A major incentive used to be that property values next to a badly maintained home would take a hit. As many people were playing the property shell game before the subprime crisis hit, not taking care of your lawn could directly impact your soon to be ex-neighbor for thousands of dollars when he chose to sell his house.
Now that people are holding onto what they own more this may be less of an incentive but that doesn't mean that they will loosen the ordinances...
Assume for a moment that Microsoft is actually trying to move in the direction of standards-compliance.
No. By displaying a broken page icon when showing a standards compliant page, Microsoft once again shows that it wants to push people into continuing to use non-standard, broken HTML. I would be quite happy with MS discontinuing development of IE since they cannot stop pushing broken HTML. Notice the thundering absence of complaints since they abandoned IE on the Mac. Old code could continue to use the broken MS software. In time, everything new would adapt to mozilla or a common interface that Mozilla/Opera/Apple/??? would devise.
IE7 is a abortion that is breaks both IE6 code & standards compliant code. Being "closer" to compliant just means that devs have to goo through all their code to insert special cases yet again, so you lie when you say that you do not want to expend "tremendous ressources" to support IE7. No. Do it once & abandon MS"s crap in the latrine where it lies.
Websites that do not work with firefox ALL work with IE6. IE7 brings nothing to the table.
Because you do not have to maintain a website that is broken by IE7, you choose to ignore the massive cost of maintaining a third incompatible browser. Given how obtuse you are, you're either an idiot, or, as I surmised earlier, an troll. Either way, you clearly have nothing of value to contribute. Plonk!
Old one, singular, yes. It is better to keep/support just one non-standard that already has widespread de facto support & move all new development to standards compliancy than it is to keep adding variants every time MS comes out with yet another half baked browser which complicates the code, adds to the dev cost & diminishes the resources available to move to standards compliant HTML.
Where have I done so?
Here. You called someone who refuses to update to IE7 part of the problem. NO. It's the smart move.
When given the choice, use a standards compliant browser. When forced to, because the web site only works with IE, use IE6 because it is by far the most widely supported. You do know that IE7 breaks many sites that were coded for IE6, right?
...or anything but IE, given the choice. But there isn't always that choice
When would this be, pray tell? Even on completely locked down corporate PCs, Portable Firefox makes avoiding IE possible. Yes, Firefox is not acid2 compliant. I haven't been forced to code around Firefox's incompatibilities. I have been forced to code around IE6's & a few nitwits who upgraded to IE7 wanted to me to adapt to it's different yet still non-compatible idiosyncrasies.
If you are arguing that the Mckinnon should be released because of lax security then you are mistaken. Just as it is still illegal to steal a car with the keys in it it is also illegal to use default passwords to access Nasa computers. Both can get you sent to jail. You do not get a "get out of jail free" just because it was easy.
If you were criticizing the admins for leaving holes in their security, then I concur to a point. The argument for good security is that the person who is responsible for something should use it in order to spare themselves the trouble of cleaning up after unauthorized access.
His crime was not victimless. "Just close the windows"? How about I steal your car. I'll just drive it somewhere where I can see if there are leprechauns in the motor. I'll bring it back once I put it back together.
Now you'll have to pay someone to check out have the engine because you have no idea if I put the motor back together again correctly. Or, you could just drive it & discover that I disconnected the brakes. Ooops, sorry, just looking for leprechauns. It's harmless, you see...
McKinnock clearly clearly needs a brain, using default passwords to break into poorly secured Nasa computers was extremely stupid. I'm pro hacker 99% of the time but stupid crackers like him deserve to spend some time in jail so that even idiots like him will have to think twice.
My home's net security is better than that of the computers he cracked into. That is as relevant to whether he deserves jail time as is the fact that it's easy to steal cars by waiting for someone to leave their keys in a car when they go to pay for gas.
Instead of slavishly following MS's lead as you suggest, we would all be better off ignoring all MS's new incompatible web implementations. It's too late for IE6, but IE7's particular flavor will die a quick death as soon as IE8 is added to windows update, then IE8 will be replaced with IE9 relatively quickly, etc. This will go on as long as MS keeps coming out with non-standard compliant browsers. You are part of the problem. By counseling people to support a gratuitously non-standard browser you are fragmenting the web.
You're either a MS troll or you're missing an "In" prefix on your/. tag.
So, because I use applications that are not compatible with Microsoft's current non-standards compliant flavor of the week, I am part of the problem?
