hmm...I'm testing out this vimeo html5 player and I'm looking at the source...I see calls using mootools 1.11 to a mootools class named "Kaiser Soze".....gotta love programmers with a sense of humor.
it's a trap....didn't Microsoft do the same thing with other working groups (even other working groups of W3C)? Not including the OpenDocument/XML "issue".
it's not really free. Think of the price you'd have to pay for the rest of your life for these "free media".
In fact, I implore you to try being blind for a day....see how far you go.
Another thing, it's books (digitized form yes) not all media. I see no issues with loosening and standardizing restrictions to allow for Text-to-Speech. Currently, TTS is disabled on most ebooks (I personally think that's a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act...and I believe it was on slashdotaswell ).
Either way, I have a pet-peeve when it comes to profiting off people with disabilities or urgent needs (not "wants") which includes medicines. That's one of the ugliest sides to commercialism.
I think this one needs a no shit sherlock tag (and perhaps a pedobear icon)....
but yea...there's plenty of cursing in the game world...not just virtual worlds in MMOs.
But then again...if you consider the fact that in MMO's...you're hacking or slicing or using magic or something to kill and destroy....yea....at the very least, it should be rated "PG-13"
wait...what? isn't that a bad thing to do when your company is constantly being "under suspicion" and investigated for anti-trust violations?
Google can just throw the "anti-trust/anti-competitive" card in the mix and Microsoft will yet again be subjected to government scrutiny, much like that gray dude in the Trucker's Delight video....
Either way, I don't think he realizes that blocking search engines would spell a death-sentence to websites as it will kill off the steady flow of traffic to his websites and his competitors who don't block SEs will grow as they get more hits and advertisers in turn go to them. In a dog-eat-dog, ultra-competitive market as it is....this just might spell the end of Fox News and its associates (I'm sure the words "good riddance" were muttered by a boatload of Slashdot regulars)
there's no "objectivity" in that article. Shoot...just look at the Dutch plug (no pun intended): Two paragraphs, one sentence each. The UK one, it's like reading a biography.
That and there were some facts missing. Japan uses 100V not 110V GFCI sockets exist in the US The British mains (aka 230V mains) are much more potent so they needed shutters 'cuz it was killing kids (oh will someone think of the children!) Besides, the shutters are in the socket not the plug and guess what, shutters exist for other types OTHER than the British type (aka Type G).
Here's another kicker: just because there's a fuse in the plug, doesn't make it safer. A 13A fuse (the max) can fit in a 3A cord. In order for the fuse to cut the power, it has to melt but in this case, the cord will melt and catch on fire before the fuse does. FAIL A GFCI socket (which is fair to claim as the article brings in shutters on the Type G socket) will detect current even small amounts leaking to ground (a fault) and shut the power off immediately. There are even sockets that have other kinds of resettable circuit breakers as well. And some appliances have a fuse box on the back that's connected directly to the cord.
Now as far as shuttering goes, guess what...they have 'em for Type B too, known as tamper resistant meant to protect children from shock!
didn't 3-strikes get striked out in France or something (I just remember it was some country in Europe and it got a "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense" tag here on slashdot).
I wonder how this will fair with Finland, where Internet access (1Mbit/s now, 100Mbit/s by 2015) is a legal right.
seriously, with all the outrage from PC gamers over "variousneutering" of the game...who cares?
moreover, there have been more civilians killed by the bad guys in 24 who later end up getting their just-desserts from Jack Bauer (same goes for various Chuck Norris films).
ummm...there's a difference between "Stargate Universe" and "Stargate universe". One is the show (which has potential...but is not the same "stargate" like the others that have come and gone)
funny you should mention that....I didn't buy it from Apple or from AT&T....I bought it from a third-party that didn't impose the same limitations (and thanks to MediaMonkey, I'm not 100% bound to iTunes and its limits either)
obviously, I would have problems opening up my wallet....and I'll look for an alternative or write my own game that's similar...that's the beauty of both competition AND homebrewing.
have they ruled out the reason why they haven't sold any to those pirates is because...they aren't really pirates but people who despise the App Store and it's restrictions?
Of course, due to the terms and conditions that the developer signed with Apple, they can't release it on Cydia as a pay-ware. (if it was good and if it was on Cydia for a reasonable price, I have no problems opening up my wallet)
one of the biggest gripes I have with MySpace aside from the spam and difficulties in managing (or lack thereof) messages is the inability to keep myself logged in like Facebook and Twitter.
I live in Northern Cali now but grew up in SoCal so I know what smog is.
