It's not the stuffy old men, it's the stuffy old men who's wives have them by the political ballz if they don't do the right "moral" thing and pass laws to protect the "children".
wrong, they are a monopoly and as such have legal protection of "common carrier" granted to them to protect them from their "job" to carry every body's traffic. There are no stock holders to protect here... like many other posters are saying, they are actually HARMING their stockholders by giving in to on select group... because by favoring one group over another, precedent is set that they can be
"compelled" do go your way, you just have to threaten enough public noise.
they know the oceans are getting worse, so they're evolving to get out. If we see more of these though I might start believing in "intelligent design" leading the dolphin to safer shores.. perhaps they have been touched by his noodly apendage?
when the share holders are footing the bill. I believe Lego faced a loss at the beginning of the year, so they cut production. It's what you gotta do nowdays. They'd be better to focus on the "basics" rather than themed stuff, or cut the themed stuff back. I buy a lot of Lego product, but almost never the themed stuff like starwars or spongebob, mostly Bionicle a good mix of toy and technic. Note I din't see Minstorms NXT on the list of "shortages" which is the only "cool" thing they'll run out of.
but Zend is also partnering with IBM to get PHP on iSeries as a supported feature. On one hand this is good, PHP is getting OFFICAL support everywhere. On the other hand, getting in bed with Microsoft offically always means trouble, it's historical fact. Zend's key profit points are the PHP compilers and Zend studio. Much like the recent Oracle/Red Hat thing, I see Microsoft putting PHP into Visual Studio and tying it's performance to their MSSql server... then rolling their own PHP and kicking Zend out.
Don't underestimate Google. I think they paid off the RIAA just to be safe, Google has A LOT more cash to be sued over than YOUTube ever did. The fact that the RIAA may have scammed the artists is moot. If anything it makes Google's purchase of YouTube more adventageous, because they now have a ready-made channel to start putting LEGAL stuff they aquire on there. Remember, they already have Google Video, but that needs work, perhaps they're trying to springboard off Blogger, and other user generated content. Google's competitor is iTunes or Yahoo, the RIAA doen't know it yet, but they probably just signed away rights to sue somebody that will compete with them...
It's more of give the labels the money up front, AND agree to start cleaning up so the new owner Google with it's huge amounts of profit isn't immediately a target! Who wouldn't want a clean cut case against Google, or a part of that 1.5 BILLION with a "B" that Google paid. Now that MONEY$ are in the air, the RIAA is going to start being more harsh on the next company to get sold for lots of loot. Kinda like how each case after Napster the RIAA went for more money each time, the title to the company, not just stopping infringment, and the owners' heads on a stick.
I'd agree, the other traits of high testosterone, such as anger, irritability, ravenous libido, and prone to excessive violence are systematically being weeded out of the gene pool. Like another poster said, women now choose their mates and the law helps keep many "manly men" in Jail so they don't procreate. Our society has progressed from valuing the strong but violent hunter, to praising the bureaucrat that keeps affairs in order to provide for the offspring.
the goal is probably to reduce front side real estate taken up by that big round click wheel. If they want to have the "real" video iPod landscape mode with the full front face as viewable area, then they have to ditch the clickwheel. Also, they can't make a new Video iPod much bigger because it would break the huge base of dock connector accessories they've built up. It needs to be a screen with no visible buttons on it, but touch screen is too much hassle... see the corner they're getting into. Zune tries to have a bigger screen and circle-like buttons and it just looks lopsided and goofy. A true video iPod would be for viewing, meaning that you'd have to be holding it with two hands to watch it.. so where would your hands be? Would they be willing to sacrifice the "iPod" experience so far for something new? I would see this as an addition to the line, not an iPod replacement.
Another poster mentioned that FEMA was rolled into DHS, buy doing that FEMA became a "law enforcement" agency subject to all the rules and power struggles. FEMA had the right to forcibly remove people from their homes in disaster situations they should have been activated by federal agents the moment the federally maintained levies were topped. They're supposed to be THE go to guys to respond to disasters first, whether it's criminal or a natural disaster... they should have been waiting at the boarder of Louisiana before the state even approved them. FEMA's not supposed to be ASKED, but they also aren't supposed to be pressed into anti-terrorist, anti-citizen work either. Remember back to X-Files, much was of course conspiracy, but there the talk of FEMA being the route to martial law was based on real laws and powers already on the books.
exactly, this is where a "Jar-Jar" politician will stand up and "pull the trigger" to let some future president have full control... they will then be rounded up and shot so they don't endanger the govt by trying to remove the new "dictator". I always find it funny that the people claiming the most to be protecting the country can't see what they're doing. If it wasn't life and death it'd make good comedy.
