gets around, no-one remaining, who would buy said pills, would trust them. If not, they deserve to die, and surely will!
Anyone with a degree in economics will see that the spammers' business model will collapse from its foundations soon afterwards...
Given how broad some patents can be, why not patent the practice of sending cease-and-desist letters to those who are allegedly infringing on the patent? That would make someone rich...
As with normal TV, why don't they just use advertising to generate revenue, and keep the downloads free? Makes life easier for all of us. And they can then encourage individuals to distribute their content, rather than labelling such people as "pirates". Most people wouldn't bother editing an MPEG to get rid of all the adverts (someone recently had this idea with MP3s).
But then again, the motion picture industry could just be too greedy and try to make money both ways...
MDI is *the* reason I use Opera as opposed to IE 5. You can use Opera's "Window" bar to flick between the open windows, and it doesn't have to clog up the Windows taskbar instead.
That said, perhaps Opera Software could include an option to turn it off for MDI-haters. The Linux version, apparently is SDI.
But then again, most web developers with some matter in between their ears will stay clear of FrontPage in the first place. Let's just keep our fingers crossed and hope that Macromedia doesn't continue to implement these "features" in future versions of Dreamweaver and Flash, as these are generally well regarded programs among web developers.
Kids who can't get hold of the game by paying for it will just pirate it instead, so it's helping no-one in the end.
Innovate: to embrace, extend and extinguish
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Win2k's version of *cough*Internet Explorer*cough* uses such a system from a company called RealNames, who, in turn, makes the companies whose names appear on the register pay through the nose.
Why are they wasting money on stupid cases like this when they still haven't managed to get DSL out to anyone in Britain yet, despite saying last year that it will be available in March 2000?
Then the next thing I know, there are laws passed to limit my freedom from viewing thier crap. Imagine using junkbuster to filter content being called "subverting commercial revenue" and made a federal crime. Wait and see...
Well, if the movie studios and recording industry can purchase a law that disallows reverse engineering (ie. DMCA) then I wouldn't put it past web site owners to do the same.
Fortunately, US laws have no jurisdiction outside the US at present...
If a large organisation threatens to sue an individual because it doesn't like the contents of his website, there's not much he can do right now. As the law gets more biased towards those who can afford to litigate, it may mean that these volunteer sites can't reliably hold objective information against the will of a big company. Slashdot can respond defensively to cease-and-desist letters because it has lawyers. Smaller sites cannot risk it.
Then the said individual should post the info on Slashdot! Simple.
Average consumer or not average consumer... I'm sure that there are many experienced Windows users out there that would like to repartition their drive, or whatever, before installing Windows, and it should be their right to do that. You have to cater for everybody here, not whoever you consider to be "average".
As mentioned by someone else, Gateway got the right idea: use a disk-image recovery CD AND give the customer the original CD so they can install it as they wish if they had the experience.
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When I logged in using Chromium on my Linux system, the "Call" button was greyed out. It always worked in the previous versions, but now it suddenly didn't - nice of Microsoft not to warn me about this and making me find out the hard way as I was about to start an important business call.
Talk about failing silently with no information on the website why or how to fix the problem. So what worked? Logging in using Firefox with the user-agent changed to Windows/Edge. And the "Call" button came back!
Frankly, I don't understand why anyone uses Skype anymore. It's 2019 and there are better gratis alternatives out there.
Well hung.
Why couldn't the hotel have easily made the shot themselves? Some architectural photography is hard, and requires lots of creativity and imagination to have the effect it should. But what's special about this photo, apart from the view? Any competent pro or experienced amateur with the right equipment and access to the room at the right time would have been able to take a similar photo.
I don't know what kind of lifestyle you're having, but most people earning a professional salary won't make more than about 3 million euros in their whole working life (say, 40 years after graduating from uni, which also typically takes a long time); for unskilled jobs that figure is a lot less
I'm using Opera anyway ;)
Doesn't add up:
Extrapolating from your 'blog' extract...
Office 8 = Microsoft Office 97
Office 7 = Microsoft Office 95
???
Office 4.3 = the latest Office for Win 3.1
Am I missing something here?
IANAL, but isn't copyright infringement only a criminal offence if done for profit? So it couldn't even get you a criminal trial let alone a jail sentence (which is usually reserved for serious crimes, repeat offenders, etc.)
