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Other areas (England) that chose to ban guns almost completely have seen a horrific increase in the rate of violent crime and murder.
...to a tiny fraction of the US rate. And I'd point out that at no point in the last 100 years have firearms been generally permitted to the populace.
The only change was a tightening of the rules after March 13, 1996 when Thomas Hamilton armed with four legally held handguns and 743 rounds of ammunition walked into a school gymnasium in Dunblane, Scotland, and without warning opened fire on Gwen Mayor and her kindergarten class. Within 3 to 4 minutes Mrs. Mayor and 16 children were killed, and 17 other children and teachers were wounded.
The Government report on the massacre recommended tightening the gun control laws, but stopped short of an outright ban on guns favoured by many.
Are all NRA supporters so ill-educated and ill-informed?
No, that was last year. This year, Microsoft is buying Zope. The thing is, after last year's NCompass acquisition, that kind of thing is far too likely.
its not Illegal to resell your cable/home dsl bandwidth, its just in violation of the contract.
How exactly is breaking contract law anything but illegal?
See, this is how contract law works: I make you an offer which entails an exchange of goods - say you get personal access to my bandwidth and I get your money. You accept that offer, including a condition that it is only for your household's use. A contract is formed.
You have no more right to use anything but our agreed bandwidth than I have to bill your credit card with anything but our agreed sum.
If I suddenly decided to double-bill your credit card, you'd be screaming about how illegal my behaviour is, and you'd be right. Well, guess what, sonny - it works both ways.
I think that a number of posters are right - most parents are far too overprotective, at most ages. This is a great improvement on a leash as it allows children to have that experience of exploration without parental direction, yet still gives the parent reassurance.
And, just like a leash, it's inappropriate in most cases involving an older child.
Workflow (and workflow auditing) is also very useful to answer the question "why isn't the content getting there fast enough?", which is the opposite scenario to the one Dave painted. In the CMS or not, content publishing is still a business process...
Internal datastore searching of taxonomy - metadata about how the content is organised. This is the harder one to crack as an effective taxonomy takes a looooong time to get right for a half-way complex site.
Sidenote - you can get around those query string URLs with most serverside scripting environments (as well as that PHP tutorial, it's worth bearing in mind that evolt's site is built in a similar way using Cold Fusion)
Please also be aware that what Microsoft is selling will only really sing when integrated with a bunch of other MS stuff. Not really a surprise, but when the average install bill comes to around $150k, you'll wish you knew in advance.
That's pretty much the case for most general purpose CMS (rather than something site-type specific like Slashcode, PHPWebsite or whatever). Whether you're talking about Zope or Vignette, you're still essentially getting a high-level toolkit, with some nice APIs to handle stuff at the level of user authentication, workflow capability and so on.
You're still going to have to put something on top to run your site, whether it's a higher-level still toolkit like CMF (Content Management Framework, note) for Zope, or Multisite Content Manager (previously known as Enterprise Application Portal) for Vignette.
New "Spam Free" e-mail will cost $0.34 each, and take 3-5 days to deliver, but you can pay $3.00 and have a guarantee of delivery... in 3-5 days.
Actually, I think this would block much of the spam we receive from most disreputable senders of commercial email. Most of the problems we have is that the things they're trying to sell just aren't ever relevant to us. And that's because there's almost no direct cost to send email - it's as cheap to send 1 million as 100.
In the offline world of grown-up direct marketing, it's a major waste of money to send offers to people who won't ever take them up. This is why many companies evaluate the success of their mailings and staff on the basis of Return on Investment and Cost per Sale/Lead.
So a daily task of direct marketeers is to remove likely non-buyers from lists of people they're contacting (by mail or by phone).
You can be damned sure that grown up direct marketeers whose costs are nearly in direct proportion to the number of contacts they make
do not send out mailings randomly to the 10 million addresses they've harvested off the web.
[ob-request-for-fewer-US-blinkers: Please think beyond the limited shores of the US. Putting the world's email under the control of any sub-national body is A Bad Thing. *cough*Internic*cough*]
This is where I gloat a wee bit about living in the UK. We have a lovely service called the Telephone Preference Service. Anyone making unsolicited commercial calls must cleanse their lists against the TPS list, or be guilty of a criminal offence.
Since registering a year ago, we've maybe had five calls, all of whom hang up really quickly once you start asking them for their details to report them to the TPS.
It probably means making Outlook do what Notes has done for a long time - integrate public/private key cryptography to give users the option to have their outgoing mail encrypted to specific recipients' keys, without having to d/l PGP.
Of course, a recipient *can* just copy and paste...
I'm not shure that security really matters to MS's consumers. A strong case can be made that focusing on security is a bad buisness decission.
You can only make a strong case if you assume that MS's main revenues are from consumers. They're not. They're from business, who want, need, demand security. So far, MS has been able to convince them that their security is good enough. That's no longer the case.
