I wasn't aware of this! I note however that rather than handling XML as XML, MS have decided to do things _a bit different_ as usual; so namespaces look kind of like XML Namespace spec namespaces, but actually, they're not.
Just to be clear, I'm just assuming the who "intent" thing myself... other than that, I can see no difference between Goog and TPB, so I just guessed that's why they've been found guilty. But I might very well be wrong though!
Not only that, but Google link to TPB... so where TPB is one link away from copyrighted material, Google is *TWO* links away! Or is that not quite enough to get sued?
Following that line of thought, it is possible to Google search TPB: whatever filetype:torrent site:http://thepiratebay.org/
Maybe being called "The Pirate Bay" and having a picture of a pirates ship as a logo... I dunno... maybe it wasn't such a great move? If they'd called the site "Super Swedish Torrents" or something, and maybe avoided anything that gave the slightest hint the the site was intended for downloading copyrighted material, then *maybe* their case would've been stronger.
On a related note, if the difference between Google and TPB is their "intent", then wouldn't Google be guilty anyway because they link to TPB? Or does the whole guilt thing only work when it's a one-hop-link?!
Not that I'd ever do anything of the sort..... but just supposing someone created a website with an embedded Google search on it, defaulted to filetype:torrent?
I'm sure that would be legally okay, but lets suppose the site was called thepiiiiratebay.org [Yarrrr!!] and had, I dunno, a picture of a pirate ship on it. You _could_ _maybe_ _argue_ that the name and picture show the intended purpose of the site, but otherwise, I can't see how that could be any more illegal than Google is.
I agree. I think the problem here is that different roles often overlap, so in many organisations, the "designer" (the person with graphic design/artistic skills) can also do the HTML/CSS. But in other cases (my own for example), the designers create page compositions that _someone_ else then codes up as HTML/CSS. In my case I also do any server-side programming and I also configure the server/DNS and email where required... but I guess each of these tiers is really a different role.
I the person involved with HTML/CSS usually also deals with JavaScript, so I guess they qualify as a developer, but clearly that's distinct from server-side work.... albeit there's overlap again.
Hmmmm... okay, if we look at other non-web related programming activities, we might call someone a "Programmer" or "Developer", but we don't bother to actually specify what types of code they specialise in, or indeed if this includes database work. Whilst we can assume that someone who is a "Programmer" will likely be able to understand many languages, and will likely be able to write SQL, we can't assume they'll be good at it.
So, if we called a HTML/CSS (+ optional JavaScript) coder a "Web Developer", I think that would be a reasonable title. When recruiting someone I think "Web Developer" would be a reasonable title and the description would list the specific skills required, but I do feel that the word "Designer" does imply someone with graphic design skills and that should be separate.
..and whilst this isn't a cough-cure, it does make me feel much much better! Plus, unlike most cough remedies, I can drink as many as I like without worrying about ODing.
That's what they did by default [if my memory serves me], but you could install something (or change a config option or something) that allowed floppy detection *without* the clicks. I believe the reason Commodore didn't do this by default was because they couldn't be sure it would work with all floppy drives.... just like Win95 I guess!
But, I have installed WordPress for a client of mine, and whilst I like that you can setup users with different roles (from memory they are Admin/Author/Editor... and maybe another one), it's *really* dumb that the person who gets sent emails regarding blog comments is the administrator. *I'm* the Administrator because I want to be able to configure the site, but I don't care at all about the blog posts or comment -- my client can handle that. But I found the WP would only send blog comments to Administrator users... in fact, it might've just been a single email address that blog-comments were emailed too rather than all admin users.
Whatever - it seemed like a not clever bit of design. I can imagine it works for a lot of WP users since they're fully managed by one user, but if they've gone to the trouble of setting up user roles, why didn't someone think of this?!
End-Rant!
Otherwise... I do like Wordpress. It is very easy to setup and fairly easy to customise.
I don't think it's a "flash" player. AFAIK its a media player that works with YouTube... so either it reads.flv files or YouTube delivers special content for the iPhone.
what is it about desktop Linux, and specifically Ubuntu, that has Microsoft spooked?
