Superb posting. I disagree that the Faramir episode had to be rewritten the way it was (I can see, of course, why it was done that way - to give the viewer some idea of the fallen city, but I don't think it was necessary to have Faramir succumb). But a superb posting nonetheless.
Read the date on the posting. It was April 1st when posted. As for the stopping at noon thing, that seems to be a local variation, as I never heard any such thing around here.
On an iBook, with 10.2.4, I don't have any battery issues. I can't get more than 3.5 hours by shutting off Airport, lowering the sound and screen brighteness, etc., while keeping my processor to full speed, but I imagine that if I lowered by processor speed I'd get pretty close to 5 hours.
For the most part, "we can export to XML" means "we've made up an XML vocabulary, and we can export to that; hope you don't mind cleaning it up with a little XSLT to make it presentable."
Interesting posting.
Plain text *programming languages*? Only an idiot would think that XML is a programming language. XSL is, but XSL is a special case because it usually incorporates XML markup within the output. For most "XML programming" choosy folks use PERL.
You have no idea what you're doing. It would be more like this:
<?xml version='1.0'?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="extensiblemarkuplanguage='suck'"> XML sucks as a programming language </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> X ML rules as a programming language </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
I didn't realize there were people subscribed to Dobbs that still don't understand the difference between code and data.
Read the thread. Nearly every XML sucks posting is by people who do not understand the difference between code and data - who do not understand the difference between a programming language (a way to manipulate data) and a markup language (a way to structure data).
XML was not intended for this use, though. Just because MS can abuse XML doesn't mean it's XML's fault. XML was intended for use with plain text, to provide the DOCUMENT STRUCTURE (NOT the formatting, which is what LaTeX is for).
Nope. Difference is this: a PA is serial. An MP3 archive can be parallel. You can have three people playing one MP3 at slightly offset times, while 3 more play three others. With a PA, the same song is played at the same time for all listeners. Thus for the sake of licensing, the PA is one license, the MP3 is at least 6 song/licenses.
Yes, so playing the music over a loudspeaker at the office is not a public performance. But that still doesn't make the idea of a shared MP3 repository kosher.
No, the 10K number is correct. Civilization etymologically implies trans-tribal communities. 30K you're not looking at societies, but small groups with no association with their neighbors.
Yes, it's easy to read, but most varients of COBOL and most especially the first ANSI COBOL was the absolute devil to WRITE -- and writing programs is what it is all about.
Of course, COBOL isn't for writing new programs - COBOL is for archaeology: fixing 20 year old stuff. Noone in his right mind would want to write a whole new codebase in it.
That's such bullshit. It's not any more a public performance than playing music on a PA at a party or gathering.
Unfortunately, if you charge for the party or gathering and mention the music on the ad, you may very well be straying into the legal area of "public performance." But IANAL.
But you're not talking about the music, you're talking about the software - the mp3 encoded representation of the music. Only one person would be "licensed" to decode an mp3 at a time; if he wanted his speakers blaring across the building, fine.
Arseholes? Assembly persons? Shite?? "Government rule"??? In American English, that's a55holes, congresspersons/representatives, sh1t, and "government regulation." Do you enjoy bashing other people's governments?
And as for the 10th amendment, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." That simply means that powers not reserved by the constitution to the Feds devolve to the states. Since the interstate commerce clause provides a gaping loophole here, it's not an issue for this legislation.
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File manager/desktop manager, basically.
Superb posting. I disagree that the Faramir episode had to be rewritten the way it was (I can see, of course, why it was done that way - to give the viewer some idea of the fallen city, but I don't think it was necessary to have Faramir succumb). But a superb posting nonetheless.
Read the date on the posting. It was April 1st when posted. As for the stopping at noon thing, that seems to be a local variation, as I never heard any such thing around here.
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Comeon, this isn't anywhere near as good as the working whitespace language. You're slipping.
On an iBook, with 10.2.4, I don't have any battery issues. I can't get more than 3.5 hours by shutting off Airport, lowering the sound and screen brighteness, etc., while keeping my processor to full speed, but I imagine that if I lowered by processor speed I'd get pretty close to 5 hours.
