W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers.
These facts indicate that the browser figures below are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is used by at least 80% of the users.
I remember when I made the switch from Netscape 4 to IE 5. I resisted IE for many years, but at some point it just became evident that Internet Explorer was a superior product in almost every way.
Once Foxfire became stable and usable I switched to it, and some time later it became Firefox. So far it's the best browsing experience I've had and the extentions published for it make it endlessly expandable.
I think there will always be a segment of the market that is satisfied with whatever does the minimum possible to get the job done, but as we see Firefox's market share rise we know that some people will take the time to upgrade to the superior browser.
Why are they complaining about the tools when it's apparent that it's the workmanship that's at fault?
For an excellent counter example, check out the beautiful work that Animeigo did restoring the original Macross series when they released it on DVD a few years ago. The cleaned up print makes the series look like it was ten years newer.
What we really need is a federal CAN CONGRESS act. Please, as though this is a problem that legislation can fix. If Congress really, truly wanted to end spam, why not allocate some grant money to improving anti-spam technology?
I'd be interested to know if any cases have challenged returning the product as an unreasonable burden to the consumer. It seems like this could be a chink in the armor of that decision. IANAL, but I'm curious...
Not willing to pay for Movable Type yet? This fully-functional version of the application is available free of charge. Important limitations of this license include:
* No support from Six Apart
* No access to paid installation service
* No access to fee-based services
* No promotion of your weblogs through the Recently Updated list
* No commercial usage
* No more than one author and three weblogs
So let me interpret these points...
* No mooching. * No mooching. * No mooching. * No commercial use. * Limited (yet otherwise fully functional) personal use.
Why is this so bad? I've paid a lot more than $70 for software that I've really liked. This is pretty cheap.
Ever since I've had my cable modem I've hardly watched television at all.
For example, this year I have watched television for about 6 hours. About three of that was the Super Bowl (with it's totally lame ads this year, blah), and about three of that was the Academy Awards.
Last year I probably watched about 20 hours worth of television programming.
One reason that I don't watch television is because of all the awful advertising. It seems like for every three minutes of programming there are two minutes of commercials.
I thought I remembered Microsoft having plans to make streamed games available via XBox Live. Also, Yahoo has some type of games service where you can download and 'rent' the game.
If the future of video games is streaming then piracy of this sort will only be a temporary problem. When you get your games on demand things will change significantly.
In fact, you could almost still have an install disk with 99% of the game's resources on it and only stream watermarked and timestamped libraries once the game gets ready to execute.
I wanted to add my 'me too' to this thread in case anyone from the RIAA happened across/. today.
Between 2000 and 2002 I used Napster to download a TON of songs. But up to 2000 I had only ever bought about 20 CD's. At the end of 2002 my CD collection was up to about 60 CD's. Albums that I've bought since 2002? Zero.
I'm a small business owner. I'll admit that I've been cowed by the RIAA. Since 2002 I've only downloaded about 5 songs covered by the RIAA (and a few tracks from Japan).
There's definately a correllation here.
I'd like to sample some new music, but due to my schedule I hardly ever have the chance to listen to the radio.
I sincerely wish that all the record companies would open up their whole catalogs at high compression/low quality so that I can check out new music or download a song I haven't heard in five years.
1. You must be very forgiving. It looks like crap in my 0.8 Firefox browser on Windows 2000. 2. My mistake, I was assuming it was directed towards You Know Who. 3. Well, it's good that it works in Firefox for you, but I tried visiting the site again and I had a lockup issue.
This reminds me of last winter when Episode II came out on DVD.
I was at my local Walmart store when I stumbled across the island display offering Star Wars Episode II for some rediculously low price. I think it was $9.99.
"Wow," I thought, "That's really cheap! I should pick up a copy!" I greedily snatched up one of the widescreen packages.
But then I remembered that Episode II really really sucked. I put the package down.
But it was only $9.99! Even if it sucked, what a bargain!
But then again, the movie really did suck. Completely. In fact I could easily rant for an hour about how badly the movie sucked. I mean, don't get me started on Jango Fett, the apparently psychic bounty hunter. Or the totally clueless Jedi. Or Count Doogie. Arghh.... I digress.
Anyway, I decided not to waste $9.99 on the DVD. Unless the reviews for Episode III are really stellar, I'll save my $7.50 and skip that movie too.
I saw this yesterday from the Car Talk article. I installed it on my home Windows 2000 machine last night and listened to three hours of This American Life
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Way to cherry-pick your numbers:
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers.
These facts indicate that the browser figures below are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is used by at least 80% of the users.
The spawn of vi, Vim, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat Notepad in the text editor market.
Maybe? Maybe not. How about:
The spawn of xv, The Gimp, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat Photoshop in the graphics market.
Nah... Perhaps:
The spawn of some Swedes, Blender, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat 3d Studio Max in the 3d modelling market.
You gotta be happy with *one* of those.
I remember when I made the switch from Netscape 4 to IE 5. I resisted IE for many years, but at some point it just became evident that Internet Explorer was a superior product in almost every way.
Once Foxfire became stable and usable I switched to it, and some time later it became Firefox. So far it's the best browsing experience I've had and the extentions published for it make it endlessly expandable.
I think there will always be a segment of the market that is satisfied with whatever does the minimum possible to get the job done, but as we see Firefox's market share rise we know that some people will take the time to upgrade to the superior browser.
