There has always been work-arounds for transparent PNG support in IE for quite a while now.
I don't use IE much but I've assumed a lot of sites used them, I know I did some work at the last company I worked at getting it set up in our software correctly. I'm not a web-developer, so I may be wrong in how widespread both knowledge it CAN be fixed, as well as HOW to fix it really was.
In either case, its a quick Google search. There are lots of sites that explain how.
Do you insist the security tapes are turned over when you shop at stores? Do you pay only in cash? Its hard to pay cash online, but presumably you use credit cards. Why do you trust them with your info? Its easy to track where you shop with that.
Do you know the people at your bank? At Visa/MC? The processor? How about the people at the stores you shop at? Do you not use any of those shopper cards at the grocery store (I don't)? No Costco membership, or library card?
You know, you're logged into/., do you trust the people there with knowledge of what stories interest you? Have you SEEN their editing abilities? I'm not sure I would!
You're missing the point. I bring my PAP2 with me almost every time I travel. Its convenient, and one of the reasons I use Vonage.
Without a nationwide registry mapping IPs to physical addresses, how will they tell emergency services where to go?
I *do* have a 911 address registered at home. But there's no way they can do that automagically. And they can't restrict the use of the interface box to a single physical location.
So how, unless the FCC mandates that all IP addresses have a centrally-registered physical location, should they go about doing it?
I live in a condo. If my parents were visiting and took their Vonage box and brought it with them and plugged it in, how can Vonage be sure they've reregistered the address? They can't. So 911 won't work from that phone.
You can't use GPS or something, no guarantee of getting a signal. Plus, living in a condo, GPS would only approximately tell someone where it was, not which unit it was.
The damn government has to stop supporting the dumbing down of this country. People have no inherant right to have anyone protect them from their stupidity or their decisions. If *I* choose to use Vonage, and *I* choose to not register my address with them then *I* choose to have 911 not work.
And if that means someone else who might grab my phone and doesn't know that has problems, so be it. Its not my responsibility, or Vonage's, or the governments to protect people's assumptions.
The libraries that are used to convert times will need vendor patches. If people were doing it themselves, they deserve to have it broken since the rules around where it happens, and when during the year varies around the world.
Most standard libraries doing timezone conversions already need to know the date since daylight savings time needs to be calculated. Those will just need another rule for the US (pre 2006 and post 2006).
This isn't Y2K. Its a total non-issue to the end users and developers of most software.
Its resolution is limited to the source material. In some areas its satellite and not too great, in other areas its from arial photographs and is MUCH better. Around Massachusetts, for example, its pleanty high enough to see things like that.
My parents live in Scottsdale and you can clearly see the fire pit in their back yard and, specifically to your comment, the playground thing in their neighbors.
Thats rediculous... a company by definition can't pay someone less than anyone is willing to work. Like anything else in the economy (unless you get evil unions involved) supply and demand will even wages out.
I know LOTS of engineers making solid six figure salaries, and did throughout the dot com meltdown.
I also know LOTS of engineers who bitch about companies not paying fair wages.
The difference? The former engineers have skills and experience that meets or exceeds their own opinion of themselves. The latter got some warped sense of their worth during the dot com boom.
90% of engineers *should't* be making six figures. Hell, 75% probably shouldn't be making $50k. There is a HUGE gap in skills in the industry, and the important ones aren't around someone's ability to think up or implement an algorithm. Code monkies will always be paid code monkey wages in a healthy economy.
They could do very well against Cafe Press if they can sell quality stuff. I've sold a lot of stuff off Cafe Press in the last few years, and its all essentially junk. T-shirts fade very quickly, colors are poor. Hard goods like mugs, frisbees, etc are just cheap. Everything seems to be low-quality transfer images or white stickers stuck onto bottom-of-the-bucket junk.
A company that does quality merchandise could do very well.
Back in my day, us kids had to write in assembly, and we didn't have these fancy registers you young whipper-snappers have today! We just had an accumulator and sixteen K of memory!
So what happens with Google starts dropping location and context sensitive ads next to the google maps everyone is now putting all over the 'net because of the open APIs?
I think the people at Google who are doing this are smarter than 99% of the people on here, and know EXACTLY what they're doing.
Whats funny is the two examples you used are probably the most obvious areas of targeted future growth for them right now.
The odds are the ROI on the Maps technology will be HUGE.
And if you think he or anyone there cares for a millisecond about an extremist fringe of their potential customer base not buying from them because of those actions, you have a real distorted sense of reality.
If everyone on Slashdot never bought from them, they wouldn't care one squirt, as compared to the benefits (regardless of how you morally consider them) of them protecting their IP.
The problem here isn't Amazon -- they are a public company and their sole responsibility is to their shareholders. These actions protect the investment of their shareholders.
If you have a problem with it, instead of putting so much aparent effort into not buying from them and announcing how proud you are of that, try to educate people and lobby the government to change the patent laws.
As long as patents like this are legal, its the responsibility of anyone in a position of power at a company to use them to the best of their ability.
