It's news because governments are increasingly requiring computer data to be stored in standard formats. It's much easier to check that box if it's ISO approved. If, however, Office isn't using the ISO approved version of OOXML, there might be some governments who will never install Office 2010.
So you block all of your content from being indexed by Google? Because Google's also using your content for marketing.
Also, robots.txt doesn't refuse anything to anyone. It's just a suggestion that any system can ignore. If you don't want systems "seeing" your content, then you must remove your content from the internet or put it behind a wall. A crawler is just another client like a web browser. The internet is intentionally built without discrimination.
Have any proof? This is the first time I've ever heard that.
Do you really think the politicians care if those who do not vote for them are alive or not?
Yes, I think many do.
Many politicians care about children.
In recent history only ~30% of eligible voters have voted for any particular president. You think the current president wouldn't care if 70% of the population died? I don't like politicians, but they're not all the same and they're not all as callous as you think.
I agree. I think we actually had more privacy in the past only from a practical point of view. Before computers, and back when the government couldn't afford massive buildings full of employees, it was simply impossible or impractical to gather much data to be used against us. Today you can have one guy in the CIA decide to gather/analyze data and have thousands of people immediately help.
So I think privacy rules have gotten stronger, but technology and government size have made privacy weaker.
You seemed to miss the part where the phone does work in the background. The built-in functionality of the device does multitask, just not 3rd party apps.
So yes, I am perfectly happy with how it works today. And I've never lost any data.
Frameworks are just another tool. They're only useless for the smallest of projects. Most web apps need a basic set of features, which any decent framework will easily provide, alleviating the nuisance of having to rebuild that functionality for each project.
Frameworks aren't a good tool for every project. That doesn't make them evil.
Personally, I prefer it this way. When I'm using any app the only thing I want interrupting me is a phone call. And the only thing I want running in the background is iPod, which already does. If multitasking third party apps becomes an option I'll probably turn it off.
My guess as to why Apple doesn't support Ogg Theora in Safari is because their mobile devices already have hardware support for H.264. So on Apple's mobile hardware, H.264 video would drastically outperform Ogg.
We could be their pets. We'd get to eat and sleep most of the day. Get a new toy every now and then. Walked daily, when we can bark at the other humans. Plus we could lick our own balls whenever we want.
they memorize a series of buttons to press to get whatever result they want and if anything unexpected happens, they're completely lost.
Sounds like their jobs are easily automated. Tell them if they don't pay closer attention to error messages you'll inform their boss how to replace them with another computer program.;)
received full benefits (taking up most of that paycheck)
So your insurance cost you 15 hours per week. That seems potentially expensive, depending on how much you could earn spending that time doing something else.
"A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
Maybe NASA could sell or license some of this "cool tech" to private industry. The private sector would have more to work with and the space agency would get more money for the projects they are left to focus on. And maybe some of the specialists at NASA could fork their own companies with the technology, keeping more people employed.
Maybe they already do this. But the tone of the post makes it sound like they don't.
The argument isn't over the first amendment, it's over who or what is to be protected by the first amendment. If you don't mind revoking personhood from corporations, then you shouldn't mind revoking the rights of corporations.
We need to replace the "conservatives" on the supreme court who don't understand that corporations should not have the constitutional rights of citizens.
when Open Source offers something that is *better* than closed, then it will be used.
Not necessarily. I've worked with multiple companies that have "outlawed" open source for supposedly legal reasons. I've also worked in one company that used only MS software because they had a huge contract and preferred the one-vendor solution, even when some cases would call for a better solution from another source. So in many cases open source can't even get in the door because of business decisions, not technical ones.
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It's news because governments are increasingly requiring computer data to be stored in standard formats. It's much easier to check that box if it's ISO approved. If, however, Office isn't using the ISO approved version of OOXML, there might be some governments who will never install Office 2010.
Microsoft may be shooting themselves in the foot.
So you block all of your content from being indexed by Google? Because Google's also using your content for marketing.