You have a seriously warped world view there SanityInAnarchy. The problem is that MS's deeply buggy IE6 was out there unmodified for so long that many applications came to depend on it's bugs to function, then when they finally update it, they do so in an incompatible once again non-compliant manner.
The IE8 is still to deeply embedded into the base OS. The architecture should be such that the installer would show a list of the running apps that use these "common browser controls", wait for them to be closed, then proceed once no running applications are using them. As GP said, if you need to reboot just to upgrade the browser then there is something wrong with the architecture.
This doesn't seem to be a problem with the massive offshore wind farms in Europe.
Then you haven't been paying attention. Windfarms in the North Sea do not face the transmission problems as there are major population concentrations nearby. However, France & Spain have been trying for decades to find a way of exporting some of France's relatively cheap nuclear power. France has excess capacity & Spain wants to avoid having to build a major fossil fueled plant to fuel Barcelona's growing base power load needs.
Every attempt to build a new transmission line has been shot down by NIMBY protesters in the Pyrenées.
Time to wakey wakey young one, the world is more complicated than your parents told you...
In order to catch a thief, law enforcement officials will use people who are criminals themselves. When, in the course of an investigation, they have enough evidence to put away suspect A, A will often turn over information on other people the government wants to put away more. As the leaders of criminal organizations usually protect themselves by passing orders on to underlings & often do not commit overtly illegal acts themselves, this is the only way to collect enough evidence to put them behind bars.
However, turning states evidence, will not protect A a second time if he continues to break the law unless he can once again deliver on someone that the DA wants more than A.
I see nothing abnormal in putting in prison a criminal who was too dumb to stop committing crimes.
Apple never sued Microsoft for look & feel (as microsoft got a licence from apple as part of the price of developping word & excel for the mac). Apple sued Digital Research Inc & thereby incurred Stallman's long lasting ire...
Interestingly, DRI's page on wikipedia makes no mention of this lawsuit but the page on Apple's litigation does .
Both you & the article submitter are mistaken. As the three strike law has not been withdrawn is on it's way to becoming a law by the end of this summer. France has more than it's share of unpopular laws being passed by a ruling class disconnected from what the public wants.
A few years back I helped a friend mode his girlfriends stuff from her place to his as they were starting to live together.
As we were approching a bridge in moderate traffic I pull the rental truck's owner's manual out of the glovebox to find out whether or not we could use the underpass or have to go around. Some versions of the truck were small enough to pass but one or two weren't & the model information was not shown in the cab so I asked him which model he had rented. He gave me a model that fit with an inch or so to spare so we drove through with some caution. As we got out I noticed the model on a plaque next to the front bumper.
Either the bridge was mislabeled or, more likely, she had enough stuff to compress the shocks down the two inches needed to let us pass under the bridge because normally we should have been abruptly brought aware of our mistake.
That was the one time I helped move a friend where we broke out the beer before finishing...
In another sequence, the devices pivot in a precise fashion whenever their boom-like steering arms are drawn down to the surface by an electric charge. This response resembles the way dirt bikers turn by extending a boot heel, researchers said.
Dirt bikers use their feet much as others bikers use their (slider protected) knees: for stabilisation & not as a point around which they pivot or to brake one side to change direction. This so called "resemblance" is entirely misleading.
I've never heard of American Graffiti. It may have got him noticed, but he was made 'properly' famous by Star Wars.
It didn't Harrison Ford get him noticed enough. His main employment at the time he was selected for Star Wars was as a carpenter. The fact that he had figured in American Graffiti nearly excluded him from Star Wars as Spielberg (IIRC) wanted new & unknown people for the parts of Han & Luke.
That's because it was a story written for children.
I'm quite frankly amazed that given the number of JRRT adoring geeks on/. that so few are aware of his motivations & the order in which he wrote the hobbit & the LOTR. As JRRT was a linguist, he started by inventing a language, then inventing a world, characters & stories to breathe life into them. When, later in real-life he was exposed to a language that he found attractive he invented another language & rewrote his stories to explain how/why both languages came into being.
All the tales JRRT had been writing & rewiting & rewriting since the early 1920's form the rich backdrop that made the LOTR so interesting & made it so different from anything previously published. Christopher Tolkein cleaned up & published these after his father's death as the Silmarillion , Lost Tales, etc. All self respecting LOTR geeks should read these posthumously published books as they give great insights on JRRT's creativity.
History is written by the winners. When you have the military power to obliterate the current inhabitants & the will to use it, I'd say the word "discover" applies...
Last summer while visiting my family in the US with my french family we had a number of pleasant conversations with waiters who were surprisingly fluent.