I doubt it's so much that Ubuntu might steal desk/laptop marketshare - as stated, Apple has more - it's that it squeezes Microsofts margins. Apple are and will likely continue to be comparatively expensive, so they'll never take a huge share.... no bad thing for Apple though, 'cos they make a good margin on what they sell whilst always appearing to be a premium product.
Conversely, Ubuntu (and all Linux variants) are from a marketing perspective, low-end/cheap products. Consequently there's no margin, and thus far, no incentive for OEMs to ship because of this.
However, time are a changing! People are looking to lower their costs, and right now, the MS component of a desk/laptop computer is the most expensive. With Ubuntu continually improving, it's getting to the point where it is viable in terms of driver availability and application availability. I guess a lot of Microsofts customers (both enterprise and OEMs) are probably asking exactly *why* they should pay what MS is asking when a viable alternative exists; these customers don't want to switch if they can avoid it -- it's a bunch of work/risk for them, but at the same time the cost savings mean MS is very likely being forced to compromise on the prices it charges.
I'm not sure what they can do though! They can try to increase the perceived value of the product... maybe... dunno how though. Or they can try to lock people in more, so I'd imagine Sliverlight rather than IE is the likely plan here? That with online services (tied to.Net) might do it.
MS gained the share they have because they were cheaper than the alternatives, not because they were particularly good. Right now, they kind of neither.... I _can_ see how a complete out-of-the-box solution for small businesses (less than 20 employees? and no actual IT manager) could be good, so if I was MS, I'd target them I think. I can't see how they're going to continue where the target market understands IT though.
If I were to buy the Windows version and then attempt to get the refund, how much would I get back? I'm asking not 'cos I'm likely to do this, but I'm interested given the rumour that MS are basically giving XP away right now rather than have Linux get a foot-hold.... so I'm guessing the refund must be pretty small change also?
I think they could target more customers if they sold Workstation as a security and recovery product, so it could provide firewalling, packet inspection and virus scanning outside of the guest OS.
'cos as it stands, *loads* of individuals and small companies will buy into virus protection, but they don't buy Workstation.... obviously the cost of Workstation as it stands is too high for these markets, and the product is overkill for these users anyway, but the services it provides could be useful.
I'm seeing IE6 usage near 20% these days (I'm in the UK btw), and once it gets below 10% (9.99% will be enough for me!) then I'll be making less effort to accommodate it in new web sites. It'll take me *considerably* less time to develop web sites when I don't need to worry about IE6.... so I'm looking forward to that day!:D
Oh... and my point was that you'll probably find IE6 is less supported on many websites over the next year or two.
I never understand why it [ext3] needs checking anyway; I thought the point of journaling was that it can recover if there is a power outage or whatever whilst writing, so FS integrity is assured?
And if there is a risk of corruption due to power outage (or hard crash), then why not write a/forcefsck when the system boots, and remove it when the system shuts down. That way, if the system is not cleanly shutdown, this can be automatically detected and an fsck run then and only then?!
MS do compete with Apple in so far as Apple are taking market share from them.
Between Apple and Linux, MS are being squeezed; this ain't a great place to be because there isn't much that can be done with their current strategy (assuming they actually have one). Obviously the *huge* revenues still being generated and *vast* war chest they have will help... so MS will be with us for a few years yet even if they don't radically change. But longer term, they do need to do something to stop the slide!
I doubt MS is particularly worried about any single player -- none will ever dominate like MS does now, but equally, MS is badly placed right now and appears to lack direction.
Except many new computer sales are to replace older computers; for home users in particular, they may be replacing hardware that is 5 years or more old, so a netbook may well be more powerful than the computer it is replacing.
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I wasn't aware of this! I note however that rather than handling XML as XML, MS have decided to do things _a bit different_ as usual; so namespaces look kind of like XML Namespace spec namespaces, but actually, they're not.
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Sigh.... same-old same-old MS!
Just to be clear, I'm just assuming the who "intent" thing myself... other than that, I can see no difference between Goog and TPB, so I just guessed that's why they've been found guilty. But I might very well be wrong though!
lol - good find!
