Yeah, but those band have to play 100-150 concerts a year in front of 2-3 million fans (some of whom will follow them around the entire country) just to pull down a measely 80-90 million dollars.
How dare you ask Madonna to pause in the middle of making her "art" to actually go and play music.
The problem is when people start trying to earn their money they realize that they never deserved it in the first place!
...A reduction in electro-magnetic activity would mean I could finally take off my tin-foil hat without fear of you beaming blipverts into my brain anymore...
SCO has had access to Linux source for how many years now? What I mean to say is if they've been watching others infringe on their patents without taking any action, they're as good as an accessory to the deed itself.
If they had been aware that patented source was about to be merged into Linux and they did nothing about it until now then they're guilty too.
The enemy had me surrounded, there was simply nowhere to go... They demanded I give up immediately or they would storm the castle. Not that I would have but they gave me no chance to surrender as I head them breach the first door and were trying to smash through the second, there was only two inches of oak in between me and the enemy. I checked my rifle one last time and muttered to myself: "let's rumble". Next thing I knew I flipped off the safety at the same moment the door broke down I squeezed the trigger and:
If previous trilogies are anything to go by the middle episode will probably be the weakest of the lot, if only to make the third seem relatively exciting.
In fact, the Rolling Stones have made a living out of this sort of practice: one amazing album, followed by one lame one, follwed another amazing one... I've lost count but I beleive there next offering is on the lame side of the coin...
Yes, you are. There really was a club called the Matrix, you can find bootlegs of Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead et al. that are audience tapes of shows played there.
Try watching Matrix Reloaded to see what reading material really inspired the movie.
Well, in the big picture you are doing something different-- at least you're thinking about what you're doing with the cookies that you make.
I'd say my criticism of cookie use is concerned with those that might throw just about anything into a cookie. For example, I saw just this afternoon a code example about implementing different levels of security access and what did the code use to query the security level of the user? Cookie. "Is this a regular user? Yes/No. Is this the administrator? Yes/No." Now for a mere example it was fine but I can't count how many times I've seen people in my company cut-and-paste a solution directly into place-- they're obviously NOT thinking about how they're using cookies...
You're right that cookies don't have to be insecure but I wonder/doubt that there are enough people out there actually putting enough thought into protecting information that goes in and out of the websites they create.
Ok, cookies: never used them and never expect to. I don't like 'em because it puts data on the client's computer where I can't protect it.
Yes, session-based cookies are better because the data dies with the browser and never has to leave the safe-and-snuggly confines of the server.
URL-based session identification is even better because I don't have to care whether the client's browser can handle any type of cookie, session or otherwise.
Oh yeah, and as for basing any sort of security around IP-address, remind me never to use your websites behind our proxy service lest I actually want everyone else in the company behind the same firewall to hijack my web session! =P
When you go to the bank, do they hand you back a printout of your account number and PIN number, 'for your convenience'? When you finish a phonecall, do you leave the receiver off the hook so you can continue the same phonecall at some undetermined time? That's what using cookies to persist sessions feels like to me. I simply don't want to use them!
Why would anyone bother laying any claim to cookies? That's like wanting to enforce a patent based on a Ford Pinto.
Any web app developer can tell you that there's half a dozen more reliable and secure ways to persist data. Typically allowing a user to resume a session without apt verification is bound to lead to problems: data & identity theft, inappropriate disclosure...
How am I supposed to enjoy a house that will stand for hundres of years when my lights are likely to go out after a mere 77.2 years?
The first castle I built on a swamp... that fell over. The second castle I built on a swamp... that one burned down. The third castle I built on the swamp burned down and fell over into the swamp.
..Sorry, mate, but if a so-called terrorist had a weapon that could travel 12,000mph (that's 2 MILES per SECOND)-- they're going to point it at stuff alot more interesting than a Space Shuttle.
Just think of the amount of fuel you'd have to use to propel something from the Earth to the Space Shuttle at a velocity high enough to actually hit it-- probably the only thing fast enough on this planet that could carry that much fuel would be another Space Shuttle.
Look, even if you remove every terrorist from the planet, bad things are still going to happen-- even to Americans.
...We've got other problems to look at first: cancer, AIDS, pollution, et al. Could we ever have too many scientists looking at these problems? Do we really need scientists wasting away captial on something as reckless as this?
The point is a loss in business terms is highly subjective and they rarely qualify the meaning of loss in words-- You have to look at the numbers they provide to really know for sure.
Between losing money in the real world vs. the business world is a very, very big gap.
A "loss" for a business might just mean they didn't gross as much money as they promised their shareholders. Sometimes "loss" means "profits are down from the same time last year"-- but there are still profits to be had, just not *as much*.
I'm leaning towards the explanation that Microsoft is always making money, just how much money goes up or down and where their loss/gain is calculated against some break even point that we are not made aware of.