It is much more incorrect to say, as you did, that Edison reused Scott's design as a stepping point on his quest to invent a device that did more than make squiggles on a sheet of paper. Edison's invention of the Phonograph owed nothing to Scott. Other than as art, Scott's work was useless to anyone for over 150 years until the technology was devised to read it back.
Depending on how you did the volume leveling, you can. If you did it with "Tools->Analyze Volume", you need only erase the mp3 tags because media monkey just stores the gain in the tags using this method. If you did it using "Tools->Level Track Volume", well then you may be screwed... Have you tried using mp3gain? If media monkey's leveling changed your mp3s so they are now clipping they'll still clip after using mp3gain but at least you can reset the gain to whatever you want. Given how the studios are pushing loudness to the point where just about everything is clipped nowadays, you often get clipping off a virgin CD anyway.
Yup, iTunes is a pig on windows. That's why I use Mediamonkey when I'm using windows. Muuch better file management, not a memory hog & it syncs to my ipod...
The answer is easily predictable: No-one on that list will be pardoned without an open & exhaustive investigation by normal procedures in the justice dept.
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Now that people are holding onto what they own more this may be less of an incentive but that doesn't mean that they will loosen the ordinances...
No. By displaying a broken page icon when showing a standards compliant page, Microsoft once again shows that it wants to push people into continuing to use non-standard, broken HTML. I would be quite happy with MS discontinuing development of IE since they cannot stop pushing broken HTML. Notice the thundering absence of complaints since they abandoned IE on the Mac. Old code could continue to use the broken MS software. In time, everything new would adapt to mozilla or a common interface that Mozilla/Opera/Apple/??? would devise.
IE7 is a abortion that is breaks both IE6 code & standards compliant code. Being "closer" to compliant just means that devs have to goo through all their code to insert special cases yet again, so you lie when you say that you do not want to expend "tremendous ressources" to support IE7. No. Do it once & abandon MS"s crap in the latrine where it lies.
Websites that do not work with firefox ALL work with IE6. IE7 brings nothing to the table.
Because you do not have to maintain a website that is broken by IE7, you choose to ignore the massive cost of maintaining a third incompatible browser. Given how obtuse you are, you're either an idiot, or, as I surmised earlier, an troll. Either way, you clearly have nothing of value to contribute. Plonk!
Old one, singular, yes. It is better to keep/support just one non-standard that already has widespread de facto support & move all new development to standards compliancy than it is to keep adding variants every time MS comes out with yet another half baked browser which complicates the code, adds to the dev cost & diminishes the resources available to move to standards compliant HTML.
Here. You called someone who refuses to update to IE7 part of the problem. NO. It's the smart move.
When given the choice, use a standards compliant browser. When forced to, because the web site only works with IE, use IE6 because it is by far the most widely supported. You do know that IE7 breaks many sites that were coded for IE6, right?
When would this be, pray tell? Even on completely locked down corporate PCs, Portable Firefox makes avoiding IE possible. Yes, Firefox is not acid2 compliant. I haven't been forced to code around Firefox's incompatibilities. I have been forced to code around IE6's & a few nitwits who upgraded to IE7 wanted to me to adapt to it's different yet still non-compatible idiosyncrasies.
There was another choice...
If you are arguing that the Mckinnon should be released because of lax security then you are mistaken. Just as it is still illegal to steal a car with the keys in it it is also illegal to use default passwords to access Nasa computers. Both can get you sent to jail. You do not get a "get out of jail free" just because it was easy.
If you were criticizing the admins for leaving holes in their security, then I concur to a point. The argument for good security is that the person who is responsible for something should use it in order to spare themselves the trouble of cleaning up after unauthorized access.
Now you'll have to pay someone to check out have the engine because you have no idea if I put the motor back together again correctly. Or, you could just drive it & discover that I disconnected the brakes. Ooops, sorry, just looking for leprechauns. It's harmless, you see...
McKinnock clearly clearly needs a brain, using default passwords to break into poorly secured Nasa computers was extremely stupid. I'm pro hacker 99% of the time but stupid crackers like him deserve to spend some time in jail so that even idiots like him will have to think twice.
My home's net security is better than that of the computers he cracked into. That is as relevant to whether he deserves jail time as is the fact that it's easy to steal cars by waiting for someone to leave their keys in a car when they go to pay for gas.
You're either a MS troll or you're missing an "In" prefix on your /. tag.