Not only that, but Google link to TPB... so where TPB is one link away from copyrighted material, Google is *TWO* links away! Or is that not quite enough to get sued?
Following that line of thought, it is possible to Google search TPB:
whatever filetype:torrent site:http://thepiratebay.org/
So surely if TPB are guilty, Google must be too!!
Maybe being called "The Pirate Bay" and having a picture of a pirates ship as a logo... I dunno... maybe it wasn't such a great move? If they'd called the site "Super Swedish Torrents" or something, and maybe avoided anything that gave the slightest hint the the site was intended for downloading copyrighted material, then *maybe* their case would've been stronger.
On a related note, if the difference between Google and TPB is their "intent", then wouldn't Google be guilty anyway because they link to TPB? Or does the whole guilt thing only work when it's a one-hop-link?!
Not that I'd ever do anything of the sort..... but just supposing someone created a website with an embedded Google search on it, defaulted to filetype:torrent?
I'm sure that would be legally okay, but lets suppose the site was called thepiiiiratebay.org [Yarrrr!!] and had, I dunno, a picture of a pirate ship on it. You _could_ _maybe_ _argue_ that the name and picture show the intended purpose of the site, but otherwise, I can't see how that could be any more illegal than Google is.
I agree. I think the problem here is that different roles often overlap, so in many organisations, the "designer" (the person with graphic design/artistic skills) can also do the HTML/CSS. But in other cases (my own for example), the designers create page compositions that _someone_ else then codes up as HTML/CSS. In my case I also do any server-side programming and I also configure the server/DNS and email where required... but I guess each of these tiers is really a different role.
I the person involved with HTML/CSS usually also deals with JavaScript, so I guess they qualify as a developer, but clearly that's distinct from server-side work.... albeit there's overlap again.
Hmmmm... okay, if we look at other non-web related programming activities, we might call someone a "Programmer" or "Developer", but we don't bother to actually specify what types of code they specialise in, or indeed if this includes database work. Whilst we can assume that someone who is a "Programmer" will likely be able to understand many languages, and will likely be able to write SQL, we can't assume they'll be good at it.
So, if we called a HTML/CSS (+ optional JavaScript) coder a "Web Developer", I think that would be a reasonable title. When recruiting someone I think "Web Developer" would be a reasonable title and the description would list the specific skills required, but I do feel that the word "Designer" does imply someone with graphic design skills and that should be separate.
That's what they did by default [if my memory serves me], but you could install something (or change a config option or something) that allowed floppy detection *without* the clicks. I believe the reason Commodore didn't do this by default was because they couldn't be sure it would work with all floppy drives.... just like Win95 I guess!
Christ knows why this got -1, I'd mod you up if I got the chance.
Because "ringbarer" is on the secret /. mods Neg-list(TM)? ;)
2020 will be the year of the UrgulbungerOS desktop... mark my words! ;)
you've been waiting years for this moment haven't you?
I've not used Joomla! so I can't compare it.
... in fact, it might've just been a single email address that blog-comments were emailed too rather than all admin users.
But, I have installed WordPress for a client of mine, and whilst I like that you can setup users with different roles (from memory they are Admin/Author/Editor... and maybe another one), it's *really* dumb that the person who gets sent emails regarding blog comments is the administrator. *I'm* the Administrator because I want to be able to configure the site, but I don't care at all about the blog posts or comment -- my client can handle that. But I found the WP would only send blog comments to Administrator users
Whatever - it seemed like a not clever bit of design. I can imagine it works for a lot of WP users since they're fully managed by one user, but if they've gone to the trouble of setting up user roles, why didn't someone think of this?!
End-Rant!
Otherwise... I do like Wordpress. It is very easy to setup and fairly easy to customise.
I don't think it's a "flash" player. AFAIK its a media player that works with YouTube... so either it reads .flv files or YouTube delivers special content for the iPhone.
what is it about desktop Linux, and specifically Ubuntu, that has Microsoft spooked?
