Really? Why not?? Is a typed word any less real than a written word? Is it some how inferior for conveying thought via the method of character symbology?
Your (valid) point about the reality of computer-produced (rather than pen-produced) content notwithstanding, typed with a keyboard only works when you're doing a subject that can be conveyed in text alone. If you need diagrams or - like my 1st degree, musical notation - you're a bit SoL.
Incidentally, to jump to another point, my handwriting for text sucks, but my musical notation handwriting is fast and lovely. Fibre-point, slightly calligraphic pen for preference. Or a quick-drying rollerball.
What the lack of inclusion of trusted computing hardware would mean is simply that, if trusted computing catches on on Windows, a lot of Windows-based music and video can't be accessed on the Macintosh at all.
Ah, so completely unlike Protected WMA then... oh, wait...
<? if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') !== false && strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'Opera') === false) { ?> <h2>Attention:</h2> <p> Although this method of browser identification isn't foolproof, you appear to be using Microsoft Internet Explorer. A number of security and other analysts (including the Internet Storm Center) have recommended that people stop using IE, since it not only has a very large number of security problems, but also <a href="http://www.maccaws.org/kit/primer/">does not comply with Web design standards</a>, which means that it is a lot more difficult for Web designers to create Websites which everyone can view. </p> <p> If you want a more secure alternative to Internet Explorer, which is just as easy to use, install <a href="http://www.getfirefox.com/" title="A Better Browser" >Firefox</a>.</p> <? }// now actually XHTML and WAI compliant. // <br/> is a gateway tag, and <b> is just unforgivable
// Link added to maccaws.org who do a fantastic // job of explaining the benefit of standards // to non-technical stakeholders. Rock. ?>
It may just be a function of not updating all the product attributes fast enough on launch day, but none of the BTO Macs on the Apple Store (disclaimer: only tried the UK store, didn't try the lappies) appear to offer this mouse as an option.
Cripple the Finance departments software for a while and suppliers and employees don't get paid
As an experiment, try not paying your suppliers... No, wait, don't, as someone's already tried it this week. You lack an understanding of the true significance of other corporate support functions. Cripple the Finance function and your company dies on its arse *very* quickly. Actually, Red Letter Days was also killed because not paying suppliers got into the national media over the weekend. Company was dead within 1 business day.
IT is now the core of most businesses and not a service.
No, IT is still a service. A significant one, true, that the rest of the company leans very heavily on, but by no means anything other than one of several significant services.
Those of us in Scotland (ie in the UK but not English) are rather happy about the recent Ashes result, supporting as we do anyone playing against the Sassenachs.
Not sure if your definition of 'poms' includes all of UK or just England...
You walk into Starbucks wanting a coffee, you walk out with a Starbucks coffee with a few options about size, milk style, flavouring and topping.
You walk into an Apple store wanting a computer, you walk out with an Apple computer with a few options about size, tech specs, monitor style, pre-installed s/w (iLife) and accessories.
If they were a coffee shop they would sell the best coffee in the world in a variety of bone china cups with an option of milk.
We used to have three Macs in the house. Apple expected us to pay $130 per machine for OS X, then $130 per machine for several upgrades.
You didn't spot that Apple have family licensing available? And really, you didn't *have* to do the paid upgrades, unless you wanted the additional functionality. Sure, Apple would *like* you to, but there's no compulsion.
Gullible and Ignorant? No wonder you didn't get on with OSX.
You can do that with email, just as you can with physical mail. You send one version to half of your accounts, and another version to the other half. Watch your sales and see who buys more.
Close, except for the volumes. As long as both samples are large enough to give statistically significant results, you don't need to do half and half.
Typically, you'd have an existing champion ad, and produce a variation in one (and only one) element of targeting, timing or content (etc) (and note that content is usually among the *least* significant of the testable elements) which you'd test with a small sample. If the challenger beats the champion to statistically significant levels, you crown the challenger as the new champ.
Or, if you've got a large enough budget and testable universe, and no existing champion, you might test a portfolio of variations.