It won't really matter in the long run. Even if you *can* toggle them to do HD over component, the vast majority of HD sets sold have been in the last two years, and the majority of those have HDMI.
Component output won't help you record it, since HD encoders are so expensive, so there's no benefit to component or DVI over HDMI if your set supports HDMI.
I have the Toshiba upconverting HD player and connect it to my TV with the HDMI. Why? One cable I didn't have to buy, for one. Less clutter behind my set.
I actually don't see much of a difference watching DVDs with it (its upconversion circuits are clearly no better than those in my Grand WEGA set) but it was worth the cost for being able to flip through pictures on a CF card at 1280x720.
If I was concerned about the lives of my neighbors, I'd be in support of, say, making driving not something people are entitled to in the US and make people learn to do it properly. Or spending money on medical research.
Something that actually impacts more people on average than lightening strikes.
Terrorism works because people like you get worked up about it. Why in the world would you think its worth half a billion dollars to protect 50 people? Especially when it won't do a damn thing to protect them.
If you want to protect people, stop the media from trying to scare the crap out of the general population for ratings. That fear is proof the terrorists have won. That irrational, rediculous fear is what makes it such a powerful tool.
And I'm speaking from the experience of someone who was in Centennial Park the night of July 27, 1996...
What about the dozens, hundreds, or thousands of ways you're more likely to die?
Don't eat -- people die from food poisoning. Don't go outside, lightening strikes people. In fact, people get struck in their houses, so don't go near windows.
Definitely don't use anything electrical, it might short out. Don't go to the doctor, sometimes mistakes are made there and people die. What else should you avoid doing?
You're talking exactly like everyone else who is causing this problem. You get worked up and give up your way of life because of an absolutely infintessimal risk of someone doing something bad to you, if you get worked up about it, you're the exact person the terrorists want to scare the crap out of.
In your own little way, you've helped them win. Thanks for that, on behalf of all of us who can think rationally about these things.
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There has always been work-arounds for transparent PNG support in IE for quite a while now.
I don't use IE much but I've assumed a lot of sites used them, I know I did some work at the last company I worked at getting it set up in our software correctly. I'm not a web-developer, so I may be wrong in how widespread both knowledge it CAN be fixed, as well as HOW to fix it really was.
In either case, its a quick Google search. There are lots of sites that explain how.
How do you know it was consensual?
I think the programmers made them do it!
Thats rediculous.
/., do you trust the people there with knowledge of what stories interest you? Have you SEEN their editing abilities? I'm not sure I would!
Do you insist the security tapes are turned over when you shop at stores? Do you pay only in cash? Its hard to pay cash online, but presumably you use credit cards. Why do you trust them with your info? Its easy to track where you shop with that.
Do you know the people at your bank? At Visa/MC? The processor? How about the people at the stores you shop at? Do you not use any of those shopper cards at the grocery store (I don't)? No Costco membership, or library card?
You know, you're logged into
This was explained about 200 times in yesterday's daily Firefox article.
You're missing the point. I bring my PAP2 with me almost every time I travel. Its convenient, and one of the reasons I use Vonage.
Without a nationwide registry mapping IPs to physical addresses, how will they tell emergency services where to go?
I *do* have a 911 address registered at home. But there's no way they can do that automagically. And they can't restrict the use of the interface box to a single physical location.
So how, unless the FCC mandates that all IP addresses have a centrally-registered physical location, should they go about doing it?
I live in a condo. If my parents were visiting and took their Vonage box and brought it with them and plugged it in, how can Vonage be sure they've reregistered the address? They can't. So 911 won't work from that phone.
You can't use GPS or something, no guarantee of getting a signal. Plus, living in a condo, GPS would only approximately tell someone where it was, not which unit it was.
The damn government has to stop supporting the dumbing down of this country. People have no inherant right to have anyone protect them from their stupidity or their decisions. If *I* choose to use Vonage, and *I* choose to not register my address with them then *I* choose to have 911 not work.
And if that means someone else who might grab my phone and doesn't know that has problems, so be it. Its not my responsibility, or Vonage's, or the governments to protect people's assumptions.
The libraries that are used to convert times will need vendor patches. If people were doing it themselves, they deserve to have it broken since the rules around where it happens, and when during the year varies around the world.
Most standard libraries doing timezone conversions already need to know the date since daylight savings time needs to be calculated. Those will just need another rule for the US (pre 2006 and post 2006).
This isn't Y2K. Its a total non-issue to the end users and developers of most software.
Its resolution is limited to the source material. In some areas its satellite and not too great, in other areas its from arial photographs and is MUCH better. Around Massachusetts, for example, its pleanty high enough to see things like that.
My parents live in Scottsdale and you can clearly see the fire pit in their back yard and, specifically to your comment, the playground thing in their neighbors.
Thats rediculous... a company by definition can't pay someone less than anyone is willing to work. Like anything else in the economy (unless you get evil unions involved) supply and demand will even wages out.
I know LOTS of engineers making solid six figure salaries, and did throughout the dot com meltdown.
I also know LOTS of engineers who bitch about companies not paying fair wages.
