The lead story (at the time of this post) is that ICAAN "is denying that it gives the US government too much control over its operations" and here we have a delay in the decision to implement an.xxx tld because "the proposal hit a snag in August when the U.S. Commerce Department asked for more time to hear objections."
How much control is too much?
Sure Goolgle may have only had text ads when it started up and X10 ads were every where but I don't think that Google had all that much to do with the decline of popup/under ads. X10 was becoming obnoxious enough that people were starting to use popup blockers to keep them from showing up. It is just a coincidence that this happened at or about the time that Google came on the scene.
If Google's text ads really were what killed X10 popunder ads then how come I am again getting innundated with popup/under ads even though I am using Firefox with its built-in popup killer turned on. The answer is that the advertisement battle is still on. Once advertisers get too agressive the users fight back with blockers. Once the blockers become effective the advertisers find a new way to push their ads until the conumer finds a new way to block them (and the cycle continues).
....noting the designers want an operating system that can be tinkered with....
Using the quote you provided should answer all your concerns. It isn't necessarily intended that the users of the computer are going to be "tinkering" with the computer just that the computers can be customized (tinkered with) at some point. The user may or may not want or need to tinker with the computer but if the system is open then at least somewhere along the line it can be customized for individual needs.
This bring up the question, why do you need a laptop computer for then?
If you aren't interested in portability or battery life why not just use a desktop computer. The point of using a notebook should be portability.
As for a 20 inch monster notebook...
I sure hope the guy next to me on the plane doesn't decide to pull one of these out.
How does redesigning the currency ever 7-10 years help protect against counterfeiting? What is stopping someone from making money that looks like the old currency? Are they also going to make older bills non-legal tender?
Call me crazy but I think HD video on any portable device is kind of overkill. It is equivalent to pluging an HD reciever into an old 13 inch analog TV. I doubt the display on any portable device will be at HD resolutions since at 2-3 inches HD is pointless.
This is will only work if you assume that your audience has the bandwidth and time available to download a movie/television show. Since I am stuck with dialup at home, you won't see me downloading any offered shows. Even if I did have 100Mbps access I wouldn't bother to take the time to download a low resolution movie for $5 when I can buy a previously used DVD from Blockbuster for ~$10 and have a high quality movie with all the included extras (not available with the download).
On top of all this I don't think I would really want to watch a movie or a TV show on a little 3-7 inch screen but then I don't have an hour commute to get to work either.
Meanwhile, I and my Linux buddies had finished Grand Theft Auto on the PS2 while most of my remaining Windows using mates were waiting for it to be released.
And the Windows using mates will be burping thier grandkids before GTA is released for a Linux platform.
"I highly recommend that the US resign from the UN and see how long it holds together without our monetary support."
The problem is that the US doesn't pay their dues at the UN (unless this has change in the last few years). They have refused to pay the required dues because they feel that they aren't given enough of a say in the operations of the UN. That is why I have always found it quite funny when the US complains that the UN is ineffectual. Maybe if they would pay their dues and give the UN the finances they need to do their job things would get done.
Again I must state that I am basing this on old information. A quick search provided these links:
http://www.asil.org/insights/insigh21.htmhttp://www.democracyarsenal.org/2005/06/deja_vu_on _un_d.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/18/un.reform/http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/08/17/12711.htm l
If this has changed and the US is now meeting its financial obligation please disreguard this post.
When the private company that owns the building was given tax incentives and grants to build the place they bloody well better open the doors in an emergency.
What I'm talking about is that when people watch movies at home they are able to make as much noise as they want without considering anyone else. You can pause the movie to take a call. You can stop in the middle and come back later. You can...
Does everyone watch a movie like this at home. No. But for some reason alot of people that do do this at home think that they can do the same in a public theater.
You would kick people out (if they are disruptive) that you invite over so you probably aren't one of the ones that would talk in the theater. I have been to many shows (and not the general or even PG shows) where some idiot decided it was better to not have to pay for a babysitter and bring their kids with them. The movie is obviously not ment for these kids and thus they become restless and disruptive. These are the kind of people that don't seem to be able to distinquish the difference between watching a movie at home and watching a movie in the theater.
I also like to watch movies where they were intended to be seen... on the large screen. I do have a problem with people that don't know how to behave in a theater though and I blame this directly on home theaters. Why do people think that watching a movie in a public theater is the same as watching it at home?
