"Sure, his thoughts and intentions were wrong, but, is a bad thought or intent a crime without attempted ACTUAL illegal action?"
Yes. When the police catch wind of a murder plot and make an arrest before the perpetrator is allowed to follow through on their plans, you can be assured they don't just confiscate his plans and send him on his way.
Dude, you seriously need to clean up that HTML. There are validation errors galore (object in the head, mis-nested table/form tags and an open option tag, for example. Second, the CSV file has five columns for the header but only four for the data. Third, you refer to the wrong column names in your data fields. And fourth (and this is causing the crash) your data filter is messed up. Remove the filter parameter from the data object and it no longer crashes the browser.
That javascript could use a good going over, too. You've made it way more complicated than it needs to be.
My sites will not change, and if someone wants to view them, and it doesn't work in IE, they are free to use Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc.
Although Internet Explorer is the only browser affected by this specific ruling, Mozilla, Opera and Safari are all guilty of infringing on the same patent. At any time Eolas could have a change of heart and decide to target your browser of choice. If Microsoft's lawyers couldn't get the case thrown out, what chance does a free browser have?
If that ever happens, are you still going to say, "Well, my site doesn't work in IE, Opera or Firefox, but it's not my problem. My users are free to use Lynx."
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I've been using an IPTV over ADSL service for five years now (SaskTel Max) and channel changes take between 1 and 1.5 seconds. About the same as the local digital cable service (Access Digital) and miles ahead of satellite.
You only notice the buffering if you've got two TVs within earshot. If both sets are tuned to the same channel, they may be out of sync by a second or two. After a minute or so the signals will eventually synchronise.
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I also use SaskTel's IPTV service. What more could I ask for? HD for one. Enabling the digital audio jack on the back of the set top box would be nice. What about a PVR?
All of these will be here soon, however. SaskTel is supposed to roll out fibre to the curb sometime this year that will give us the bandwidth for HD and the new STB will include digital connections and a PVR.
People have complained about buggy games that were rushed to market only to be patched later. If developers can't count on the presence of a hard drive, which is critical for patches, will they have to spend more time on testing because deploying bug fixes may no longer be possible across all systems?
As someone who would rather wait for a stable release than deal with patches, this could be a good thing.
The "FI" in "FINAL" would have been kerned so closely that when emboldified, the letterspace would have shrunk and the letters would merge into something like a squared off capital "A".
Macromedia has a generous upgrade policy... Adobe [users] can only upgrade if you own the next most recent product.
Macromedia is no more generous. As of Jan. 1, 2003 their upgrade policy only applies to the previous two version (e.g., an upgrade to Dreamweaver MX 2004 requires either MX or 4.0). Adobe recently tightened their policy to match Macromedia's for the new CS2 suite. The last version (CS) had no such restriction and could be upgraded to from any previous version.
I don't know how well GoLive works...but I know that Dreamweaver has made great efforts to allow front-end developers to create standards-compliant XHTML.
I use Dreamweaver, but from what I've seen GoLive is at least its equal for producing compliant XHTML and CSS.
... I would have skipped Panther altogether because Panther *is* a relatively minor release. I skipped Panther for this very reason. The addition of Expose just didn't seem like enough to justify the $150CAD upgrade.
What I later discovered, however, was that Apple likes to drop support for anything but the current release. Want to use AirTunes over your Airport Express? Sorry, it won't work on Jaguar. A Safari point release? Nope.
Was there a substantial change to the underlying code from 10.2 to 10.3 that would explain the lack of software compatibility between the two versions? (I'm not being rhetorical here. I seriously want to know.)
Much the same as the old suggestion that you use less gas if you leave your car idling while you run into the store instead of turning the engine off.
Cars today use much less fuel on ignition than older models. My car manual actually suggests turning the engine off rather than idling for 15 seconds or more in order to save fuel.
If they had said "Trojan Horse" I would be inclined to agree with you. However, they said "Trojan" and I think more people would make the connection to the condom company before they thought about mythical horses.
And since the latex type of Trojans are designed to protect you, I wouldn't be surprised if many users thought that getting a trojan on their computer would be a good thing.
to park you can just pull straight in, putting the front end (or rear) of the car parallel to the street.
Most cities require vehicles to be parked parallel to the curb; and often pointing in the direction of traffic. While the Smart Fortwo is physically capable of parking perpendicular to the curb without jutting into traffic, doing so could earn you a parking violation.