It's pretty clear that the plaintiff (and/or their lawyers) just don't get how the Wayback Machine works. Based on TFA, here's how their mental model seems work:
Archive.org is a date-keyed search engine of URLs. When the previous case was in question, Earley Follmer used it to find 1999-dated pages still available on the Healthcare Advocates site. Because they were viewable via archive.org, archive.org must have bypassed robots.txt. QED, where's our cheque?
rather than the more correct:
Archive.org is a date-keyed repository of actual web content, stored on archive.org servers at the time of original spidering. No access to content is *required* in 2003 to view 1999-era pages; however archive.org may have gone out to re-check the URLs in question (presumably for updates).
To a naive organisation that replaces old content with new at new URLs, rather than updating the old URLs, this could be confusing...
Much of MS's current crop of communications is targeted at stockholders, and the name of the game there is expectation management. *Nothing* puts your shareprice in the toilet like unexpected bad news.
So all publically listed companies pre-warn of potential bad news a long way ahead of the actual announcement, with the hope that the real information will provoke the reaction "Oh, it's not so bad as we'd feared" which can often give a positive boost to the price.
You can bet your bottom that MS *will* market the shit out of Longhorn and such features it has (or can be perceived to have by consumers - these may be entirely surface level cool without being actually significant) much closer to launch.
MPAA and RIAA trying to curtail technology at their behest to restrict our rights as consumers (do we have any rights left?) and technology companies bowling over.
Take a look at Switzerland, higher gun ownership than the US and less violence. The US is a more violent country in general than many other industrial nations, guns have nothing to do with it.
Yep, that's true. However, the colloquy of this is that the US is too immature and violent a nation to allow general firearm ownership. Let's not have a global firearm ban, but just in countries where the people have a tendency to use them on their fellow citizens.
OT ramble:
Having lived in.ch and knowing.us reasonably well, it strikes me that USian Libertarians would very much like to live in a Swiss-like state, with the minimum of state control on many aspects of life, and where people simply self-regulate without state interference. Personally, I don't think the US is a mature enough nation to do that, and while state control is reduced, you're still heavily regulated by society at large.
You try putting your rubbish out on the wrong day and facing the ire of your neighbours!
The whole DRM thing is going to backfire soon. People are not really going to be happy with these services when their devices start to fail. It's then they realize they have lost hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of music they thought they owned but were in fact renting.
Point of information: iTMS tracks will happily drop onto and play on an unlimited number of iPods. If your iPod dies, or you sell it on and replace, you can just sync to the new one no probs. May not be the case with non-iPod/iTMS setups.
Find your MEPs via http://www.writetothem.com/
Be sure to *only* write to your own representatives as writing to others will merely annoy and set back the cause.
The only monopoly I can think of that hasn't lead to worse service are the electric companies, and that's only because they do no services to speak of. They just make sure the electricity is always going to your house, and if it gets cut off by a storm, they send someone to fix it so that they can start billing you again ASAP.
Yes, that used to be the case in a number of places. The deal was that they got a monopoly in return for a universal service provision requirement. Which was a pretty reasonable deal for both sides, provided that the service was regulated to guarantee minimum standards.
Trouble is, when the authorities deregulate the market, the guarantee goes away. And if you're not in a profitable segment, you lose service. This is true for power, phone, transport, postal services. Your choice decreases from 1 supplier to zero.
Yes, but this is copy control on a whole different order from DVDs and CSS. This would be Sony saying that from date X Sony Pictures DVDs would only play on Sony brand DVD players and they would be wielding the DMCA to enforce it.
Or, say, Sony music released in ATRAC format only playing on Sony players. Oh, wait...
The other living Pythons (John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terries Gilliam and Jones) granted Eric the right to make the musical, although as nearly all of the material is new (and Eric-written), they're not getting very much from it.
Terry Jones is on record as saying that they didn't expect it to be as successful as it's been - otherwise they would have fought for a better deal.
Not only that, but has a standing, publically stated policy of requiring that his royalties for any movies based on his work be distributed amongst the other creative artists working on the movie in question.