I don't care to hear your running commentary on the movie. I don't care if you are not interested in the movie and want to yap about what you did lat weekend. I do want you to shut up and watch the movie or leave and let me enjoy the experience I am willing to shell out $10 for.
How hard is it really to shut your cell phone off while you are in the theater. At least set it to vibrate and then head for the lobby before answering it.
Sorry rant over.
I doubt that laptops will replace desktops completely EVER. The only reason that I can currently see for having a laptop is if you need the portability.
Whenever I am asked if someone should buy a notebook I discourage them from getting one unless they do need the portability. Notebooks are musch more expensive than desktops (for same configurations) and if something breaks you the whole system is basically useless (unless it is a hard drive or memory). It is much easier to swap out parts (for repair or upgrade) on a desktop.
If companies ever get together and make all parts standard (replacement slots for video, sound, memory, etc.) the desktop will continue to be the better solution (again except for portability).
Maybe it is actually that some of us have more than a two second attention span. The reason that curling is so popular in Canada is that it is a game of skill. Have you ever tried to play an endo of curling? Just getting the rock to the other end of the ice is a feat. Getting the rock to go almost exactly where you want it takes immense skill.
The other reason that curling is popular in Canada is that alot of people curl in Canada. People will usually like to watch sports that they participate in (how else do you explain an all golf channel;-P ).
Unfortunately I have to disagree with this statement. There is a vast unexplored region of our planet that could be considered an unexplored forntier.
That would be the oceans. They have hardly been explored and could produce many amazing discoveries.
It looks like this is only a potential problem and has been corrected/removed from Windows XP SP2.
I did a quick search on Alexa and found this site that explains it in quite nice detail.
http://www.imilly.com/alexa.htm
The best part of the levy on blank media in Canada is that the money collected is divided up based on airplay and record sales. So independent artists and unsigned artist that might be selling their music at small concert could in theory be paying money into the system in order to sell their own music. That money in turn will go to established acts and will be of no benefit to the small acts at all. This would happen if the independent or unsigned artist decided to produce their own CDs using their computer and blank recordable media (which are subject to the Canadian media levy).
Perfect way to compensate artists!?
I actually looked at this and thought something quite different...
Why did they copy the menu bar in each tab?
Now that I have looked at it again I guess it could be that the tabs are just shown above the menu bar. Either way hopefully it is (re)moveable so that you can put things back to a more natural format.
With respect to the combined cancel/refresh button...
What happens if you have a page that fails to load completely?
Currently you can just try hitting the refresh button. In IE7 do you have to hit cancel then hit the button again to refresh? Does the button become a refresh button after you click it as a cancel button?
This is assuming that this is a typical movie. There was a little film that hit theaters a year ago last February (long considered a "soft" movie month) called The Passion of the Christ that did $83,848,082. Now I realize that Serenity will not be quite this popular but it just goes to show that a movie can make money any time of the year. If you want an example of a breakout hit in September just remember that a little film called Sixth Sense premiered in September a few years back.
Actually if you scroll down the page you usually can get a full set of drivers from the Creative site (for the cards I have tried anyway). But it would be nice if they put the full driver at the top of the page and the updates lower on the page or better yet on a separate page.
And how many corporations do you know of that are run by poor people. Corporations are only set up to shield the rich from the risks of running a large business.
I never said I hated all things government/corporate and it is quite a stretch to infer that from what I wrote.
The discussion was about analogue signals going dark. You were the one that stated that poor people get what they diserve (ok I realize you didn't say this but if you can infer that I hate government I'll infer that you hate poor people).
Since you want to bring this back to the disscussion at hand let me ask you a question. Do you think it is right that the broadcasters were given a chunk of the public airways for free and when the government decided to reallocate the EM spectrum that those broadcasters should be able to sell off their current alloted spectrum for a profit?
So lets change the item being discussed. Your car. If it was mandated that all cars had to be hybrids or alternative fuel based in 5 years would you still complain? It's not a right to have a car, it's not a requirement to fit in to society, it's not a requirement for local or national transportation (to paraphrase your aruments).
I assume you still wouldn't get too upset about a certain percentage of the population not being able to use their cars then.
Better yet why are the rich entitled for everything. How many poor people are able to get the government to give them billion dollar contracts without having to go through a tendering process?
Being RICH is incentive to better yourself, in order to make more money, in order to buy those neat things like a new GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL or a LOBBY GROUP?