Just for giggles, when you finally decide it's time to release a 1.0, release it on April 1.
For the most part, "we can export to XML" means "we've made up an XML vocabulary, and we can export to that; hope you don't mind cleaning it up with a little XSLT to make it presentable." Interesting posting.
So you've never thrown an error due to a typo? You must be a magician.
XML is a markup language. Not a programming language. English is a language. Does that make it a programming language? Of course not.
Plain text *programming languages*? Only an idiot would think that XML is a programming language. XSL is, but XSL is a special case because it usually incorporates XML markup within the output. For most "XML programming" choosy folks use PERL.
You have no idea what you're doing. It would be more like this:
l :stylesheet>
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="extensiblemarkuplanguage='suck'">
XML sucks as a programming language
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
X ML rules as a programming language
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:template>
</xs
I didn't realize there were people subscribed to Dobbs that still don't understand the difference between code and data.
Read the thread. Nearly every XML sucks posting is by people who do not understand the difference between code and data - who do not understand the difference between a programming language (a way to manipulate data) and a markup language (a way to structure data).
XML was not intended for this use, though. Just because MS can abuse XML doesn't mean it's XML's fault. XML was intended for use with plain text, to provide the DOCUMENT STRUCTURE (NOT the formatting, which is what LaTeX is for).
XML isn't a language. It is a metalanguage. It is vague by design, to allow arbitrary languages to be created.
XML is not a programming panacea. It is for structured data.
Suck it up.
Nope. Difference is this: a PA is serial. An MP3 archive can be parallel. You can have three people playing one MP3 at slightly offset times, while 3 more play three others. With a PA, the same song is played at the same time for all listeners. Thus for the sake of licensing, the PA is one license, the MP3 is at least 6 song/licenses.
I was in on an early marketing thing for one of these in I don't know, 1999?
Yes, so playing the music over a loudspeaker at the office is not a public performance. But that still doesn't make the idea of a shared MP3 repository kosher.
No, the 10K number is correct. Civilization etymologically implies trans-tribal communities. 30K you're not looking at societies, but small groups with no association with their neighbors.
Yes, it's easy to read, but most varients of COBOL and most especially the first ANSI COBOL was the absolute devil to WRITE -- and writing programs is what it is all about.
Of course, COBOL isn't for writing new programs - COBOL is for archaeology: fixing 20 year old stuff. Noone in his right mind would want to write a whole new codebase in it.
I seem to remember that she was referring to a smaller Oakland, maybe a neighborhood in Philadelphia? I could be wrong, though.
That's such bullshit. It's not any more a public performance than playing music on a PA at a party or gathering.
Unfortunately, if you charge for the party or gathering and mention the music on the ad, you may very well be straying into the legal area of "public performance." But IANAL.
But you're not talking about the music, you're talking about the software - the mp3 encoded representation of the music. Only one person would be "licensed" to decode an mp3 at a time; if he wanted his speakers blaring across the building, fine.
The sceneario of taking a cd round to a friends house is a good example of this ambiguity. Am I allowed to lend him the cd ?
Yes.
is he allowed to make a copy ?
No.
if I regularly meet with my friends and play this cd does that constitute as a public performance ?.
Not unless you are charging either for the listening or to get into the venue for some other reason (bar, restaurant, etc.)
Am I allowed to backup my cd's ? (digitally ?).
Yes, well, in theory, well, until DMCA anyway....
Add in the issue of differences of copyright laws in other countries and the legal haziness just gets worse.
That's what the Berne convention was for.
was.
Arseholes? Assembly persons? Shite?? "Government rule"??? In American English, that's a55holes, congresspersons/representatives, sh1t, and "government regulation." Do you enjoy bashing other people's governments?
And as for the 10th amendment, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." That simply means that powers not reserved by the constitution to the Feds devolve to the states. Since the interstate commerce clause provides a gaping loophole here, it's not an issue for this legislation.