If Michelangelo had provided key frames to his Korean tweeners I'm sure it wouldn't be quite to blasphemous to paint over the problem areas.
Why are they complaining about the tools when it's apparent that it's the workmanship that's at fault?
For an excellent counter example, check out the beautiful work that Animeigo did restoring the original Macross series when they released it on DVD a few years ago. The cleaned up print makes the series look like it was ten years newer.
What we really need is a federal CAN CONGRESS act. Please, as though this is a problem that legislation can fix. If Congress really, truly wanted to end spam, why not allocate some grant money to improving anti-spam technology?
Ah yes, who among us does not fondly remember Ewoks, or the Star Wars Holiday Special
Search your inner child, you know it to be true.
Oh christ, this'll be good.
/. knock-knock joke
Goofing on Star Wars is like the
I'd be interested to know if any cases have challenged returning the product as an unreasonable burden to the consumer. It seems like this could be a chink in the armor of that decision. IANAL, but I'm curious...
#wipe
By the logic you're using, those websites weren't powered by Apache, they were powered by the Generel Electric coal power plant a few miles away.
Of course. Didn't you check my previous comments to see me complaining about that very thing in past Slashdot threads?
Balderdash... who says that.
At the minimum, avid fans of the Balderdash family board game. Of course.
You owe me $5 worth of karma for the beautiful setup.
FreeBSD powered motorcycle? What balderdash. This thing still requires gasoline, same as most other bikes.
Now maybe it's FreeBSD-enabled, or perhaps its computer control system is run on FreeBSD...
I understand that it's knit-picky, but sometimes slashdot headlines sound really silly.
I know that sometimes the Scaled guys drop by slashdot.
I just wanted to say, "You're doing an amazing job!"
Reprinted from their website:
Not willing to pay for Movable Type yet? This fully-functional version of the application is available free of charge. Important limitations of this license include:
* No support from Six Apart
* No access to paid installation service
* No access to fee-based services
* No promotion of your weblogs through the Recently Updated list
* No commercial usage
* No more than one author and three weblogs
So let me interpret these points...
* No mooching.
* No mooching.
* No mooching.
* No commercial use.
* Limited (yet otherwise fully functional) personal use.
Why is this so bad? I've paid a lot more than $70 for software that I've really liked. This is pretty cheap.
Corinna
Jjjjerrrjjjaaayyyyooonnnneeeeoooohhhtooooo!!!!
I hope you're happy now.
Ever since I've had my cable modem I've hardly watched television at all.
For example, this year I have watched television for about 6 hours. About three of that was the Super Bowl (with it's totally lame ads this year, blah), and about three of that was the Academy Awards.
Last year I probably watched about 20 hours worth of television programming.
One reason that I don't watch television is because of all the awful advertising. It seems like for every three minutes of programming there are two minutes of commercials.
I thought I remembered Microsoft having plans to make streamed games available via XBox Live. Also, Yahoo has some type of games service where you can download and 'rent' the game.
If the future of video games is streaming then piracy of this sort will only be a temporary problem. When you get your games on demand things will change significantly.
In fact, you could almost still have an install disk with 99% of the game's resources on it and only stream watermarked and timestamped libraries once the game gets ready to execute.
Well, I've got my Xbox running Linux right now. The emulator will let me play my Xbox games on my PC while I'm coding stuff on my Xbox.
Hmm... something seems weird about that. Oh well!
I wanted to add my 'me too' to this thread in case anyone from the RIAA happened across /. today.
Between 2000 and 2002 I used Napster to download a TON of songs. But up to 2000 I had only ever bought about 20 CD's. At the end of 2002 my CD collection was up to about 60 CD's. Albums that I've bought since 2002? Zero.
I'm a small business owner. I'll admit that I've been cowed by the RIAA. Since 2002 I've only downloaded about 5 songs covered by the RIAA (and a few tracks from Japan).
There's definately a correllation here.
I'd like to sample some new music, but due to my schedule I hardly ever have the chance to listen to the radio.
I sincerely wish that all the record companies would open up their whole catalogs at high compression/low quality so that I can check out new music or download a song I haven't heard in five years.
*sigh*
1. You must be very forgiving. It looks like crap in my 0.8 Firefox browser on Windows 2000.
2. My mistake, I was assuming it was directed towards You Know Who.
3. Well, it's good that it works in Firefox for you, but I tried visiting the site again and I had a lockup issue.
Bleagh...
Hey, I didn't rate it that way. :)
Moderation on slashdot is kind of a crapshoot.
This reminds me of last winter when Episode II came out on DVD.
I was at my local Walmart store when I stumbled across the island display offering Star Wars Episode II for some rediculously low price. I think it was $9.99.
"Wow," I thought, "That's really cheap! I should pick up a copy!" I greedily snatched up one of the widescreen packages.
But then I remembered that Episode II really really sucked. I put the package down.
But it was only $9.99! Even if it sucked, what a bargain!
But then again, the movie really did suck. Completely. In fact I could easily rant for an hour about how badly the movie sucked. I mean, don't get me started on Jango Fett, the apparently psychic bounty hunter. Or the totally clueless Jedi. Or Count Doogie. Arghh.... I digress.
Anyway, I decided not to waste $9.99 on the DVD. Unless the reviews for Episode III are really stellar, I'll save my $7.50 and skip that movie too.
I saw this yesterday from the Car Talk article. I installed it on my home Windows 2000 machine last night and listened to three hours of This American Life
Man, it's really great software!