It's a very cool device... cool enough I went and read the article *gasp* and did a Google search on it for more details.
Point #1) It only plays DVDs when connected to a computer... it doesn't have video out itself. For all the people who want to use this combined with a thin monitor or glasses (I was hoping for this myself), forget it. You still need a laptop to decode and display video, and most laptops have a DVD option.
Point #2) Yes, it will allow you to play MP3s from a DVD... now -that- is nice... 4.7GB of music.
Point #3) It will let you burn MP3s (and I assume anything else) from the memory stick to a CD. That's pretty darned handy, too... especially if you have friends with Sony memory stick devices.
Oh I definitely agree... the gyromouse I bought was a neat gadget but has been sitting in a box since shortly after I bought it. I'm completely stuck on my Trackman Marble for precision and because of my carpal tunnel.
The only reason I keep my gyromouse around is because it's cool:) If it were wireless it would be more useful, but I was too poor to get the wireless version back then.
So is the Gyromouse... I bought a gyromouse back in 1998 (over 4 years ago) and you could pick it up to use it as a gyroscope or sit it down and use it as a regular "ball&socket" mouse.
I don't know if Gyration has moved from ball&socket to optical, but either way, this new product is nothing new.
However, prostate cancer is a much slower killer... often it takes -decades- to kill.
Modified diet is shown to have a possibility of slowing the progressiong further.
In cases of older men (60+ I believe) who get it, their life expectancy is considered to be the same as if they had not contracted it at all. Unfortunately, the older you are, the less operable it is, so there is a trade-off.
While we're rapidly approaching the point where life expectancy is getting high enough that prostate cancer will be more and more serious in the coming decades, I don't think it's nearly as much of an issue as breast cancer right now and therefore the funding levels are appropriate.
I disagree, MS may have pumped alot of research into Outlook, but the results were attrocious (and I'm speaking of GUI, not security, which is worse).
Compare the GUI of Palm Desktop to the PIM parts of Outlook.
Compare the GUI of Mozilla mail to the mail parts of Outlook.
Compare the GUI of most any modern News client to the news parts of Outlook.
For that matter, compare (Darwin||KDE||Gnome||PalmOS||etc) to MS Windows.
None of the above comparisons are a panacea, but they go a long way to explaining just how different a GUI can be for a set of functions. Even in most of the examples above there are many similarities that could evolve in different directions if there wasn't a single predominant market force in all of those areas.
I personally don't think that Star Office has a good GUI (I work for Sun and use Star Office daily), and much of that comes from trying to emulate MS Office too much. It's understandable given where they wanted the product to go, but it has the same flaws that I see with the Outlook clones. Hopefully it's time to start fixing flaws that the competition has always had, not time to continue to emulate everything including flaws.
Yep, I've been 100% IMAP for years... spent too much time fixing other peoples POP.lock files and helping them try to migrate folders to new computers to do anything else.
To the other comment... I've used Sylpheed... and it came the closest to weaning me off of Eudora. It might even have improved enough for me to look into it again.
I've seen a number of responses asking why doesn't Mitch and his group put their efforts into (Evolution||Mozilla||etc).
I may be in the minority, but I hate the Mozilla mail client. It just doesn't work for me.
I refuse to use Evolution... if I wanted to use Outlook, I'd install Outlook. I don't like the interface of Outlook and Evolution seems to be a rehash of the same.
In fact, right now I use Palm Desktop for my PIM (even though my PDA has been without batteries for 9+ months due to inactivity) and Eudora for my email. I would love the -functionality- of Outlook including reliable synchronization with integration with a good email client.
If I had that, I would switch to Linux as my primary work machine (currently I experiment with several distributions and my off-hours machine is Linux, but my work desktop still runs Windows).
My point is, why should they contribute to projects they don't like? It's their time and it sounds like they have adopted project directions that many of us have been wanting for a long time... that is to be -better- than what Microsoft has currently locked most work desktops onto rather than just replicating those interfaces and functionality on a different OS.
I've been using Eudora for years, including 5.1, and I can't recall any other times Eudora was accused of being spyware, so unless their response is false, it's not "full of spyware".