Individual likes music. Buys music. Distributes it to friends and family. Gets caught by the RIAA and gets slapped with a criminal record.
Bankrupted, maybe, but you can't get a criminal record by being sued. That's for criminal cases (which have a much higher burden on proof and wouldn't be profitable).
Now, if only they'd use PDF here, like every other company in the world, perhaps they would look more professional.
(Then again, when they can publish figures like these, who cares whether they look professional or not?)
If we are to progress as a species we must respect Darwin's laws that have helped us evolve to the advanced state that (most) of us are in. I suggest that we all have a go at trying to fight the problem by selling those much-touted "penis enlargement pills", substituting the mystery ingredient for poison. This should rid the world of those stupid enough to use their common sense. Once the word gets around, no-one remaining, who would buy said pills, would trust them. If not, they deserve to die, and surely will!
Anyone with a degree in economics will see that the spammers' business model will collapse from its foundations soon afterwards...
Given how broad some patents can be, why not patent the practice of sending cease-and-desist letters to those who are allegedly infringing on the patent? That would make someone rich...
As with normal TV, why don't they just use advertising to generate revenue, and keep the downloads free? Makes life easier for all of us. And they can then encourage individuals to distribute their content, rather than labelling such people as "pirates". Most people wouldn't bother editing an MPEG to get rid of all the adverts (someone recently had this idea with MP3s).
But then again, the motion picture industry could just be too greedy and try to make money both ways...
Oxymoron of the week: "Secure Digital"
... because you Americans like to generalise the Europeans so much!
MDI is *the* reason I use Opera as opposed to IE 5. You can use Opera's "Window" bar to flick between the open windows, and it doesn't have to clog up the Windows taskbar instead.
That said, perhaps Opera Software could include an option to turn it off for MDI-haters. The Linux version, apparently is SDI.
"Innovate": to embrace, extend and extinguish
But then again, most web developers with some matter in between their ears will stay clear of FrontPage in the first place. Let's just keep our fingers crossed and hope that Macromedia doesn't continue to implement these "features" in future versions of Dreamweaver and Flash, as these are generally well regarded programs among web developers.
"Innovate": To embrace, extend and extinguish
... and this will become really worrying when M$ starts moving to server-based software (eg .NET). Want to use Word? Then, you'll have to use IE.
"Innovate": To embrace, extend and extinguish
Surprisingly enough, M$N does this.
"Innovate": To embrace, extend and extinguish
Opera 4.0 implements CSS2.
"Innovate": To embrace, extend and extinguish
Kids who can't get hold of the game by paying for it will just pirate it instead, so it's helping no-one in the end.
Innovate: to embrace, extend and extinguish
Win2k's version of *cough*Internet Explorer*cough* uses such a system from a company called RealNames, who, in turn, makes the companies whose names appear on the register pay through the nose.
"Innovate": to embrace, extend and extinguish
Most audiophiles will not download music, however, due to the loss of quality in the first place.
Why are they wasting money on stupid cases like this when they still haven't managed to get DSL out to anyone in Britain yet, despite saying last year that it will be available in March 2000?
Then the next thing I know, there are laws passed to limit my freedom from viewing thier crap. Imagine using junkbuster to filter content being called "subverting commercial revenue" and made a federal crime. Wait and see...
Well, if the movie studios and recording industry can purchase a law that disallows reverse engineering (ie. DMCA) then I wouldn't put it past web site owners to do the same.
Fortunately, US laws have no jurisdiction outside the US at present...
If a large organisation threatens to sue an individual because it doesn't like the contents of his website, there's not much he can do right now. As the law gets more biased towards those who can afford to litigate, it may mean that these volunteer sites can't reliably hold objective information against the will of a big company. Slashdot can respond defensively to cease-and-desist letters because it has lawyers. Smaller sites cannot risk it.
Then the said individual should post the info on Slashdot! Simple.
Average consumer or not average consumer... I'm sure that there are many experienced Windows users out there that would like to repartition their drive, or whatever, before installing Windows, and it should be their right to do that. You have to cater for everybody here, not whoever you consider to be "average".
As mentioned by someone else, Gateway got the right idea: use a disk-image recovery CD AND give the customer the original CD so they can install it as they wish if they had the experience.