Unlike protected tunes, there is no way Apple can take away any of my "rights" for this music after I've bought it from them
Just because the license would be difficult to enforce doesn't mean you have a right to do what you want.
As an extreme example, If they wanted to, Apple and the record companies could introduce a subscription model without DRM, and as a subscriber you agree that if you stop paying that you will delete all the songs. Obviously it would be difficult for them to force you to do it. But that alone wouldn't give you the right to keep them.
There are other ways to police than for humans to scan every link.
They can scan for words. It's pretty tough to scan for a malicious active-x control. And I'm sure you could put up an ad that lead to kiddie porn and have it work for a while.
3rd - One would expect Google to police their sponsored links a tad bit better than slashdot polices their article submissions.
The whole thing is automated. If a human had to review every ad, clicks would cost a hell of a lot more than the buck or two they do now. Also right now I can change my ads anytime of the day or night and have them immediately go into effect, instead of waiting for human approval.
His salary may only be $1, but he received about $8 million worth of options last year.
I agree that eight million ought to be considered a huge salary, but it's not. The CEO of a Standard & Poor's 500 company made on average $14.78 million in total compensation in 2006. And it seems clear to me that Jobs would be considered an above-average CEO.
By the way, if you head on over to here you can download the most recent build. What you'll get is essentially the latest webkit encased in the current version of the Safari "skeleton."
For me it's as stable as the current Safari, and *much much* faster at rendering pages. The only thing you'll have to do is disable any plug-ins such as Saft. Other than that it's just like using Safari. I'm using it for this post.
You're welcome. Sorry to hear about your health. Not to compare my situation with yours, but I've recently had a prolonged bout with some sort of respiratory illness. I'm doing well now, but during that time it gave me pause to consider that maybe I wouldn't fully recover. And it made me take a different look at health, which up until now I've always simply taken for granted. I'm sure that whatever thoughts I've had, you've had ten times as strong.
Meanwhile, back to the topic, there are a lot of exciting things coming up in the web browser development world (modulo Explorer, of course, which will become less and less relevant unless it gets up to speed.)
I'm YA PHP->Ruby/Rails convert. Looking back to PHP code now makes me feel ill
I'm working on my first real-world Rails project, while at the same time having to maintain the current PHP-version of the same thing. And the feeling I get when I have to go back to the PHP is amazingly similar to the feeling I get (and I don't mean for this to be flamebait) when I'm forced to use Windows. Yeah, I can get stuff done, but it just feels, well, icky.
Yeah, my first computer was an Atari 400, and I can still remember 6502 assembly. You'd think by now my brain would have found a better use for those brain cells, but apparently not.
I wrote a two-player Tetris clone in assembler, and the entire complied executable was 8K. I wrote it by hand in a notebook, then at night I'd type it in.
Well in the nightly Webkit builds the javascript engine has been overhauled, so chances are it's "already" fixed, in a sense. Up until now it's looked like Apple's been prepping that for a Leopard release, but maybe this will prompt them to move it up.
the author said that I had basically ruined his life by wrecking the whole concept of the book that he had been writing for the last few years. In subsequent emails, he was begging me to come up with a solution
If he can't figure out a solution to that I'm guessing the rest of the book ain't gonna be all that hot.
I know in the article they claimed to have tested for fade & there was none.
I don't see how you got that impression. From TFA:
All the main printer manufacturers claim that third-party inks fade far more quickly than their own.
To test this out we are going to take the samples we obtained from this research and stick parts of them in an outside window, parts on a board on an inside wall and parts in an album in a drawer. We'll look at them again after three and six month intervals and see which samples have faded. Third-party inks and papers are not in the clear yet, but they've come through the first part of our examination with flying colours; literally.
The person who actually wrote the code didn't just type a bunch of numbers - he wrote in assembler. The reason you had to poke in a bunch of meaningless numbers was that you were typing in the compiled result of the code. It would pretty much the same if you wanted to type in, say, the compiled executable of Photoshop. It would just take a little longer.
They could have published the assembly code, but then you'd have to have a compiler and know how to use it.
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That would be covered by the roaming agreement. ;-)
Just because the license would be difficult to enforce doesn't mean you have a right to do what you want.
As an extreme example, If they wanted to, Apple and the record companies could introduce a subscription model without DRM, and as a subscriber you agree that if you stop paying that you will delete all the songs. Obviously it would be difficult for them to force you to do it. But that alone wouldn't give you the right to keep them.
Yeah. In fact, what do you call a mushroom that buys everybody drinks?
A fungi to be around.
Well then by that logic wouldn't that make this year the year of Linux?
They can scan for words. It's pretty tough to scan for a malicious active-x control. And I'm sure you could put up an ad that lead to kiddie porn and have it work for a while.
And ribbed.
The whole thing is automated. If a human had to review every ad, clicks would cost a hell of a lot more than the buck or two they do now. Also right now I can change my ads anytime of the day or night and have them immediately go into effect, instead of waiting for human approval.
In government there are no shortcuts.
And it's also not actually able to be a "driving force" in anything, even if "both men did agree."
I agree that eight million ought to be considered a huge salary, but it's not. The CEO of a Standard & Poor's 500 company made on average $14.78 million in total compensation in 2006. And it seems clear to me that Jobs would be considered an above-average CEO.
I think that's the most painstakingly formatted slashdot post I've ever seen.
Yes, because it's much more important to have three or four random people mod you up than it is to clearly and articulately get your point across.
It's got a full-fledged browser that runs javascript. You can do all sorts of things that are next to impossible on a blackberry.
Why not? It has a microphone, it has a DSP. You really think they can't make that happen? It seems like a no-brainer feature to me.
Look at all the tabs in this screenshot.
For me it's as stable as the current Safari, and *much much* faster at rendering pages. The only thing you'll have to do is disable any plug-ins such as Saft. Other than that it's just like using Safari. I'm using it for this post.
Meanwhile, back to the topic, there are a lot of exciting things coming up in the web browser development world (modulo Explorer, of course, which will become less and less relevant unless it gets up to speed.)
I'm working on my first real-world Rails project, while at the same time having to maintain the current PHP-version of the same thing. And the feeling I get when I have to go back to the PHP is amazingly similar to the feeling I get (and I don't mean for this to be flamebait) when I'm forced to use Windows. Yeah, I can get stuff done, but it just feels, well, icky.
Yeah, my first computer was an Atari 400, and I can still remember 6502 assembly. You'd think by now my brain would have found a better use for those brain cells, but apparently not. I wrote a two-player Tetris clone in assembler, and the entire complied executable was 8K. I wrote it by hand in a notebook, then at night I'd type it in.
Well in the nightly Webkit builds the javascript engine has been overhauled, so chances are it's "already" fixed, in a sense. Up until now it's looked like Apple's been prepping that for a Leopard release, but maybe this will prompt them to move it up.
By the way, those Webkit nightlies are really looking strong.
If he can't figure out a solution to that I'm guessing the rest of the book ain't gonna be all that hot.
Yeah, and it'd cost at least two months' salary.
I don't see how you got that impression. From TFA:
And that would be interesting?
They could have published the assembly code, but then you'd have to have a compiler and know how to use it.