I do keep meaning to switch to a fully Linux-based client, but email seems to be one of the big issues for me. I have tried Evolution, KMail and at least 4 others but never quite find it as usable. I spend probably 50% of my work time answering email.
It's the other way around, blue eyes were reported to make a person more susceptible to pain... I think it was on the order of 20% (similar to red hair).
Both red hair and blue eyes are recessive. Both most commonly occur in people of northern european descent. I would guess that the higher-intensity pain is also a recessive gene that tends to piggy-back onto the same cultures.
Total supposition: there might even be an explanation to them. In extremely icy/snowy regions, blue eyes would reflect back more light (blue eye coloring has the highest index of reflection of the natural eye colors), reducing glare/distortion? In those same places, the cold may number nerve endings, causing more sentivity to pain to be an advantage, too.
I don't see what survival advantage red hair would have, but it sure is sexy:) Oh wait... there's the advantage!
I don't remember which channel or the name of the program, but awhile back there was a documentary that discussed the Native American legend of the "Thunderbird" that correllated it to reports of a large bird that has supposedly snatched a couple of children in the last few decades.
They theorized that a large bird may have survived extinction, but have extremely few members left alive. The bird was thought to have a wingspan betwen 12 and 20 feet.
Might be the Nessy of the Americas, but it would be interesting to find proof. It sounds to me like these could be the same bird.
Curious, what's wrong with UoP? I have a couple of friends who are considering it as a way to complete their degree while working. I've considered it, too, but never seem to find the time.
Many games are produced by a one party (a'la Bioware) and are then distributed by another (a'la Interplay).
It is usually the distributor who decides what encryption to put on a disk.
Much like with music, if I don't purchase a CD because I don't like the distributor, I do more damage to the creator (artist/author) since the distributor has many games for sale and the creator usually only has one or two active titles.
There have been movements in the past to get around some of this, both in games and in music, but none have been extremely successful.
It was one specific answer that was the problem, and if the only issue had been people who posted a response that was not in answer to the specific question (ie, fiber when it wasn't a consideration), I wouldn't have cared. The problem was almost every response was negative or out of scope. It was not just about your post (you weren't the only person to post about fiber), which I understood before the clarification.
This is one of the most worthless article I've ever seen.
No, not because of the premise, I was actually curious what the answer was myself because I want to lay an inexpensive 1Gb network in my house at some point ("because I can").
It is worthless because of all the people who ridiculed the poster with the various RTFM and "look it up on Google" responses. Most other responses were to use something (fiber) that the poster seems to have obviously ruled out (maybe cost, maybe convenience, doesn't matter), so those don't help much either but at least they were trying.
He wanted to ask the opinion of his peers, not rely on what a manufacturer said or possibly out of date material. Most of the responses trashed him.
Why do people bother to take the time to produce non-responsive or patronizing answers? If you don't like the question, or you think he should spend his time elsewhere to get the answer, then simply don't post.
A lack of response is a much better way to get someone to go away than to waste your time writing and the time of everyone who pops in to see what the consensus was.
My point was that the cost is so low there is no reason for the MPAA and RIAA to break it. They'll pay it and not think twice. Therefor the parent post to mine was not realistic.
Yeah, because $200 is going to really break the MPAA and RIAA.
Even if it were $200 per title, they would still make it up by selling 20 or so discs. I strongly doubt it's going to be interpretted as $200 per individual copy of a disc.
I had LASIK done in April of 2001 (almost 18 months ago).
I was fairly nearsighted and also mildly astigmatic, both eyes were almost equal.
Anyway... I was never able to wear contacts because these blue eyes are just too sensitive. My first day after surgery I had to keep fairly sedated because my eyes itched/hurt, so of course my instinct was to try and open or rub them.
After the first day I could open my eyes and see. After the 3rd day I didn't have any measurable irritation. By the 7th day my vision was better than 20/20 except for the normal halo patterns.
However, after about 3-4 months my vision got a little worse. I'm not quite 20/20 in either eye. My right eye is better (but I'm left-eye dominant, so it's frustrating). My left eye is able to pass the Colorado driver's exam, but just barely.