I know that this article was punted as "MS discover security", but the full memo equally covers Privacy and Availability:
Privacy: Users should be in control of how their data is used. Policies for information use should be clear to the user. Users should be in control of when and if they receive information to make best use of their time. It should be easy for users to specify appropriate use of their information including controlling the use of email they send.
Now either this is A Lie (tm), or MS SneakWare will cease to be.
Several US companies own patents for individual human and animal genes. No, not modified genes. Naturally occuring ones, like the one which causes Cystic Fibrosis.
If you're developing a CF test which looks for this gene (even from scratch), you will be paying patent royalties.
It's logically consistent with this that you could be paying royalties if you (or your child) has CF...
Apple absolutely doesn't want to compete on the commodity level. It wants to be a premium brand, commanding premium prices (and margins).
Jobs has said again and again, they view their main competitor as Sony, not Microsoft - look at the whole digital hub push. What is that but a direct competitor to the Vaio franchise?
"Buy cool stuff. Put it together. It works." That's the goal.
The way Elrond is portrayed is much closer to Mitzi in Priscilla than to Agent Smith - a number of the elves (particularly in Lothlorien) appeared to be drag queens. Although without the bitchiness:
MITZI: There are two things I don't like about you, Felicia. Your face, so how about shutting both of them?
Sean Bean's performance, outstanding? Yes in Sean Bean terms - he was on the verge of acting, and indeed, has started looking like Alan Rickman (a real actor). But he's typecast again, and is mostly just being Sean Bean, the hard bastard from Sheffield - the same character he's played ever since Sharpe.
One of the key usability heuristics is that the familiar is usable because users don't have to work out how to use it.
Example: Black Letter typography, as used by many early 20th Century German publications. I can't read it. Most people under the age of 50 can't read it. But if that's what you're used to reading because every public notice and major publication is set in it, it's easy.
Another one: Left Hand navigation is nothing like as simple as Right-Hand nav for right-handed users (ref: Fitt's law), viewed from a basic HCI perspective. But because it's so common, everyone knows how to use it, and it becomes usable.
Even if some of the/. UI isn't a priori usable, the fact that it's been consistent has *made* it usable to its audience.
Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (slightly mangled - the inference in the original is 'genetic engineers'). In the film, this was a Jeff Goldblum line. And from recent ad campaigns, he's a man who knows his alpha-channeled OS.
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...to a tiny fraction of the US rate. And I'd point out that at no point in the last 100 years have firearms been generally permitted to the populace.
The only change was a tightening of the rules after March 13, 1996 when Thomas Hamilton armed with four legally held handguns and 743 rounds of ammunition walked into a school gymnasium in Dunblane, Scotland, and without warning opened fire on Gwen Mayor and her kindergarten class. Within 3 to 4 minutes Mrs. Mayor and 16 children were killed, and 17 other children and teachers were wounded.
The Government report on the massacre recommended tightening the gun control laws, but stopped short of an outright ban on guns favoured by many.
Are all NRA supporters so ill-educated and ill-informed?
No, that was last year. This year, Microsoft is buying Zope. The thing is, after last year's NCompass acquisition, that kind of thing is far too likely.
Yes, in exactly the same way as Intel require the use of the Intel Inside mark in materials promoting Intel-based systems.
How exactly is breaking contract law anything but illegal?
See, this is how contract law works: I make you an offer which entails an exchange of goods - say you get personal access to my bandwidth and I get your money. You accept that offer, including a condition that it is only for your household's use. A contract is formed.
You have no more right to use anything but our agreed bandwidth than I have to bill your credit card with anything but our agreed sum.
If I suddenly decided to double-bill your credit card, you'd be screaming about how illegal my behaviour is, and you'd be right. Well, guess what, sonny - it works both ways.
We also know its:
and they all turn out to be 'none'... although an awful lot of the non-existent sex between the non-existent people seems to be going on.
I think that a number of posters are right - most parents are far too overprotective, at most ages. This is a great improvement on a leash as it allows children to have that experience of exploration without parental direction, yet still gives the parent reassurance.
And, just like a leash, it's inappropriate in most cases involving an older child.
Cheers,
Martin
(Father to Morgan, six months)
Workflow (and workflow auditing) is also very useful to answer the question "why isn't the content getting there fast enough?", which is the opposite scenario to the one Dave painted. In the CMS or not, content publishing is still a business process...
Interwoven. That's their USP. Some people think that that's turning a weakness into a strength - for most situations that's the case, but not all.
Bought by Broadvision in April 2000.
Most CMSs actually don't really bother about searching via their internal datastores, mostly because of the problems you've raised above.
What you tend to get are two (not mutually exclusive) approaches:
Sidenote - you can get around those query string URLs with most serverside scripting environments (as well as that PHP tutorial, it's worth bearing in mind that evolt's site is built in a similar way using Cold Fusion)
Please also be aware that what Microsoft is selling will only really sing when integrated with a bunch of other MS stuff. Not really a surprise, but when the average install bill comes to around $150k, you'll wish you knew in advance.