You have a seriously warped world view there SanityInAnarchy. The problem is that MS's deeply buggy IE6 was out there unmodified for so long that many applications came to depend on it's bugs to function, then when they finally update it, they do so in an incompatible once again non-compliant manner.
Buying sex toys?
The IE8 is still to deeply embedded into the base OS. The architecture should be such that the installer would show a list of the running apps that use these "common browser controls", wait for them to be closed, then proceed once no running applications are using them. As GP said, if you need to reboot just to upgrade the browser then there is something wrong with the architecture.
Then you haven't been paying attention. Windfarms in the North Sea do not face the transmission problems as there are major population concentrations nearby. However, France & Spain have been trying for decades to find a way of exporting some of France's relatively cheap nuclear power. France has excess capacity & Spain wants to avoid having to build a major fossil fueled plant to fuel Barcelona's growing base power load needs.
Every attempt to build a new transmission line has been shot down by NIMBY protesters in the Pyrenées.
Time to wakey wakey young one, the world is more complicated than your parents told you...
In order to catch a thief, law enforcement officials will use people who are criminals themselves. When, in the course of an investigation, they have enough evidence to put away suspect A, A will often turn over information on other people the government wants to put away more. As the leaders of criminal organizations usually protect themselves by passing orders on to underlings & often do not commit overtly illegal acts themselves, this is the only way to collect enough evidence to put them behind bars.
However, turning states evidence, will not protect A a second time if he continues to break the law unless he can once again deliver on someone that the DA wants more than A.
I see nothing abnormal in putting in prison a criminal who was too dumb to stop committing crimes.
Interestingly, DRI's page on wikipedia makes no mention of this lawsuit but the page on Apple's litigation does .
Both you & the article submitter are mistaken.
As the three strike law has not been withdrawn is on it's way to becoming a law by the end of this summer. France has more than it's share of unpopular laws being passed by a ruling class disconnected from what the public wants.
A few years back I helped a friend mode his girlfriends stuff from her place to his as they were starting to live together.
As we were approching a bridge in moderate traffic I pull the rental truck's owner's manual out of the glovebox to find out whether or not we could use the underpass or have to go around. Some versions of the truck were small enough to pass but one or two weren't & the model information was not shown in the cab so I asked him which model he had rented. He gave me a model that fit with an inch or so to spare so we drove through with some caution. As we got out I noticed the model on a plaque next to the front bumper.
Either the bridge was mislabeled or, more likely, she had enough stuff to compress the shocks down the two inches needed to let us pass under the bridge because normally we should have been abruptly brought aware of our mistake.
That was the one time I helped move a friend where we broke out the beer before finishing...
s/Spielberg (IIRC)/Lucas/ Happy?
I'm quite frankly amazed that given the number of JRRT adoring geeks on
All the tales JRRT had been writing & rewiting & rewriting since the early 1920's form the rich backdrop that made the LOTR so interesting & made it so different from anything previously published. Christopher Tolkein cleaned up & published these after his father's death as the Silmarillion , Lost Tales, etc. All self respecting LOTR geeks should read these posthumously published books as they give great insights on JRRT's creativity.
History is written by the winners. When you have the military power to obliterate the current inhabitants & the will to use it, I'd say the word "discover" applies...
You'd be surprised...
Last summer while visiting my family in the US with my french family we had a number of pleasant conversations with waiters who were surprisingly fluent.
Hé, le sacrémoustache chauvin, apprends a lire...
It is much more incorrect to say, as you did, that Edison reused Scott's design as a stepping point on his quest to invent a device that did more than make squiggles on a sheet of paper. Edison's invention of the Phonograph owed nothing to Scott. Other than as art, Scott's work was useless to anyone for over 150 years until the technology was devised to read it back.
REGEXP search & replace! Supposing you're a geek... Of course we're all geeks here on slashdot, right?
Depending on how you did the volume leveling, you can. If you did it with "Tools->Analyze Volume", you need only erase the mp3 tags because media monkey just stores the gain in the tags using this method. If you did it using "Tools->Level Track Volume", well then you may be screwed... Have you tried using mp3gain? If media monkey's leveling changed your mp3s so they are now clipping they'll still clip after using mp3gain but at least you can reset the gain to whatever you want. Given how the studios are pushing loudness to the point where just about everything is clipped nowadays, you often get clipping off a virgin CD anyway.
Yup, iTunes is a pig on windows. That's why I use Mediamonkey when I'm using windows. Muuch better file management, not a memory hog & it syncs to my ipod...
The answer is easily predictable: No-one on that list will be pardoned without an open & exhaustive investigation by normal procedures in the justice dept.