CARB is usually wrong (not just in terms of air) and it takes a lot of work to clean up after them as history has shown (thanks to concerned scientists who work on better solutions with REAL science)
In fact, a majority of the reputable scientists who refute the claims made by CARB are located in SoCal (UCLA, Claremont, Irvine, etc.)
CARB "scientists" aren't really considered as scientists by real scientists. Shoot, even one of the "scientists" from CARB faked his credentials.
CARB's also behind MTBE which nationally was mandated by the Federal Clean Air Act of 1990 but was predated by California's own state law, California Clean Air Act of 1988. And as early as 1986, there was a scientific report that stated that MTBE was a "bad cookie" (finding the exact copy is a tad difficult but it is referred by the USGS in a 1993 report)
A major local (to the Bay Area) opponent to CARB is Dr. Bill Wattenburg (an older version of his site is here)
And apparently, CARB wants to require particular" paints (PDF) and barring any scientific/engineering breakthrough, that probably means dark colored cars (black, dark blues, etc.)
And dang, CARB's budget for 2009-2010 is over 600 million, just the imagine how many teachers would have been spared lay-offs...or how many professors, TAs, faculty at UC/CSU schools would have been spared from furloughs.
an average user is more likely to get hit by it as they are more likely to have the Guest account "feature" active.
funny thing is....a friend of mine later found out that the backup utility (Time Machine) failed the last backup (aka..."set it and forget it" is flawed).
I'm more amazed that the system ignores user permissions (aka when you're not logged in as an user with admin permissions) and it proceeds to nuke files the user doesn't have "permission" to touch.
so much for "security" man...just imagine what those aliens could have down in ID4 if Jeff Goldblum had upgraded his mac from Leopard to Snow Leopard and had Guest Account enabled since Leopard....yah....we would've been screwed.
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hmm...I'm testing out this vimeo html5 player and I'm looking at the source...I see calls using mootools 1.11 to a mootools class named "Kaiser Soze".....gotta love programmers with a sense of humor.
if it pays the bills and keeps me from being homeless...I would...and I'm sure the millions who are unemployed on the brink would agree with me.
it's a trap....didn't Microsoft do the same thing with other working groups (even other working groups of W3C)?
Not including the OpenDocument/XML "issue".
that doesn't mean that you have to gouge them too.
it's not really free.
Think of the price you'd have to pay for the rest of your life for these "free media".
In fact, I implore you to try being blind for a day....see how far you go.
Another thing, it's books (digitized form yes) not all media.
I see no issues with loosening and standardizing restrictions to allow for Text-to-Speech.
Currently, TTS is disabled on most ebooks (I personally think that's a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act...and I believe it was on slashdot as well
).
Either way, I have a pet-peeve when it comes to profiting off people with disabilities or urgent needs (not "wants") which includes medicines.
That's one of the ugliest sides to commercialism.
I think this one needs a no shit sherlock tag (and perhaps a pedobear icon)....
but yea...there's plenty of cursing in the game world...not just virtual worlds in MMOs.
But then again...if you consider the fact that in MMO's...you're hacking or slicing or using magic or something to kill and destroy....yea....at the very least, it should be rated "PG-13"
bad thing is....we wouldn't be able to call them (as managers) retards without feeling guilty of doing something un-pc
wait...what? isn't that a bad thing to do when your company is constantly being "under suspicion" and investigated for anti-trust violations?
Google can just throw the "anti-trust/anti-competitive" card in the mix and Microsoft will yet again be subjected to government scrutiny, much like that gray dude in the Trucker's Delight video....
it's Murdoch...or maybe it should be Murdouch(e).
Either way, I don't think he realizes that blocking search engines would spell a death-sentence to websites as it will kill off the steady flow of traffic to his websites and his competitors who don't block SEs will grow as they get more hits and advertisers in turn go to them.
In a dog-eat-dog, ultra-competitive market as it is....this just might spell the end of Fox News and its associates (I'm sure the words "good riddance" were muttered by a boatload of Slashdot regulars)
the page itself says that firefox doesn't support mp4 videos in HTML5 due to some license restrictions.
there's no "objectivity" in that article.
Shoot...just look at the Dutch plug (no pun intended): Two paragraphs, one sentence each. The UK one, it's like reading a biography.
That and there were some facts missing.
Japan uses 100V not 110V
GFCI sockets exist in the US
The British mains (aka 230V mains) are much more potent so they needed shutters 'cuz it was killing kids (oh will someone think of the children!)
Besides, the shutters are in the socket not the plug and guess what, shutters exist for other types OTHER than the British type (aka Type G).
