Firefox or Opera gaining market share has nothing to do with whether IE is tightly integrated into Windows.
That'd be like saying that RealPlayer nullifies the EU's complaints about Windows Media Player being tightly embedded... and we know how that case turned out.
First, a "thank you"... that he deserves. Any information or response is always better than no info or reply.
The one question that wasn't answered that I was curious about was whether there were any movies that they couldn't get the rights to that they really wanted. I would have liked to have seen a little more expansion into the 'improv' process which was asked about, mostly because the question I posted originally was about how some movies lend themselves easily to riffing while others (as bad as they may be) make one have to think harder to come up with something funny to say.
DRM-free music spells trouble? How about talent-free music? The issue is, and has been for years, that the music industry is putting out crap that few would want to pay for (let alone play). Someone figured this one out awhile ago, that the piracy statistics were inflated and CD sales were going down because there wasn't as much worth buying, but that detail doesn't jibe with the RIAA's wanting to be paid every time a song is played, in any form, anywhere, no matter whether a person owns media in some form with that song on it already. People pay for stuff they like, and as iTunes proves that even applies to music with DRM.
And when it comes right down to it, since music can be recorded with a microphone or line-in to magnetic media or in digital format, the 'rights' thing being harped on doesn't exist. Only the ability to duplicate or play a compact disk or music file does, and those are easily defeated by not using the tool the protection's programmer expects people to use (WMP for example).
The following elements are not in HTML 5 because their effect is purely presentational and therefore better handled by CSS:
* basefont
* big
* center
* font (although it is allowed when inserted by a WYSIWYG editor due to limitations in the state of the art in user interface for these editors)
* s
* strike
* tt
* u
I can't see good things happening if they are going to move the effects of these tags to CSS, since this would require one to have CSS on a page. Notepad coders (you know who you are) who like simple, clean, easily manageable pages get a new layer of complexity.
Stereo means there are two sound sources. Not to say that one couldn't put two separate panels (which I presume is the case with the car systems) to handle each channel, but in the case of the greeting cards it's gonna be monaural.
Just a token post about the fireworks show itself and not about the operating system. There should be one, you know.
Okay, what was hilarious was not so much how everything on the Needle just stopped without warning (funny as that was) but that once it finally restarted, they finished playing Liza Minelli's "Caberet" as the fireworks shot -- and then for the rest of the pyrotechnics it was without background music. Or that's how it played out on KING-5 TV, couldn't say about in person cuz some of us geeks don't get the night off and gotta work the night shift.
The problem remains the same: we want instantaneous responses and quick access to information, but it's still going to take us a few hours or days to get off our asses to do something about it.:)
Companies sell their info to direct marketers all the time. The only thing missing in this guy's case was the flyspeck-script in the contract saying they're going to do that.
Now, if only the artists were making a cent of that $9,250-per-song.... Guess the RIAA somehow convinced the DoJ that someone should make up for the lack of profit the new Simpson sister album is experiencing.
So, it's back to the good ol' fashioned methods of cyberstalking, rather than being simply handed all the information? *sigh* Back to LiveJournal for the Facebook freaky-followers...
I meant SIX and one, of course. And this would have really been the first post had I cheated and not actually said anything original, like what's above this one.
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You're thinking of Paris Hilton's album, which has probably made $1.5 million in sales - total.
...from the albums being unlistenable crap not worth the purchase price in the first place, not lost album sales due to piracy.
That's how they can justify charging $150,000 per song when the songs on the CD were $1.50 -- no, I don't get it either.
Firefox or Opera gaining market share has nothing to do with whether IE is tightly integrated into Windows.
That'd be like saying that RealPlayer nullifies the EU's complaints about Windows Media Player being tightly embedded... and we know how that case turned out.
First, a "thank you"... that he deserves. Any information or response is always better than no info or reply.
The one question that wasn't answered that I was curious about was whether there were any movies that they couldn't get the rights to that they really wanted. I would have liked to have seen a little more expansion into the 'improv' process which was asked about, mostly because the question I posted originally was about how some movies lend themselves easily to riffing while others (as bad as they may be) make one have to think harder to come up with something funny to say.
