I do find it interesting that Mac fans always point to Dell as their preferred price comparision. I mean....Dell? Is that really the space Apple is competing?
Dell is the #1 PC manufacturer, and they advertise pretty heavily. HP is #2, but fewer people think of HP when they think of buying a PC.
Also, Michael Dell and Steve Jobs have some history.
in that situation, server side includes are just as useful, but faster and more secure.
If what you need is very simple (including footers would count as simple), here's more information about server side includes (SSI). Either rename your pages.shtml, or keep the.html name but set the files as executable (chmod a+x *.html) using the XBitHack.
If you want something more complex, you can use SSI to include a mini-CGI script into the middle of your HTML. CGI scripts can be written in any language, even a shell script:
#!/bin/sh echo Content-type: text/html echo echo (insert HTML here)
You don't plug a USB thumb drive into the camera, copy your photos onto that, then plug the thumb drive into your laptop and copy the photos off. That would be ridiculous. The idea is, you plug the camera directly into the laptop via the included USB cable, and the camera itself (with memory chip inside) shows up as a standard mass storage device.
Works for me.
But a card reader is probably significantly faster.
I was going to try invalid domain names, but my comp is set up in an odd way so that programs can't tell if DNS requests fail, so they end up timing out instead of DNS failing.
1) make the fine print bigger, say, newsprint-size.
This would require more paper, which would cost more money.
2) make the fine print easier to understand, say, newspaper-reading-level.
You'd run the risk of people actually understanding what they're agreeing to before they agree to it, which could be devastating to business.
3) go over the fine print with every customer to make sure they understand it.
This would take a lot of time, and time costs money (while one employee is busy explaining to one customer, they can't help another customer, so you have to hire another person, which is expensive).
And yeah, going back to that understanding thing... do the companies really want everyone to completely understand these agreements?
well, free markets have a way of fixing problems like that.
And if there were a free market involved here, net neutrality would be a complete non-issue. Sadly, that's not the case. Most people who want residential broadband Internet access have a choice between cable modem service from their local cable company, and DSL through their local phone company. In the case of DSL, there is usually a choice between multiple ISPs, but the phone company promotes their own ISP so heavily that the average consumer is unaware that such a choice exists. And, both the cable company and the phone company want to charge content providers these extra fees.
Personally I believe phone companies should be absolutely prohibited from offering ISP service. They should be forced to spin off their ISPs as separate companies with a different brand name (very important), and compete fairly with other ISPs. That would help a lot.
Who cares if the system is noise, you won't hear it when you have a movie playing loud.
You're obviously not one of the people who should consider buying one of these. Please try to understand that while you personally don't care about noise, many of the rest of us do. Please don't try to tell us we shouldn't.
If you have something constructive to say that is pertinent to this discussion, feel free.
Actually, while I know it isn't much... shouldn't we be supporting the idea of releasing plans for ANYTHING under an open license? I mean, sure, most of us don't care about the plans for a faceplate, but there's no good reason to keep these plans proprietary, is there?
It's not a big deal, so don't try to make a big deal of it. But it is a good thing, so don't knock it.
Google Pack comes to mind as a good example of how installing Windows software ought to work.
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I've just set up a SpamAssassin plugin called FuzzyOcr, which is designed for exactly this purpose. It converts the image into a bitmap format in multiple ways (including analyzing individual frames of an animated GIF, since spammers sometimes use that trick), as well as various color filters, then uses gocr to convert the results to text, which is matched against a (customizable) word list with Perl's String::Approx module.
The OCR is terrible. I suggest using the latest developer release of gocr, as it seems to work a lot better than the previous versions. Fuzzy matching helps to match words even when the OCR doesn't work well... but it also finds false positives, which can be a problem if you receive e-mailed screen shots that include any text at all.
What this doesn't handle is image-based spam where the image (of the text) has been split into multiple images, which are pieced back together with HTML.
"Achey Breaky Song" and "Six Words Long" come to mind as being strictly parodies, and I would suggest that his polka medleys are parodies as well (changing the music to make fun of how dumb the lyrics really are). But often, it's a very gray area. Take "A Complicated Song" from the Poodle Hat album, based on Avril Lavigne's "Complicated". If this satire, what is it satire of? I'd call it parody, even though the lyrics aren't about the original song at all... and by that logic, songs like "Fat", "Lasagna", "Taco Grande", "I Love Rocky Road" and "Like a Surgeon" ought to be called parodies as well - they're not really making fun of anything, except the original song. Songs like "Yoda", "Ode to a Superhero", "The Saga Begins", "Ricky" and "Bedrock Anthem" are obviously satire... but aren't they parodies as well? Where do you draw the line?
