Sure they handcode the css templates. For the actual stories, which likely go into the database of the CMS and contain little more than a few paragraph tags, they probably generate the html with some kind of editor so that all the reporters are relieved of the burden of knowing basic html
There's no substitute for handcoding, but that doesn't mean it's always appropriate or necessary everywhere.
Stating the obvious: There is a lot of wisdom in the PP and it represents a measured and thougtful response to the policies of the U.S. these past seven years. We've given up the moral high ground by conducting a preemptive war in Iraq and handed a huge opportunity to Putin. If Putin is a monster, we have helped making him what he is. This does not erase his responsibility, nor does it let the Russian people off the hook. Nevertheless, the U.S. became intoxicated with the heady sense of being the world's lone superpower, and acted as though the use of this power (in the raw) could impose freedom and democracy on the world. We should learn our lessons and strive for a different future. It will take generations to undo the damage. It WILL NOT happen if the U.S. increasingly copies the closed societies it supposedly loathes, in the pursuit of "security".
What do you know? Back in the day there was a company called MCI Communications that competed successfully against AT&T, who for years denied access to their network. This was before the antitrust case, and MCI used microwave transmission to substitute for landline access. It worked. It worked well enough that they could stay in business until access could be gained. Fastforward to today. Companies use wired when they can. When they can't, or when there is clear advantage to wireless (think cellular phone tech) they use wireless. A huge amount of data still traverses wireless networks. You use them every day. Is wireless as good as wired for network/telecom? No. But your post really exaggerates the problems, and is in short ridiculous.
Do you even know what you're talking about? Try installing Itunes on a PC with Opera or Firefox. QT will be the default plugin for many media types, no questions asked, no choices offered. Set them back the way you want and the next Itunes/QT update will muck with them again. I personally am done with Itunes. We have it on three PCs in my home, but the system I call my own will soon be Apple software free, even it it takes me hours, including registry editing. My kids love their Ipods, but i will never buy one for myself, unless it is used, after which it will promptly be setup with Rockbox.
Oh, don't be silly. Growing the food DOES cost money. The parent post said "if we chose to" but it really is a bit more complicated than that. There have been times when we worked with other countries to make sure their populations were well fed, outside of the normal economic system. Google "oil for food" for more.
Apple's mistake may in part be a concession to the carrier's constraints. Android's success depends on Google getting further with a carrier(s) or rolling their own. Cellular phone lameness is in large part due to Verizon, ATT, Sprint et al.
Lazy is a pretty good description. The lack of mediation/arbitration and the drive to make the whole damn thing as mindlessly computer automated as possible is their problem.
Well "absolutely wrong" seems to be rather strong language. As someone who buys and sells on ebay I can say authoritatively that it sucks from both sides. Ebay is to blame and a lot of it has to do with a feedback system that is too inflexible and poorly designed for protecting the interests of buyers OR sellers. If ebay wants to recover its former glory, they really can't afford pissing off either group of users. I don't have much hope.
Another way to frame the question is whether an unknown band can use this kind of marketing, with their own website as the primary sales channel for their music, and reach the level of notoriety of NIN or Radiohead. It is theoretically possible, but I dare say that none have done it... yet.
A followup questions is whether a positive answer to that question is really that important. The end of the megaband is hardly the end of music. I happen to think that they will still surface because I see them as more of a phenomena of human psychology then a product of the labels.
It is long past the time that a society should endure this kind of behavior from its corporate citizens. They violated the photographers copyright. They lost in court. They should simply pay. To do otherwise shows contempt for the photographer, the court and the society in general of which they are a part.
I am not a fan of vigilanteism. The court should have the authority and the power to enforce (not just impose it) the pentalty in timely fashion. Nevertheless, a company that uses its lawyers to delay the payment of a judgment such as this one forfeits its place of standing in its respective community. It deserves to be treated as an outcast, a pariah, and punished economicly. This is a worthwhile role for so-called new media
"I'm not a collective, nor am I a collectivist. Collectively, of course, votes do matter--but it's exactly because these collectives are so large that my individual vote means even less."