My biggest problem is "ghosting" as I call it. I think it's just the healed version of the halos that I had bad at first. It is only a problem in very bright light or in high-contrast images (like driving at night... I tend to see 1 strong yellow line and 2 converging "ghosted" yellow lines when looking at the road).
The ghosting is enough to give me a mild eye-strain headache every once in a great while, but usually it just makes me squint a bit. I have no problems working on a computer monitor for 10+ hours a day and I don't have any problems reading in bed (I had gotten so nearsighted that I had to wear my glasses to read at night).
My eyes have been stable since about 6 months after the surgery. My cost was $1500/eye, but it was at a well known clinic and they give as many free tune-ups as required for 3 years after the procedure. I would have gotten a tune-up by now, but I've moved.
I'm waiting for our vacation back to the place where it was done (Dr. Arrowsmith in Nashville, TN) this winter to get my tune-up. That will give me 14 months left on the policy to heal and see how things go. I doubt I will go for more than 1 tune-up though, as I am worried about causing scarring.
The best part is, I went in to get a tuneup in June and the doctor actually told me to wait because they were getting in a new machine (Wave laser) that was much more accurate. Apparently my nearsightedness is gone and the ghosting (which is exacerbated by my having had astigmatism) is a result of a barely uneven surface from the old laser. The new laser handles this much better. I like a doctor who will tell you that instead of just trying to clear their schedule.
Overall I'm very happy I did it. I never liked my glasses and am very happy that I can read at night. Plus, now I can buy ski goggles and motorcycle helmets that are comfortable:)...
Recommendations:
1) I had both eyes done at the same time. DON'T DO THAT. While I turned out ok, if my eyes had healed any less "ok" than they are I would be upset that I did them both. I would recommend doing 1, waiting 2-3 months, then doing the other if you're satisfied.
2) If you get a free tune-up, especially if it's valid for a couple of years like most reputable clinics are wont to do, wait at least 6 months, maybe 12, before having a tune-up. Not only will your eyes continue to heal the first few months, but more refined technology is continuously being rolled out.
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Hmmm, but then Windows XP must have been a regression from 2000.
If XP is encoded in base-35 where 1=1, A=10, F=14 and Z=35...
then X, because it is in the second place is worth 33 (value of X in base-35) * 35 (multiple value for being in the second column from the right) = 1001
and P = 16...
So the decimal version value for XP is a mere 1001 + 16, or 1017.0
Of course, I've probably just proven IANAMM (not a math major).
Maybe Linux could just start expressing it's version number in base-2? Then our lowly version 3 becomes jumps us ahead (for the Unix world) to version 11!
Seriously... having accurate schedules is nice, but I don't need it that nailed down. Time the things and update at waypoints, maybe.
Why wouldn't I want it?
Well, assuming an imperfect world where some people have enemies... do you want to be stuck on a train with your up to the second GPS coordinates being broadcast at all times?
No, I'm not paranoid that some secret agent is going to helicopter in... but I still don't like being that easily monitored. Combine this with face recognition in a few key places and it's really too much.
Criminy... I'll learn to use PREVIEW someday... from my reply to my parent:
That way I as a developer could embed the canned style sheet, look at the cross reference and know that if I put something like
italicized it would be close to using italicized.
Just ideas...
SHOULD be...
That way I as a developer could embed the canned style sheet, look at the cross reference and know that if I put something like
<em class="HTML4-italic">italicized</em> it would be close to using <i>italicized</i>.
The XHTML2 working group could create an XHTML 2.0 site, and create a link that embedded a XHTML2Java app for those people with non-compliant sites. Only, instead of making it a standalone browser, make it work inside existing browsers.
Should be:
The XHTML2 working group could create an XHTML 2.0
Java app. People who want to adopt XHTML 2 could use the app to create a link that embedded a XHTML2Java app for those people with non-compliant browsers. Only, instead of making it a standalone browser (like HotJava was), make it work inside existing browsers.
...
Also... it might speed developer adoption if a canned style sheet were developed that created a style to mimic HTML4 markup along with a translating cross-reference.
That way I as a developer could embed the canned style sheet, look at the cross reference and know that if I put something like italicized it would be close to using italicized.
