He's not a real-life 'superhero', he's a real-life hero.
Superhero doesn't mean "he's so awesome" it means he has superpowers. Like Flash or Spiderman, not like Batman or Iron Man. Personally I find heroes more interesting.
Heroes are important, let's give them the respect they deserve.
Even if that's the case, in what world do you live that income taxes are the only ones that you pay? Here in my home state we are being slowly bled to death by property taxes. Democrats have dominated this state as long as I've been alive.....
Income taxes are just a trick to hide taxes anyway. I'm sure you're familiar with the idea of an embedded tax - a single mother making minimum wage is likely to spend $3000 a year paying other people's income taxes. They just come as 50c of that $2 loaf of bread she bought.
If there's a bright side to property taxes is that if they're applied locally, high taxes will tend to drive population away (businesses open up in the next town over, for example). The latency is pretty long on that, though.
Who pays for the mistakes? Who pays for the environmental impact?
That's easy, insurance. It's like socialism, only private.
If it drives up the cost of this kind of oil, that's a good thing - externalities are bad. It's too bad that other sources of oil have their externalities paid for by the government too - the market can't properly price things. Is Colorado oil shale really so expensive if you figure in the cost of oil wars?
Apparently they used 2 out of 3 kinds of safety gizmos on this rig and skipped a half-million dollar one. The insurance policy would be higher without the additional safety gear.
I had to work with that CMS and its the worst CMS.
Oh, no, you haven't seen the worst until you've had to rescue someone from a proprietary CMS which was designed primarily to create vendor lock-in. And then the vendor goes away. And then they used a PHP obfuscator. And some kind of in-memory symbol breaker.
Anybody here used Magnolia? I was looking at it for a family member's small business.
Like HTML/JS developers, Flash Developers also need to be mindful to ensure that their creations work on these new touch devices.Developers need to make tweeks to existing code.
And if the market is significant (I think it probably is) those who do will succeed - those who don't will bit-rot. Still, Google went trackball with the Nexus One.
That said, the other side needs to handle mouse-proxy properly too. I wrote my first HTML/Javascript-based touch interface in 1999, deployed on a Vadem Clio. It used X/VNC over pre-B 802.11, and the mouse was set to be invisible in X. Javascript was written to understand the semantics of a 'touch-click', but that was the smallest part of the effort.
Apple can't simply say, "hey, new tech, everybody adapt to our tiny marketshare" and expect to succeed. I don't have an iPhone, but I'd be really surprised if they haven't come this half-way already, for their users' sake.
Save America - write your senator and enclose a porn DVD today!
Brilliant. I'm starting to reconsider the idea of sending Senators on junkets now. I saw it as corruption, but if it's instead viewed as a distraction... man, better to have Congresscritters busy running hooker syndicates than making banking law.
I think the calculation was that it's cheaper to pay the USPS to hand sort DVDs shipped in paper than spend the money on packaging that can handle the standard automated process.
No wonder the post office is bankrupt! I wonder if Netflix could teach them something about building sorting machines.
Or mostly 'benefits', if I understand the problem. The wages are only slightly above market, it's the lure of huge pensions that makes up for poor recruiting options.
At this rate, my grandkids will be paying for my mail delivery.
I think the primary complaint (at least for me) for most flash games is the on hover effect. How do you replicate that with a touch interface? Now we have all sorts of wild gestures, so it reduces the simplicity.
So Apple hasn't already solved this for the billion or so webpages that use hover effects? That must suck.
All of the above. Cheap, integrated power and they also use a coating on the sheathing so that when you bend the cable to a small radius your monitor doesn't go blank. Imagine being a tech support rep if they use standard single-mode for this application.
I'll be OK with it when we have real control over how the government/police can choose to treat us.
Tight geographical control by warring tribes can be seen as a historical artifact of poor communications technologies. Real panarchy ought to be viable in the very near future.