It seems that by definition you are part of a collective who believes that their individual votes don't count.
Your thinking is too reductionistic in that it neglects to take into account the collective attitudes of voters. You say that the probability of individual votes "counting" is negligible, but that is a position that quickly loses truth value when that attitude becomes a collective value. You potentially are assuming that the value would be spread equally between the different parties involved in an election, which may or may not be true. It is not hard to imagine an uneven distribution and the possibility that an election could be won more handily by the candidate/party who successfully projects the message that individual votes count.
Isn't it obviously unethical to you? The interest here is commercial, but typosquatting is done completely in bad faith. If you think this should be legal, I would not want to do business with you.
AC is exactly right. This isn't worthy of a patent. Convincing the court of this will nonetheless require educating people who are likely to be clueless as to WHY this is obvious. To those who disagree, please tell my why this deserves a patent and why any sane admin wouldn't think of it without Trend Micro's help?
The helmet is different because of the deeper (in the skull) heating effect. Me thinks a microwave would work great for this too. But only if you could master the correct power setting and duration. Burnt popcorn anyone?
I've seen sugarcane referenced repeatedly in various threads related to this story. Brazil uses primarily sugar beets. Yes, sugar cane needs near tropical conditions. Sugar beets do not.
Also... there is a quicker way to use switchgrass for fuel. Pellet it and burn it directly. There are pellet stoves that work fine for this. This takes less investment and for heating is the most straightforward way to go.
Yes, Intel has a long history of anticompetitive behaviour. I've read other posts basically saying "...AMD has created their own problems" but what people seem to forget is the incredibly capital intensive (and long term) nature of the processor business. When AMD had a real performance lead with the Athlon, Intel used their monopoply position to keep them from selling to as many OEMS as they might have. This likely depressed the prices and reduced capital that could have been used to build for the future.
I'm not against torrenting stuff (Or even piracy. *cough*), I just hate the 'people download Linux' argument.
You're not against "torrenting", and yet you hate the 'downloading Linux' argument? Somehow I can't understand why or how you can put those statements together. Logically speaking, something is missing. Because otherwise this just doesn't parse out in a way that makes sense. Some bittorrent traffic is undeniably bits from Linux distros being thrown around. Go to openoffice.org and you can see that using bittorrent is an option there. What percentage of traffic for Linux distros legitimizes the argument you hate? It would seem to me that even a tiny percentage does.
Those replying to you seem to be limiting themselves to critiquing Roman Catholic priests. I am a United Methodist pastor and my perspective on "professional" ministers is very direct and confirms the majority to be hard working and generous people. There are posers in every group of people, but making reckless generalizations, as slashdotters are prone to do, only produces heat without light. As an example of work done in my conference, visit http://www.missioncentral.com/
Many of us donate time to work at the linked mission. They even have a computer ministry that recycles used computers.
Personally I think the approach being taken by the big box stores is disingenuous. If you absolutely depend on the ignorance of your customers to stay in business then there is something wrong with your business model. Arguably, that is the case with BB, CC and the like. This is why I try to avoid them when I can, preferring to buy from small stores that offer better customer service and better pricing models. Shoot, I'll pay a little extra even. I also shop online from vendors that are good about returns and honor warranties.
I hardly ever reply to posts based on this reason, but your sig grabs my attention because in my view it conflicts with your post. You said:
It's not a matter of intelligence, or lack thereof, it is a matter of realizing the limits of one's knowledge, and rectifying that situation when necessary.
Yet your sig suggests that you have not at all struggled with philosophy, epistemology and the limits of knowledge. Hoftstadter comes to mind when he discusses "The Propositional Calculus" in Godel, Escher and Back: The Eternal Golden Braid. From p. 192, after presenting an example of a debate resembling the style and content of Lewis Carroll, he writes:
This little debate shows the difficulty of trying to use logic and reasoning to defend themselves. At some point, you reach rock bottom, and there no defense except loudly shouting, "I know I'm right!" Once again we are up against the issue which Lewis Carroll so sharply set forth in his Dialogue: you can't go on defending your patterns of reasoning forever. There comes a point where faith takes over.
