Email really is a basic service. I work for an IT consultancy firm and the reality is that even for us with significant in house capability it makes more sense for our "decent IT staff" to be engaged in doing something that actually advances the delivery of our business to our customers rather than maintaining a basic service like email.
The UK government has done some great things which can allow third party apps, such as create the TransXChange schema for exchanging information about public transport (which is used other places too).
On my iPhone I have TripView which is a third party app that (I assume) uses such data and provides a far better interface than any web page (or paper based time table) could.
Under the theory that any site advertising such must be guilty of, not just infringement, but "hacking and cracking."
Are you sure that's their theory?
I don't think they need to assume anything about all sites. It merely requires them to know that historically sites using those words have been bad enough that offering those words is not worth the trouble (in a financial sense), ie the risk is such that it outweighs the reward.
You might be disappointed that you can't prove otherwise for your specific case but the reality is Google makes it's money by doing things efficiently and automatically. It isn't their business to handle the 1% of requests that require human evaluation, it's their business to handle the 99% that can be automated.
If I refuse to put a half loaded revolver to my head and pull the trigger for $1000 it's not because I'm assuming that all the chambers are loaded. I merely need to know that enough are loaded to make it not worthwhile.
"Silly question", you'll say, but please tell me all those use cases, where the user *can* save on bulk and weight of the power brick and benefits hugely from having the thing in a separate unit dangling along the cable?
The use case where you don't want your laptop to catch on fire?
Seriously though I suspect for most people 99% of their laptop usage involves taking it to and from home and work where they either have a power supply in both places or are reasonably comfortable that their battery will get them through whatever limited usage they may have at home. In between they want to be carrying as little as possible.
Personally I have the brick that came with my laptop in the office and a travel brick from lenovopowertips.com that I leave at home unless I'm traveling. (I only wish there as a tip for a Nintendo DSi).
Given that blockquote is supposed to have line breaks before and after
Where is that specified? The fact you are talking about "line breaks" probably indicates you don't really know what you are talking about.
Block level elements may well have either "padding" and/or "margin" but certainly do not have "line breaks" before and after them as part of their formatting.
except when within td tags, it is a very obvious bug
Quite the opposite I expect, it sounds like a concious decision. I think it's reasonable to decide that white space is at a premium within a table and that a default style that employs it more economically may make sense.
If Opera ignores legitimate style rules you specifically set then that is a bug. If their default rules are different then that is merely a choice.
Of course that choice could be a bad one worth changing, but for that to be true stronger reasoning than "it looks different than other browsers" is needed.
Can you quote the exact parts of any specs that lead you to believe this is an error.
Obviously the two renderings are different, but that doesn't necessarily imply that Opera (or Firefox) is incorrect.
The HTML specification alone does not make many requirements on specific visual rendering, if you want specific visual rendering you need to also detail what CSS is being used. If Opera is not handling that CSS correctly then you have a bug, if it's default style rules are merely different from Firefox than that isn't really a bug.
For instance, W3 specs say that a blockquote should be rendered with equal whitespace before and after
Really? I couldn't see that specified in your link. Perhaps if you'd included the text that stated that in a blockquote to accompany your link it would help!
If a specific amount of margin is really desired after an element then the author should specify it.
Presumably a lot of these are just domains hosted on some shared box at a cheapo web host that happens to have an SSL port open, probably for the administration control panel rather than for any of the domains it hosts.
I've had shitty combo units but I'e also had shitty dedicated units too. I think that it's an issue of quality and being prepared to pay a bit of a price.
For me a combo unit gives you less points of failure, takes up less space and is easier to administer.
At the moment I have one of these and have been very happy with it.
explains how Nintendo is directly targeting Sony with the 3DS
It seems like bullshit to me. Establishing 3d on hand helds hardly "destroys" Sony's push for 3D on consoles. If anything it helps establish 3D as a standard part of the gaming experience and supports Sony's push.
The lack of glasses is irrelevant as it's a technology that's only really applicable to handhelds due to the viewing restraints.
I think you have to look at it in terms of end result.
The actual research here was began with astronomy and without an incentive for CSIRO to look at (and develop) potential cross-domain applications of what they are working on things such as this may not end up being developed at all (or for a while).
The government? I think a lot of Australians would think that would be a good way of guarunteeing that Australian citizens don't get a return on the money!
Personally I think they should keep it as it helps maintain their independance from government.
Jetstar (and other budget airlines) already rent out entertainment units rather than having in seat units.
I highly doubt that the devices will be used during take off and landing, not least because the cabin crew won't have time to distribute them until after take off and will collect them before landing.
The OP suggested that AAPL are overvalued by the market. You can't use the P/E as evidence they aren't because the P is the very valuation the OP argued is too high! The OPs point that current earnings don't justify the price is reasonable but as you say is only part of the story.
You can of course make the case that earnings are likely to increase, so that while the current earnings don't justify the current price the likely future earnings will. I agree that Apple have had some fairly consistant revenue growth however I do wonder how long that growth can be sustained. Growth doesn't magically continue because it happened last year and the substantial sort of growth that seems to be factored into the Apple price seems (to me) to require significant successful new products.
The iPod and iPhone have been radically successful but I'm not convinced Apple have other new business directions lined up to continue such growth.
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Perhaps they should do the math?
Email really is a basic service. I work for an IT consultancy firm and the reality is that even for us with significant in house capability it makes more sense for our "decent IT staff" to be engaged in doing something that actually advances the delivery of our business to our customers rather than maintaining a basic service like email.
