It's a sad state of affairs when the first 4 to 6 posts on a story are lame attempts to be first, or lame attempts to flame those who tried to be first.
Anyway, I have to give the article points for being readable and informative. It's a nice piece of PR for a browser that really does out shine much if not all of the competition. If you've read the article, good for you. If yoy haven't, you owe it to yourself to do so.
Likewise, if you haven't already tried Firefox you owe it to yourself - even if you're using Safari on OS X. I work in a Microsoft laden department and the official recommendation is for either Firefox, or Safari.
It's obvious to me that your girlfriend does not listen to enough NPR. I heard a story on a recent installment of 'Science Friday' about recent discoveries in human perception of colors. The short of it:... The average generic woman is much better at distinguishing reds than her male countereparts. One theory is that this ability stems from being the 'gatherer' half of a hunter/gatherer society. Being able to distinguish just when food is ripe has certain survival advantages.
On the other hand, the average generic male tends to have better depth perception - possibly as a result of being the 'hunter' half of that same h/g society. You can't spear a pig if you can't tell just how far to throw your spear.
That's the point. These are probably going to be network search stations, not wordprocessing, spreadsheeting, gaming boxen. Basically, the most advanced thing they need on them is a browser that supports all the normal MIME types. If they remote boot through PXE use NT Terminal Services or any other form of RDP the bulk of the processing they'll do will be to feed the screen.
Here in the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University we have 50-something terminals that are a mix of low end Dells and Apple iMacs that boot off of a centrally managed host. It works very well for us for a number of reasons. Among them, we've stopped having unauthorized installations of [your least favorite warez here] every time we turn around, and having the one mother ship to manage has pretty much eliminated viral and worm infestations.
Since these proposed devices are likely to be digital in nature... won't the DMCA require that they include copy prevention warez? If so, at least one interpretation would be that once the data's in you're not allowed to get it out and store it anyware else.
I feel your rage. I am that guy in your rear view mirror. However, if they get into an accident while being tailgaited it's probably because they got rear-ended. It's pretty much universal that the person in the back of a rear-end situation is at fault. (there are exceptions)
Rear-end nerd boy in their hybrid while you're driving maliciously and you'll have somebody thinking about vehicular assault in addition to the 'assured clear distance' violation.
Granted, there are myriad situations where 20MPH below the posted limit is patently illegal but, you're still likely to have clear distance and reckless op. charges to deal with.
Now 20MPH below the prevailing speed is a completely different matter, especially if the prevailing speed is 20MPH above the posted limit. In that case you're likely to have no legal choice but to shut up and go around them safely.
The way you drive can be viewed as a sampling of your personality. If you drive like an ass hole, there's a serious possibility that you ARE an ass hole.
Seriously. Car X advertises on it's sticker that this vehicle gets 27.6 MPG in the city. "* your mileage may vary." You can typically count on the average driver getting someting less than that. It's used as a reasonably consistant comparison point. A theoretically perfect driver attained this mileage consistantly in controlled tests.
The problem here is that we don't have enough comparison data on hybrid vehicles to know how accurate or consistent that estimate is from one model to the next.
Some would argue that viewing an item in your browser does make a reproduction of it. While this is true in the simplest technical sense, the temporary copying for the purpose of viewing in your browser is given very strongly implied approval by the fact that it has been made available for that purpose. The implied grant is for the duration of the browser session and does not imply the additional permission to copy, alter, reproduce, etc. outside of the current browser session.
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It's probably better to view this as the first of several tests the GPL must (and will) pass in the courts. At some time one of these cases has to go to trial and that will be 'the test of the GPL in the courts everyone has been waiting for."
In 1562, Pope Gregory introduced the new calendar where the first day of the new year was now January 1st. The French were having trouble believing that the year started in January and not April and continued to celebrate as such. Those who knew about the change ridiculed those who celebrated in April and called them "April fools".
In 1564, KIng Charles IX decreed that with the adoption of the Gregorian calender, New Year's be moved to January 1. Those who refused or forgot were ridiculed by being sent foolish gifts and invitations to nonexistent parties. The butt of such a prank was known as a "poisson d'avril."