The XHTML2 working group could create an XHTML 2.0 site, and create a link that embedded a XHTML2Java app for those people with non-compliant sites. Only, instead of making it a standalone browser, make it work inside existing browsers.
The Java app could do all of the XHTML2 rendering in clients that today don't support it. The web author can write their site in XHTML2 and provide a javascript that detects older browsers and opens a window with the app to browse the XHTML content. Due to app sizing limitations you would probably need to create a form that chose an appropriate screen size and font size preferend, but a cookie could store that.
In addition, if created by the working group, make it GPL and use it as a reference implementation so that other browsers can reuse what code they want to speed up their development.
Eventually, all of the browsers catch-up. People still using older browsers don't get limited by this, they just suffer slower load times on XHTML2 sites.
Since XHTML2 has been cleaned up so drastically, the App would actually be reasonably small compared to an app that would be able to deal with all of XHTML1/HTML4/DOM/CSS.
Plus, for internal use, people would already have a browser component that could be gracefully loaded over a network in any Java-capable OS that provided a robust and clean document language.
Oh wait, I forgot, it's not 1996 anymore... people are too jaded to accept this as a working possibility:)
Ok... assuming this wasn't an attempt at tongue-in-cheek humor... please pay attention to the formatting.
The submitter, "John Deere", who is the libertarian and is quoted in italics, did not ask for legal recourse.
Cliff, the/. person who actually posted the question and in normal non-italicized text, mentioned legal action.
...
Note that Cliff also mentioned arbitration, which might appeal to some libertarians as a non-governmental solution (though many libertarians rail against the term arbitration since it has come to be synonymous with "mandatory arbitration" as is used in many legal contracts to revoke a contractor's rights).
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Most Libertarians I know (and if I were to classify myself, I would probably be a moderate Libertarian... but that in and of itself is an oxymoron to most people) are against government interfering in private life but are quite willing to have government be involved in law enforcement and regulating business. So even if "John Deere" had asked for a legal resolution, it would not have contradicted his Libertarian views.
See libertarian.org for more information. A very generalized summary would be:
Liberal = left-wing social and economic views
Libertarian = left-wing social views, right-wing economic views
Conservative = right-wing social and government views
Authoritarian = right-wing social views, left-wing economic views
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It's a very cool device ... cool enough I went and read the article *gasp* and did a Google search on it for more details.
... it doesn't have video out itself. For all the people who want to use this combined with a thin monitor or glasses (I was hoping for this myself), forget it. You still need a laptop to decode and display video, and most laptops have a DVD option.
... now -that- is nice ... 4.7GB of music.
... especially if you have friends with Sony memory stick devices.
Point #1) It only plays DVDs when connected to a computer
Point #2) Yes, it will allow you to play MP3s from a DVD
Point #3) It will let you burn MP3s (and I assume anything else) from the memory stick to a CD. That's pretty darned handy, too
I didn't find anything about Ogg support.
Oh I definitely agree ... the gyromouse I bought was a neat gadget but has been sitting in a box since shortly after I bought it. I'm completely stuck on my Trackman Marble for precision and because of my carpal tunnel.
:) If it were wireless it would be more useful, but I was too poor to get the wireless version back then.
The only reason I keep my gyromouse around is because it's cool
So is the Gyromouse ... I bought a gyromouse back in 1998 (over 4 years ago) and you could pick it up to use it as a gyroscope or sit it down and use it as a regular "ball&socket" mouse.
I don't know if Gyration has moved from ball&socket to optical, but either way, this new product is nothing new.
However, prostate cancer is a much slower killer ... often it takes -decades- to kill.
Modified diet is shown to have a possibility of slowing the progressiong further.
In cases of older men (60+ I believe) who get it, their life expectancy is considered to be the same as if they had not contracted it at all. Unfortunately, the older you are, the less operable it is, so there is a trade-off.
While we're rapidly approaching the point where life expectancy is getting high enough that prostate cancer will be more and more serious in the coming decades, I don't think it's nearly as much of an issue as breast cancer right now and therefore the funding levels are appropriate.
I disagree, MS may have pumped alot of research into Outlook, but the results were attrocious (and I'm speaking of GUI, not security, which is worse).
