I think you are right. On top of pissing off X developers I think the licence change reached out to other sections of the community. We may not ever have to work with XFree code but we do understand that licencing is important and that someone deciding to change a licence more or less unilaterally is something that makes people nervous.
As such it created a bit of a popular movement (and also corporate support) behind some of the developers who previously had struggled with the situation more or less on their own.
Its very easy to find others with similar experience
I'm sure it's very easy to find others with different experiences too. My VAIO has been no trouble and it's taken a reasonable amount of beating. The Sony VCR I have is the best I've ever owned. It's been no trouble and has an interface for setting up a recording that is genius in it's simplicity.
I also have a Sony camera and a Memory Stick Network walkman. Both are fine but (even with a Memory Stick equipped laptop) don't really have any significantly compelling features over a lot of other brands currently on the market. The Network Walkman was tiny compared to most other devices at the time but I think other devices have caught up now.
In short I think Sony do make nice stuff but if you are going to buy something then it is important to make sure that you are paying your money for features you want. Attractive styling is nice, but you should try and resist letting it costing you a lot of money.
As the link clearly shows.
Using Operas "IE" identity (the ones with MSIE in them) Opera got sent Opera specific stylesheets. When they changed Opera to Oprah they got the MS IE stylesheet. Thus the site was specifically looking for the word "Opera" in the UA string before sending the screwed up style sheet.
Opera always has the word "Opera" in it UA string no matter what it identifies as.
The masquerading is only intended to allow Opera to work with sites that don't know about Opera (ie foolishly test for only IE or Netscape and throw an "unsupported" browser otherwise). It isn't intended to hide the fact it's Opera for sites that know about it.
Religion on the other hand is based largely on the acceptance of predetermined and absolute "truths", answers that are absolute and definitive.
If you'd ever had a conversaion with a theologian of a mainstream religion on this topic, you'd know better.
I'm not sure what to make of that statement. I'm not suggesting that religion prescribes everything in terms of absolute truth or definitive "word of god" but that at it's root religion relys on such a truth for it's footing.
Theologian's may well have a lot of questions but I'd guess they are a tiny minority in any religion. For most people I'd expect the absolute truth from a "word of god" is a critical aspect of a religion.
Read what the parent poster said again. The post never claimed that religion answers the "whys". Let me quote again
Science tells us about what we can observe and test; religion illuminates things that are by nature untestable, like morality, ethics, compassion, and love for our fellow man.
I suppose it depends what you take "illuminate" to mean. I took it to mean something similar to "provide answers"......
If it helps, substitute "philosophy" for "religion", because religion is really a part of philosophy.
If it helps what? Philosophy and religion are significantly different.
Philosophy, like science in some ways, is based on inquiry, theorising, logical deduction and to some extent testing those ideas as to how well we can apply them to our world. Philosophy doesn't so much seek to give us definitive answers. Rather it seeks to give us answers that are useful in interracting with the world.
Religion on the other hand is based largely on the acceptance of predetermined and absolute "truths", answers that are absolute and definitive.
What is it with you people? The button should be a nice, friendly, "push me and good things will happen" green.
Save the red button for emergencies, launching weapons and (if you are a super villain) initiating self destruct sequences.
An alleged report has been leaked; the consensus of opinion among those who I work for is that this report has been severely doctored by whomever released it to the Arab press.
How about the Wall Street Journal? The ICRC seem to ackowledge that those claims are real ones from one of their reports.
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I think you are right. On top of pissing off X developers I think the licence change reached out to other sections of the community. We may not ever have to work with XFree code but we do understand that licencing is important and that someone deciding to change a licence more or less unilaterally is something that makes people nervous.
As such it created a bit of a popular movement (and also corporate support) behind some of the developers who previously had struggled with the situation more or less on their own.
I also have a Sony camera and a Memory Stick Network walkman. Both are fine but (even with a Memory Stick equipped laptop) don't really have any significantly compelling features over a lot of other brands currently on the market. The Network Walkman was tiny compared to most other devices at the time but I think other devices have caught up now.
In short I think Sony do make nice stuff but if you are going to buy something then it is important to make sure that you are paying your money for features you want. Attractive styling is nice, but you should try and resist letting it costing you a lot of money.
which they prefer to gravity.
Or is "being less of an asshole than Saddam" something to be proud of?
is presumably in harnessing the power of the medium. If the Fahrenheit 911 does that, then why not...
Is "Tocque" pronounced Toker?
Seems like they smoke some pretty mean shit in toker-town.
Considering they are pics of things between 1 billion and 6 billion light years away.
If only the goatse guy was that far from the camera in that photo.....
They came to the agreement without taking it to court according to the article.
As the link clearly shows.
Using Operas "IE" identity (the ones with MSIE in them) Opera got sent Opera specific stylesheets.
When they changed Opera to Oprah they got the MS IE stylesheet. Thus the site was specifically looking for the word "Opera" in the UA string before sending the screwed up style sheet.
Opera always has the word "Opera" in it UA string no matter what it identifies as.
The masquerading is only intended to allow Opera to work with sites that don't know about Opera (ie foolishly test for only IE or Netscape and throw an "unsupported" browser otherwise). It isn't intended to hide the fact it's Opera for sites that know about it.
There's a
<a href="">litigious bastards</a>
Googlebomb that would be particularly amusing.
Theologian's may well have a lot of questions but I'd guess they are a tiny minority in any religion. For most people I'd expect the absolute truth from a "word of god" is a critical aspect of a religion.
Putting the word "axioms" next to them doesn't make them axioms.
It just means you're being particularly bold when begging the question! I think they did.
Philosophy, like science in some ways, is based on inquiry, theorising, logical deduction and to some extent testing those ideas as to how well we can apply them to our world. Philosophy doesn't so much seek to give us definitive answers. Rather it seeks to give us answers that are useful in interracting with the world.
Religion on the other hand is based largely on the acceptance of predetermined and absolute "truths", answers that are absolute and definitive.
There's at least a couple of days off work there!
it's not exactly rocket science.
thanks to gvision.google.com!
Cool!
What is it with you people? The button should be a nice, friendly, "push me and good things will happen" green.
Save the red button for emergencies, launching weapons and (if you are a super villain) initiating self destruct sequences.
People should only be investigated after they are proven guilty?
That's gonna work real well!
I don't recall a "license" ever coming in to it.
I thought their argument is simply that as copyright holder they are the only people entitled to create copies outside of "fair use".
Once they start coming with a built in camera!Things will be looking up!