You and I would agree that reason is waaaaaaaaaay undervalued. Nevertheless, I maintain that your sig represents a classic case of the false dichotomy.
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Sure they handcode the css templates. For the actual stories, which likely go into the database of the CMS and contain little more than a few paragraph tags, they probably generate the html with some kind of editor so that all the reporters are relieved of the burden of knowing basic html
There's no substitute for handcoding, but that doesn't mean it's always appropriate or necessary everywhere.
Stating the obvious: There is a lot of wisdom in the PP and it represents a measured and thougtful response to the policies of the U.S. these past seven years. We've given up the moral high ground by conducting a preemptive war in Iraq and handed a huge opportunity to Putin. If Putin is a monster, we have helped making him what he is. This does not erase his responsibility, nor does it let the Russian people off the hook. Nevertheless, the U.S. became intoxicated with the heady sense of being the world's lone superpower, and acted as though the use of this power (in the raw) could impose freedom and democracy on the world. We should learn our lessons and strive for a different future. It will take generations to undo the damage. It WILL NOT happen if the U.S. increasingly copies the closed societies it supposedly loathes, in the pursuit of "security".
Ok.... now give me an example of any government in the history of the world that wasn't corrupt.
What do you know? Back in the day there was a company called MCI Communications that competed successfully against AT&T, who for years denied access to their network. This was before the antitrust case, and MCI used microwave transmission to substitute for landline access. It worked. It worked well enough that they could stay in business until access could be gained. Fastforward to today. Companies use wired when they can. When they can't, or when there is clear advantage to wireless (think cellular phone tech) they use wireless. A huge amount of data still traverses wireless networks. You use them every day. Is wireless as good as wired for network/telecom? No. But your post really exaggerates the problems, and is in short ridiculous.
Do you even know what you're talking about? Try installing Itunes on a PC with Opera or Firefox. QT will be the default plugin for many media types, no questions asked, no choices offered. Set them back the way you want and the next Itunes/QT update will muck with them again. I personally am done with Itunes. We have it on three PCs in my home, but the system I call my own will soon be Apple software free, even it it takes me hours, including registry editing. My kids love their Ipods, but i will never buy one for myself, unless it is used, after which it will promptly be setup with Rockbox.
Oh, don't be silly. Growing the food DOES cost money. The parent post said "if we chose to" but it really is a bit more complicated than that. There have been times when we worked with other countries to make sure their populations were well fed, outside of the normal economic system. Google "oil for food" for more.
Apple's mistake may in part be a concession to the carrier's constraints. Android's success depends on Google getting further with a carrier(s) or rolling their own. Cellular phone lameness is in large part due to Verizon, ATT, Sprint et al.
AND each new version of Quicktime installed Itunes insists on hooking ever deeper into the entrails of Windows...
Lazy is a pretty good description. The lack of mediation/arbitration and the drive to make the whole damn thing as mindlessly computer automated as possible is their problem.
Well "absolutely wrong" seems to be rather strong language. As someone who buys and sells on ebay I can say authoritatively that it sucks from both sides. Ebay is to blame and a lot of it has to do with a feedback system that is too inflexible and poorly designed for protecting the interests of buyers OR sellers. If ebay wants to recover its former glory, they really can't afford pissing off either group of users. I don't have much hope.
Another way to frame the question is whether an unknown band can use this kind of marketing, with their own website as the primary sales channel for their music, and reach the level of notoriety of NIN or Radiohead. It is theoretically possible, but I dare say that none have done it... yet. A followup questions is whether a positive answer to that question is really that important. The end of the megaband is hardly the end of music. I happen to think that they will still surface because I see them as more of a phenomena of human psychology then a product of the labels.
It is long past the time that a society should endure this kind of behavior from its corporate citizens. They violated the photographers copyright. They lost in court. They should simply pay. To do otherwise shows contempt for the photographer, the court and the society in general of which they are a part.