DRM-free music spells trouble? How about talent-free music? The issue is, and has been for years, that the music industry is putting out crap that few would want to pay for (let alone play). Someone figured this one out awhile ago, that the piracy statistics were inflated and CD sales were going down because there wasn't as much worth buying, but that detail doesn't jibe with the RIAA's wanting to be paid every time a song is played, in any form, anywhere, no matter whether a person owns media in some form with that song on it already. People pay for stuff they like, and as iTunes proves that even applies to music with DRM.
And when it comes right down to it, since music can be recorded with a microphone or line-in to magnetic media or in digital format, the 'rights' thing being harped on doesn't exist. Only the ability to duplicate or play a compact disk or music file does, and those are easily defeated by not using the tool the protection's programmer expects people to use (WMP for example).
The following elements are not in HTML 5 because their effect is purely presentational and therefore better handled by CSS:
* basefont
* big
* center
* font (although it is allowed when inserted by a WYSIWYG editor due to limitations in the state of the art in user interface for these editors)
* s
* strike
* tt
* u
I can't see good things happening if they are going to move the effects of these tags to CSS, since this would require one to have CSS on a page. Notepad coders (you know who you are) who like simple, clean, easily manageable pages get a new layer of complexity.
...and the poo was flung as far as South Korea.
> Dinosaurs Grew Fast and Bred Young
So do urban humans. Did dinosaurs have rap music too?
I wondered what "extreme mooning" meant. Perfect place for it to show up, gotta say...
Stereo means there are two sound sources. Not to say that one couldn't put two separate panels (which I presume is the case with the car systems) to handle each channel, but in the case of the greeting cards it's gonna be monaural.
...which simply says "70% military, 25% domestic defense, 4.99% other domestic concerns, 0.01% schools and education."
Driverless cars by 2018. Like there aren't enough of those out there.
Slightly better fuel efficiency by 2020, only 30 years after it was first proposed.
Government actually requiring that cars not be totally dependant upon gasoline, which would be practical? Crystal ball can't see that far ahead.
Just a token post about the fireworks show itself and not about the operating system. There should be one, you know.
Okay, what was hilarious was not so much how everything on the Needle just stopped without warning (funny as that was) but that once it finally restarted, they finished playing Liza Minelli's "Caberet" as the fireworks shot -- and then for the rest of the pyrotechnics it was without background music. Or that's how it played out on KING-5 TV, couldn't say about in person cuz some of us geeks don't get the night off and gotta work the night shift.
Can you hit Mute on the computer, walk to the fridge during an online ad, or fast-forward through a streaming ad? Not usually.
Do not mistake this as "more effective". Accurately this "less avoidable" than TV ads.
(first post?)
:)
The problem remains the same: we want instantaneous responses and quick access to information, but it's still going to take us a few hours or days to get off our asses to do something about it.
Companies sell their info to direct marketers all the time. The only thing missing in this guy's case was the flyspeck-script in the contract saying they're going to do that.
In other words, he ripped himself off.
Now, if only the artists were making a cent of that $9,250-per-song.... Guess the RIAA somehow convinced the DoJ that someone should make up for the lack of profit the new Simpson sister album is experiencing.
This new device is fun on dates!
Only a Nimrod (Kozlovski) would risk all their data like that. :)
So, it's back to the good ol' fashioned methods of cyberstalking, rather than being simply handed all the information? *sigh* Back to LiveJournal for the Facebook freaky-followers...
Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. This can't end well.
Hmm, conceptually there was a shark-jump. But if you stick to the movie series itself, it's later.
I meant SIX and one, of course. And this would have really been the first post had I cheated and not actually said anything original, like what's above this one.
First post!
The trillogy ending where it did in 1983 was just fine. Coming back to it two decades later was jumping the shark.
> what would become of the next Shakespeare, Michaelangelo, or da Vinci?
They'd be like Disney's works, if the copyright lawyers had their way: licensed into perpetuity.
Which is one reason why restrictive copyrights beyond the lives of the creator and immediate heirs is rediculous.