Wafflers. The university should know better than to fear a entertainment industry. This teacher should know better as well. Lecturing at the cafeteria? Who cares... its a quasi public place and they were obviously conspiring against him. The facts could b e more clear, I'd just like to see a little more strength that's probably the mean american in me though.
Certainly you can argue that a trend of opposition to sharing will promote less sharing in the future. The problem with your post is that it largely avoids the numbers, and you quantatavite remark is incorrect.
The Napster "reform" caused a emotional setback but with more internet users and much better connections there is still more music sharing now than in 1999 or whenever napster was crushed.
Getting on to the meat of this argument... Each individual case that the media industry persues costs them money. If they settle out of court, the lawyers may be satisfied, but not likely. In reality a business can have several investment decisions all which give a net yeild. Even if throwing the book at troubled fans causes more profits alone, it may be detering more profitable persuits. Reselling quality at lower prices for example may cause a net growth in profits, but by taking the "sue pirates" militaristic attitude the phyche of recording and film industries is against such a possibly lucrative move.
In addition taking such a bully attitude that is made manifest by using DRM and other lame methods to userp fair use rights turns many consumers against their industry who either 1: Only download their movies... or 2: (and worse) Ignore hollywood and the RIAA. Worse of course for the music and film industries whos market is uphelp by reputation and not quality.
You missed the key word. Microsoft uses their illegal monopoly to further integrate a tool into their own operating system (which btw does give independant developers trouble). Google has to settle for integration in IE.
Neither solution is good, and will probably end up with more people using a toolbar. These toolbars will be open to exploits, therefor they are bad.
The next one bigger has always come to me as a result of warranty repair. This said just because you should send back your broken drive, you'll probably get a better one in return. My analysis of hard drives in general tells me to pick segate or WD. In 2.5in drives I dont see how the situation would be different but when you're thinking about heat and noise... you'll want a quality drive that avoids these. You'll want a segate or wd.
First I think this whole arguement is BS. The slashdot rendering in firefox "bug" hardly ever shows up, and it certainly hasn't for me yet.
Second, Slashdot does not follow _any_ standard of html. You can't really argue that a website should work if it doesn't validate. We know many sites dont follow standards, but theres a bunch that dont render right either. Any poor html usage leads to poor rendering no matter to what extent.
The reasoning is plain and simple. An effective valid page doesn't leave any questions for what should be rendered. The file is usally shorter, and considering it has an organization, it doesn't take as much work to parse.
I also saw some $2 dvd's at wal-mart. The problem was I didn't recognize any titles, and most of the plots looked like a bad idea. Probably only slightly less entertaining than the trash from hollywood, but they still seemed like a obscure collection.
Olive garden is a very well known italian resturaunt here in the US. They are on the expensive side and therefore serve plenty of wine. I guess you can que the jokes... is that wine free as in beer or free as in speech?
Exactly my point. I figured that comment would be best made short, maybe even humorous.
A few weeks ago I moderated someone's post "troll" because he copied another poster's comment 100% from another/. article. I didn't catch him myself, someone replied under him to catch the plaguarism (or karma whoring for slashdot).
About a week later I got killed in M2 and my troll mod was found "unfair". People complain about mods so much but if I see another case of plaguarism I'm modding it overrated.
Your reasoning is probably why this government reccomendation was made. A single school wouldn't want to go out on a limb and put a child in a situation where s/he is the only one who uses OpenOffice. By "encouraging" schools accross the UK to learn OO, these students will grow up together and will be trading.sxw's instead or.doc's.
I think this works when it's a country wide thing. The other thing we should remember is how corporations have seduced school systems by making systems cheaper *cough* Apple *cough*. You could argue Apple is better for the students, but it certainly never became the US standard. Still you look at all the corporations who offer "deals" to schools. Its prevalent enough that buying based on price will probably leave you with a mix-matched network which is highly confusing.
I think OSS avoids the problem of cheap commercial software by being consistant and by proving its worth based on merit, not a huge marketing budget.
P.S. with all the stories about students hacking their teachers machines, I think saving money on computers could be a very good thing. The level of learning through high school can be very low in technical things. Students will be exposed to more challenges, which is a good thing, and the teaching ability doesn't matter as much in that aspect.
Yeah, you can have a high view of HP going into this and say they're still cool. Or you can have a low view of them and say they really stink. Your initial position doesn't really matter. Whatever they lost by unethically removing a post (was it off-topic, and is this just typical/. propaganda IDK) will not be shortly gained back.
