Why didn't Apple just take an existing, proven browser like Chimera and improve upon it? It's not as if we need everyone and their grandma writing their own HTML rendering engine, we have enough problems with standards compliance with just 2 competing ones (though to credit Mozilla, they're not the ones with standards troubles).
I just got my copy of Linux Journal, what, a week ago, and you guys are just now reporting on this? You didn't even steal your "news" from the right source!
But AlterSlash was threated by no other than legal genius Jeff "Hemos" Bates for violating Slashdot's copyright by accessing the site with scripts. It's more real than you think...
Dude, I don't know what part of Florida you're in, but some guys down at the beach were lighting off some serious mortars out there in the pouring rain and lightning. We don't even live that close to the beach and our house was shaking.
Uh... it's not like he's making this up. Just go to the site, there really is a file called "iesuckssohard.htc". I don't understand why these GNU zealots feel the urge to alienate the people that they're trying to "convert".
I used to be an avid Sci-Fi reader, and I recall reading several stories that included synthesized meat. Is the one I'm thinking of that involved some guy killing people and eating them because he didn't like vat-grown meat a Heinlein book?
Any news yet on when GTK+ will decide to stop looking and acting like shit on Windows? I'd love to be able to use some GTK apps on Windows, but, well, they're ugly as hell and freeze a lot.
As if we needed one more nuclear power improving their weapons of mass destruction. Yes, the fact that India has their own supercomputer industry will surely put me at ease when they would very likely use their weapons against Pakistan at the drop of a hat.
Nuclear detonations on anything approaching a large scale will have global environmental consequences. I'm not going to kid myself that the Indian government is going to use this on anything so innocuous as cancer research. It's going to be either decryption, bio or chemical weapons research, or nuclear detonation simulation.
Oh, fuck off. I own a cell phone and know damn well that I'd better use it while I'm not driving. All the major assholes on the road, the kind who cut you off, tailgate, or start moving just as a green light is about to go back to red, are all distracted and out there in lala land with a fucking cellphone pressed against their ear.
People who smoke damn well better not do so in my presence, because I value my health. And people who feel compelled to chat with their significant other on their cellphones at any given time can stay the fuck off the road when I'm trying to get from point A to point B.
I say, go for it. I know I'm a safe driver, and it sure would be sweet to see all those assholes who zip through traffic in their Expeditions with monster truck tires get busted through their data recorders.
Last time I checked, this VGA connection to my monitor wasn't digital either. Yet, I'm pretty sure that it has pixels. And what are those tiny little colored dots on the TV screen, anyway?
The simplest way to think about each of these three subpixels is as little fluorescent lights which together form a matrix of tiny 1.08mm x 1.08mm pixels.
I hate to nitpick, but NTSC pixels are not square. They are 1:1.33 rectangles. That would be 1.08mm x 1.4364mm pixels. Which leads me to wonder how distorted the computer game looked...
By that reasoning, nothing can be unethical. Ethical thought is by nature subjective, and if "Because Jesus said so" is an invalid reason, I think you'd be hard pressed to find some kind of "real reason" that wasn't, somehow, first determined by a human.
wearable sensors and tricorder-like medical scanners
What in the world is a tricorder? Couldn't they have at least provided a link in the article for those of us not steeped in the terminology of computer science?
I thought this was rather obvious. Just plug them into another phone line and pirate a stray DSL signal. I believe they run through all lines in the PSTN, so you shouldn't have much trouble logging on. I've done this with my cable modem once or twice, no sweat.
Nobody's stopping them from running their own lines.
BUT... phone companies, like public utilities and most cable companies, are natural monopolies. That is, the initial investment required for buildout is so high that it more or less excludes competitors from building their own infrastructure. Requiring these phone companies to sell the usage of their lines to other companies that provide other services makes perfect sense in my mind. It opens up those services to more competition through the lower financial barrier to entry.
Condemning poeple for using 2 particular words in their posts, i think that is almost considered oppressive. You might find it offensive but hey, it is a free world.
The difference is, I'm not having people locked up and executed because of it.