What's the difference between an HTML5 video tag and a simple hyperlink to a video file, which has worked for as long as video files have been around?
The ability to make video part of the webpage. OK, so that's what the tag has done for a decade, so I guess standardized semantics is the notion?
The HTML5 video tag requires your browser to be a video player too, instead of just handing off the video to your systems video player.
That's just an artifact of historical development techniques and popular GUI systems. Real object-based systems don't need to have these limitations. Embed the video in the page, tear it off if you want, your call.
Though the actual ripping still takes about 4 hours...
Oh, forget it then. I probably would have bought a copy, but if it's going to be a pain in the ass to rip to my DVR, then forget it. Spinning plastic discs are for shipping and archiving.
I'm not going to spend my time dealing with yet another platform that doesn't have an emerging market like the htc does, or an already well established one like apple.
It's obvious this will be ported to Android next, perhaps WebOS after that. Apple's latest developer EULA seems to obviate the possibility of it being ported to iPhone, though. Too bad for the users - they're going to find themselves forever in the 20% zone, but Apple makes enough money on that.
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He's not a real-life 'superhero', he's a real-life hero.
Superhero doesn't mean "he's so awesome" it means he has superpowers. Like Flash or Spiderman, not like Batman or Iron Man. Personally I find heroes more interesting.
Heroes are important, let's give them the respect they deserve.
Even if that's the case, in what world do you live that income taxes are the only ones that you pay? Here in my home state we are being slowly bled to death by property taxes. Democrats have dominated this state as long as I've been alive.....
Income taxes are just a trick to hide taxes anyway. I'm sure you're familiar with the idea of an embedded tax - a single mother making minimum wage is likely to spend $3000 a year paying other people's income taxes. They just come as 50c of that $2 loaf of bread she bought.
If there's a bright side to property taxes is that if they're applied locally, high taxes will tend to drive population away (businesses open up in the next town over, for example). The latency is pretty long on that, though.
you realize that the liability of BP is capped by law at a ridiculously low amount?
Thank you for identifying the bigger problem here. Now then, what's causing that and hosing up the market?
Who pays for the mistakes? Who pays for the environmental impact?
That's easy, insurance. It's like socialism, only private.
If it drives up the cost of this kind of oil, that's a good thing - externalities are bad. It's too bad that other sources of oil have their externalities paid for by the government too - the market can't properly price things. Is Colorado oil shale really so expensive if you figure in the cost of oil wars?
Apparently they used 2 out of 3 kinds of safety gizmos on this rig and skipped a half-million dollar one. The insurance policy would be higher without the additional safety gear.
I had to work with that CMS and its the worst CMS.
Oh, no, you haven't seen the worst until you've had to rescue someone from a proprietary CMS which was designed primarily to create vendor lock-in. And then the vendor goes away. And then they used a PHP obfuscator. And some kind of in-memory symbol breaker.
Anybody here used Magnolia? I was looking at it for a family member's small business.
You'll ruin your mighty-fine blade. Rock it on the cutting board, dice up a big 'ol pile of veggies. This is a cleaver.
Boy, Slashdot needs <WP:Cleaver>-style tags.
Like HTML/JS developers, Flash Developers also need to be mindful to ensure that their creations work on these new touch devices.Developers need to make tweeks to existing code.
And if the market is significant (I think it probably is) those who do will succeed - those who don't will bit-rot. Still, Google went trackball with the Nexus One.
That said, the other side needs to handle mouse-proxy properly too. I wrote my first HTML/Javascript-based touch interface in 1999, deployed on a Vadem Clio. It used X/VNC over pre-B 802.11, and the mouse was set to be invisible in X. Javascript was written to understand the semantics of a 'touch-click', but that was the smallest part of the effort.
Apple can't simply say, "hey, new tech, everybody adapt to our tiny marketshare" and expect to succeed. I don't have an iPhone, but I'd be really surprised if they haven't come this half-way already, for their users' sake.
