Read the third-to-last paragraph in the article. 23 people from their last round are refusing to settle. This is the kind of thing that needs lots of media attention.
That's so true. Stuff is really expensive over there, since it seems like they just take the US price and stick a pound sign in front of it. It works out to be a lot more in actual cost.
Europe is a little better, since the Euro is closer to the $ than the pound is.
Of course, one could argue that if the point of CSS is to separate content from presentation, your approach is in violation. That is, nesting divs and such for the sole purpose of accomodating CSS is adjusting the content of the HTML to the presentation of the CSS.
To truly separate content from style, you would start with a blank editor, put in your various HTML wrapper tags, and mark up your document based simply on the semantics of it. Using <em> and <strong> instead of <i> and <b>, for example.
Only when you have a semantically-pure HTML document would you dive into the CSS file and try to fit it to your existing document. That's what all the child selectors and such are useful for in the first place.
Of course, I don't think CSS support has advanced this far yet. Here's hoping.
This is true. I'm in college studying to be an aerospace engineer, and every other semester I work at NASA. I used to love aircraft, spacecraft, the whole bit, but now I don't really follow it that much in my spare time. It still interests me, but not as a hobby. Now I program and do websites and stuff as a hobby.
I'll have to play the part of the resident Gentoo zealot...
I like Gentoo because of a few characteristics:
1. Up-to-date stable packages - usually released within a few weeks of their upstream releases... GNOME 2.6 just went stable yesterday, and kernel 2.6.6 was stable the day it came out.
2. Tinker-friendly community - Gentoo is desktop-hobbyist-friendly, with a great community. I like the feeling that yes, my desire to tinker with a new X server or the latest Mozilla is fully appreciated and supported.
3. Easy package installations - one-line package database updating, package installations, etc., plus the whole self-compilation idea lets you customize the packages to your liking, while still within the confines of the management system.
4. Wonderful documentation - the installation is the hardest part, but with the Gentoo handbook, you'll be up in no time.
Of course, it does take time to get it up and running the first time, and for packages to compile, but I find it to be worth it, simply because it doesn't that that long, and you only have to do it once. Binary packages and a binary installation are available as well.
Scientific research, a stepping stone to other places, resources that aren't available on Earth, national pride, a mission for NASA, technological advances....
I believe you mean "flat earth is a hypothesis". Theories are statements that are presumably true and have not been demonstrated false. Hypotheses, on the other hand, are just conjectures, and hold no weight beyond was the conjecturer gives them. A flat earth has been demonstrated false, so it is merely a hypothesis in the minds of those who choose to entertain it.
You can call, too. Just ask for the technology staff member in the office.
I worked as an intern on Capitol Hill for a semester, and in our office, all the e-mails from constituents got printed out and filed in with the paper mail, so they all got treated the same way.
Also, every piece of correspondence got filed into their tracking program, which records your name, address, etc, along with a tally of the issues on which you've written. It helps them keep track of which issues get written about, and it lets them file an issue-specific form letter and plug in your name and address when you write.
"Using the legal defense of claiming a malicious hacker broke into your system (or, not even that, a virus) has already been successfully used to defend against child pornography charges."
You act like that's a bad thing. Maybe a hacker did break into the system. One of the main purposes of the legal system is to try to weigh one side's evidence against another's. And I don't think you can claim that the courts are light on child pornographers.
All I know is that if I got arrested for downloading child porn because some hacker broke into my system, I'd want the court to recognize it.
Their EULA states: "You agree with the fact that you are not able to use and even to download audio and video materials from Allofmp3.com catalogue if it is in the conflict with legislation of your country."
Is this illegal in the US? I wouldn't think so... but what do I know?
Unless I'm mistaking you, I believe that should have been "There are hypotheses, but no definitive theories or anything". The word "theory" gets trashed far more often than it should. Well, and mathematics is the only thing that involves "proof".
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Read the third-to-last paragraph in the article. 23 people from their last round are refusing to settle. This is the kind of thing that needs lots of media attention.
Well, I guess we should take down all the speed limit signs. That'll make the roads safer.
But the kernel already has a central bugzilla: bugzilla.kernel.org
Argh! My site's in Xaraya, and I dig it, but now that the site's essentially down, I can't get any work done. IRC times out, too.
On what mailing lists do you guys hang out?
That's so true. Stuff is really expensive over there, since it seems like they just take the US price and stick a pound sign in front of it. It works out to be a lot more in actual cost.
Europe is a little better, since the Euro is closer to the $ than the pound is.
