What'll happen once sites catch on? They'll hire someone like me to spend half an hour writing a script that queries bugmenot for logins to their site, and disables those accounts. Making bugmenot useless won't be very hard.
I can say that the smartest most prodigious student in our class (he was doing senior projects in his 3rd year) was an incredible typist. The speed at which he both coded, and typed allowed him to do things like a 2-week homework project in 4 hours.
Also, even for non-coders, typing is becomeing incredibly important... in a project chat meeting the other day (our manager permanently telecommutes), my ideas and concerns got more coverage because I could effectively outtype everyone (and fairly accurately, I might say).
No one cares where things are made, thats why more people own Nintendos+Playstations than Xbox's, drive more Honda Civics than Ford Mustangs, and download pron from.jp more than.us....
Actually, I think more people that you might guess actually do care where their products come from... example: both my sister and all my friends will not buy american cars, and in fact, go out of the way to make sure the japanese cars they do buy have a VIN starting with "J", meaning they were built in Japan.
Wipro (indian outsourcer/contractor) is one of the few companies that is CMM level 5 rated for various functions of software development... maybe security and stability will actually improve with Microsoft's move?
In the end, it's all about the money... it's not like M$ doesn't have enough.. it's that the education system in the US doesn't compare to the top of the line in India (statistically speaking, it makes sense, top(x) of 1 billion will be better than top(x) of 300 milion)
I hope the phone has a SD/MMC slot in it. 256MB of memory can be found for less than $50 now. You should at least be able to store a couple or more CD's worth of music on the phone.
I'm guessing Apple doesn't want this as it would compete with their other product offerings (iPod Mini, etc). Expandability *should* exist in any decently powered platform, but sigh... product marketing always has the last say over engineering:-(
France does plutonium reprocessing, in fact they reprocess HUGE amounts of waste. It's our current policy of "no reprocessing == minimized proliferation" that is causing this waste nightmare. More about this on this PBS frontline special.
In India, a small Muslim sect, the Daudi Bohra, practise clitoridectomy. Since the article was about India, I figured i'd bring them into it.
In India, small sects in southern Utah practice polygamy and sometimes the father even sleeps with his own daughters.
Is it fair to characterize the entire nation with that small sect? No. Does shit happen everywhere? Yes. Leave out the aberrations, focus on the nation as a whole, unless your point is about the specific groups in question (which it is not).
Form letter, but the EFF will fax or email it for free to your reps.
Someone mod this guy way up!.. with the anthrax scare, written letters are ignored by your legislators, and emails can easily be/dev/null'd. Faxes are they way to get a response, and the EFF rules for giving a free way to do that!
There are two reasons Apple won't do this. 1) Economical. They'd rather sell the controlled music through the iTunes Music Store.
Not so sure about that. Remember, Jobs has stated *repeatedly* that iTMS as a revenue source is not doing too well. They just don't make a lot of money. They make all their money off iPods.
Of course, as a student of history (recent, at least), I have to wonder if that statement is to play down the fact that they still want massive marketshare in the online music industry... so that they can begin to make money sometime in the future. In that vein, your comments make sense.
But even in that sense, allowing CPD (copy protected discs) to be imported to iTunes may appeal to Apple, since that may bring as many "converts" to iTunes as it does sales for the CPD providers (not to mention: iTunes/iPod is a *hot* marketing sell for the CPD providers, even if the "compatibility" is lame, the ability to differentiate from other CDs might make them attractive to buyers).
iPods have phenomenal battery life compared to a notebook. Most* notebooks also take a long time to become useful. The iPod suffers none of those issues.
Gee, I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that the iPod has no wifi? One can only guess.
Seriously, what difference does this make to either keeping this info on your palmpilot, or a wap/web site reachable from your new mobile phone bowser (not to mention, an online site will be more up to date)?
I'm no windows sympathizer, but in the world of enterprise software, only optimizations at the database layer (or reworking badly written networking layer) can yield those kind of results.
Sounds like they data warehoused and redesigned the schema/indexes to better match usage.
In addition to a president. Bush yesterday promised to veto any amendment to the Patriot Act. So the house vote really doesn't matter as much.
Well, it would have politically, as Bush might not have been able to afford veto-ing a bill (he'd have to explain it). Besides... then the house could always override the veto (as unlikely as that might sound).