Compare the GUI of Palm Desktop to the PIM parts of Outlook.
Compare the GUI of Mozilla mail to the mail parts of Outlook.
Compare the GUI of most any modern News client to the news parts of Outlook.
For that matter, compare (Darwin||KDE||Gnome||PalmOS||etc) to MS Windows.
None of the above comparisons are a panacea, but they go a long way to explaining just how different a GUI can be for a set of functions. Even in most of the examples above there are many similarities that could evolve in different directions if there wasn't a single predominant market force in all of those areas.
I personally don't think that Star Office has a good GUI (I work for Sun and use Star Office daily), and much of that comes from trying to emulate MS Office too much. It's understandable given where they wanted the product to go, but it has the same flaws that I see with the Outlook clones. Hopefully it's time to start fixing flaws that the competition has always had, not time to continue to emulate everything including flaws.
Yep, I've been 100% IMAP for years ... spent too much time fixing other peoples POP .lock files and helping them try to migrate folders to new computers to do anything else.
... I've used Sylpheed ... and it came the closest to weaning me off of Eudora. It might even have improved enough for me to look into it again.
To the other comment
I've seen a number of responses asking why doesn't Mitch and his group put their efforts into (Evolution||Mozilla||etc).
... if I wanted to use Outlook, I'd install Outlook. I don't like the interface of Outlook and Evolution seems to be a rehash of the same.
... that is to be -better- than what Microsoft has currently locked most work desktops onto rather than just replicating those interfaces and functionality on a different OS.
I may be in the minority, but I hate the Mozilla mail client. It just doesn't work for me.
I refuse to use Evolution
In fact, right now I use Palm Desktop for my PIM (even though my PDA has been without batteries for 9+ months due to inactivity) and Eudora for my email. I would love the -functionality- of Outlook including reliable synchronization with integration with a good email client.
If I had that, I would switch to Linux as my primary work machine (currently I experiment with several distributions and my off-hours machine is Linux, but my work desktop still runs Windows).
My point is, why should they contribute to projects they don't like? It's their time and it sounds like they have adopted project directions that many of us have been wanting for a long time
http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2220hq.html
I've been using Eudora for years, including 5.1, and I can't recall any other times Eudora was accused of being spyware, so unless their response is false, it's not "full of spyware".
I do keep meaning to switch to a fully Linux-based client, but email seems to be one of the big issues for me. I have tried Evolution, KMail and at least 4 others but never quite find it as usable. I spend probably 50% of my work time answering email.
Of course, this whole thread is off-topic.
It's the other way around, blue eyes were reported to make a person more susceptible to pain ... I think it was on the order of 20% (similar to red hair).
:) Oh wait ... there's the advantage!
Both red hair and blue eyes are recessive. Both most commonly occur in people of northern european descent. I would guess that the higher-intensity pain is also a recessive gene that tends to piggy-back onto the same cultures.
Total supposition: there might even be an explanation to them. In extremely icy/snowy regions, blue eyes would reflect back more light (blue eye coloring has the highest index of reflection of the natural eye colors), reducing glare/distortion? In those same places, the cold may number nerve endings, causing more sentivity to pain to be an advantage, too.
I don't see what survival advantage red hair would have, but it sure is sexy
I don't remember which channel or the name of the program, but awhile back there was a documentary that discussed the Native American legend of the "Thunderbird" that correllated it to reports of a large bird that has supposedly snatched a couple of children in the last few decades.
They theorized that a large bird may have survived extinction, but have extremely few members left alive. The bird was thought to have a wingspan betwen 12 and 20 feet.
Might be the Nessy of the Americas, but it would be interesting to find proof. It sounds to me like these could be the same bird.
Curious, what's wrong with UoP? I have a couple of friends who are considering it as a way to complete their degree while working. I've considered it, too, but never seem to find the time.
Many games are produced by a one party (a'la Bioware) and are then distributed by another (a'la Interplay).
It is usually the distributor who decides what encryption to put on a disk.
Much like with music, if I don't purchase a CD because I don't like the distributor, I do more damage to the creator (artist/author) since the distributor has many games for sale and the creator usually only has one or two active titles.