I have to agree. This could only concentrate the market even further and MSN would then be in a controlling position without a whole lot of opposition.
Now, if MS were to spin MSN off as a separate, independent company it might make it past the anti-trust lawyers but, don't look for that to happen anytime soon.
Not necessarily true. Genuinely accessible site development consideres features such as this to be add-ons to the core message. The site must be fully accessible without stylesheets or scripting to pass the accessibility test anyway. If you can take advantage of the added feature that's great. Otherwise, you should still be able to get to the information just like everybody else.
Ideally, someone using Links (as opposed to Lynx) gets the same information as anyone else. That's the beauty of having a text only, no frames, no scripts browser around. Test your site in it and you find a lot of the access problems very quickly.
Unfortunately, neither Section 508 or WCAG guidelines really do anything about useability. You can have a completely accessible site that even a deaf, blind, quadriplegic can use but, if it's unuseable due to layout and/or design it won't matter anyway.
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'Nuff said. Rumor has it that this even has some lower level marketing types at Oracle a little nervous.
It's Google Bomb time! Like they can stop me from linking to them. As if they can stop me from linking to something other than their home page.
It's time to start linking to "Orbitz stupid license" from everywhere you can!
Your RAM started smoking because it had must had an orgasm.
It's a sad state of affairs when the first 4 to 6 posts on a story are lame attempts to be first, or lame attempts to flame those who tried to be first.
Anyway, I have to give the article points for being readable and informative. It's a nice piece of PR for a browser that really does out shine much if not all of the competition. If you've read the article, good for you. If yoy haven't, you owe it to yourself to do so.
Likewise, if you haven't already tried Firefox you owe it to yourself - even if you're using Safari on OS X. I work in a Microsoft laden department and the official recommendation is for either Firefox, or Safari.
I use Firefox so I just highlight, right click, and select "Open selected URL in a new tab"
It's obvious to me that your girlfriend does not listen to enough NPR. I heard a story on a recent installment of 'Science Friday' about recent discoveries in human perception of colors. The short of it:... The average generic woman is much better at distinguishing reds than her male countereparts. One theory is that this ability stems from being the 'gatherer' half of a hunter/gatherer society. Being able to distinguish just when food is ripe has certain survival advantages.
On the other hand, the average generic male tends to have better depth perception - possibly as a result of being the 'hunter' half of that same h/g society. You can't spear a pig if you can't tell just how far to throw your spear.
That's the point. These are probably going to be network search stations, not wordprocessing, spreadsheeting, gaming boxen. Basically, the most advanced thing they need on them is a browser that supports all the normal MIME types. If they remote boot through PXE use NT Terminal Services or any other form of RDP the bulk of the processing they'll do will be to feed the screen.
Here in the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University we have 50-something terminals that are a mix of low end Dells and Apple iMacs that boot off of a centrally managed host. It works very well for us for a number of reasons. Among them, we've stopped having unauthorized installations of [your least favorite warez here] every time we turn around, and having the one mother ship to manage has pretty much eliminated viral and worm infestations.
Since these proposed devices are likely to be digital in nature... won't the DMCA require that they include copy prevention warez? If so, at least one interpretation would be that once the data's in you're not allowed to get it out and store it anyware else.
Yeah, let's try that one out in court.
You got that abbrev. wrong.
It should have been "Sanity Clause Operation".
It's clear that Darl McBride and his subordinates are all seeking what Corporal Klinger always wanted... a Section 8 discharge.
The 'i' is for insecure of course. What else could it possibly stand for?
I feel your rage. I am that guy in your rear view mirror. However, if they get into an accident while being tailgaited it's probably because they got rear-ended. It's pretty much universal that the person in the back of a rear-end situation is at fault. (there are exceptions)
Rear-end nerd boy in their hybrid while you're driving maliciously and you'll have somebody thinking about vehicular assault in addition to the 'assured clear distance' violation.
Granted, there are myriad situations where 20MPH below the posted limit is patently illegal but, you're still likely to have clear distance and reckless op. charges to deal with.
