This is one of the few stories where both the Conspiracy Theorists AND the Sceptics can earn some good karma. Good job spreading the love around, editors.
Now if only we could use this theory to increase the proportion of intelligent babies by having only the stupid people watch TV. Well, I can't worry about that now, time to catch Friends, then a little Jerry Springer...
Apparently IE for Mac supports them just fine, btw... so it's not like Microsoft has some official PNG-hating policy, they just simply got sloppy with IE/Win.
Or, MS decided to support the 3% of IE users that might have a clue (Mac users being proportionally more graphics design users than Wintel's users) that it was PNGs that were being screwed up, so gave them full support. After all, if it works for 3% of the population, it's still not going to be implemented by the majority of web sites.
Just doing my part to keep the conspiracy alive...
I've just gotten 3 replies about this comment, even though I used such strong, defensive words like may, might, some. Come on, guys, get a grip! We all know how old buffer overrun bugs are, of course it's MS's fault that Outlook only uses IE to render HTML, and sure Linux deals with the same hassle, but I was just pointing out, very timidly I might add, that they had one issue that Apple didn't have. Oh, yeah, and they have a knack for putting out buggy code.;)
If you wish to live up to the lofty goals of freedom, you'll have to give it to everybody, or risk looking as hypocritical as the current US administration. There isn't much profit in that, but no one said freedom was cheap.;)
Besides, the whole theory of Open Source is "implementation", not ideas. I mean, come on, the whole GNU/Linux (I never thought I would use that term) premise is a UNIX workalike.
And the last absurd idea, if this is some "open" organisation, what reasoning would allow you to keep people like IBM and MS out? I can think of a couple of ways, but all of them can be abused...
There is one difference that may make it more difficult for MS to make a stable OS/patch than it is for Apple - they don't control the hardware. I personally don't think that explains the breadth of their errors, but it might explain some...
All of which they've lost so far. I use Linux, Mozilla, No Server or PDA, Nintendo 64, Casio Watch and Motorola Cellphone
Keep in mind that you are a minority. Most people use MS Windows, and most use MSIE, and any market penetration beyond that makes it worse. The more markets they capture, the more your bastion of freedom looks like a prison cell. It's not good enough to say "They haven't affected me" when they're all around you. More needs to be done. Of course, I use MSWin and MSIE, but I'm not buying a MS PDA, or products for any other markets they're trying to capture.
All this assumes that the average person is looking for new and innovative content. The evidence suggests this is not true, but maybe not as extreme as RIAA et al believed...
Don't bother RTFA. There's only one more paragraph than the post, and only one thing not mentioned there. Of all the days to decide to click the link....
What should be noted about him is that he is not a politician, but a scientist and an independent thinker foremost."
First they take away jobs from North America, then they elect a scientist for president! Why can't they be like the US and elect actors and politicians (the same thing, IMO)?
If you produce large quantities of hydrogen in this fashion, producing all that CO2, it really defeats the purpose of not just burning natural gas or gasoline.
Not entirely. One of the emission factors from high-temperature combustion is NOx, caused by heating an N2 + O2 atmosphere to those high temperatures. If cracking natural gas doesn't cause those high temperatures, you still get the CO2, but not the NOx (or CO in a poorly maintained combustion engine). Of course, if you burn the hydrogen after all that, you'll still get NOx emissions...
To a certain degree, yes. This brief overview says nothing that I can disagree with, especially the last 3 (obviously over-simplified) points. OTOH, if your company's primary goal is to achieve ISO9000, rather than the benefits to be had by having following its principles, then there's a bigger problem...
How about which side of the road to drive on. Sure we use both, but only one in any given region. Something tells me that when it came down to it, people just said "I don't care which one we pick, let's just pick one and stop all these accidents!"
Funny how when the topic is software or food supplies, everyone jumps in with comments about the dangers of monoculture and the value of diversity in supply, but when the topic is the metric system there can be no deviation from the ONE TRUE FAITH.
The big difference is comparing standards and redundancy. For software, pretty much everyone can agree that a single standard for a specific document type is good, and if not, the standards should be clear enough for a near-lossless conversion from one to the other. This applies to measurements (which does nothing to negate your comments about the usefulness of fractions). On the other hand, we want diversity in the products we make those documents with (as long as all products can open all documents of the supported type), and we can see the benefit of that same diversity in food crops, where monoculture leads to a risk should it be vulnerable to a certain attack. So use each where they are best applied, which isn't hypocritical at all.
I'm just happy that pointy-head metric zealots don't seem to have much pull in the real world of regular people. Keep on ranting, dudes.
Yeah, it takes ~40 l to fill my gas tank. So how big is it in imperial? Just another regular person - using metric. Go figure. I just don't happen to be American.
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Yeah, but suicide is more limiting than drugs and homocide. After all, the really good imitators only get to try it once...
This is one of the few stories where both the Conspiracy Theorists AND the Sceptics can earn some good karma. Good job spreading the love around, editors.
God forbid the music industry's demise lead to Americans thinking for themselves
I don't want to think for myself...oh wait...I'm not American, I do think for myself, and I've bought maybe 2 CDs in the last year.
Now if only we could use this theory to increase the proportion of intelligent babies by having only the stupid people watch TV. Well, I can't worry about that now, time to catch Friends, then a little Jerry Springer...