There have been movements in the past to get around some of this, both in games and in music, but none have been extremely successful.
It was one specific answer that was the problem, and if the only issue had been people who posted a response that was not in answer to the specific question (ie, fiber when it wasn't a consideration), I wouldn't have cared. The problem was almost every response was negative or out of scope. It was not just about your post (you weren't the only person to post about fiber), which I understood before the clarification.
This is one of the most worthless article I've ever seen.
No, not because of the premise, I was actually curious what the answer was myself because I want to lay an inexpensive 1Gb network in my house at some point ("because I can").
It is worthless because of all the people who ridiculed the poster with the various RTFM and "look it up on Google" responses. Most other responses were to use something (fiber) that the poster seems to have obviously ruled out (maybe cost, maybe convenience, doesn't matter), so those don't help much either but at least they were trying.
He wanted to ask the opinion of his peers, not rely on what a manufacturer said or possibly out of date material. Most of the responses trashed him.
Why do people bother to take the time to produce non-responsive or patronizing answers? If you don't like the question, or you think he should spend his time elsewhere to get the answer, then simply don't post.
A lack of response is a much better way to get someone to go away than to waste your time writing and the time of everyone who pops in to see what the consensus was.
My point was that the cost is so low there is no reason for the MPAA and RIAA to break it. They'll pay it and not think twice. Therefor the parent post to mine was not realistic.
Yeah, because $200 is going to really break the MPAA and RIAA.
Even if it were $200 per title, they would still make it up by selling 20 or so discs. I strongly doubt it's going to be interpretted as $200 per individual copy of a disc.
I had LASIK done in April of 2001 (almost 18 months ago).
... I was never able to wear contacts because these blue eyes are just too sensitive. My first day after surgery I had to keep fairly sedated because my eyes itched/hurt, so of course my instinct was to try and open or rub them.
... I tend to see 1 strong yellow line and 2 converging "ghosted" yellow lines when looking at the road).
:) ...
I was fairly nearsighted and also mildly astigmatic, both eyes were almost equal.
Anyway
After the first day I could open my eyes and see. After the 3rd day I didn't have any measurable irritation. By the 7th day my vision was better than 20/20 except for the normal halo patterns.
However, after about 3-4 months my vision got a little worse. I'm not quite 20/20 in either eye. My right eye is better (but I'm left-eye dominant, so it's frustrating). My left eye is able to pass the Colorado driver's exam, but just barely.
My biggest problem is "ghosting" as I call it. I think it's just the healed version of the halos that I had bad at first. It is only a problem in very bright light or in high-contrast images (like driving at night
The ghosting is enough to give me a mild eye-strain headache every once in a great while, but usually it just makes me squint a bit. I have no problems working on a computer monitor for 10+ hours a day and I don't have any problems reading in bed (I had gotten so nearsighted that I had to wear my glasses to read at night).
My eyes have been stable since about 6 months after the surgery. My cost was $1500/eye, but it was at a well known clinic and they give as many free tune-ups as required for 3 years after the procedure. I would have gotten a tune-up by now, but I've moved.
I'm waiting for our vacation back to the place where it was done (Dr. Arrowsmith in Nashville, TN) this winter to get my tune-up. That will give me 14 months left on the policy to heal and see how things go. I doubt I will go for more than 1 tune-up though, as I am worried about causing scarring.
The best part is, I went in to get a tuneup in June and the doctor actually told me to wait because they were getting in a new machine (Wave laser) that was much more accurate. Apparently my nearsightedness is gone and the ghosting (which is exacerbated by my having had astigmatism) is a result of a barely uneven surface from the old laser. The new laser handles this much better. I like a doctor who will tell you that instead of just trying to clear their schedule.
Overall I'm very happy I did it. I never liked my glasses and am very happy that I can read at night. Plus, now I can buy ski goggles and motorcycle helmets that are comfortable
Recommendations:
1) I had both eyes done at the same time. DON'T DO THAT. While I turned out ok, if my eyes had healed any less "ok" than they are I would be upset that I did them both. I would recommend doing 1, waiting 2-3 months, then doing the other if you're satisfied.