...Because I use them all the time, testing against Mozilla 1.x, IE 6.0, 5.5 and 5.0.
MSDN clearly marks out which functions are standard to and which version of HTML/DOM they are complying to.
Mozilla is almost de-facto compliant because that's the only thing they have to work from and they don't have an agenda like interoperation with MS Office/Front Page.
Standards compliance does work, it's the lazy/inept authors of web pages that are to blame for faulty product resulting from an ad-hoc approach to web page development.
Then again, like the saying goes: "A bad workman always blames his tools..."
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Translation: Brazillian case law means little *TO ME*.
This leaves the future wide open for further "innovations" including:
How dare you ask Madonna to pause in the middle of making her "art" to actually go and play music.
The problem is when people start trying to earn their money they realize that they never deserved it in the first place!
...They've modeled their solar system with everything revolving around the Sun when it's quite obvious all the planets and moons revolve around ME...
Who's the fool now?
Yes, I'm talking to you...
If they had been aware that patented source was about to be merged into Linux and they did nothing about it until now then they're guilty too.
"Feelings! Nothing more than-- feelings..."
If previous trilogies are anything to go by the middle episode will probably be the weakest of the lot, if only to make the third seem relatively exciting.
In fact, the Rolling Stones have made a living out of this sort of practice: one amazing album, followed by one lame one, follwed another amazing one... I've lost count but I beleive there next offering is on the lame side of the coin...
Try watching Matrix Reloaded to see what reading material really inspired the movie.
Google that.
Automobiles, upon filling the tank with turkey-petrol, tend not to be drivable and prefer to doze on the couch watching NFL football.
I'd say my criticism of cookie use is concerned with those that might throw just about anything into a cookie. For example, I saw just this afternoon a code example about implementing different levels of security access and what did the code use to query the security level of the user? Cookie. "Is this a regular user? Yes/No. Is this the administrator? Yes/No." Now for a mere example it was fine but I can't count how many times I've seen people in my company cut-and-paste a solution directly into place-- they're obviously NOT thinking about how they're using cookies...
You're right that cookies don't have to be insecure but I wonder/doubt that there are enough people out there actually putting enough thought into protecting information that goes in and out of the websites they create.
- Yes, session-based cookies are better because the data dies with the browser and never has to leave the safe-and-snuggly confines of the server.
- URL-based session identification is even better because I don't have to care whether the client's browser can handle any type of cookie, session or otherwise.
Oh yeah, and as for basing any sort of security around IP-address, remind me never to use your websites behind our proxy service lest I actually want everyone else in the company behind the same firewall to hijack my web session! =PWhen you go to the bank, do they hand you back a printout of your account number and PIN number, 'for your convenience'? When you finish a phonecall, do you leave the receiver off the hook so you can continue the same phonecall at some undetermined time? That's what using cookies to persist sessions feels like to me. I simply don't want to use them!
Any web app developer can tell you that there's half a dozen more reliable and secure ways to persist data. Typically allowing a user to resume a session without apt verification is bound to lead to problems: data & identity theft, inappropriate disclosure...
Best way to improve company morale? Get the boss to stop acting like a know-it-all jerkface.
Read Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins, a touching story about a man, a parrot and a CIA-issued laptop.
...Can I have a side order of chips with that?
The first castle I built on a swamp... that fell over. The second castle I built on a swamp... that one burned down. The third castle I built on the swamp burned down and fell over into the swamp.
Just think of the amount of fuel you'd have to use to propel something from the Earth to the Space Shuttle at a velocity high enough to actually hit it-- probably the only thing fast enough on this planet that could carry that much fuel would be another Space Shuttle.
Look, even if you remove every terrorist from the planet, bad things are still going to happen-- even to Americans.
...We've got other problems to look at first: cancer, AIDS, pollution, et al. Could we ever have too many scientists looking at these problems? Do we really need scientists wasting away captial on something as reckless as this?
...is how long it would take me to lose that itty-bitty stylus that comes with the wristband!
The point is a loss in business terms is highly subjective and they rarely qualify the meaning of loss in words-- You have to look at the numbers they provide to really know for sure.
A "loss" for a business might just mean they didn't gross as much money as they promised their shareholders. Sometimes "loss" means "profits are down from the same time last year"-- but there are still profits to be had, just not *as much*.
I'm leaning towards the explanation that Microsoft is always making money, just how much money goes up or down and where their loss/gain is calculated against some break even point that we are not made aware of.
MSDN clearly marks out which functions are standard to and which version of HTML/DOM they are complying to.
Mozilla is almost de-facto compliant because that's the only thing they have to work from and they don't have an agenda like interoperation with MS Office/Front Page.
Standards compliance does work, it's the lazy/inept authors of web pages that are to blame for faulty product resulting from an ad-hoc approach to web page development.
Then again, like the saying goes: "A bad workman always blames his tools..."