You shouldn't be able to set up a music distribution studio and sell everyone else's work under your own label by making and selling copies of the mudic you bought, but your comments imply that you are demanding exactly that right.
With all due respect, your reading comprehension sucks. I said:
As long as I'm staying within the constraints of the law and not giving copies of it to others, it's none of their business (even if they wish it was).
I'm not sure why you picked up on the one thing I explicitly said I was not allowed to do.
I do kind of feel bad for the *AA member companies. It would suck to realize that your industry was subject to a disruptive technology that was already well past the tipping point. Having said that, it's their problem and not mine. I've been buying DRM-free music for decades and have absolutely zero interest in giving up control of my possessions.
Did you hear that? Possessions. Not licensed content, not rentals or leases, but things I own. When I buy music, I own that copy no matter how much they wrongly insist otherwise. I will not pay extra to buy restrictions to prevent me from using my possessions they way I want to use them, even if that was is undesirable for its makers. As long as I'm staying within the constraints of the law and not giving copies of it to others, it's none of their business (even if they wish it was).
So sorry, *AA. You had the opportunity to do things differently, but you chose to fight me instead of making me your friend. Your actions have been so scummy that I truly don't care what happens to you now. Justice? Morals? Ethics? As you have long cast those aside, I just can't be bothered to care when people fail to use them with you. Goodbye and good luck. You won't be missed.
It adds up even more quickly if you could factor out huge blocks of HTML so that you'd only have to serve, say, one copy of a story's comments to an ISP.
We can't put anything on the <html> start tag, because that tag is optional
Out of curiosity, what drove that decision? Without knowing the justification, it would seem that making <html> mandatory would solve the same problem. Is there a reason to make it optional?
I'll make you a deal: you talk to the W3C and get them to drop this completely and utterly bass-ackward broken idea of creating new non-XML flavors of HTML, and I'll talk to the XML folks about dropping the DOCTYPE requirement.
My cable connection costs the same in nominal dollars now, in 2007, as it did the first day I got it, in 1997. That means its real price has fallen steeply. But the bandwidth hasn't budged. If anything, it's worse.
What a ripoff! My DSL has dropped $10/month in the last six years and gone from 768Kbps to 7Mbps. This is with Qwest, hardly your friendly neighborhood provider.
Neither should you bottom post. The only sane method of replying is interleaved posting where each segment is prefaced by the questions it's answering.
The equally-bad alternatives of top- and bottom-posting demand that the reader pay complete attention to your reply and the message before it so that they can follow the context of every statement you make. This is sociopathic. Don't do it.
My problem is e-mail conversations, with 20 e-mails going back and forth. Cause I'm a manager, people think they have to include me in on the conversation so I can "stay in the loop".
The only times I've resorted to that were when I was being stonewalled by a coworker and I wanted my boss to see all the excuses I was forced to deal with.
I'd have to agree with that idea. My company uses YIM, for example.
...which completely and utterly misses the point of using a corporate IM server. Let me put it this way: I'd cheerfully send a root password to a coworker over our internal Jabber setup. Would you send the same of YIM?
I've never seen the "Turk" math she's talking about, but from the presentation, it's clearly a major improvement over the old stupid memorization techniques taught when I was in elementary school.
I kinda of agree. Given the problem "26x31", I'd decompose it to "26*30+26". Apparently that's a new mathy kind of thing to do and somehow inferior because it doesn't follow the long-form multiplication the presenter likes so much. Having said that, if I had to pick, I'd come down solidly on the side of the presenter. Shortcuts are great once you've mastered the subject matter, but there's no way I'd want my kids to initially learn math by any of the techniques she demonstrated.
There are a hell of a lot of decision points that go into making a purchase on that scale and I can guarantee you that things like the browsers supported are FAR down the list. IT exists to make the business more efficient, if you force a suboptimal tool on your users just because you have a browser fetish you aren't doing your job.
You are exactly correct. Any IT department that forces IE6 on their users just because they have a browser fetish should be fired en masse immediately and replaced with a team that understands what "standards" means, and why standards are good for business.
I was not aware that that was the maxim that we've been trumpeting in our defense, and if it was it needs to be changed.
First time reading an article mentioning Jack Thompson, eh?
The idea that you should stop certain behaviors by keeping people ignorant is a short term solution.
Just so we're clear, I'm not anti-video game in any way, shape, or form. My wife even just bought me Contra 4 a few days ago, which is basically nothing but violence. I'm just predicting the spin that the Jack "Ass" Thompsons of the world will put on the story.
No. Now they have a valid excuse to ban violent games. I can hear it now: "We've been trying to tell you for years that doing something in a game can teach you how to do it real life. Today it was someone who learned how to save a life. Tomorrow it will be someone who learned how to take it."
The worst part is they kind of have a point. Every time violence in games comes up, our first counter-argument has always been that games and reality are different and the skills don't translate across. So, what do we say now? It seems like we have a choice between claiming that this guy did not learn first aid from a video game, or that people only learn good skills from games. Both of those ring pretty hollow.
I'm continually amazed by the number of businesses who discuss their top secret business deals over MSN... I mean, sure - Microsoft probably aren't analysing your IMs, but do you want to take the risk when you could just set up your own XMPP server and keep the conversations local?
That is precisely the argument that convinced my boss. We send all sorts of information through our internal server: passwords, account information, etc. Since the service has its S2S function disabled and is on a machine with a private IP anyway, it's as safe as anything else on our network.
What your question really gets at is *why* this hasn't been widely adopted.
Are you sure that it hasn't been? I run an ejabberd server for my company for internal IM, but we didn't exactly take out an ad to announce it. I think Jabber/XMPP are probably a lot more widespread than you'd think.