Note 2 - the MS solution is a mid-market one.
If you're looking at the MS solution, some reading at Forrester (Scorecard Summary: Microsoft's Content Management Server 2001) and Gartner (The Web Content Management Magic Quadrant for 2001, Web Content Management: Software Comparison Columns) will definitely be worthwhile. If you're spending $150k+ on a system, $95 for an analysis of it is fairly cheap.
That's pretty much the case for most general purpose CMS (rather than something site-type specific like Slashcode, PHPWebsite or whatever). Whether you're talking about Zope or Vignette, you're still essentially getting a high-level toolkit, with some nice APIs to handle stuff at the level of user authentication, workflow capability and so on.
You're still going to have to put something on top to run your site, whether it's a higher-level still toolkit like CMF (Content Management Framework, note) for Zope, or Multisite Content Manager (previously known as Enterprise Application Portal) for Vignette.
*cough* Dubya's election?
Actually, I think this would block much of the spam we receive from most disreputable senders of commercial email. Most of the problems we have is that the things they're trying to sell just aren't ever relevant to us. And that's because there's almost no direct cost to send email - it's as cheap to send 1 million as 100.
In the offline world of grown-up direct marketing, it's a major waste of money to send offers to people who won't ever take them up. This is why many companies evaluate the success of their mailings and staff on the basis of Return on Investment and Cost per Sale/Lead.
So a daily task of direct marketeers is to remove likely non-buyers from lists of people they're contacting (by mail or by phone).
You can be damned sure that grown up direct marketeers whose costs are nearly in direct proportion to the number of contacts they make do not send out mailings randomly to the 10 million addresses they've harvested off the web.
[ob-request-for-fewer-US-blinkers: Please think beyond the limited shores of the US. Putting the world's email under the control of any sub-national body is A Bad Thing. *cough*Internic*cough*]
This is where I gloat a wee bit about living in the UK. We have a lovely service called the Telephone Preference Service. Anyone making unsolicited commercial calls must cleanse their lists against the TPS list, or be guilty of a criminal offence.
Since registering a year ago, we've maybe had five calls, all of whom hang up really quickly once you start asking them for their details to report them to the TPS.
It probably means making Outlook do what Notes has done for a long time - integrate public/private key cryptography to give users the option to have their outgoing mail encrypted to specific recipients' keys, without having to d/l PGP.
Of course, a recipient *can* just copy and paste...
You can only make a strong case if you assume that MS's main revenues are from consumers. They're not. They're from business, who want, need, demand security. So far, MS has been able to convince them that their security is good enough. That's no longer the case.
I know that this article was punted as "MS discover security", but the full memo equally covers Privacy and Availability:
Now either this is A Lie (tm), or MS SneakWare will cease to be.
Several US companies own patents for individual human and animal genes. No, not modified genes. Naturally occuring ones, like the one which causes Cystic Fibrosis.
If you're developing a CF test which looks for this gene (even from scratch), you will be paying patent royalties.
It's logically consistent with this that you could be paying royalties if you (or your child) has CF...
...and this is why the US-corporation-dominated WTO is enforcing a global patent regime. And buying legislators in Europe to do it.
Not that I blame the corporations - that's their job. But remind me of the purpose of public bodies..?
Apple absolutely doesn't want to compete on the commodity level. It wants to be a premium brand, commanding premium prices (and margins).
Jobs has said again and again, they view their main competitor as Sony, not Microsoft - look at the whole digital hub push. What is that but a direct competitor to the Vaio franchise?
"Buy cool stuff. Put it together. It works." That's the goal.
The way Elrond is portrayed is much closer to Mitzi in Priscilla than to Agent Smith - a number of the elves (particularly in Lothlorien) appeared to be drag queens. Although without the bitchiness:
Sean Bean's performance, outstanding? Yes in Sean Bean terms - he was on the verge of acting, and indeed, has started looking like Alan Rickman (a real actor). But he's typecast again, and is mostly just being Sean Bean, the hard bastard from Sheffield - the same character he's played ever since Sharpe.
One of the key usability heuristics is that the familiar is usable because users don't have to work out how to use it.
/. UI isn't a priori usable, the fact that it's been consistent has *made* it usable to its audience.
Example: Black Letter typography, as used by many early 20th Century German publications. I can't read it. Most people under the age of 50 can't read it. But if that's what you're used to reading because every public notice and major publication is set in it, it's easy.
Another one: Left Hand navigation is nothing like as simple as Right-Hand nav for right-handed users (ref: Fitt's law), viewed from a basic HCI perspective. But because it's so common, everyone knows how to use it, and it becomes usable.
Even if some of the
Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (slightly mangled - the inference in the original is 'genetic engineers'). In the film, this was a Jeff Goldblum line. And from recent ad campaigns, he's a man who knows his alpha-channeled OS.