I was shocked when one of my fellow geeky coworkers didn't know the reference to "mousey, here, mousey"...ah, the good old days...
Apparently IE for Mac supports them just fine, btw... so it's not like Microsoft has some official PNG-hating policy, they just simply got sloppy with IE/Win.
Or, MS decided to support the 3% of IE users that might have a clue (Mac users being proportionally more graphics design users than Wintel's users) that it was PNGs that were being screwed up, so gave them full support. After all, if it works for 3% of the population, it's still not going to be implemented by the majority of web sites.
Just doing my part to keep the conspiracy alive...
You don't work for NASA, do you?
I've just gotten 3 replies about this comment, even though I used such strong, defensive words like may, might, some. Come on, guys, get a grip! We all know how old buffer overrun bugs are, of course it's MS's fault that Outlook only uses IE to render HTML, and sure Linux deals with the same hassle, but I was just pointing out, very timidly I might add, that they had one issue that Apple didn't have. Oh, yeah, and they have a knack for putting out buggy code. ;)
If you wish to live up to the lofty goals of freedom, you'll have to give it to everybody, or risk looking as hypocritical as the current US administration. There isn't much profit in that, but no one said freedom was cheap. ;)
Besides, the whole theory of Open Source is "implementation", not ideas. I mean, come on, the whole GNU/Linux (I never thought I would use that term) premise is a UNIX workalike.
And the last absurd idea, if this is some "open" organisation, what reasoning would allow you to keep people like IBM and MS out? I can think of a couple of ways, but all of them can be abused...
You don't need the copyright holder's permission to sell. You only need permission to copy, perform, or create derivitive works.
That's why it is perfectly legal to buy and sell used CDs, without paying anything to the copyright holder.
I was always kind of curious about what the Transformers Movie was about. Now there's no point in watching it. Thank you!
but why does this sort of thing upset some ppl?
Which politician recently said, "You're either with us or against us"?
There is one difference that may make it more difficult for MS to make a stable OS/patch than it is for Apple - they don't control the hardware. I personally don't think that explains the breadth of their errors, but it might explain some...
All of which they've lost so far. I use Linux, Mozilla, No Server or PDA, Nintendo 64, Casio Watch and Motorola Cellphone
Keep in mind that you are a minority. Most people use MS Windows, and most use MSIE, and any market penetration beyond that makes it worse. The more markets they capture, the more your bastion of freedom looks like a prison cell. It's not good enough to say "They haven't affected me" when they're all around you. More needs to be done. Of course, I use MSWin and MSIE, but I'm not buying a MS PDA, or products for any other markets they're trying to capture.
All this assumes that the average person is looking for new and innovative content. The evidence suggests this is not true, but maybe not as extreme as RIAA et al believed...
Don't bother RTFA. There's only one more paragraph than the post, and only one thing not mentioned there. Of all the days to decide to click the link....
That's it! You're going on my friends list. Referring to Dilbert, red tape, and obvious inferences, all in one paragraph. I've got my eye on you!
Ahh, /. without editorializing. That's like football without cheerleaders. What's the point?
What should be noted about him is that he is not a politician, but a scientist and an independent thinker foremost."
First they take away jobs from North America, then they elect a scientist for president! Why can't they be like the US and elect actors and politicians (the same thing, IMO)?
Hey! I liked China Syndrome! Not that I'd base government policy on any Hollywood production...
If you produce large quantities of hydrogen in this fashion, producing all that CO2, it really defeats the purpose of not just burning natural gas or gasoline.
Not entirely. One of the emission factors from high-temperature combustion is NOx, caused by heating an N2 + O2 atmosphere to those high temperatures. If cracking natural gas doesn't cause those high temperatures, you still get the CO2, but not the NOx (or CO in a poorly maintained combustion engine). Of course, if you burn the hydrogen after all that, you'll still get NOx emissions...
To a certain degree, yes. This brief overview says nothing that I can disagree with, especially the last 3 (obviously over-simplified) points. OTOH, if your company's primary goal is to achieve ISO9000, rather than the benefits to be had by having following its principles, then there's a bigger problem...
How about which side of the road to drive on. Sure we use both, but only one in any given region. Something tells me that when it came down to it, people just said "I don't care which one we pick, let's just pick one and stop all these accidents!"
Funny how when the topic is software or food supplies, everyone jumps in with comments about the dangers of monoculture and the value of diversity in supply, but when the topic is the metric system there can be no deviation from the ONE TRUE FAITH.
The big difference is comparing standards and redundancy. For software, pretty much everyone can agree that a single standard for a specific document type is good, and if not, the standards should be clear enough for a near-lossless conversion from one to the other. This applies to measurements (which does nothing to negate your comments about the usefulness of fractions). On the other hand, we want diversity in the products we make those documents with (as long as all products can open all documents of the supported type), and we can see the benefit of that same diversity in food crops, where monoculture leads to a risk should it be vulnerable to a certain attack. So use each where they are best applied, which isn't hypocritical at all.
I'm just happy that pointy-head metric zealots don't seem to have much pull in the real world of regular people. Keep on ranting, dudes.
Yeah, it takes ~40 l to fill my gas tank. So how big is it in imperial? Just another regular person - using metric. Go figure. I just don't happen to be American.