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The lead story (at the time of this post) is that ICAAN "is denying that it gives the US government too much control over its operations" and here we have a delay in the decision to implement an .xxx tld because "the proposal hit a snag in August when the U.S. Commerce Department asked for more time to hear objections."
How much control is too much?
Sure Goolgle may have only had text ads when it started up and X10 ads were every where but I don't think that Google had all that much to do with the decline of popup/under ads. X10 was becoming obnoxious enough that people were starting to use popup blockers to keep them from showing up. It is just a coincidence that this happened at or about the time that Google came on the scene. If Google's text ads really were what killed X10 popunder ads then how come I am again getting innundated with popup/under ads even though I am using Firefox with its built-in popup killer turned on. The answer is that the advertisement battle is still on. Once advertisers get too agressive the users fight back with blockers. Once the blockers become effective the advertisers find a new way to push their ads until the conumer finds a new way to block them (and the cycle continues).
Using the quote you provided should answer all your concerns. It isn't necessarily intended that the users of the computer are going to be "tinkering" with the computer just that the computers can be customized (tinkered with) at some point. The user may or may not want or need to tinker with the computer but if the system is open then at least somewhere along the line it can be customized for individual needs.
This bring up the question, why do you need a laptop computer for then? If you aren't interested in portability or battery life why not just use a desktop computer. The point of using a notebook should be portability. As for a 20 inch monster notebook... I sure hope the guy next to me on the plane doesn't decide to pull one of these out.
How does redesigning the currency ever 7-10 years help protect against counterfeiting? What is stopping someone from making money that looks like the old currency? Are they also going to make older bills non-legal tender?
That's not as bad as Mackinac (Mackinaw). Who comes up with these names any way? ;-)
Call me crazy but I think HD video on any portable device is kind of overkill. It is equivalent to pluging an HD reciever into an old 13 inch analog TV. I doubt the display on any portable device will be at HD resolutions since at 2-3 inches HD is pointless.
This is will only work if you assume that your audience has the bandwidth and time available to download a movie/television show. Since I am stuck with dialup at home, you won't see me downloading any offered shows. Even if I did have 100Mbps access I wouldn't bother to take the time to download a low resolution movie for $5 when I can buy a previously used DVD from Blockbuster for ~$10 and have a high quality movie with all the included extras (not available with the download). On top of all this I don't think I would really want to watch a movie or a TV show on a little 3-7 inch screen but then I don't have an hour commute to get to work either.
Meanwhile, I and my Linux buddies had finished Grand Theft Auto on the PS2 while most of my remaining Windows using mates were waiting for it to be released. And the Windows using mates will be burping thier grandkids before GTA is released for a Linux platform.
"I highly recommend that the US resign from the UN and see how long it holds together without our monetary support." The problem is that the US doesn't pay their dues at the UN (unless this has change in the last few years). They have refused to pay the required dues because they feel that they aren't given enough of a say in the operations of the UN. That is why I have always found it quite funny when the US complains that the UN is ineffectual. Maybe if they would pay their dues and give the UN the finances they need to do their job things would get done. Again I must state that I am basing this on old information. A quick search provided these links: http://www.asil.org/insights/insigh21.htm http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2005/06/deja_vu_on _un_d.html
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/18/un.reform/
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/08/17/12711.htm l
If this has changed and the US is now meeting its financial obligation please disreguard this post.
Time to break out the old 300 baud modem.
When the private company that owns the building was given tax incentives and grants to build the place they bloody well better open the doors in an emergency.
What I'm talking about is that when people watch movies at home they are able to make as much noise as they want without considering anyone else. You can pause the movie to take a call. You can stop in the middle and come back later. You can... Does everyone watch a movie like this at home. No. But for some reason alot of people that do do this at home think that they can do the same in a public theater. You would kick people out (if they are disruptive) that you invite over so you probably aren't one of the ones that would talk in the theater. I have been to many shows (and not the general or even PG shows) where some idiot decided it was better to not have to pay for a babysitter and bring their kids with them. The movie is obviously not ment for these kids and thus they become restless and disruptive. These are the kind of people that don't seem to be able to distinquish the difference between watching a movie at home and watching a movie in the theater.