The difference? The former engineers have skills and experience that meets or exceeds their own opinion of themselves. The latter got some warped sense of their worth during the dot com boom.
90% of engineers *should't* be making six figures. Hell, 75% probably shouldn't be making $50k. There is a HUGE gap in skills in the industry, and the important ones aren't around someone's ability to think up or implement an algorithm. Code monkies will always be paid code monkey wages in a healthy economy.
You forgot the most important and easiest way to get on the front page:
Read yesterdays articles and resubmit one!
Guaranteed to work, or your money back!
I bet you a dollar those scripts won't work if you uninstall GreaseMonkey, too.
They could do very well against Cafe Press if they can sell quality stuff. I've sold a lot of stuff off Cafe Press in the last few years, and its all essentially junk. T-shirts fade very quickly, colors are poor. Hard goods like mugs, frisbees, etc are just cheap. Everything seems to be low-quality transfer images or white stickers stuck onto bottom-of-the-bucket junk.
A company that does quality merchandise could do very well.
No, but just because its not right doesn't mean its illegal.
No its not. Its no different than my DVD player not playing back at 720P unless I have an HDMI TV.
They're not saying the computer won't work without one of those monitors, they're saying certain content won't play at its full resolution.
Exactly the same as all the newer HD video hardware does.
Back in my day, us kids had to write in assembly, and we didn't have these fancy registers you young whipper-snappers have today! We just had an accumulator and sixteen K of memory!
Kids these days! You've all got it so easy!
And get off my lawn!
</grumpy_old_man>
So what happens with Google starts dropping location and context sensitive ads next to the google maps everyone is now putting all over the 'net because of the open APIs?
I think the people at Google who are doing this are smarter than 99% of the people on here, and know EXACTLY what they're doing.
Whats funny is the two examples you used are probably the most obvious areas of targeted future growth for them right now.
The odds are the ROI on the Maps technology will be HUGE.
Appears to be a prototype in the way the opening credits for Enterprise was a prototype of a Warp 5 starship.
And if you think he or anyone there cares for a millisecond about an extremist fringe of their potential customer base not buying from them because of those actions, you have a real distorted sense of reality.
If everyone on Slashdot never bought from them, they wouldn't care one squirt, as compared to the benefits (regardless of how you morally consider them) of them protecting their IP.
The problem here isn't Amazon -- they are a public company and their sole responsibility is to their shareholders. These actions protect the investment of their shareholders.
If you have a problem with it, instead of putting so much aparent effort into not buying from them and announcing how proud you are of that, try to educate people and lobby the government to change the patent laws.
As long as patents like this are legal, its the responsibility of anyone in a position of power at a company to use them to the best of their ability.
When its reposted tomorrow, you'll have another 66% chance its correct.
It won't really matter in the long run. Even if you *can* toggle them to do HD over component, the vast majority of HD sets sold have been in the last two years, and the majority of those have HDMI.
Component output won't help you record it, since HD encoders are so expensive, so there's no benefit to component or DVI over HDMI if your set supports HDMI.
I have the Toshiba upconverting HD player and connect it to my TV with the HDMI. Why? One cable I didn't have to buy, for one. Less clutter behind my set.
I actually don't see much of a difference watching DVDs with it (its upconversion circuits are clearly no better than those in my Grand WEGA set) but it was worth the cost for being able to flip through pictures on a CF card at 1280x720.
Don't believe what you've read on /.
Exploding brains are extremely uncommon. Asploding ones are even more so.
If someone wants to invade and take over East Boston, I say let 'em!
At least they might stop raising tolls though the tunnel!
That'll never go away... coming up with an algorithm for, and writing sample code to do that is a big part of their interview process.
(And anyone who has interviewed there knows I'm only half joking...)
For something like that? Absolutely.
If I was concerned about the lives of my neighbors, I'd be in support of, say, making driving not something people are entitled to in the US and make people learn to do it properly. Or spending money on medical research.
Something that actually impacts more people on average than lightening strikes.
Terrorism works because people like you get worked up about it. Why in the world would you think its worth half a billion dollars to protect 50 people? Especially when it won't do a damn thing to protect them.
If you want to protect people, stop the media from trying to scare the crap out of the general population for ratings. That fear is proof the terrorists have won. That irrational, rediculous fear is what makes it such a powerful tool.
And I'm speaking from the experience of someone who was in Centennial Park the night of July 27, 1996...
What about the dozens, hundreds, or thousands of ways you're more likely to die?
Don't eat -- people die from food poisoning. Don't go outside, lightening strikes people. In fact, people get struck in their houses, so don't go near windows.
Definitely don't use anything electrical, it might short out. Don't go to the doctor, sometimes mistakes are made there and people die. What else should you avoid doing?
You're talking exactly like everyone else who is causing this problem. You get worked up and give up your way of life because of an absolutely infintessimal risk of someone doing something bad to you, if you get worked up about it, you're the exact person the terrorists want to scare the crap out of.
In your own little way, you've helped them win. Thanks for that, on behalf of all of us who can think rationally about these things.