This is absolutely the direction we need to be going. More dots per inch = clearer image, if your software isn't too dumb to handle it properly. It's only when your software insists on drawing fonts that are 12 pixels tall that you have a problem.
Windows and Mac OS X both fail pretty badly. Windows actually tries to work properly, but it's buggy as hell, looks absolutely terrible, and the applications don't support it consistently. The Mac doesn't even try (although it does at least support scaling high-res icons). This is something I know Apple has been working on, and Microsoft probably will address in Vista.
Even if songs were 10 cents each and released in a completely lossless open format with no DRM people would STILL pirate music.
You're right, of course - some people would still pirate music - but look at how successful the iTunes Music Store has been. Steve Jobs gets it: he explained this when Apple first introduced the iTMS. Apple is competing against illegal P2P services. If putting up with the hassle of dealing with P2P is less of a cost to you than $0.99 and DRM, then you'll choose P2P, and many people do. But thousands of other people choose to pay, because they consider $0.99 and DRM to be the cheaper option. Of course, still other people choose to go to the store and buy a CD, or order a CD from someplace like Amazon.com. These are four ways of obtaining music, one of which is illegal. Different people choose different options, depending on what's best for them.
But if prices change, it changes the balance. If iTMS songs cost $2.99, many people who are currently willing to pay $0.99 would switch to one of the other three options. If iTMS songs cost $0.09, many people who are currently choosing one of the other three options would choose iTMS instead.
The hotels that want to rape you for $10 a day or more need their heads examined. Sure, it's profitable, but I've selected hotels based solely on whether or not they provided free internet access.
Out of curiosity, were the hotels offering free Internet access more than $10/night more expensive than the ones that weren't?
I said implicitly, not explicitly. He requested a copy, but for a specific purpose which is not permitted by the normal license. Therefore, he is implying that he also wants a license permitting him to use the copy he's requesting for the purpose he has stated.
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I do find it interesting that Mac fans always point to Dell as their preferred price comparision. I mean....Dell? Is that really the space Apple is competing?
Dell is the #1 PC manufacturer, and they advertise pretty heavily. HP is #2, but fewer people think of HP when they think of buying a PC.
Also, Michael Dell and Steve Jobs have some history.
Yeah, I was about to say, if you've never been bitten by a computer, you haven't worked with PC hardware much.
in that situation, server side includes are just as useful, but faster and more secure.
.shtml, or keep the .html name but set the files as executable (chmod a+x *.html) using the XBitHack.
If what you need is very simple (including footers would count as simple), here's more information about server side includes (SSI). Either rename your pages
If you want something more complex, you can use SSI to include a mini-CGI script into the middle of your HTML. CGI scripts can be written in any language, even a shell script:
#!/bin/sh
echo Content-type: text/html
echo
echo (insert HTML here)
Uhhh.. what the hell are you talking about?
You don't plug a USB thumb drive into the camera, copy your photos onto that, then plug the thumb drive into your laptop and copy the photos off. That would be ridiculous. The idea is, you plug the camera directly into the laptop via the included USB cable, and the camera itself (with memory chip inside) shows up as a standard mass storage device.
Works for me.
But a card reader is probably significantly faster.
I don't even know if apple still offers a 12" pro book,
They don't currently. The 13" Macbook has 64MB of shared AGP video and isn't available with a non-glossy screen. The smallest Macbook Pro is 15".
I was going to try invalid domain names, but my comp is set up in an odd way so that programs can't tell if DNS requests fail, so they end up timing out instead of DNS failing.
Out of curiosity... what causes this?
Another one of these threads?
1) make the fine print bigger, say, newsprint-size.
This would require more paper, which would cost more money.
2) make the fine print easier to understand, say, newspaper-reading-level.
You'd run the risk of people actually understanding what they're agreeing to before they agree to it, which could be devastating to business.
3) go over the fine print with every customer to make sure they understand it.
This would take a lot of time, and time costs money (while one employee is busy explaining to one customer, they can't help another customer, so you have to hire another person, which is expensive).
And yeah, going back to that understanding thing... do the companies really want everyone to completely understand these agreements?
What are we down to these days? Two companies? AT&T & Verizon?
Three: AT&T, Verizon, and Qwest.
Any bets on what the next merger will be? My guess is Qwest and Verizon.
well, free markets have a way of fixing problems like that.
And if there were a free market involved here, net neutrality would be a complete non-issue. Sadly, that's not the case. Most people who want residential broadband Internet access have a choice between cable modem service from their local cable company, and DSL through their local phone company. In the case of DSL, there is usually a choice between multiple ISPs, but the phone company promotes their own ISP so heavily that the average consumer is unaware that such a choice exists. And, both the cable company and the phone company want to charge content providers these extra fees.
Personally I believe phone companies should be absolutely prohibited from offering ISP service. They should be forced to spin off their ISPs as separate companies with a different brand name (very important), and compete fairly with other ISPs. That would help a lot.