I am not a fan of vigilanteism. The court should have the authority and the power to enforce (not just impose it) the pentalty in timely fashion. Nevertheless, a company that uses its lawyers to delay the payment of a judgment such as this one forfeits its place of standing in its respective community. It deserves to be treated as an outcast, a pariah, and punished economicly. This is a worthwhile role for so-called new media
It seems that by definition you are part of a collective who believes that their individual votes don't count.
Your thinking is too reductionistic in that it neglects to take into account the collective attitudes of voters. You say that the probability of individual votes "counting" is negligible, but that is a position that quickly loses truth value when that attitude becomes a collective value. You potentially are assuming that the value would be spread equally between the different parties involved in an election, which may or may not be true. It is not hard to imagine an uneven distribution and the possibility that an election could be won more handily by the candidate/party who successfully projects the message that individual votes count.
Isn't it obviously unethical to you? The interest here is commercial, but typosquatting is done completely in bad faith. If you think this should be legal, I would not want to do business with you.
AC is exactly right. This isn't worthy of a patent. Convincing the court of this will nonetheless require educating people who are likely to be clueless as to WHY this is obvious. To those who disagree, please tell my why this deserves a patent and why any sane admin wouldn't think of it without Trend Micro's help?
The helmet is different because of the deeper (in the skull) heating effect. Me thinks a microwave would work great for this too. But only if you could master the correct power setting and duration. Burnt popcorn anyone?
I've seen sugarcane referenced repeatedly in various threads related to this story. Brazil uses primarily sugar beets. Yes, sugar cane needs near tropical conditions. Sugar beets do not.
Also... there is a quicker way to use switchgrass for fuel. Pellet it and burn it directly. There are pellet stoves that work fine for this. This takes less investment and for heating is the most straightforward way to go.
Yes, Intel has a long history of anticompetitive behaviour. I've read other posts basically saying "...AMD has created their own problems" but what people seem to forget is the incredibly capital intensive (and long term) nature of the processor business. When AMD had a real performance lead with the Athlon, Intel used their monopoply position to keep them from selling to as many OEMS as they might have. This likely depressed the prices and reduced capital that could have been used to build for the future.
Given that supposition that Intel is capable of this, you gotta wonder what they've done in other arenas to keep AMD down.
You're not against "torrenting", and yet you hate the 'downloading Linux' argument? Somehow I can't understand why or how you can put those statements together. Logically speaking, something is missing. Because otherwise this just doesn't parse out in a way that makes sense. Some bittorrent traffic is undeniably bits from Linux distros being thrown around. Go to openoffice.org and you can see that using bittorrent is an option there. What percentage of traffic for Linux distros legitimizes the argument you hate? It would seem to me that even a tiny percentage does.
Those replying to you seem to be limiting themselves to critiquing Roman Catholic priests. I am a United Methodist pastor and my perspective on "professional" ministers is very direct and confirms the majority to be hard working and generous people. There are posers in every group of people, but making reckless generalizations, as slashdotters are prone to do, only produces heat without light. As an example of work done in my conference, visit http://www.missioncentral.com/
Many of us donate time to work at the linked mission. They even have a computer ministry that recycles used computers.
I've been wondering about investing in Dell again after dropping them in the late 90's. I sure wish I'd done so with Apple circa 2002.
Personally I think the approach being taken by the big box stores is disingenuous. If you absolutely depend on the ignorance of your customers to stay in business then there is something wrong with your business model. Arguably, that is the case with BB, CC and the like. This is why I try to avoid them when I can, preferring to buy from small stores that offer better customer service and better pricing models. Shoot, I'll pay a little extra even. I also shop online from vendors that are good about returns and honor warranties.
I hardly ever reply to posts based on this reason, but your sig grabs my attention because in my view it conflicts with your post. You said:
Yet your sig suggests that you have not at all struggled with philosophy, epistemology and the limits of knowledge. Hoftstadter comes to mind when he discusses "The Propositional Calculus" in Godel, Escher and Back: The Eternal Golden Braid. From p. 192, after presenting an example of a debate resembling the style and content of Lewis Carroll, he writes:
You and I would agree that reason is waaaaaaaaaay undervalued. Nevertheless, I maintain that your sig represents a classic case of the false dichotomy.