It's better for him to post this under his own name, that way exactly what he did an said was done publicly so they couldn't accuse him of any forgery or other crimes. If he did it secretly, they'd just find out anyway, probably after somebody tried to commit a crime, then they'd be naming him as some kind of accomplice. Like the link in the article said, the description of how to do this was already posted by a senator to a federal website... he just made a program that made a piece of paper like ones at the airport. I could do the same at home with my boarding pass from last month and Gimp... Under his own name, he did not break the law by pointing out the security hole. He should be fine, because this is clearly free speech and just about anybody could figure this out on their own.
when you use mime type text/html instead of xml the browsers that properly support XHTML have trouble with embedded CSS, SVG, and MathML because it's not using the XML parser because you "cheated". One specific vendor's broken implementation is preventing all the rest from moving forward. In the IE blog post they mention having "server side" check before sending the page...what a load of Bullocks!!
it may be a small number right now, but it covers every major platform and because things like firfox are cross-platform and open, they are the first to get ports to niche OSes like Be, QNX, etc. MS has offically left the web standards wagon...and they stopped supporting IE on anything but windows. that's it, Over. It's time for the industry, web developers, and education programs to abandon IE entirely. Sure it's "default" on every Windows PC, but Firefox is totally free...why not use that? It's under 6MB download... that's only 1 mp3 everybody can download that, not a killer download anymore! It doesn't seem to stop PDF or Flash or Google that MS doesn't install them by default either. Like I said, the main sticking point is that the "alternative" browsers are out of sync.. they need to implement groups of features together so web developers don't have to hack to get new stuff working across them. Then they need to get to the Good Stuff, like SVG, XForms, etc quickly. The W3C was used as a puppet by MS, IBM, Adobe, for far too long... those large companies had no intention of using them for anything execept cheap devs... notice how they all have something "NEW" that's been a W3C spec for years.. but their own products never mentioned it? Humm!
again, if it gets to the point they have your name and are requesting your hard drive you're kinda screwed. After all, if the court finds too much encrypted data they can compel you to produce the password , face jail for contempt of court, or enter a default judgment for trying to hide evidence... You just look more guilty!
the boarding passes you get at the airport after check-in are all just receipts now. The thick paper "ticket" that travel agents used to issue are just fancy "recipts" to show you paid.. for the most part they're not actually used as tickets anymore. I'm sure there are still some of the old printers around, but most are flimsy paper. I was just traveling last month thru Detroit and Miami.
Actually the creator of wikipedia is working on that problem. His next project will be a network of trusted contributors rather than allowing the random buy to edit anything. His project initially focuses on Opinion, rather than trying to present a balanced "fair" view it will try to allow "authorities" on a subject to have diffenent points of view without being defaced by the other side. Novel conept and should make it even more valuable than Wikipdeia!
XHTML is valid XML, so it can also be parsed by automated systems unlike html that may have too many variations to be useful. Also, XHTML forces the use of CSS to seperate content from layout even if both are in one file they are still seperate tags. Also, XHTML casts off the last vestages of the early growing pains of HTML... come on, it's 2006, almost 2007, there's no reason for web page authors to continue to code bugs that have been fixed for 5 years, that's right, XHTML is a 5 year old spec... there's just one. HTML 4 was depreciated in 2001! that's a long time ago!!!
Yes, that was in 2005!!! that's entirely out of line for a modern program. An XHTML page is not valid unless it has the proper header... his compatibility concerns are moot because XHTML does not have a compatibility mode... it's valid or it's not, make the web page authors bite the bullet and release proper code, don't crap out your product because users might not do it right.
There's a philosophical difference in how the web should work between Tim and the W3C and the rest of the web. that's the cause of MANY of the problems.