I also like to watch movies where they were intended to be seen... on the large screen. I do have a problem with people that don't know how to behave in a theater though and I blame this directly on home theaters. Why do people think that watching a movie in a public theater is the same as watching it at home? I don't care to hear your running commentary on the movie. I don't care if you are not interested in the movie and want to yap about what you did lat weekend. I do want you to shut up and watch the movie or leave and let me enjoy the experience I am willing to shell out $10 for. How hard is it really to shut your cell phone off while you are in the theater. At least set it to vibrate and then head for the lobby before answering it. Sorry rant over.
I doubt that laptops will replace desktops completely EVER. The only reason that I can currently see for having a laptop is if you need the portability. Whenever I am asked if someone should buy a notebook I discourage them from getting one unless they do need the portability. Notebooks are musch more expensive than desktops (for same configurations) and if something breaks you the whole system is basically useless (unless it is a hard drive or memory). It is much easier to swap out parts (for repair or upgrade) on a desktop. If companies ever get together and make all parts standard (replacement slots for video, sound, memory, etc.) the desktop will continue to be the better solution (again except for portability).
Maybe it is actually that some of us have more than a two second attention span. The reason that curling is so popular in Canada is that it is a game of skill. Have you ever tried to play an endo of curling? Just getting the rock to the other end of the ice is a feat. Getting the rock to go almost exactly where you want it takes immense skill. The other reason that curling is popular in Canada is that alot of people curl in Canada. People will usually like to watch sports that they participate in (how else do you explain an all golf channel ;-P ).
Unfortunately I have to disagree with this statement. There is a vast unexplored region of our planet that could be considered an unexplored forntier. That would be the oceans. They have hardly been explored and could produce many amazing discoveries.
It looks like this is only a potential problem and has been corrected/removed from Windows XP SP2. I did a quick search on Alexa and found this site that explains it in quite nice detail. http://www.imilly.com/alexa.htm
The best part of the levy on blank media in Canada is that the money collected is divided up based on airplay and record sales. So independent artists and unsigned artist that might be selling their music at small concert could in theory be paying money into the system in order to sell their own music. That money in turn will go to established acts and will be of no benefit to the small acts at all. This would happen if the independent or unsigned artist decided to produce their own CDs using their computer and blank recordable media (which are subject to the Canadian media levy). Perfect way to compensate artists!?
I actually looked at this and thought something quite different... Why did they copy the menu bar in each tab? Now that I have looked at it again I guess it could be that the tabs are just shown above the menu bar. Either way hopefully it is (re)moveable so that you can put things back to a more natural format. With respect to the combined cancel/refresh button... What happens if you have a page that fails to load completely? Currently you can just try hitting the refresh button. In IE7 do you have to hit cancel then hit the button again to refresh? Does the button become a refresh button after you click it as a cancel button?
This is assuming that this is a typical movie. There was a little film that hit theaters a year ago last February (long considered a "soft" movie month) called The Passion of the Christ that did $83,848,082. Now I realize that Serenity will not be quite this popular but it just goes to show that a movie can make money any time of the year. If you want an example of a breakout hit in September just remember that a little film called Sixth Sense premiered in September a few years back.
Actually if you scroll down the page you usually can get a full set of drivers from the Creative site (for the cards I have tried anyway). But it would be nice if they put the full driver at the top of the page and the updates lower on the page or better yet on a separate page.
And how many corporations do you know of that are run by poor people. Corporations are only set up to shield the rich from the risks of running a large business. I never said I hated all things government/corporate and it is quite a stretch to infer that from what I wrote. The discussion was about analogue signals going dark. You were the one that stated that poor people get what they diserve (ok I realize you didn't say this but if you can infer that I hate government I'll infer that you hate poor people). Since you want to bring this back to the disscussion at hand let me ask you a question. Do you think it is right that the broadcasters were given a chunk of the public airways for free and when the government decided to reallocate the EM spectrum that those broadcasters should be able to sell off their current alloted spectrum for a profit?
So lets change the item being discussed. Your car. If it was mandated that all cars had to be hybrids or alternative fuel based in 5 years would you still complain? It's not a right to have a car, it's not a requirement to fit in to society, it's not a requirement for local or national transportation (to paraphrase your aruments). I assume you still wouldn't get too upset about a certain percentage of the population not being able to use their cars then.
Better yet why are the rich entitled for everything. How many poor people are able to get the government to give them billion dollar contracts without having to go through a tendering process? Being RICH is incentive to better yourself, in order to make more money, in order to buy those neat things like a new GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL or a LOBBY GROUP?