Yes, analog.
I have a couple of the smaller CD Video disks. Finding a way to play these days would be rather difficult I think.
Are they pitching it as a Nascar chase plane?
Let's hope they are mammals of the tasty variety.
The "other places too" text was supposed to be a link to it's use in New South Wales, Australia
The UK government has done some great things which can allow third party apps, such as create the TransXChange schema for exchanging information about public transport (which is used other places too).
On my iPhone I have TripView which is a third party app that (I assume) uses such data and provides a far better interface than any web page (or paper based time table) could.
Are you sure that's their theory?
I don't think they need to assume anything about all sites. It merely requires them to know that historically sites using those words have been bad enough that offering those words is not worth the trouble (in a financial sense), ie the risk is such that it outweighs the reward.
You might be disappointed that you can't prove otherwise for your specific case but the reality is Google makes it's money by doing things efficiently and automatically. It isn't their business to handle the 1% of requests that require human evaluation, it's their business to handle the 99% that can be automated.
If I refuse to put a half loaded revolver to my head and pull the trigger for $1000 it's not because I'm assuming that all the chambers are loaded. I merely need to know that enough are loaded to make it not worthwhile.
The use case where you don't want your laptop to catch on fire?
Seriously though I suspect for most people 99% of their laptop usage involves taking it to and from home and work where they either have a power supply in both places or are reasonably comfortable that their battery will get them through whatever limited usage they may have at home. In between they want to be carrying as little as possible.
Personally I have the brick that came with my laptop in the office and a travel brick from lenovopowertips.com that I leave at home unless I'm traveling. (I only wish there as a tip for a Nintendo DSi).
Probably because your website has some purpose that is unrelated to teaching people lessons about which browser they should use.
Where is that specified? The fact you are talking about "line breaks" probably indicates you don't really know what you are talking about. Block level elements may well have either "padding" and/or "margin" but certainly do not have "line breaks" before and after them as part of their formatting.
Quite the opposite I expect, it sounds like a concious decision. I think it's reasonable to decide that white space is at a premium within a table and that a default style that employs it more economically may make sense.
If Opera ignores legitimate style rules you specifically set then that is a bug. If their default rules are different then that is merely a choice.
Of course that choice could be a bad one worth changing, but for that to be true stronger reasoning than "it looks different than other browsers" is needed.
Can you quote the exact parts of any specs that lead you to believe this is an error.
Obviously the two renderings are different, but that doesn't necessarily imply that Opera (or Firefox) is incorrect. The HTML specification alone does not make many requirements on specific visual rendering, if you want specific visual rendering you need to also detail what CSS is being used. If Opera is not handling that CSS correctly then you have a bug, if it's default style rules are merely different from Firefox than that isn't really a bug.
Really? I couldn't see that specified in your link. Perhaps if you'd included the text that stated that in a blockquote to accompany your link it would help!
If a specific amount of margin is really desired after an element then the author should specify it.
Presumably a lot of these are just domains hosted on some shared box at a cheapo web host that happens to have an SSL port open, probably for the administration control panel rather than for any of the domains it hosts.
Yes i it does. He was asked if he knows anything about Japan.
Clearly one thing he knows about Japan is that he lives there.
Reality strongly disagrees.
Because it's a home, not a datacenter.
I've had shitty combo units but I'e also had shitty dedicated units too. I think that it's an issue of quality and being prepared to pay a bit of a price.
For me a combo unit gives you less points of failure, takes up less space and is easier to administer.
At the moment I have one of these and have been very happy with it.
It seems like bullshit to me. Establishing 3d on hand helds hardly "destroys" Sony's push for 3D on consoles. If anything it helps establish 3D as a standard part of the gaming experience and supports Sony's push.
The lack of glasses is irrelevant as it's a technology that's only really applicable to handhelds due to the viewing restraints.
It just disappears into the background for me. I wonder if it helps if you've spent a reasonable amount of time around noisy computers.
I think that might be more accurately described as a binary filter.
The rest of the world moved onto gay rockets decades ago.
I think you have to look at it in terms of end result.
The actual research here was began with astronomy and without an incentive for CSIRO to look at (and develop) potential cross-domain applications of what they are working on things such as this may not end up being developed at all (or for a while).
The government? I think a lot of Australians would think that would be a good way of guarunteeing that Australian citizens don't get a return on the money!
Personally I think they should keep it as it helps maintain their independance from government.
Jetstar (and other budget airlines) already rent out entertainment units rather than having in seat units.
I highly doubt that the devices will be used during take off and landing, not least because the cabin crew won't have time to distribute them until after take off and will collect them before landing.
Well, I guess there's the rub.
The OP suggested that AAPL are overvalued by the market. You can't use the P/E as evidence they aren't because the P is the very valuation the OP argued is too high! The OPs point that current earnings don't justify the price is reasonable but as you say is only part of the story.
You can of course make the case that earnings are likely to increase, so that while the current earnings don't justify the current price the likely future earnings will. I agree that Apple have had some fairly consistant revenue growth however I do wonder how long that growth can be sustained. Growth doesn't magically continue because it happened last year and the substantial sort of growth that seems to be factored into the Apple price seems (to me) to require significant successful new products.
The iPod and iPhone have been radically successful but I'm not convinced Apple have other new business directions lined up to continue such growth.