Save America - write your senator and enclose a porn DVD today!
Brilliant. I'm starting to reconsider the idea of sending Senators on junkets now. I saw it as corruption, but if it's instead viewed as a distraction... man, better to have Congresscritters busy running hooker syndicates than making banking law.
I think the calculation was that it's cheaper to pay the USPS to hand sort DVDs shipped in paper than spend the money on packaging that can handle the standard automated process.
No wonder the post office is bankrupt! I wonder if Netflix could teach them something about building sorting machines.
Above market wages?
Or mostly 'benefits', if I understand the problem. The wages are only slightly above market, it's the lure of huge pensions that makes up for poor recruiting options.
At this rate, my grandkids will be paying for my mail delivery.
The proper thing to do would have been to institute a military draft to provide DoD with the required manpower.
Only 'proper' if you assume the US Government owns its subjects.
The downside to this is that we'd have to justify our foreign policy to the American people and nobody on either side of the aisle wants to do that...
Yeah, one can't defend the indefensible. Two wrongs don't make a right, though.
I think the primary complaint (at least for me) for most flash games is the on hover effect. How do you replicate that with a touch interface? Now we have all sorts of wild gestures, so it reduces the simplicity.
So Apple hasn't already solved this for the billion or so webpages that use hover effects? That must suck.
All of the above. Cheap, integrated power and they also use a coating on the sheathing so that when you bend the cable to a small radius your monitor doesn't go blank. Imagine being a tech support rep if they use standard single-mode for this application.
Or "one cable to rule them all" if you'd rather.
Do you really believe those at the top will willingly give up the power they have for power they will need to work for ?
No, never willingly. It happens the other way, sadly.
I'll be OK with it when we have real control over how the government/police can choose to treat us.
Tight geographical control by warring tribes can be seen as a historical artifact of poor communications technologies. Real panarchy ought to be viable in the very near future.
Let's see, I've got at least: Godwin, Streisand, Hanlon. I wonder who the Yakov Smirnoff of 1930's Germany-expats was.
What's the difference between an HTML5 video tag and a simple hyperlink to a video file, which has worked for as long as video files have been around?
The ability to make video part of the webpage. OK, so that's what the tag has done for a decade, so I guess standardized semantics is the notion?
The HTML5 video tag requires your browser to be a video player too, instead of just handing off the video to your systems video player.
That's just an artifact of historical development techniques and popular GUI systems. Real object-based systems don't need to have these limitations. Embed the video in the page, tear it off if you want, your call.
The story has no details, it's water + clay + some organic stuff.
That's the Jell-O you dropped on the ground by accident.
That depends on what your definitions for "are" are.
or "in re:".
Assembled by who, exactly? On what grounds? In regard to which patents in particular? It's easy to make claims, Steve. Proving them is harder.
There's h.264 hardware in Apple products.
q.e.d.
it's a song about the topic, how the fuck is that off topic?
Crack-mods probably never even knew about the CD-trading Lala.
Though the actual ripping still takes about 4 hours...
Oh, forget it then. I probably would have bought a copy, but if it's going to be a pain in the ass to rip to my DVR, then forget it. Spinning plastic discs are for shipping and archiving.
I've read enough of you stuff.
AC, don't you mean "your stuff"? Oh, what's, that? People type their Slashdot posts quickly and don't do perfect proofreading and it's good enough?
Sheesh, if you appreciate the guy, how 'bout not riding his ass?
Why would any jury 'nullify' this case?
Because the punishment isn't proportional to the 'crime'?
I'm not going to spend my time dealing with yet another platform that doesn't have an emerging market like the htc does, or an already well established one like apple.
It's obvious this will be ported to Android next, perhaps WebOS after that. Apple's latest developer EULA seems to obviate the possibility of it being ported to iPhone, though. Too bad for the users - they're going to find themselves forever in the 20% zone, but Apple makes enough money on that.