Because of the Quiz Show scandal, Jeopardy and other game shows are monitored very closely by the Standards and Practices guys.
And who monitors them? Seriously, these days with all sorts of corruption coming to light in business and government, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that some of these "Standards and Practices guys" have ties to the network execs or show owners.
Perhaps this is a test run, to see what the audience will eat up... a quick search on google turned up nothing on these "standards" guys.
Sure, but he's been replaced by another DRM-lover. Trust me, there's no clue coming to the MPAA.
* AU sets up a free CA.
Ok, I'll agree with you about this bit of good news... once I see it in IE's default CA list.
* European software patents are being rejected.
Wrong. The Dutch reversed their vote. This does not *yet* invalidate them, although it is a good start... keep the pressure up on your EU representatives!
so you'd rather have 30 buttons all with the IE logo and the text truncated so you can't tell which is which?
No, I'd rather use a browser that has tabbed browsing... seriously, the browser is the only real application where I *consistently* need to have many instances open.
Compilers - Microsoft just released free versions of their Visual Development environments. The VC command line compiler is also available. There are several other free compilers available as well.
Sure, they're free... but they're also Beta, and the licensing agreement says you can't publish any software you write with the environment. How does that compare to Linux... it doesn't.
No need. Carfax has a free service where the basic details come up before you pay for your report on the VIN. Also, people with a subscription can get details on any number of cars for the sub period. Since I just bought a car for my sister, I have a sub... here's a snippet of what carfax says about this VIN:
The BEST scene they did was when Colbert was live 'from Mars.' He'd wait 20 seconds before responding to Stewart "because of the transmission delay." I was literally on the floor laughing my ass off.
Dude, I think Colbert rocks da house, too.. but that episode starred Rob Corddry. Still funny as fsck, tho.
It seems to me that they are still bent on the HTPC idea, with the cinemanow (using mpeg4/WMV codec) offering...
When will they learn? If people pay for a "service", they expect to own what they pay for. The obvious exceptions might be something like netflix where you have to return the physical media to get new ones... simple, elegant, or Tivo, where you're really paying for enhanced scheduling, and you can own it if you want.
It's pretty clear that M$ is shooting in the dark, hoping to find some hit, while they make bank off their other products. They have time, they can wait pretty much forever.
One thing I'm curious, though, is: Wouldn't the DOJ start up their own suits at their own pace? Not at the RIAA's pace? In other words, even though this has been the pet project of Scientology, that doens't mean the DOJ will suddenly start filing suits on behalf of the Scientologists, right?
Well, if the Scientologists (ie, not the "church" but perhaps their constituents directly) are *beneficiaries* of the administration, then I'm sure Ass-croft will do whatever they say, for the right price... this legislation is ripe for abuse.
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Bugmenot hides behind their "Agents of password sites" registration process.
I'm not sure anyone would want to go through that :-D
I can say that the smartest most prodigious student in our class (he was doing senior projects in his 3rd year) was an incredible typist. The speed at which he both coded, and typed allowed him to do things like a 2-week homework project in 4 hours.
Also, even for non-coders, typing is becomeing incredibly important... in a project chat meeting the other day (our manager permanently telecommutes), my ideas and concerns got more coverage because I could effectively outtype everyone (and fairly accurately, I might say).
Not only that, but as my IT support buddy says... even components on the SAME MODEL can be different.
Actually, I think more people that you might guess actually do care where their products come from... example: both my sister and all my friends will not buy american cars, and in fact, go out of the way to make sure the japanese cars they do buy have a VIN starting with "J", meaning they were built in Japan.
Wipro (indian outsourcer/contractor) is one of the few companies that is CMM level 5 rated for various functions of software development... maybe security and stability will actually improve with Microsoft's move?
In the end, it's all about the money... it's not like M$ doesn't have enough.. it's that the education system in the US doesn't compare to the top of the line in India (statistically speaking, it makes sense, top(x) of 1 billion will be better than top(x) of 300 milion)
I'm guessing Apple doesn't want this as it would compete with their other product offerings (iPod Mini, etc). Expandability *should* exist in any decently powered platform, but sigh... product marketing always has the last say over engineering :-(
France does plutonium reprocessing, in fact they reprocess HUGE amounts of waste. It's our current policy of "no reprocessing == minimized proliferation" that is causing this waste nightmare. More about this on this PBS frontline special.