Besides, backing into traffic is usually not a good idea.
I've heard people complain about the Thomson DVD drives used in the Mexican-built Xboxes and praised the Samsung drives used in the Chinese-built Xboxes. Is there any way to tell where a particular Xbox was built of what specific parts are included prior to purchasing it? Is there any indicator on the packaging?
The 4g iPod uses the Mini's CPU which is different than the earlier models. Expect to see a firmware upgrade for the Mini, but older iPods are out of luck.
Bad analogy. Even fairly clueless people know that there are different brands of cars, coffee, etc. That's because there is competition...
A big reason people know they have a choice is that they see those competing products everyday. Drive down the street and you'll see Fords, Volvos, Saturns, Mercedes, Yugos, whatever. Turn on the tv and you the zoom zoom kid and Joe Isuzu (well, maybe not Joe). Go to a dinner party and people are talking about so-and-so's new Jeep or how Car X is better than Car Y.
Web browsers, on the other hand, don't have that level of visibility. How often does your mum go to someone else's house and see what alternate browser they're running? While we may read news of the latest point release of Firefox or Opera, most of the Web surfing population won't. Where, on their daily browse of Yahoo, Hotmail, ESPN and Pogo, do people see news about Mozilla? If you don't actively search for it, you'll never know.
What can we do about it? Online ads for newer, better, more secure browsers? I don't think so; I trained my mum long ago to ignore all those ads telling her to "click here to speed up Windows" or "download this whiz-bang security patch that adds dancing emoticons to your e-mail". I fear an ad for Camino won't look much different. What we need is more discussion in the mainstream press. No, Slashdot doesn't count. The Wall Street Journal mentions Firefox 0.9 and downloads go through the roof. Slate runs an article about flaws in IE and I get phonecalls from relatives asking about these mysterious other browsers.
Is this Microsoft's fault? No. Like Subaru not advertising for Ford, Microsoft has a duty to their shareholders to make money and they're not going to voluntarily give up marketshare. Is it mum's fault for not seeking out other browsers? Why should she. As far as she knows, what she has works. The fault is ours. People who "know better" have to get these stories into the mainstream.
Super Millionaire is the place to play if you have that many trivial bits up top... $10,000,000 in 30 minutes versus less than $1,000,000 in a month of playing
Super Millionaire isn't exactly shown in real time. While each episode may be only 30 minutes (22 with commercials), the actual taping takes much much longer. Some contestants have taken more than 20 minutes to answer a single question. Of course, without that annoying pause before revealing the correct answer, I'm sure they could take each episode down to an even 10 minutes.
I'm not sure about Jeopardy, but many gameshows tape a week of episodes in a single day. It's much cheaper to tape for three or four hours straight (which is then edited down to five 22-minute episodes; make sure you change your clothes for each episode, people) than it is to set up and tear down the studio five times.
It's one of the reasons they rarely talk about current events during the banter segments; while taping Friday's episode on Monday afternoon, you have no idea what happened "yesterday". It's also a lot cheaper if you don't have to provide a week of accomodations for the contestants.
So basically, yeah, Millionaire does offer a better payout for the time invested, but they're not as different as they may seem in tv time.
I've found the opposite to be true. Half a year ago my girlfriend switched from TDMA to a 1900MHz GSM phone. The sound quality was much improved but still not great. A month ago I switched from TDMA to an 850-1800-1900MHz tri-band GSM phone. The sound was even better than my girlfriend's. Since the switch I've had several people ask if I'm on a land line.
If you're looking to upgrade, make sure your provider and phone are capable of 850MHz. The lower frequency sounds much better, even indoors.
If only quad-band 850-900-1800-1900 phones were more widely available.
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"Sure, his thoughts and intentions were wrong, but, is a bad thought or intent a crime without attempted ACTUAL illegal action?" Yes. When the police catch wind of a murder plot and make an arrest before the perpetrator is allowed to follow through on their plans, you can be assured they don't just confiscate his plans and send him on his way.
Dude, you seriously need to clean up that HTML. There are validation errors galore (object in the head, mis-nested table/form tags and an open option tag, for example. Second, the CSV file has five columns for the header but only four for the data. Third, you refer to the wrong column names in your data fields. And fourth (and this is causing the crash) your data filter is messed up. Remove the filter parameter from the data object and it no longer crashes the browser.