The W3C position is that Google, for example, should not be required to enjoy or research the web. Their view is that the web pages themselves should provide the context and relevency information that Google is doing. They want discrete, well formated information that's reletively unchanging. Another example is Wikipedia. The current version is a data base app with a webpage front end. The W3C would perfer to see the site as discrete pages so every page is a complete indexable document just like a book. Tim especially is much like RMS in his views that information should be "free", and freely accessbble.. the user should figure out how THEY want it, not be told.
The current trend of web apps as database front ends is what corperate customers and server vendors want because it provides more control.. more than that the actual inforation is locked up so you have to have "permission" to view it. Many of the W3C specs are kind of designed to sabotage that approach which only complicates matters. They need to get closer to web app designers versus acedemic content providers.
the W3C itself doesn't have any issue except getting browsers up to date with their specs.. all of them.
XHTML has been an approved, unchaged spec since 2002!!! CSS2 was approved in 1998!! Where the hell is the support for this stuff? IF all their stuff was properly supported, things would be much better, but nobody that makes browsers seems to be much interested in full support, let alone keeping up with the actual new stuff. The maker of the largest browser Microsoft feined their support but left their browser broken and abandon for 5 years!!! and the new version still doesn't properly implement the specs.
What the W3C does need to do is make their whole process more results oriented, browser friendly and developer friendly. The different specs are about as backward compatible as they come... they just need people to use them. Perhaps they need to work with Safari, Konquerer, Opera and Mozilla to work on one "point" across the browsers every 6 months. that way the broswer developers would have "coop-etition" and web designers can learn one new feature at a time across all the browsers. I purposefully left MS off, because with IE7 they've baltently rejected web standards for another "5 years"! The rest of the industry needs to pick up and move on TOGETHER without them!
why do air marshals need guns? If everybody is checked, then the only gun in the cabin is held by the air marshal. At that point all the terrorist needs to do is get on "naked" and get the gun from THAT guy... because nobody else has one!!! Remember we may be facing Korean terrorists soon... they're all practiced in martial arts of killing people with their bare hands... and ANYBODY can do it... big, small, young, old, man, woman, child...
exactly, the site printed boarding passes are nothing more complicated than register tape from walmart. The paper is only barely printed on, not even watermarked... you could slap one on your scanner and photoshop it and get the same results.
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It's not the stuffy old men, it's the stuffy old men who's wives have them by the political ballz if they don't do the right "moral" thing and pass laws to protect the "children".
wrong, they are a monopoly and as such have legal protection of "common carrier" granted to them to protect them from their "job" to carry every body's traffic. There are no stock holders to protect here... like many other posters are saying, they are actually HARMING their stockholders by giving in to on select group... because by favoring one group over another, precedent is set that they can be "compelled" do go your way, you just have to threaten enough public noise.
they know the oceans are getting worse, so they're evolving to get out. If we see more of these though I might start believing in "intelligent design" leading the dolphin to safer shores.. perhaps they have been touched by his noodly apendage?
he's working up to it... he's one of the Firefox developers... that's not kids stuff.
when the share holders are footing the bill. I believe Lego faced a loss at the beginning of the year, so they cut production. It's what you gotta do nowdays. They'd be better to focus on the "basics" rather than themed stuff, or cut the themed stuff back. I buy a lot of Lego product, but almost never the themed stuff like starwars or spongebob, mostly Bionicle a good mix of toy and technic. Note I din't see Minstorms NXT on the list of "shortages" which is the only "cool" thing they'll run out of.
but Zend is also partnering with IBM to get PHP on iSeries as a supported feature. On one hand this is good, PHP is getting OFFICAL support everywhere. On the other hand, getting in bed with Microsoft offically always means trouble, it's historical fact. Zend's key profit points are the PHP compilers and Zend studio. Much like the recent Oracle/Red Hat thing, I see Microsoft putting PHP into Visual Studio and tying it's performance to their MSSql server... then rolling their own PHP and kicking Zend out.
Don't underestimate Google. I think they paid off the RIAA just to be safe, Google has A LOT more cash to be sued over than YOUTube ever did. The fact that the RIAA may have scammed the artists is moot. If anything it makes Google's purchase of YouTube more adventageous, because they now have a ready-made channel to start putting LEGAL stuff they aquire on there. Remember, they already have Google Video, but that needs work, perhaps they're trying to springboard off Blogger, and other user generated content. Google's competitor is iTunes or Yahoo, the RIAA doen't know it yet, but they probably just signed away rights to sue somebody that will compete with them...