Or, to put it another way, you pay the taxman the GST on the change in (excluding GST) value between purchase and sale.
It goes up from $10+GST to $30+GST? You charge your purchaser $30+GST, but actually pay the taxman GST on $(30-10).
Over a quarter, your tax reporting is along the lines of:
Paid out: $3000 in GST on purchases Charged: $5000 in GST on sales. I owe: $2000 in GST.
Don't know about.au, but in the UK which has a very similar system, if you buy more VAT-liable goods than you sell (say if you're selling children's clothes (VAT-exempt) but you're buying advertising (VAT liable at 17.5%)), you get rebates, which is nice.
It's actually an really simple, flexible system that doesn't require you to know or care about the tax status of whoever you're selling to. And of course, your accounting software (you *are* running accounting sw that has an understanding of your local taxation regime, right?) will just run it out as a pre-set report. All you need to do then is write the cheque.
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Those wouldn't be made of glass and launched from chocolate factories by any chance..?
I'll get me coat.
Sounds like he learned plenty to me.
And what he learned is real world useful and ever can't be learned in school.
Your (valid) point about the reality of computer-produced (rather than pen-produced) content notwithstanding, typed with a keyboard only works when you're doing a subject that can be conveyed in text alone. If you need diagrams or - like my 1st degree, musical notation - you're a bit SoL.
Incidentally, to jump to another point, my handwriting for text sucks, but my musical notation handwriting is fast and lovely. Fibre-point, slightly calligraphic pen for preference. Or a quick-drying rollerball.
Ah, so completely unlike Protected WMA then... oh, wait...
You expected a different alphabetical order?
<? // now actually XHTML and WAI compliant.
// <br /> is a gateway tag, and <b> is just unforgivable
// Link added to maccaws.org who do a fantastic
// job of explaining the benefit of standards
// to non-technical stakeholders. Rock.
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') !== false && strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'Opera')
=== false) {
?>
<h2>Attention:</h2>
<p>
Although this method of browser identification isn't foolproof, you appear to be using Microsoft Internet Explorer. A number of security and other analysts (including the Internet Storm Center) have recommended that people stop using IE, since it not only has a very large number of security problems, but also <a href="http://www.maccaws.org/kit/primer/">does not comply with Web design standards</a>, which means that it is a lot more difficult for Web designers to create Websites which everyone can view.
</p>
<p>
If you want a more secure alternative to Internet Explorer, which is just as easy to use, install <a href="http://www.getfirefox.com/"
title="A Better Browser" >Firefox</a>.</p>
<?
}
?>
It may just be a function of not updating all the product attributes fast enough on launch day, but none of the BTO Macs on the Apple Store (disclaimer: only tried the UK store, didn't try the lappies) appear to offer this mouse as an option.
As an experiment, try not paying your suppliers... No, wait, don't, as someone's already tried it this week. You lack an understanding of the true significance of other corporate support functions. Cripple the Finance function and your company dies on its arse *very* quickly. Actually, Red Letter Days was also killed because not paying suppliers got into the national media over the weekend. Company was dead within 1 business day.
No, IT is still a service. A significant one, true, that the rest of the company leans very heavily on, but by no means anything other than one of several significant services.
Those of us in Scotland (ie in the UK but not English) are rather happy about the recent Ashes result, supporting as we do anyone playing against the Sassenachs.
Not sure if your definition of 'poms' includes all of UK or just England...
Here's a more accurate one:
You walk into Starbucks wanting a coffee, you walk out with a Starbucks coffee with a few options about size, milk style, flavouring and topping.
You walk into an Apple store wanting a computer, you walk out with an Apple computer with a few options about size, tech specs, monitor style, pre-installed s/w (iLife) and accessories.
Sounds more like Tea to me...
You didn't spot that Apple have family licensing available? And really, you didn't *have* to do the paid upgrades, unless you wanted the additional functionality. Sure, Apple would *like* you to, but there's no compulsion.