Of course, one could argue that if the point of CSS is to separate content from presentation, your approach is in violation. That is, nesting divs and such for the sole purpose of accomodating CSS is adjusting the content of the HTML to the presentation of the CSS.
To truly separate content from style, you would start with a blank editor, put in your various HTML wrapper tags, and mark up your document based simply on the semantics of it. Using <em> and <strong> instead of <i> and <b>, for example.
Only when you have a semantically-pure HTML document would you dive into the CSS file and try to fit it to your existing document. That's what all the child selectors and such are useful for in the first place.
Of course, I don't think CSS support has advanced this far yet. Here's hoping.
What do you do for a living? Do you love it?
This is true. I'm in college studying to be an aerospace engineer, and every other semester I work at NASA. I used to love aircraft, spacecraft, the whole bit, but now I don't really follow it that much in my spare time. It still interests me, but not as a hobby. Now I program and do websites and stuff as a hobby.
I'll have to play the part of the resident Gentoo zealot...
I like Gentoo because of a few characteristics:
1. Up-to-date stable packages - usually released within a few weeks of their upstream releases... GNOME 2.6 just went stable yesterday, and kernel 2.6.6 was stable the day it came out.
2. Tinker-friendly community - Gentoo is desktop-hobbyist-friendly, with a great community. I like the feeling that yes, my desire to tinker with a new X server or the latest Mozilla is fully appreciated and supported.
3. Easy package installations - one-line package database updating, package installations, etc., plus the whole self-compilation idea lets you customize the packages to your liking, while still within the confines of the management system.
4. Wonderful documentation - the installation is the hardest part, but with the Gentoo handbook, you'll be up in no time.
Of course, it does take time to get it up and running the first time, and for packages to compile, but I find it to be worth it, simply because it doesn't that that long, and you only have to do it once. Binary packages and a binary installation are available as well.
Somehow I doubt there's a bunch of programmers dressing up in costumes and putting on skits to demonstrate how their program works.
I could be wrong, though...
I'm sure the hapless peasants in that Armageddon movie had been against the space program too, until someone found an errant asteroid.
Scientific research, a stepping stone to other places, resources that aren't available on Earth, national pride, a mission for NASA, technological advances....
I believe you mean "flat earth is a hypothesis". Theories are statements that are presumably true and have not been demonstrated false. Hypotheses, on the other hand, are just conjectures, and hold no weight beyond was the conjecturer gives them. A flat earth has been demonstrated false, so it is merely a hypothesis in the minds of those who choose to entertain it.
You can call, too. Just ask for the technology staff member in the office.
I worked as an intern on Capitol Hill for a semester, and in our office, all the e-mails from constituents got printed out and filed in with the paper mail, so they all got treated the same way.
Also, every piece of correspondence got filed into their tracking program, which records your name, address, etc, along with a tally of the issues on which you've written. It helps them keep track of which issues get written about, and it lets them file an issue-specific form letter and plug in your name and address when you write.
They are selling us movies over the internet now: click me
Still don't see it. I went to http://allofmp3.com -> Help (top right corner) -> Online Encoding.
The only thing that I see that says what they store music as is in the description of Online Encoding Exclusive, which says WAV files.
What? It says on their site that the songs are stored in 44.1KHz/24-bit/PCM WAV
We can't? I can buy music from the above-named site all I want.
"Using the legal defense of claiming a malicious hacker broke into your system (or, not even that, a virus) has already been successfully used to defend against child pornography charges."
You act like that's a bad thing. Maybe a hacker did break into the system. One of the main purposes of the legal system is to try to weigh one side's evidence against another's. And I don't think you can claim that the courts are light on child pornographers.
All I know is that if I got arrested for downloading child porn because some hacker broke into my system, I'd want the court to recognize it.
"As for the woman suing the RIAA on racketeering laws, well, had she not been pirating, she'd not be thinking of it..."
I don't pirate. I'm thinking of it. Don't be so quick to jump to conclusions.
I'm trying to sign up right now...
Their EULA states: "You agree with the fact that you are not able to use and even to download audio and video materials from Allofmp3.com catalogue if it is in the conflict with legislation of your country."
Is this illegal in the US? I wouldn't think so... but what do I know?
Technically, this violates their terms of service. But who's counting?
Unless I'm mistaking you, I believe that should have been "There are hypotheses, but no definitive theories or anything". The word "theory" gets trashed far more often than it should. Well, and mathematics is the only thing that involves "proof".
From this post, it looks like Daniel built up quite a hefty debt working on Gentoo.
How 'bout some support? Visit the Gentoo homepage and click the donation button in the upper left corner.
The man's got to feed his family after all.
So it seems that the key here, as is the case with everything, is education.