Also, robots.txt doesn't refuse anything to anyone. It's just a suggestion that any system can ignore. If you don't want systems "seeing" your content, then you must remove your content from the internet or put it behind a wall. A crawler is just another client like a web browser. The internet is intentionally built without discrimination.
Except Facebook is claiming he violated its terms of service (a contract), not the law.
whites more likely to be conservative
Have any proof? This is the first time I've ever heard that.
Do you really think the politicians care if those who do not vote for them are alive or not?
Yes, I think many do.
Many politicians care about children.
In recent history only ~30% of eligible voters have voted for any particular president. You think the current president wouldn't care if 70% of the population died? I don't like politicians, but they're not all the same and they're not all as callous as you think.
I agree. I think we actually had more privacy in the past only from a practical point of view. Before computers, and back when the government couldn't afford massive buildings full of employees, it was simply impossible or impractical to gather much data to be used against us. Today you can have one guy in the CIA decide to gather/analyze data and have thousands of people immediately help.
So I think privacy rules have gotten stronger, but technology and government size have made privacy weaker.
Same here. But he said not to answer the race question because liberals value minority lives over white lives.
I'm trying to grow a wiki for software developers, but it has a long way to go.
You seemed to miss the part where the phone does work in the background. The built-in functionality of the device does multitask, just not 3rd party apps.
So yes, I am perfectly happy with how it works today. And I've never lost any data.
But thanks for the obnoxious reply.
Frameworks are just another tool. They're only useless for the smallest of projects. Most web apps need a basic set of features, which any decent framework will easily provide, alleviating the nuisance of having to rebuild that functionality for each project.
Frameworks aren't a good tool for every project. That doesn't make them evil.
Personally, I prefer it this way. When I'm using any app the only thing I want interrupting me is a phone call. And the only thing I want running in the background is iPod, which already does. If multitasking third party apps becomes an option I'll probably turn it off.
My guess as to why Apple doesn't support Ogg Theora in Safari is because their mobile devices already have hardware support for H.264. So on Apple's mobile hardware, H.264 video would drastically outperform Ogg.
Google's "webmaster tools" already let you set an RSS feed as the sitemap source.
We could be their pets. We'd get to eat and sleep most of the day. Get a new toy every now and then. Walked daily, when we can bark at the other humans. Plus we could lick our own balls whenever we want.
Sounds awesome.
they memorize a series of buttons to press to get whatever result they want and if anything unexpected happens, they're completely lost.
Sounds like their jobs are easily automated. Tell them if they don't pay closer attention to error messages you'll inform their boss how to replace them with another computer program. ;)
Correct. We would have also accepted "snacktacular".
received full benefits (taking up most of that paycheck)
So your insurance cost you 15 hours per week. That seems potentially expensive, depending on how much you could earn spending that time doing something else.
When I first quickly ran through the summary I read that as "I pity the scanner". After re-reading the summary it seems appropriate.
No, he meant bolognium, whose atomic weight is deliciously snacktacular.
OK.
"A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
Maybe NASA could sell or license some of this "cool tech" to private industry. The private sector would have more to work with and the space agency would get more money for the projects they are left to focus on. And maybe some of the specialists at NASA could fork their own companies with the technology, keeping more people employed.
Maybe they already do this. But the tone of the post makes it sound like they don't.
The argument isn't over the first amendment, it's over who or what is to be protected by the first amendment. If you don't mind revoking personhood from corporations, then you shouldn't mind revoking the rights of corporations.
The vote was 5 to 4, with conservatives in the majority. If there were less conservatives in the court, this decision would have swung the other way.
We need to replace the "conservatives" on the supreme court who don't understand that corporations should not have the constitutional rights of citizens.
when Open Source offers something that is *better* than closed, then it will be used.
Not necessarily. I've worked with multiple companies that have "outlawed" open source for supposedly legal reasons. I've also worked in one company that used only MS software because they had a huge contract and preferred the one-vendor solution, even when some cases would call for a better solution from another source. So in many cases open source can't even get in the door because of business decisions, not technical ones.