In my experience HP makes some of the most garbage injets, and they all fail of some childish logic error. I've seen HP calculators and Laser printers that work just fine, which indicates that HP has skills but they are selective on where to use them.
BTW, their driver support is notable, but I'm still getting an epson inkjet or cheap laser when I need a printer on the cheap.
By revoking a comment simply because it was critical they showed they cant be trusted. Since HP is a big company and not just a 4 year old, saying "I'm sorry, and wont do that again" isn't good enough.
They need to provide something to gain peoples trust back, which will either be very creative or take a immense amount of time. This move alone is just PR, and probably doesn't indicate anything. Even if it does, HP will still have to work for years to gain peoples trust.
While we all appreciate the reference to the infamous windows series, 9x percent is not correct.
Firefox is used among all serious internet users (half of them call it foxfire, but who cares... and yes some of the firefox users use Opera too, but what are you going to use at your friends house?). Given that 25% of users are serious firefox is already a browser that is recognized by sites as the optimal.
Legion of fanboys probably doesn't apply so much in this case, use yourself as an example. Movies hardly ever stay to the books, and that bothers fans. The fanboy effect is seen best among trilogys of films. There is no criticizm, and a plot from a book is better than no plot at all.
I wouldn't say the 7.4 rating is accurate, it will come down with time (when more skeptics see the film.) Probably to a mid 6, and it's probably as good as tron.
Maybe a lot can change, but that would just lead to MORE bugs. If it's been so many years and it reaches "beta" status, there shouldn't be major changes. You want it to look better, try bb4win.
Slashdot Mirror
Problem fixed... your care is appreciated.
Wafflers. The university should know better than to fear a entertainment industry. This teacher should know better as well. Lecturing at the cafeteria? Who cares... its a quasi public place and they were obviously conspiring against him. The facts could b e more clear, I'd just like to see a little more strength that's probably the mean american in me though.
Kinda adds new meaning to their slogan "Drivers Wanted" huh?
Certainly you can argue that a trend of opposition to sharing will promote less sharing in the future. The problem with your post is that it largely avoids the numbers, and you quantatavite remark is incorrect.
The Napster "reform" caused a emotional setback but with more internet users and much better connections there is still more music sharing now than in 1999 or whenever napster was crushed.
Getting on to the meat of this argument... Each individual case that the media industry persues costs them money. If they settle out of court, the lawyers may be satisfied, but not likely. In reality a business can have several investment decisions all which give a net yeild. Even if throwing the book at troubled fans causes more profits alone, it may be detering more profitable persuits. Reselling quality at lower prices for example may cause a net growth in profits, but by taking the "sue pirates" militaristic attitude the phyche of recording and film industries is against such a possibly lucrative move.
In addition taking such a bully attitude that is made manifest by using DRM and other lame methods to userp fair use rights turns many consumers against their industry who either 1: Only download their movies... or 2: (and worse) Ignore hollywood and the RIAA. Worse of course for the music and film industries whos market is uphelp by reputation and not quality.
Yeah, but is it 64bit?
You missed the key word. Microsoft uses their illegal monopoly to further integrate a tool into their own operating system (which btw does give independant developers trouble). Google has to settle for integration in IE.
Neither solution is good, and will probably end up with more people using a toolbar. These toolbars will be open to exploits, therefor they are bad.
The next one bigger has always come to me as a result of warranty repair. This said just because you should send back your broken drive, you'll probably get a better one in return. My analysis of hard drives in general tells me to pick segate or WD. In 2.5in drives I dont see how the situation would be different but when you're thinking about heat and noise... you'll want a quality drive that avoids these. You'll want a segate or wd.
First I think this whole arguement is BS. The slashdot rendering in firefox "bug" hardly ever shows up, and it certainly hasn't for me yet.
Second, Slashdot does not follow _any_ standard of html. You can't really argue that a website should work if it doesn't validate. We know many sites dont follow standards, but theres a bunch that dont render right either. Any poor html usage leads to poor rendering no matter to what extent.
The reasoning is plain and simple. An effective valid page doesn't leave any questions for what should be rendered. The file is usally shorter, and considering it has an organization, it doesn't take as much work to parse.
I also saw some $2 dvd's at wal-mart. The problem was I didn't recognize any titles, and most of the plots looked like a bad idea. Probably only slightly less entertaining than the trash from hollywood, but they still seemed like a obscure collection.