That javascript could use a good going over, too. You've made it way more complicated than it needs to be.
I'm amazed that page works in any browser.
The gentleman was also the bar manager. That's why he getting fined.
Extremely.
And HD DVD has managed copy too.
So does Blu-ray. It's part of AACS.
However, Blu-ray also has region restrictions. Granted there are only three, down from DVD's seven, but HD-DVD is region free.
My sites will not change, and if someone wants to view them, and it doesn't work in IE, they are free to use Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc.
Although Internet Explorer is the only browser affected by this specific ruling, Mozilla, Opera and Safari are all guilty of infringing on the same patent. At any time Eolas could have a change of heart and decide to target your browser of choice. If Microsoft's lawyers couldn't get the case thrown out, what chance does a free browser have?
If that ever happens, are you still going to say, "Well, my site doesn't work in IE, Opera or Firefox, but it's not my problem. My users are free to use Lynx."
I've been using an IPTV over ADSL service for five years now (SaskTel Max) and channel changes take between 1 and 1.5 seconds. About the same as the local digital cable service (Access Digital) and miles ahead of satellite.
You only notice the buffering if you've got two TVs within earshot. If both sets are tuned to the same channel, they may be out of sync by a second or two. After a minute or so the signals will eventually synchronise.
I also use SaskTel's IPTV service. What more could I ask for? HD for one. Enabling the digital audio jack on the back of the set top box would be nice. What about a PVR?
All of these will be here soon, however. SaskTel is supposed to roll out fibre to the curb sometime this year that will give us the bandwidth for HD and the new STB will include digital connections and a PVR.
There is no such word as "bicep". The singular is "biceps" and the plural is either "biceps" or the rarely used "bicepses".
Sony always seemed to be lacking in both their CCD and their glass quality.
If that's true, why did Nikon choose a Sony sensor for their flagship camera, the D2X?
People have complained about buggy games that were rushed to market only to be patched later. If developers can't count on the presence of a hard drive, which is critical for patches, will they have to spend more time on testing because deploying bug fixes may no longer be possible across all systems?
As someone who would rather wait for a stable release than deal with patches, this could be a good thing.
The "FI" in "FINAL" would have been kerned so closely that when emboldified, the letterspace would have shrunk and the letters would merge into something like a squared off capital "A".
Macromedia has a generous upgrade policy...
...but I know that Dreamweaver has made great efforts to allow front-end developers to create standards-compliant XHTML.
Adobe [users] can only upgrade if you own the next most recent product.
Macromedia is no more generous. As of Jan. 1, 2003 their upgrade policy only applies to the previous two version (e.g., an upgrade to Dreamweaver MX 2004 requires either MX or 4.0). Adobe recently tightened their policy to match Macromedia's for the new CS2 suite. The last version (CS) had no such restriction and could be upgraded to from any previous version.
I don't know how well GoLive works
I use Dreamweaver, but from what I've seen GoLive is at least its equal for producing compliant XHTML and CSS.
How do you titillate an ocelot?
Oscillate its tit a lot.
... I would have skipped Panther altogether because Panther *is* a relatively minor release.
I skipped Panther for this very reason. The addition of Expose just didn't seem like enough to justify the $150CAD upgrade.
What I later discovered, however, was that Apple likes to drop support for anything but the current release. Want to use AirTunes over your Airport Express? Sorry, it won't work on Jaguar. A Safari point release? Nope.
Was there a substantial change to the underlying code from 10.2 to 10.3 that would explain the lack of software compatibility between the two versions? (I'm not being rhetorical here. I seriously want to know.)
Much the same as the old suggestion that you use less gas if you leave your car idling while you run into the store instead of turning the engine off.
Cars today use much less fuel on ignition than older models. My car manual actually suggests turning the engine off rather than idling for 15 seconds or more in order to save fuel.
If they had said "Trojan Horse" I would be inclined to agree with you. However, they said "Trojan" and I think more people would make the connection to the condom company before they thought about mythical horses.
And since the latex type of Trojans are designed to protect you, I wouldn't be surprised if many users thought that getting a trojan on their computer would be a good thing.
to park you can just pull straight in, putting the front end (or rear) of the car parallel to the street.
