Skimming is only a mitigation strategy, it will never collect all of the oil. Partly because not all of it is on the surface, and partly because you can only cover so much surface area in a given amount of time.
I don't see any reason for the uploading to be particularly hostile to the blind. That they have a reasonably stable API for such things at least means that 3rd party accommodations should be straightforward.
Between Vista and the economy it is hard to draw conclusions from the last few years, but they haven't exactly seen a downturn in those businesses (and they have both grown significantly in the last decade, even if you measure from some point where they had recovered from the dot com recession).
And most businesses would love to print money the way those segments do (which means they can deal with a great deal of price pressure):
(And I think Windows 7 is a pretty good answer to any problems Vista may have revealed (but really, I think that they made some tough/costly technical choices with Vista more than Vista was an absolute steaming crappile))
Of course they do. But Google wants them to place Google advertising on their sites, so Google needs to avoid tarnishing the Google brand, which means Google might listen to their complaints about what Google is doing elsewhere.
They should be a little choosier about where they are willing to put ads.
Really, their other providers of advertising space are the ones who should complain, they want legitimate, high value advertising on their sites, not internet-cesspool advertising.
It's just that earlier you were insisting on exact word usage and pedantic descriptions of things and nothing in the thread is suggestive of a mess to me, so I figured I would ask for clarification (again, because you established that you are a pedant, so I'm concerned that maybe there really is a mess, but I am missing it).
Yeah, sure. We have fur and don't spend enormous amounts of time in the sun (say, compared to a tree), and the genetic damage mostly doesn't accumulate fast enough to interfere with reproduction.
Somewhat tellingly, we actually have evolved other mechanisms to repair UV-damaged DNA.
There is nothing particularly interesting about a 5-digit ui. I'm pretty sure lots of AC comments come from people that have been here quite a bit longer than I have.
As a matter of law, or as a matter of good service?
At the moment, I'd rather pay 10% less to fly on an airline that has difficulties that they do not compensate me for some of the time than I would pay 10% more to fly on an airline that buys me a hooker if there is any flight delay.
(But I do want the market to be such that the airlines are providing alternative flights or refunds, I mean compensation beyond the immediate value of the ticket)
I was using wordplay. I realize the difference may be subtle, but that isn't what I would call 'semantic games' (because my meaning is clear to most people, and I am not being willfully obtuse).
You are worried that I am drawing an analogy between locks and the sophisticated mathematical system Apple builds into their phones (a system that at least makes it inconvenient to install arbitrary software), yet the mathematicians that specialize in such systems (cryptography) were also drawn to the analogy, to the extent that they call one of the inputs to the mathematical system a 'key'.
I'm happy to admit that I was engaging in wordplay and that there is some analogy involved, but nothing I said should be particularly obscure or unclear to anyone with some degree of technical literacy and a decent knowledge of American English, and the analogy between the vendor shipping a device that only runs cryptographically managed software and a 'lock' is something you are fighting with everybody over, not just with me.
You are just playing stupid semantic games. You know perfectly well what I am talking about but prefer to talk about it using some other language. Good for you.
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Am I missing the point? Do I have a rosy Creative Commons glow in my eyes?
He thinks that the Boing Boing blog constitutes commercial activity.
(I can see where he is coming from given that they have advertising and pay the posters)
In general, people that use Creative Commons licenses are trying not to live in the Everybody's-a-Dick-iverse.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/25/AR2010072502620_pf.html
So we find out next spring how things are going. I'll bet you a fiver that things are going fairly well.
Skimming is only a mitigation strategy, it will never collect all of the oil. Partly because not all of it is on the surface, and partly because you can only cover so much surface area in a given amount of time.
The majority of the environmental damage will be gone in a year or two.
The rest of it will pretty much be gone inside a decade.
It is still idiotic that such a thing happened.
The spill was huge.
The gulf is more huger.
I don't see any reason for the uploading to be particularly hostile to the blind. That they have a reasonably stable API for such things at least means that 3rd party accommodations should be straightforward.
So what obligation does flickr have towards blind browsers when most of their content is user-posted visual content?
The site is rather obviously designed for people that can see.
Between Vista and the economy it is hard to draw conclusions from the last few years, but they haven't exactly seen a downturn in those businesses (and they have both grown significantly in the last decade, even if you measure from some point where they had recovered from the dot com recession).
And most businesses would love to print money the way those segments do (which means they can deal with a great deal of price pressure):
http://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar09/10k_fr_dis.html
(And I think Windows 7 is a pretty good answer to any problems Vista may have revealed (but really, I think that they made some tough/costly technical choices with Vista more than Vista was an absolute steaming crappile))
Of course they do. But Google wants them to place Google advertising on their sites, so Google needs to avoid tarnishing the Google brand, which means Google might listen to their complaints about what Google is doing elsewhere.
Google.
Selling Windows and Office is working fine. They are looking for viable ways to grow faster.
They should be a little choosier about where they are willing to put ads.
Really, their other providers of advertising space are the ones who should complain, they want legitimate, high value advertising on their sites, not internet-cesspool advertising.
The part I find most irritating is that Google also profits from the actions of the abusers (because the abusers are using Google advertising).
No.
From the comment you replied to
So, they are doing it in parallel.
He is pointing out that current products that do this are expensive, not arguing that this new thing will be, or anything like that.
It's just that earlier you were insisting on exact word usage and pedantic descriptions of things and nothing in the thread is suggestive of a mess to me, so I figured I would ask for clarification (again, because you established that you are a pedant, so I'm concerned that maybe there really is a mess, but I am missing it).
What mess? Are you planning on bringing some sort of legal action against me, or physically assaulting me, or something like that?
Are you going to reply four times to this comment?
Yeah, sure. We have fur and don't spend enormous amounts of time in the sun (say, compared to a tree), and the genetic damage mostly doesn't accumulate fast enough to interfere with reproduction.
Somewhat tellingly, we actually have evolved other mechanisms to repair UV-damaged DNA.
There is nothing particularly interesting about a 5-digit ui. I'm pretty sure lots of AC comments come from people that have been here quite a bit longer than I have.
As a matter of law, or as a matter of good service?
At the moment, I'd rather pay 10% less to fly on an airline that has difficulties that they do not compensate me for some of the time than I would pay 10% more to fly on an airline that buys me a hooker if there is any flight delay.
(But I do want the market to be such that the airlines are providing alternative flights or refunds, I mean compensation beyond the immediate value of the ticket)
I was using wordplay. I realize the difference may be subtle, but that isn't what I would call 'semantic games' (because my meaning is clear to most people, and I am not being willfully obtuse).
You are worried that I am drawing an analogy between locks and the sophisticated mathematical system Apple builds into their phones (a system that at least makes it inconvenient to install arbitrary software), yet the mathematicians that specialize in such systems (cryptography) were also drawn to the analogy, to the extent that they call one of the inputs to the mathematical system a 'key'.
I'm happy to admit that I was engaging in wordplay and that there is some analogy involved, but nothing I said should be particularly obscure or unclear to anyone with some degree of technical literacy and a decent knowledge of American English, and the analogy between the vendor shipping a device that only runs cryptographically managed software and a 'lock' is something you are fighting with everybody over, not just with me.
You are just playing stupid semantic games. You know perfectly well what I am talking about but prefer to talk about it using some other language. Good for you.
Well, I don't actually mean that they were happy to do it, I mean that they failed to avoid doing it.
So yeah, anybody that bought one.
The people that call it jailbreaking were happy to purchase a device with the locks they are breaking.