I doubt it's so much that Ubuntu might steal desk/laptop marketshare - as stated, Apple has more - it's that it squeezes Microsofts margins. Apple are and will likely continue to be comparatively expensive, so they'll never take a huge share.... no bad thing for Apple though, 'cos they make a good margin on what they sell whilst always appearing to be a premium product.
.Net) might do it.
Conversely, Ubuntu (and all Linux variants) are from a marketing perspective, low-end/cheap products. Consequently there's no margin, and thus far, no incentive for OEMs to ship because of this.
However, time are a changing! People are looking to lower their costs, and right now, the MS component of a desk/laptop computer is the most expensive. With Ubuntu continually improving, it's getting to the point where it is viable in terms of driver availability and application availability. I guess a lot of Microsofts customers (both enterprise and OEMs) are probably asking exactly *why* they should pay what MS is asking when a viable alternative exists; these customers don't want to switch if they can avoid it -- it's a bunch of work/risk for them, but at the same time the cost savings mean MS is very likely being forced to compromise on the prices it charges.
I'm not sure what they can do though! They can try to increase the perceived value of the product... maybe... dunno how though. Or they can try to lock people in more, so I'd imagine Sliverlight rather than IE is the likely plan here? That with online services (tied to
MS gained the share they have because they were cheaper than the alternatives, not because they were particularly good. Right now, they kind of neither.... I _can_ see how a complete out-of-the-box solution for small businesses (less than 20 employees? and no actual IT manager) could be good, so if I was MS, I'd target them I think. I can't see how they're going to continue where the target market understands IT though.
If I were to buy the Windows version and then attempt to get the refund, how much would I get back? I'm asking not 'cos I'm likely to do this, but I'm interested given the rumour that MS are basically giving XP away right now rather than have Linux get a foot-hold.... so I'm guessing the refund must be pretty small change also?
I think they could target more customers if they sold Workstation as a security and recovery product, so it could provide firewalling, packet inspection and virus scanning outside of the guest OS.
'cos as it stands, *loads* of individuals and small companies will buy into virus protection, but they don't buy Workstation.... obviously the cost of Workstation as it stands is too high for these markets, and the product is overkill for these users anyway, but the services it provides could be useful.
Mozilla should include a Linux OS extension with Firefox then. And install it by default! :D
I've not tested _extensively_ but 180 drivers work fine with my GeForce 6200; certainly an improvement over 177.
I'm seeing IE6 usage near 20% these days (I'm in the UK btw), and once it gets below 10% (9.99% will be enough for me!) then I'll be making less effort to accommodate it in new web sites. It'll take me *considerably* less time to develop web sites when I don't need to worry about IE6.... so I'm looking forward to that day! :D
Oh... and my point was that you'll probably find IE6 is less supported on many websites over the next year or two.
I never understand why it [ext3] needs checking anyway; I thought the point of journaling was that it can recover if there is a power outage or whatever whilst writing, so FS integrity is assured?
/forcefsck when the system boots, and remove it when the system shuts down. That way, if the system is not cleanly shutdown, this can be automatically detected and an fsck run then and only then?!
:D
And if there is a risk of corruption due to power outage (or hard crash), then why not write a
But I guess I'm missing something!
MS do compete with Apple in so far as Apple are taking market share from them.
Between Apple and Linux, MS are being squeezed; this ain't a great place to be because there isn't much that can be done with their current strategy (assuming they actually have one). Obviously the *huge* revenues still being generated and *vast* war chest they have will help... so MS will be with us for a few years yet even if they don't radically change. But longer term, they do need to do something to stop the slide!
I doubt MS is particularly worried about any single player -- none will ever dominate like MS does now, but equally, MS is badly placed right now and appears to lack direction.
But if you just want to check email and surf a bit? A lot of people don't use their computers for much.
I say Apple should hire Stephen Fry... although I don't know if he has the business skills, but he does seem to understand their products.
;)
Actually, thinking about it, probably Apple has the least need. Microsoft should hire SF as a consultant!
Except many new computer sales are to replace older computers; for home users in particular, they may be replacing hardware that is 5 years or more old, so a netbook may well be more powerful than the computer it is replacing.