It's more of give the labels the money up front, AND agree to start cleaning up so the new owner Google with it's huge amounts of profit isn't immediately a target! Who wouldn't want a clean cut case against Google, or a part of that 1.5 BILLION with a "B" that Google paid. Now that MONEY$ are in the air, the RIAA is going to start being more harsh on the next company to get sold for lots of loot. Kinda like how each case after Napster the RIAA went for more money each time, the title to the company, not just stopping infringment, and the owners' heads on a stick.
I'd agree, the other traits of high testosterone, such as anger, irritability, ravenous libido, and prone to excessive violence are systematically being weeded out of the gene pool. Like another poster said, women now choose their mates and the law helps keep many "manly men" in Jail so they don't procreate. Our society has progressed from valuing the strong but violent hunter, to praising the bureaucrat that keeps affairs in order to provide for the offspring.
the goal is probably to reduce front side real estate taken up by that big round click wheel. If they want to have the "real" video iPod landscape mode with the full front face as viewable area, then they have to ditch the clickwheel. Also, they can't make a new Video iPod much bigger because it would break the huge base of dock connector accessories they've built up. It needs to be a screen with no visible buttons on it, but touch screen is too much hassle... see the corner they're getting into. Zune tries to have a bigger screen and circle-like buttons and it just looks lopsided and goofy. A true video iPod would be for viewing, meaning that you'd have to be holding it with two hands to watch it.. so where would your hands be? Would they be willing to sacrifice the "iPod" experience so far for something new? I would see this as an addition to the line, not an iPod replacement.
Another poster mentioned that FEMA was rolled into DHS, buy doing that FEMA became a "law enforcement" agency subject to all the rules and power struggles. FEMA had the right to forcibly remove people from their homes in disaster situations they should have been activated by federal agents the moment the federally maintained levies were topped. They're supposed to be THE go to guys to respond to disasters first, whether it's criminal or a natural disaster... they should have been waiting at the boarder of Louisiana before the state even approved them. FEMA's not supposed to be ASKED, but they also aren't supposed to be pressed into anti-terrorist, anti-citizen work either. Remember back to X-Files, much was of course conspiracy, but there the talk of FEMA being the route to martial law was based on real laws and powers already on the books.
exactly, this is where a "Jar-Jar" politician will stand up and "pull the trigger" to let some future president have full control... they will then be rounded up and shot so they don't endanger the govt by trying to remove the new "dictator". I always find it funny that the people claiming the most to be protecting the country can't see what they're doing. If it wasn't life and death it'd make good comedy.
It's better for him to post this under his own name, that way exactly what he did an said was done publicly so they couldn't accuse him of any forgery or other crimes. If he did it secretly, they'd just find out anyway, probably after somebody tried to commit a crime, then they'd be naming him as some kind of accomplice. Like the link in the article said, the description of how to do this was already posted by a senator to a federal website... he just made a program that made a piece of paper like ones at the airport. I could do the same at home with my boarding pass from last month and Gimp... Under his own name, he did not break the law by pointing out the security hole. He should be fine, because this is clearly free speech and just about anybody could figure this out on their own.
when you use mime type text/html instead of xml the browsers that properly support XHTML have trouble with embedded CSS, SVG, and MathML because it's not using the XML parser because you "cheated". One specific vendor's broken implementation is preventing all the rest from moving forward. In the IE blog post they mention having "server side" check before sending the page.. .what a load of Bullocks!!
it may be a small number right now, but it covers every major platform and because things like firfox are cross-platform and open, they are the first to get ports to niche OSes like Be, QNX, etc. MS has offically left the web standards wagon...and they stopped supporting IE on anything but windows. that's it, Over. It's time for the industry, web developers, and education programs to abandon IE entirely. Sure it's "default" on every Windows PC, but Firefox is totally free...why not use that? It's under 6MB download... that's only 1 mp3 everybody can download that, not a killer download anymore! It doesn't seem to stop PDF or Flash or Google that MS doesn't install them by default either. Like I said, the main sticking point is that the "alternative" browsers are out of sync.. they need to implement groups of features together so web developers don't have to hack to get new stuff working across them. Then they need to get to the Good Stuff, like SVG, XForms, etc quickly. The W3C was used as a puppet by MS, IBM, Adobe, for far too long... those large companies had no intention of using them for anything execept cheap devs... notice how they all have something "NEW" that's been a W3C spec for years.. but their own products never mentioned it? Humm!