By doing this repeatedly, you will quickly get a sense for which parts of the code see the most action, and would provide the most obvious places to start studying the code base, and provide the best bang-for-buck return on your time.
If only there were some way to automatically generate this information, this "profile" of the running code, if you will.
How does it help your personal faith to have someone else stand behind a pulpit and tell you what he believes every week?
Oh, it's not that so much as that it's nice to be together with a group of people with common interests and beliefs. We're awfully social animals and that's a pretty important psychological need. Basically, I'm just wondering who I can hang out with if I don't want to hear about "evil-utionists leading our children to Hell".
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With all due respect, your reading comprehension sucks. I said:
As long as I'm staying within the constraints of the law and not giving copies of it to others, it's none of their business (even if they wish it was).I'm not sure why you picked up on the one thing I explicitly said I was not allowed to do.
Likewise. DOCTYPE is ugly, but after all this time I don't see it anymore. I wasn't one of the people criticizing it.
I do kind of feel bad for the *AA member companies. It would suck to realize that your industry was subject to a disruptive technology that was already well past the tipping point. Having said that, it's their problem and not mine. I've been buying DRM-free music for decades and have absolutely zero interest in giving up control of my possessions.
Did you hear that? Possessions. Not licensed content, not rentals or leases, but things I own. When I buy music, I own that copy no matter how much they wrongly insist otherwise. I will not pay extra to buy restrictions to prevent me from using my possessions they way I want to use them, even if that was is undesirable for its makers. As long as I'm staying within the constraints of the law and not giving copies of it to others, it's none of their business (even if they wish it was).
So sorry, *AA. You had the opportunity to do things differently, but you chose to fight me instead of making me your friend. Your actions have been so scummy that I truly don't care what happens to you now. Justice? Morals? Ethics? As you have long cast those aside, I just can't be bothered to care when people fail to use them with you. Goodbye and good luck. You won't be missed.
It adds up even more quickly if you could factor out huge blocks of HTML so that you'd only have to serve, say, one copy of a story's comments to an ISP.
Some people are gonna be mad.
Out of curiosity, what drove that decision? Without knowing the justification, it would seem that making <html> mandatory would solve the same problem. Is there a reason to make it optional?
Yeah, I did. Need. More. Caffeine.
How well does sudo get you into a single-user secure console? It's great and we use it extensively, but that doesn't mean we can get rid of root.
Oh! I found the problem. You're looking for the article about PDFs. If you'll just follow me...
With all due respect, I wouldn't worry about your posting style just yet.
I'll make you a deal: you talk to the W3C and get them to drop this completely and utterly bass-ackward broken idea of creating new non-XML flavors of HTML, and I'll talk to the XML folks about dropping the DOCTYPE requirement.
What a ripoff! My DSL has dropped $10/month in the last six years and gone from 768Kbps to 7Mbps. This is with Qwest, hardly your friendly neighborhood provider.
A. No.
Q. Does top-posting make sense?
Neither should you bottom post. The only sane method of replying is interleaved posting where each segment is prefaced by the questions it's answering.
The equally-bad alternatives of top- and bottom-posting demand that the reader pay complete attention to your reply and the message before it so that they can follow the context of every statement you make. This is sociopathic. Don't do it.
The only times I've resorted to that were when I was being stonewalled by a coworker and I wanted my boss to see all the excuses I was forced to deal with.
...which completely and utterly misses the point of using a corporate IM server. Let me put it this way: I'd cheerfully send a root password to a coworker over our internal Jabber setup. Would you send the same of YIM?
I kinda of agree. Given the problem "26x31", I'd decompose it to "26*30+26". Apparently that's a new mathy kind of thing to do and somehow inferior because it doesn't follow the long-form multiplication the presenter likes so much. Having said that, if I had to pick, I'd come down solidly on the side of the presenter. Shortcuts are great once you've mastered the subject matter, but there's no way I'd want my kids to initially learn math by any of the techniques she demonstrated.
You are exactly correct. Any IT department that forces IE6 on their users just because they have a browser fetish should be fired en masse immediately and replaced with a team that understands what "standards" means, and why standards are good for business.
First time reading an article mentioning Jack Thompson, eh?
The idea that you should stop certain behaviors by keeping people ignorant is a short term solution.Just so we're clear, I'm not anti-video game in any way, shape, or form. My wife even just bought me Contra 4 a few days ago, which is basically nothing but violence. I'm just predicting the spin that the Jack "Ass" Thompsons of the world will put on the story.
No. Now they have a valid excuse to ban violent games. I can hear it now: "We've been trying to tell you for years that doing something in a game can teach you how to do it real life. Today it was someone who learned how to save a life. Tomorrow it will be someone who learned how to take it."
The worst part is they kind of have a point. Every time violence in games comes up, our first counter-argument has always been that games and reality are different and the skills don't translate across. So, what do we say now? It seems like we have a choice between claiming that this guy did not learn first aid from a video game, or that people only learn good skills from games. Both of those ring pretty hollow.
And yes I am being serious.Sadly, so am I.
"It's not that I don't want to work. I'm just trying to let my PC sleep.
That's not the case everywhere.
That is precisely the argument that convinced my boss. We send all sorts of information through our internal server: passwords, account information, etc. Since the service has its S2S function disabled and is on a machine with a private IP anyway, it's as safe as anything else on our network.
Are you sure that it hasn't been? I run an ejabberd server for my company for internal IM, but we didn't exactly take out an ad to announce it. I think Jabber/XMPP are probably a lot more widespread than you'd think.
If only there were some way to automatically generate this information, this "profile" of the running code, if you will.
Oh, it's not that so much as that it's nice to be together with a group of people with common interests and beliefs. We're awfully social animals and that's a pretty important psychological need. Basically, I'm just wondering who I can hang out with if I don't want to hear about "evil-utionists leading our children to Hell".