It's now become part of the mainstream and is pushing other mediums in a big way.
Just a reminder, the plural of "medium" is "media".
Who cares if the system is noise, you won't hear it when you have a movie playing loud.
You're obviously not one of the people who should consider buying one of these. Please try to understand that while you personally don't care about noise, many of the rest of us do. Please don't try to tell us we shouldn't.
If you have something constructive to say that is pertinent to this discussion, feel free.
Actually, while I know it isn't much... shouldn't we be supporting the idea of releasing plans for ANYTHING under an open license? I mean, sure, most of us don't care about the plans for a faceplate, but there's no good reason to keep these plans proprietary, is there?
It's not a big deal, so don't try to make a big deal of it. But it is a good thing, so don't knock it.
Google Pack comes to mind as a good example of how installing Windows software ought to work.
I've just set up a SpamAssassin plugin called FuzzyOcr, which is designed for exactly this purpose. It converts the image into a bitmap format in multiple ways (including analyzing individual frames of an animated GIF, since spammers sometimes use that trick), as well as various color filters, then uses gocr to convert the results to text, which is matched against a (customizable) word list with Perl's String::Approx module.
The OCR is terrible. I suggest using the latest developer release of gocr, as it seems to work a lot better than the previous versions. Fuzzy matching helps to match words even when the OCR doesn't work well... but it also finds false positives, which can be a problem if you receive e-mailed screen shots that include any text at all.
What this doesn't handle is image-based spam where the image (of the text) has been split into multiple images, which are pieced back together with HTML.
"Achey Breaky Song" and "Six Words Long" come to mind as being strictly parodies, and I would suggest that his polka medleys are parodies as well (changing the music to make fun of how dumb the lyrics really are). But often, it's a very gray area. Take "A Complicated Song" from the Poodle Hat album, based on Avril Lavigne's "Complicated". If this satire, what is it satire of? I'd call it parody, even though the lyrics aren't about the original song at all... and by that logic, songs like "Fat", "Lasagna", "Taco Grande", "I Love Rocky Road" and "Like a Surgeon" ought to be called parodies as well - they're not really making fun of anything, except the original song. Songs like "Yoda", "Ode to a Superhero", "The Saga Begins", "Ricky" and "Bedrock Anthem" are obviously satire... but aren't they parodies as well? Where do you draw the line?
This is absolutely the direction we need to be going. More dots per inch = clearer image, if your software isn't too dumb to handle it properly. It's only when your software insists on drawing fonts that are 12 pixels tall that you have a problem.
Windows and Mac OS X both fail pretty badly. Windows actually tries to work properly, but it's buggy as hell, looks absolutely terrible, and the applications don't support it consistently. The Mac doesn't even try (although it does at least support scaling high-res icons). This is something I know Apple has been working on, and Microsoft probably will address in Vista.
Hey! I live in Oregon, and I like Weird Al just fine!
Even if songs were 10 cents each and released in a completely lossless open format with no DRM people would STILL pirate music.
You're right, of course - some people would still pirate music - but look at how successful the iTunes Music Store has been. Steve Jobs gets it: he explained this when Apple first introduced the iTMS. Apple is competing against illegal P2P services. If putting up with the hassle of dealing with P2P is less of a cost to you than $0.99 and DRM, then you'll choose P2P, and many people do. But thousands of other people choose to pay, because they consider $0.99 and DRM to be the cheaper option. Of course, still other people choose to go to the store and buy a CD, or order a CD from someplace like Amazon.com. These are four ways of obtaining music, one of which is illegal. Different people choose different options, depending on what's best for them.
But if prices change, it changes the balance. If iTMS songs cost $2.99, many people who are currently willing to pay $0.99 would switch to one of the other three options. If iTMS songs cost $0.09, many people who are currently choosing one of the other three options would choose iTMS instead.
Perhaps you need a smaller laptop. My 12" iBook works reasonably well.
The hotels that want to rape you for $10 a day or more need their heads examined. Sure, it's profitable, but I've selected hotels based solely on whether or not they provided free internet access.
Out of curiosity, were the hotels offering free Internet access more than $10/night more expensive than the ones that weren't?
I said implicitly, not explicitly. He requested a copy, but for a specific purpose which is not permitted by the normal license. Therefore, he is implying that he also wants a license permitting him to use the copy he's requesting for the purpose he has stated.
Wow. Version 1.6. I would really like to know exactly what issues they fixed in each of the previous releases. Thanks for pointing this out.
Of course not.
He's implicitly requesting a license permitting him to do so.
Back to the main topic - since even a plastic water bottle can have a military use this licence is fairly pointless.
I suppose that's why you can't carry one on a plane now...