again, if it gets to the point they have your name and are requesting your hard drive you're kinda screwed. After all, if the court finds too much encrypted data they can compel you to produce the password , face jail for contempt of court, or enter a default judgment for trying to hide evidence... You just look more guilty!
the boarding passes you get at the airport after check-in are all just receipts now. The thick paper "ticket" that travel agents used to issue are just fancy "recipts" to show you paid.. for the most part they're not actually used as tickets anymore. I'm sure there are still some of the old printers around, but most are flimsy paper. I was just traveling last month thru Detroit and Miami.
oops! yep, I meant PlaysForSure...
Actually the creator of wikipedia is working on that problem. His next project will be a network of trusted contributors rather than allowing the random buy to edit anything. His project initially focuses on Opinion, rather than trying to present a balanced "fair" view it will try to allow "authorities" on a subject to have diffenent points of view without being defaced by the other side. Novel conept and should make it even more valuable than Wikipdeia!
XHTML is valid XML, so it can also be parsed by automated systems unlike html that may have too many variations to be useful. Also, XHTML forces the use of CSS to seperate content from layout even if both are in one file they are still seperate tags. Also, XHTML casts off the last vestages of the early growing pains of HTML... come on, it's 2006, almost 2007, there's no reason for web page authors to continue to code bugs that have been fixed for 5 years, that's right, XHTML is a 5 year old spec... there's just one. HTML 4 was depreciated in 2001! that's a long time ago!!!
Yes, that was in 2005!!! that's entirely out of line for a modern program. An XHTML page is not valid unless it has the proper header... his compatibility concerns are moot because XHTML does not have a compatibility mode... it's valid or it's not, make the web page authors bite the bullet and release proper code, don't crap out your product because users might not do it right.
The W3C position is that Google, for example, should not be required to enjoy or research the web. Their view is that the web pages themselves should provide the context and relevency information that Google is doing. They want discrete, well formated information that's reletively unchanging. Another example is Wikipedia. The current version is a data base app with a webpage front end. The W3C would perfer to see the site as discrete pages so every page is a complete indexable document just like a book. Tim especially is much like RMS in his views that information should be "free", and freely accessbble.. the user should figure out how THEY want it, not be told.
The current trend of web apps as database front ends is what corperate customers and server vendors want because it provides more control.. more than that the actual inforation is locked up so you have to have "permission" to view it. Many of the W3C specs are kind of designed to sabotage that approach which only complicates matters. They need to get closer to web app designers versus acedemic content providers.
XHTML has been an approved, unchaged spec since 2002!!! CSS2 was approved in 1998!! Where the hell is the support for this stuff? IF all their stuff was properly supported, things would be much better, but nobody that makes browsers seems to be much interested in full support, let alone keeping up with the actual new stuff. The maker of the largest browser Microsoft feined their support but left their browser broken and abandon for 5 years!!! and the new version still doesn't properly implement the specs.
What the W3C does need to do is make their whole process more results oriented, browser friendly and developer friendly. The different specs are about as backward compatible as they come... they just need people to use them. Perhaps they need to work with Safari, Konquerer, Opera and Mozilla to work on one "point" across the browsers every 6 months. that way the broswer developers would have "coop-etition" and web designers can learn one new feature at a time across all the browsers. I purposefully left MS off, because with IE7 they've baltently rejected web standards for another "5 years"! The rest of the industry needs to pick up and move on TOGETHER without them!
why do air marshals need guns? If everybody is checked, then the only gun in the cabin is held by the air marshal. At that point all the terrorist needs to do is get on "naked" and get the gun from THAT guy... because nobody else has one!!! Remember we may be facing Korean terrorists soon... they're all practiced in martial arts of killing people with their bare hands... and ANYBODY can do it... big, small, young, old, man, woman, child...
exactly, the site printed boarding passes are nothing more complicated than register tape from walmart. The paper is only barely printed on, not even watermarked... you could slap one on your scanner and photoshop it and get the same results.