To dismiss the oppressivenes of China demonstrates your true ignorance of what freedom is. Excusing it because "everyone else does it" is no excuse at all unless you genuinely don't expect them to be capable of any better. But I suppose this is the standard you'd have to hold them to if you wanted to make a rational point as an America-hater.
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Why didn't Apple just take an existing, proven browser like Chimera and improve upon it? It's not as if we need everyone and their grandma writing their own HTML rendering engine, we have enough problems with standards compliance with just 2 competing ones (though to credit Mozilla, they're not the ones with standards troubles).
I just got my copy of Linux Journal, what, a week ago, and you guys are just now reporting on this? You didn't even steal your "news" from the right source!
I assume that you already spoke the language before getting there. Are you also Asian in countenance, or would they not care?
But AlterSlash was threated by no other than legal genius Jeff "Hemos" Bates for violating Slashdot's copyright by accessing the site with scripts. It's more real than you think...
They're not the ones paying thousands of dollars to attend school and goof off.
Dude, I don't know what part of Florida you're in, but some guys down at the beach were lighting off some serious mortars out there in the pouring rain and lightning. We don't even live that close to the beach and our house was shaking.
No.
Ah, grasshopper, you have much to learn of the art of English grammar.
Uh... it's not like he's making this up. Just go to the site, there really is a file called "iesuckssohard.htc". I don't understand why these GNU zealots feel the urge to alienate the people that they're trying to "convert".
Yeah, I have one: since when have words been anything other than just that: words?
I used to be an avid Sci-Fi reader, and I recall reading several stories that included synthesized meat. Is the one I'm thinking of that involved some guy killing people and eating them because he didn't like vat-grown meat a Heinlein book?
Any news yet on when GTK+ will decide to stop looking and acting like shit on Windows? I'd love to be able to use some GTK apps on Windows, but, well, they're ugly as hell and freeze a lot.
Nuclear detonations on anything approaching a large scale will have global environmental consequences. I'm not going to kid myself that the Indian government is going to use this on anything so innocuous as cancer research. It's going to be either decryption, bio or chemical weapons research, or nuclear detonation simulation.
People who smoke damn well better not do so in my presence, because I value my health. And people who feel compelled to chat with their significant other on their cellphones at any given time can stay the fuck off the road when I'm trying to get from point A to point B.
I say, go for it. I know I'm a safe driver, and it sure would be sweet to see all those assholes who zip through traffic in their Expeditions with monster truck tires get busted through their data recorders.
Anyone who flames people for stupid languages abuses like that is OK in my book...
Last time I checked, this VGA connection to my monitor wasn't digital either. Yet, I'm pretty sure that it has pixels. And what are those tiny little colored dots on the TV screen, anyway?
I hate to nitpick, but NTSC pixels are not square. They are 1:1.33 rectangles. That would be 1.08mm x 1.4364mm pixels. Which leads me to wonder how distorted the computer game looked...
By that reasoning, nothing can be unethical. Ethical thought is by nature subjective, and if "Because Jesus said so" is an invalid reason, I think you'd be hard pressed to find some kind of "real reason" that wasn't, somehow, first determined by a human.
What in the world is a tricorder? Couldn't they have at least provided a link in the article for those of us not steeped in the terminology of computer science?
I thought this was rather obvious. Just plug them into another phone line and pirate a stray DSL signal. I believe they run through all lines in the PSTN, so you shouldn't have much trouble logging on. I've done this with my cable modem once or twice, no sweat.
BUT... phone companies, like public utilities and most cable companies, are natural monopolies. That is, the initial investment required for buildout is so high that it more or less excludes competitors from building their own infrastructure. Requiring these phone companies to sell the usage of their lines to other companies that provide other services makes perfect sense in my mind. It opens up those services to more competition through the lower financial barrier to entry.
The difference is, I'm not having people locked up and executed because of it.
To dismiss the oppressivenes of China demonstrates your true ignorance of what freedom is. Excusing it because "everyone else does it" is no excuse at all unless you genuinely don't expect them to be capable of any better. But I suppose this is the standard you'd have to hold them to if you wanted to make a rational point as an America-hater.
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- China gives two shits about copyright law?
- Anything in China could be considered "free (as in "libre")"?
They don't exactly work within U.S. jurisdiction, you know.