Here's another kicker: just because there's a fuse in the plug, doesn't make it safer. A 13A fuse (the max) can fit in a 3A cord. In order for the fuse to cut the power, it has to melt but in this case, the cord will melt and catch on fire before the fuse does. FAIL
A GFCI socket (which is fair to claim as the article brings in shutters on the Type G socket) will detect current even small amounts leaking to ground (a fault) and shut the power off immediately. There are even sockets that have other kinds of resettable circuit breakers as well.
And some appliances have a fuse box on the back that's connected directly to the cord.
Now as far as shuttering goes, guess what...they have 'em for Type B too, known as tamper resistant meant to protect children from shock!
didn't 3-strikes get striked out in France or something (I just remember it was some country in Europe and it got a "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense" tag here on slashdot).
I wonder how this will fair with Finland, where Internet access (1Mbit/s now, 100Mbit/s by 2015) is a legal right.
seriously, with all the outrage from PC gamers over "various neutering" of the game...who cares?
moreover, there have been more civilians killed by the bad guys in 24 who later end up getting their just-desserts from Jack Bauer (same goes for various Chuck Norris films).
ummm...there's a difference between "Stargate Universe" and "Stargate universe".
One is the show (which has potential...but is not the same "stargate" like the others that have come and gone)
funny you should mention that....I didn't buy it from Apple or from AT&T....I bought it from a third-party that didn't impose the same limitations (and thanks to MediaMonkey, I'm not 100% bound to iTunes and its limits either)
obviously, I would have problems opening up my wallet....and I'll look for an alternative or write my own game that's similar...that's the beauty of both competition AND homebrewing.
what happen to the obligatory tag that gets added on Slashdot to a post about Microsoft "opening up" something, the "itsatrap" tag.
here are some prime examples:
Microsoft Partially Opens Proprietary XML Format
(mainly because this happened: Microsoft Open Document Standard Not So Open)
Microsoft Releases Linux Device Drivers As GPL
in fact, there are plenty of other examples in the " itsatrap " tag-egory
is this the beginning of replicators (from the Stargate universe)?
have they ruled out the reason why they haven't sold any to those pirates is because...they aren't really pirates but people who despise the App Store and it's restrictions?
Of course, due to the terms and conditions that the developer signed with Apple, they can't release it on Cydia as a pay-ware.
(if it was good and if it was on Cydia for a reasonable price, I have no problems opening up my wallet)
one of the biggest gripes I have with MySpace aside from the spam and difficulties in managing (or lack thereof) messages is the inability to keep myself logged in like Facebook and Twitter.
actually, the california's clean air act predates the national clean air act.
either way...I think it's actually the technology getting better that's the main culprit.
I live in Northern Cali now but grew up in SoCal so I know what smog is.
CARB is usually wrong (not just in terms of air) and it takes a lot of work to clean up after them as history has shown (thanks to concerned scientists who work on better solutions with REAL science)
In fact, a majority of the reputable scientists who refute the claims made by CARB are located in SoCal (UCLA, Claremont, Irvine, etc.)
CARB "scientists" aren't really considered as scientists by real scientists.
Shoot, even one of the "scientists" from CARB faked his credentials.
CARB's also behind MTBE which nationally was mandated by the Federal Clean Air Act of 1990 but was predated by California's own state law, California Clean Air Act of 1988.
And as early as 1986, there was a scientific report that stated that MTBE was a "bad cookie" (finding the exact copy is a tad difficult but it is referred by the USGS in a 1993 report)
A major local (to the Bay Area) opponent to CARB is Dr. Bill Wattenburg (an older version of his site is here)
And apparently, CARB wants to require particular" paints (PDF) and barring any scientific/engineering breakthrough, that probably means dark colored cars (black, dark blues, etc.)
And dang, CARB's budget for 2009-2010 is over 600 million, just the imagine how many teachers would have been spared lay-offs...or how many professors, TAs, faculty at UC/CSU schools would have been spared from furloughs.
Not to forget the CARB vs Diesel fiasco
then it's flawed
not true.
an average user is more likely to get hit by it as they are more likely to have the Guest account "feature" active.
funny thing is....a friend of mine later found out that the backup utility (Time Machine) failed the last backup (aka..."set it and forget it" is flawed).
I'm more amazed that the system ignores user permissions (aka when you're not logged in as an user with admin permissions) and it proceeds to nuke files the user doesn't have "permission" to touch.
so much for "security"
man...just imagine what those aliens could have down in ID4 if Jeff Goldblum had upgraded his mac from Leopard to Snow Leopard and had Guest Account enabled since Leopard....yah....we would've been screwed.