Gullible and Ignorant? No wonder you didn't get on with OSX.
Close, except for the volumes. As long as both samples are large enough to give statistically significant results, you don't need to do half and half.
Typically, you'd have an existing champion ad, and produce a variation in one (and only one) element of targeting, timing or content (etc) (and note that content is usually among the *least* significant of the testable elements) which you'd test with a small sample. If the challenger beats the champion to statistically significant levels, you crown the challenger as the new champ.
Or, if you've got a large enough budget and testable universe, and no existing champion, you might test a portfolio of variations.
No, I wouldn't have thought so.
Much of MS's current crop of communications is targeted at stockholders, and the name of the game there is expectation management. *Nothing* puts your shareprice in the toilet like unexpected bad news.
So all publically listed companies pre-warn of potential bad news a long way ahead of the actual announcement, with the hope that the real information will provoke the reaction "Oh, it's not so bad as we'd feared" which can often give a positive boost to the price.
You can bet your bottom that MS *will* market the shit out of Longhorn and such features it has (or can be perceived to have by consumers - these may be entirely surface level cool without being actually significant) much closer to launch.
I got a right to sing the blues.
No, wait...
Yep, that's true. However, the colloquy of this is that the US is too immature and violent a nation to allow general firearm ownership. Let's not have a global firearm ban, but just in countries where the people have a tendency to use them on their fellow citizens.
OT ramble: Having lived in .ch and knowing .us reasonably well, it strikes me that USian Libertarians would very much like to live in a Swiss-like state, with the minimum of state control on many aspects of life, and where people simply self-regulate without state interference. Personally, I don't think the US is a mature enough nation to do that, and while state control is reduced, you're still heavily regulated by society at large.
You try putting your rubbish out on the wrong day and facing the ire of your neighbours!
Point of information: iTMS tracks will happily drop onto and play on an unlimited number of iPods. If your iPod dies, or you sell it on and replace, you can just sync to the new one no probs. May not be the case with non-iPod/iTMS setups.
Find your MEPs via http://www.writetothem.com/ Be sure to *only* write to your own representatives as writing to others will merely annoy and set back the cause.
Yes, that used to be the case in a number of places. The deal was that they got a monopoly in return for a universal service provision requirement. Which was a pretty reasonable deal for both sides, provided that the service was regulated to guarantee minimum standards.
Trouble is, when the authorities deregulate the market, the guarantee goes away. And if you're not in a profitable segment, you lose service. This is true for power, phone, transport, postal services. Your choice decreases from 1 supplier to zero.
Or, say, Sony music released in ATRAC format only playing on Sony players. Oh, wait...
The other living Pythons (John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terries Gilliam and Jones) granted Eric the right to make the musical, although as nearly all of the material is new (and Eric-written), they're not getting very much from it.
Terry Jones is on record as saying that they didn't expect it to be as successful as it's been - otherwise they would have fought for a better deal.
Phoned not once, but several times for different projects.
Not only that, but has a standing, publically stated policy of requiring that his royalties for any movies based on his work be distributed amongst the other creative artists working on the movie in question.
In the UK? Yes. Which is plainly absurd.
Or, to put it another way, you pay the taxman the GST on the change in (excluding GST) value between purchase and sale.
.au, but in the UK which has a very similar system, if you buy more VAT-liable goods than you sell (say if you're selling children's clothes (VAT-exempt) but you're buying advertising (VAT liable at 17.5%)), you get rebates, which is nice.
It goes up from $10+GST to $30+GST? You charge your purchaser $30+GST, but actually pay the taxman GST on $(30-10).
Over a quarter, your tax reporting is along the lines of:
Paid out: $3000 in GST on purchases
Charged: $5000 in GST on sales.
I owe: $2000 in GST.
Don't know about
It's actually an really simple, flexible system that doesn't require you to know or care about the tax status of whoever you're selling to. And of course, your accounting software (you *are* running accounting sw that has an understanding of your local taxation regime, right?) will just run it out as a pre-set report. All you need to do then is write the cheque.