Now 20MPH below the prevailing speed is a completely different matter, especially if the prevailing speed is 20MPH above the posted limit. In that case you're likely to have no legal choice but to shut up and go around them safely.
The way you drive can be viewed as a sampling of your personality. If you drive like an ass hole, there's a serious possibility that you ARE an ass hole.
Seriously. Car X advertises on it's sticker that this vehicle gets 27.6 MPG in the city. "* your mileage may vary." You can typically count on the average driver getting someting less than that. It's used as a reasonably consistant comparison point. A theoretically perfect driver attained this mileage consistantly in controlled tests.
The problem here is that we don't have enough comparison data on hybrid vehicles to know how accurate or consistent that estimate is from one model to the next.
What were the most common misunderstandings among new or potential Linux users? Did you provide a place for newbie questions and answers?
Some would argue that viewing an item in your browser does make a reproduction of it. While this is true in the simplest technical sense, the temporary copying for the purpose of viewing in your browser is given very strongly implied approval by the fact that it has been made available for that purpose. The implied grant is for the duration of the browser session and does not imply the additional permission to copy, alter, reproduce, etc. outside of the current browser session.
By posting this comment to the Slashdot forum I grant you, the reader permission to view this comment on your computer screen for the duration of the current browser session. Further, you are granted permission to quote from this comment in additional postings to appear in this Slashdot forum exclusively. No additional grant is made or implied beyond the temporary, volatile copy that is required for the stated purpose of viewing in your browser, or for additional use on the Slashdot forum. Further viewing, use, replication, or distribution of the comment outside of the browser session is a violation of rights reserved by me as the author.
It's probably better to view this as the first of several tests the GPL must (and will) pass in the courts. At some time one of these cases has to go to trial and that will be 'the test of the GPL in the courts everyone has been waiting for."
In 1562, Pope Gregory introduced the new calendar where the first day of the new year was now January 1st. The French were having trouble believing that the year started in January and not April and continued to celebrate as such. Those who knew about the change ridiculed those who celebrated in April and called them "April fools".
In 1564, KIng Charles IX decreed that with the adoption of the Gregorian calender, New Year's be moved to January 1. Those who refused or forgot were ridiculed by being sent foolish gifts and invitations to nonexistent parties. The butt of such a prank was known as a "poisson d'avril."
We've made asses of ourselves ever since.
On top of that, it's not a walk down Memory Lane. It's a walk down GUI Lane.
A walk down Memory Lane would detail the history of [something]RAM and its precursors.
I have to agree. This could only concentrate the market even further and MSN would then be in a controlling position without a whole lot of opposition.
Now, if MS were to spin MSN off as a separate, independent company it might make it past the anti-trust lawyers but, don't look for that to happen anytime soon.
I think this site needs badly to be slashdotted or DoS'd.
It needs to be "Google Bombed" too. We should all start providing links to it with the phrase "The MATRIX has you" everywhere we can.
Yes, I really said this and when the feds come to ask me about it I'll tell th... wait a minute, there's someone at the door.
But, does it do OCR?
Sure it's nice to use it as a scanner to capture an image of a page but, can I then OCR the text to reduce the storage demands of the data?
- Click at the start of the block you want to copy to position the cursor (even though you won't see the cursor).
- Shift+Click at the end of the block
- Copy, Paste, Repeat
The fact that you're not holding down a mouse button will get you past the gesturing problem.My bad. The point still holds though.
At any rate, failure to test your pages for these simple levels of accessibility warrants public humiliation.
Not necessarily true. Genuinely accessible site development consideres features such as this to be add-ons to the core message. The site must be fully accessible without stylesheets or scripting to pass the accessibility test anyway. If you can take advantage of the added feature that's great. Otherwise, you should still be able to get to the information just like everybody else.
Ideally, someone using Links (as opposed to Lynx) gets the same information as anyone else. That's the beauty of having a text only, no frames, no scripts browser around. Test your site in it and you find a lot of the access problems very quickly.
Unfortunately, neither Section 508 or WCAG guidelines really do anything about useability. You can have a completely accessible site that even a deaf, blind, quadriplegic can use but, if it's unuseable due to layout and/or design it won't matter anyway.