Most cities require vehicles to be parked parallel to the curb; and often pointing in the direction of traffic. While the Smart Fortwo is physically capable of parking perpendicular to the curb without jutting into traffic, doing so could earn you a parking violation.
Besides, backing into traffic is usually not a good idea.
I've heard people complain about the Thomson DVD drives used in the Mexican-built Xboxes and praised the Samsung drives used in the Chinese-built Xboxes. Is there any way to tell where a particular Xbox was built of what specific parts are included prior to purchasing it? Is there any indicator on the packaging?
Is that "FS" or "F5", as in the Windows keyboard command for "Refresh"?
Or would that be too nerdy an inside joke for a mass market product?
According the the Canadian Press and most style books I've read, you capitalize specific regions.
"The South lost to the North."
"I went to the South Pacific last Christmas."
Directions and positions are lowercased.
"Head south for two kilometres."
"The southern states have a distinctive accent."
The 4g iPod uses the Mini's CPU which is different than the earlier models. Expect to see a firmware upgrade for the Mini, but older iPods are out of luck.
When I drive my Subaru...
Bad analogy. Even fairly clueless people know that there are different brands of cars, coffee, etc. That's because there is competition...
A big reason people know they have a choice is that they see those competing products everyday. Drive down the street and you'll see Fords, Volvos, Saturns, Mercedes, Yugos, whatever. Turn on the tv and you the zoom zoom kid and Joe Isuzu (well, maybe not Joe). Go to a dinner party and people are talking about so-and-so's new Jeep or how Car X is better than Car Y.
Web browsers, on the other hand, don't have that level of visibility. How often does your mum go to someone else's house and see what alternate browser they're running? While we may read news of the latest point release of Firefox or Opera, most of the Web surfing population won't. Where, on their daily browse of Yahoo, Hotmail, ESPN and Pogo, do people see news about Mozilla? If you don't actively search for it, you'll never know.
What can we do about it? Online ads for newer, better, more secure browsers? I don't think so; I trained my mum long ago to ignore all those ads telling her to "click here to speed up Windows" or "download this whiz-bang security patch that adds dancing emoticons to your e-mail". I fear an ad for Camino won't look much different. What we need is more discussion in the mainstream press. No, Slashdot doesn't count. The Wall Street Journal mentions Firefox 0.9 and downloads go through the roof. Slate runs an article about flaws in IE and I get phonecalls from relatives asking about these mysterious other browsers.
Is this Microsoft's fault? No. Like Subaru not advertising for Ford, Microsoft has a duty to their shareholders to make money and they're not going to voluntarily give up marketshare. Is it mum's fault for not seeking out other browsers? Why should she. As far as she knows, what she has works. The fault is ours. People who "know better" have to get these stories into the mainstream.
Super Millionaire is the place to play if you have that many trivial bits up top ... $10,000,000 in 30 minutes versus less than $1,000,000 in a month of playing
Super Millionaire isn't exactly shown in real time. While each episode may be only 30 minutes (22 with commercials), the actual taping takes much much longer. Some contestants have taken more than 20 minutes to answer a single question. Of course, without that annoying pause before revealing the correct answer, I'm sure they could take each episode down to an even 10 minutes.
I'm not sure about Jeopardy, but many gameshows tape a week of episodes in a single day. It's much cheaper to tape for three or four hours straight (which is then edited down to five 22-minute episodes; make sure you change your clothes for each episode, people) than it is to set up and tear down the studio five times.
It's one of the reasons they rarely talk about current events during the banter segments; while taping Friday's episode on Monday afternoon, you have no idea what happened "yesterday". It's also a lot cheaper if you don't have to provide a week of accomodations for the contestants.
So basically, yeah, Millionaire does offer a better payout for the time invested, but they're not as different as they may seem in tv time.
GSM has lower voice quality than TDMA.
I've found the opposite to be true. Half a year ago my girlfriend switched from TDMA to a 1900MHz GSM phone. The sound quality was much improved but still not great. A month ago I switched from TDMA to an 850-1800-1900MHz tri-band GSM phone. The sound was even better than my girlfriend's. Since the switch I've had several people ask if I'm on a land line.
If you're looking to upgrade, make sure your provider and phone are capable of 850MHz. The lower frequency sounds much better, even indoors.
If only quad-band 850-900-1800-1900 phones were more widely available.