In India, small sects in southern Utah practice polygamy and sometimes the father even sleeps with his own daughters.
Is it fair to characterize the entire nation with that small sect? No. Does shit happen everywhere? Yes. Leave out the aberrations, focus on the nation as a whole, unless your point is about the specific groups in question (which it is not).
Someone mod this guy way up!.. with the anthrax scare, written letters are ignored by your legislators, and emails can easily be /dev/null'd. Faxes are they way to get a response, and the EFF rules for giving a free way to do that!
Not so sure about that. Remember, Jobs has stated *repeatedly* that iTMS as a revenue source is not doing too well. They just don't make a lot of money. They make all their money off iPods.
Of course, as a student of history (recent, at least), I have to wonder if that statement is to play down the fact that they still want massive marketshare in the online music industry... so that they can begin to make money sometime in the future. In that vein, your comments make sense.
But even in that sense, allowing CPD (copy protected discs) to be imported to iTunes may appeal to Apple, since that may bring as many "converts" to iTunes as it does sales for the CPD providers (not to mention: iTunes/iPod is a *hot* marketing sell for the CPD providers, even if the "compatibility" is lame, the ability to differentiate from other CDs might make them attractive to buyers).
Gee, I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that the iPod has no wifi? One can only guess.
Seriously, what difference does this make to either keeping this info on your palmpilot, or a wap/web site reachable from your new mobile phone bowser (not to mention, an online site will be more up to date)?
That's gripping hand to you pal! ... loved that novel.
I'm no windows sympathizer, but in the world of enterprise software, only optimizations at the database layer (or reworking badly written networking layer) can yield those kind of results.
Sounds like they data warehoused and redesigned the schema/indexes to better match usage.
- wallet.SchemaValueFileName
- signon.SignonFileName
Mark the names you see for the files, and copy those lines into your target profile prefs.js (or about.config)Seriously, a profile synchronizer or the ability to sync your passwords/form data between zilla installs on different machines would totally rule.
Well, it would have politically, as Bush might not have been able to afford veto-ing a bill (he'd have to explain it). Besides... then the house could always override the veto (as unlikely as that might sound).
And who monitors them? Seriously, these days with all sorts of corruption coming to light in business and government, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that some of these "Standards and Practices guys" have ties to the network execs or show owners.
Perhaps this is a test run, to see what the audience will eat up... a quick search on google turned up nothing on these "standards" guys.
* Valenti gets the boot.
Sure, but he's been replaced by another DRM-lover. Trust me, there's no clue coming to the MPAA.
* AU sets up a free CA.
Ok, I'll agree with you about this bit of good news... once I see it in IE's default CA list.
* European software patents are being rejected.
Wrong. The Dutch reversed their vote. This does not *yet* invalidate them, although it is a good start... keep the pressure up on your EU representatives!
No, I'd rather use a browser that has tabbed browsing... seriously, the browser is the only real application where I *consistently* need to have many instances open.
Sure, they're free... but they're also Beta, and the licensing agreement says you can't publish any software you write with the environment. How does that compare to Linux... it doesn't.
No need. Carfax has a free service where the basic details come up before you pay for your report on the VIN. Also, people with a subscription can get details on any number of cars for the sub period. Since I just bought a car for my sister, I have a sub... here's a snippet of what carfax says about this VIN:
Dude, I think Colbert rocks da house, too.. but that episode starred Rob Corddry. Still funny as fsck, tho.
my bad. Apparently this is not the case. Please mod parent post down. Good work on the TBird team to get an RC into general release so quickly!
In atonement, I plan on spamming my family to upgrade from their current versions (0.3 on up) :-)
Talkback should help out the many eyes/shallow bugs situation, and apparently the extension/themes will be a bit more stable from now.
More information here
...take a look at Jesse's more detailed and informative list
When will they learn? If people pay for a "service", they expect to own what they pay for. The obvious exceptions might be something like netflix where you have to return the physical media to get new ones... simple, elegant, or Tivo, where you're really paying for enhanced scheduling, and you can own it if you want.
It's pretty clear that M$ is shooting in the dark, hoping to find some hit, while they make bank off their other products. They have time, they can wait pretty much forever.
Well, if the Scientologists (ie, not the "church" but perhaps their constituents directly) are *beneficiaries* of the administration, then I'm sure Ass-croft will do whatever they say, for the right price... this legislation is ripe for abuse.