2) If you get a free tune-up, especially if it's valid for a couple of years like most reputable clinics are wont to do, wait at least 6 months, maybe 12, before having a tune-up. Not only will your eyes continue to heal the first few months, but more refined technology is continuously being rolled out.
Hmmm, but then Windows XP must have been a regression from 2000.
...
...
If XP is encoded in base-35 where 1=1, A=10, F=14 and Z=35
then X, because it is in the second place is worth 33 (value of X in base-35) * 35 (multiple value for being in the second column from the right) = 1001
and P = 16
So the decimal version value for XP is a mere 1001 + 16, or 1017.0
Of course, I've probably just proven IANAMM (not a math major).
Maybe Linux could just start expressing it's version number in base-2? Then our lowly version 3 becomes jumps us ahead (for the Unix world) to version 11!
Seriously ... having accurate schedules is nice, but I don't need it that nailed down. Time the things and update at waypoints, maybe.
... do you want to be stuck on a train with your up to the second GPS coordinates being broadcast at all times?
... but I still don't like being that easily monitored. Combine this with face recognition in a few key places and it's really too much.
Why wouldn't I want it?
Well, assuming an imperfect world where some people have enemies
No, I'm not paranoid that some secret agent is going to helicopter in
:) That's what I get for writing /. comments while sitting through a conference call.
Actually, from a story flow point of view, I've always felt that Farscape was a direct ancestor of Blake's 7.
... or I suppose now *sniff* I miss both of them.
Damn I miss that show
I edited my first paragraph without re-reading:
Should be:
...
Also ... it might speed developer adoption if a canned style sheet were developed that created a style to mimic HTML4 markup along with a translating cross-reference.
That way I as a developer could embed the canned style sheet, look at the cross reference and know that if I put something like italicized it would be close to using italicized.
Just ideas ...
The XHTML2 working group could create an XHTML 2.0 site, and create a link that embedded a XHTML2Java app for those people with non-compliant sites. Only, instead of making it a standalone browser, make it work inside existing browsers.
... people are too jaded to accept this as a working possibility :)
The Java app could do all of the XHTML2 rendering in clients that today don't support it. The web author can write their site in XHTML2 and provide a javascript that detects older browsers and opens a window with the app to browse the XHTML content. Due to app sizing limitations you would probably need to create a form that chose an appropriate screen size and font size preferend, but a cookie could store that.
In addition, if created by the working group, make it GPL and use it as a reference implementation so that other browsers can reuse what code they want to speed up their development.
Eventually, all of the browsers catch-up. People still using older browsers don't get limited by this, they just suffer slower load times on XHTML2 sites.
Since XHTML2 has been cleaned up so drastically, the App would actually be reasonably small compared to an app that would be able to deal with all of XHTML1/HTML4/DOM/CSS.
Plus, for internal use, people would already have a browser component that could be gracefully loaded over a network in any Java-capable OS that provided a robust and clean document language.
Oh wait, I forgot, it's not 1996 anymore
Ok ... assuming this wasn't an attempt at tongue-in-cheek humor ... please pay attention to the formatting.
The submitter, "John Deere", who is the libertarian and is quoted in italics, did not ask for legal recourse.
Cliff, the /. person who actually posted the question and in normal non-italicized text, mentioned legal action.
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Note that Cliff also mentioned arbitration, which might appeal to some libertarians as a non-governmental solution (though many libertarians rail against the term arbitration since it has come to be synonymous with "mandatory arbitration" as is used in many legal contracts to revoke a contractor's rights).
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Most Libertarians I know (and if I were to classify myself, I would probably be a moderate Libertarian ... but that in and of itself is an oxymoron to most people) are against government interfering in private life but are quite willing to have government be involved in law enforcement and regulating business. So even if "John Deere" had asked for a legal resolution, it would not have contradicted his Libertarian views.
See libertarian.org for more information. A very generalized summary would be:
Liberal = left-wing social and economic views
Libertarian = left-wing social views, right-wing economic views
Conservative = right-wing social and government views
Authoritarian = right-wing social views, left-wing economic views
Of course each group has moderates and radicals.