Olive garden is a very well known italian resturaunt here in the US. They are on the expensive side and therefore serve plenty of wine. I guess you can que the jokes... is that wine free as in beer or free as in speech?
You could argue for any of those 14, and I'd guess that 7 of some of them apply in just about everyone's mind.
Saying the U.S. is not becoming a facist state is like saying that franklin d rosevelt wasnt a communist. Neither argument works.
Exactly my point. I figured that comment would be best made short, maybe even humorous.
/. article. I didn't catch him myself, someone replied under him to catch the plaguarism (or karma whoring for slashdot).
A few weeks ago I moderated someone's post "troll" because he copied another poster's comment 100% from another
About a week later I got killed in M2 and my troll mod was found "unfair". People complain about mods so much but if I see another case of plaguarism I'm modding it overrated.
Redundant. It's pretty sad you have to get someone else to repost your comment for it to get modded up.
Your reasoning is probably why this government reccomendation was made. A single school wouldn't want to go out on a limb and put a child in a situation where s/he is the only one who uses OpenOffice. By "encouraging" schools accross the UK to learn OO, these students will grow up together and will be trading .sxw's instead or .doc's.
I think this works when it's a country wide thing. The other thing we should remember is how corporations have seduced school systems by making systems cheaper *cough* Apple *cough*. You could argue Apple is better for the students, but it certainly never became the US standard. Still you look at all the corporations who offer "deals" to schools. Its prevalent enough that buying based on price will probably leave you with a mix-matched network which is highly confusing.
I think OSS avoids the problem of cheap commercial software by being consistant and by proving its worth based on merit, not a huge marketing budget.
P.S. with all the stories about students hacking their teachers machines, I think saving money on computers could be a very good thing. The level of learning through high school can be very low in technical things. Students will be exposed to more challenges, which is a good thing, and the teaching ability doesn't matter as much in that aspect.
Yeah, you can have a high view of HP going into this and say they're still cool. Or you can have a low view of them and say they really stink. Your initial position doesn't really matter. Whatever they lost by unethically removing a post (was it off-topic, and is this just typical /. propaganda IDK) will not be shortly gained back.
In my experience HP makes some of the most garbage injets, and they all fail of some childish logic error. I've seen HP calculators and Laser printers that work just fine, which indicates that HP has skills but they are selective on where to use them.
BTW, their driver support is notable, but I'm still getting an epson inkjet or cheap laser when I need a printer on the cheap.
By revoking a comment simply because it was critical they showed they cant be trusted. Since HP is a big company and not just a 4 year old, saying "I'm sorry, and wont do that again" isn't good enough.
They need to provide something to gain peoples trust back, which will either be very creative or take a immense amount of time. This move alone is just PR, and probably doesn't indicate anything. Even if it does, HP will still have to work for years to gain peoples trust.
No I can't prove it, but there is no proof that Pi was random in the first place. This is just an assumption.
Of course a source you know to be random will be more random than Pi which is still arguably not random.
While we all appreciate the reference to the infamous windows series, 9x percent is not correct.
Firefox is used among all serious internet users (half of them call it foxfire, but who cares... and yes some of the firefox users use Opera too, but what are you going to use at your friends house?). Given that 25% of users are serious firefox is already a browser that is recognized by sites as the optimal.
Legion of fanboys probably doesn't apply so much in this case, use yourself as an example. Movies hardly ever stay to the books, and that bothers fans. The fanboy effect is seen best among trilogys of films. There is no criticizm, and a plot from a book is better than no plot at all.
I wouldn't say the 7.4 rating is accurate, it will come down with time (when more skeptics see the film.) Probably to a mid 6, and it's probably as good as tron.
Considering the 7.4 average on IMDB I'd call it a success at least for a sci fi movie.
People give movies rediculous ratings from time to time, like 1/10 for an average-good film, that's why you should look at a mean score to be safe.
not to mention... that's $.50/minute!
Wow, and I was expecting at least an iso.
eh, too bad it cant stop a 26 billion hits per nanosecond... oh wait, this is slashdot.
Maybe a lot can change, but that would just lead to MORE bugs. If it's been so many years and it reaches "beta" status, there shouldn't be major changes. You want it to look better, try bb4win.
I guess that leaves the Yugo for M$ (gratuitous dollar sign)