The CBC actually has a mandate to deliver the shows in the most relevant way for the public to get them. It's the same way a lot of their content is offered on podcast. It's the way that people want to listen to the radio, so they get it that way. In the same way, people want to be able to download TV shows using bittorrent, so they are trying to see how well it works. Limiting access to the CBC distributed shows is probably illegal in qutie a few ways.
Just because you can cut the iron, doesn't stop it from being iron. Iron clad doesn't mean inpenetrable, it simple means really hard to penetrate. If you are going to go through the trouble of blowing the door off a bank vault with C4, you can have the money. If you're going to go through the trouble to shoot me for my password, you can have it.
Seriously? This article may be to technical for the general public (on the Chimera article). Since when should everything be able to be understood by everyone as soon as they read it. What do you think all the links are to all the other articles. So you can read up on all the other stuff and educate yourself. Probably a little off-topic, but that one blew my mind. I wonder if Brittanica has little disclaimers like that.
I'll one up you, and promote the use of the pass phrase. Seriously. Sites with 8 character maximums or only alphanumeric passwords annoy me to no end. There's no reason you shouldn't allow people to use 300 character pass phrases if they so wish.
Thing is, I remember Thomas the Tank Engine from when I was a kid. And I'm 27. It's not like it's some new thing to come along. As far as kids knowing what brands are, I really don't think they do. They know what characters they like. A regular train is boring. A talking train with a smiley face with a bunch of friend trains and a little conductor he talks to is actually interesting to the child. My oldest (other one is only 5 months, so she doesn't recognize much yet) knows who Dora is, all the Sesame Street characters. I don't think that it has really adverse effects on her. She eats yogurt, and doesn't care what name is on the container, as long as it tastes good.
No, but they can write their own code that does exactly the same thing, and compete with you. If you have a patent on a concept, not only can they not take your code and produce proprietary products with those features, but they can't even write their own code implementing those features. However, I'm not sure that it will do much good. Big corps will just breach the patent anyway, and fight with their lawyers.
What about when the patent runs out? Why even patent it at all, and risk the information being leaked. Better to just keep it secret. It's not like anybody building a nuclear bomb is worried about getting charged with patent infringement.
Well, you're not getting much enjoyment or money out of it. If it's not worth the cost of a theatre ticket for you to register your domain for a year, I would ask why you even want to have one.
All people who drive are criminals. They are killing the environment.:P. Ok on a more serious note, it sucks, but it's probably the only way to keep the squatters away. Make it not financially viable to operate, and they will go away. However, I would support that the extra fees go to charities, so that they can be put to better use than lining the pockets of verisign.
I think last time I updated my.ca address it was $20 a year. Not that expensive. $100 a year seems a little prohibitive. Especially if it's just for personal use.
If you can't manage to afford $25 a year for your website, you could just go with yourband.myspace.com, or something along those lines. $25 is pretty minimal. It's about the same as a couple packs of guitar strings.
If your running a website, the $9 registration fee is pretty minimal. If you can't afford that, you probably aren't getting much out of having your site anyway.
I personally think the problem is with Adblock. Tons of people seem to report problems with memory usage, and a lot of people use adblock. The group may not necessarily be correlated, but it's worth investigating. I don't use Adblock, and have never had a problem with memory usage. You should try disabling it for a few days to see if that clears up the problem. I don't have to use adblock, because years of being bombarded with ads has given me mental adblock, which means even though the ads are in my field of view, I don't notice them.
Since you can save your session, is there really any reason to be keeping your browser open for 3 days. Granted, I also keep my browser window open for days on end, but I rarely see it go past 150M of memory usage. I suspect it's probably some extension you are running that is consuming all the memory.
Yeah, I remember getting Linux to work on my brother's analog TV under Linux. Editing modelines to get it to look correct. Lots of fun there. Linux certainly has come a long way.
Which is why on my Linux box, I prefer having an Intel video card. I don't do much (if any) gaming on it, so graphics don't really matter too much to me. So I would rather have something that was really stable over something that got me 400 FPS (when the refresh rate is only 60-100 Hz).
What feature on your web browser doesn't run under a limited user. There's no reason you can't start Firefox (or any other browser) as a different user, and just do everything else with your regular old admin user.
Yeah, I mean they have entire applications written in Java, and it's run on web servers and everything, I just don't see why Java applets are so unpopular. It takes a while to get rid of the negative momentum. It's kind of like with Javascript (yes, I know, no relation), I still hate it from the memories of NS4 VS. IE. Even though now with the DOM, it's actually quite nice to program in, and you rarely have to do browser hacks. I think one thing they need to do is get the JVM plugin to start faster. It really sucks when you visit a site and your computer pauses for 20 seconds while it loads the plugin.
If it has almost none of the features of the real photoshop, why call it photoshop? If this is the first taste somebody has of "photoshop", they may well be turning away a lot of customers. It would be like making a product called MS Word Express, and giving them notepad.
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The CBC actually has a mandate to deliver the shows in the most relevant way for the public to get them. It's the same way a lot of their content is offered on podcast. It's the way that people want to listen to the radio, so they get it that way. In the same way, people want to be able to download TV shows using bittorrent, so they are trying to see how well it works. Limiting access to the CBC distributed shows is probably illegal in qutie a few ways.
Ah, yes. A gated community where the cops can't even get in. Don't you feel safe now.
Just because you can cut the iron, doesn't stop it from being iron. Iron clad doesn't mean inpenetrable, it simple means really hard to penetrate. If you are going to go through the trouble of blowing the door off a bank vault with C4, you can have the money. If you're going to go through the trouble to shoot me for my password, you can have it.
Seriously? This article may be to technical for the general public (on the Chimera article). Since when should everything be able to be understood by everyone as soon as they read it. What do you think all the links are to all the other articles. So you can read up on all the other stuff and educate yourself. Probably a little off-topic, but that one blew my mind. I wonder if Brittanica has little disclaimers like that.
I'll one up you, and promote the use of the pass phrase. Seriously. Sites with 8 character maximums or only alphanumeric passwords annoy me to no end. There's no reason you shouldn't allow people to use 300 character pass phrases if they so wish.
Thing is, I remember Thomas the Tank Engine from when I was a kid. And I'm 27. It's not like it's some new thing to come along. As far as kids knowing what brands are, I really don't think they do. They know what characters they like. A regular train is boring. A talking train with a smiley face with a bunch of friend trains and a little conductor he talks to is actually interesting to the child. My oldest (other one is only 5 months, so she doesn't recognize much yet) knows who Dora is, all the Sesame Street characters. I don't think that it has really adverse effects on her. She eats yogurt, and doesn't care what name is on the container, as long as it tastes good.
No, but they can write their own code that does exactly the same thing, and compete with you. If you have a patent on a concept, not only can they not take your code and produce proprietary products with those features, but they can't even write their own code implementing those features. However, I'm not sure that it will do much good. Big corps will just breach the patent anyway, and fight with their lawyers.
I believe that a lot of people would be happy to slap that on a resume. It could be quite useful in getting nice job.
Guinness FTW.
What about when the patent runs out? Why even patent it at all, and risk the information being leaked. Better to just keep it secret. It's not like anybody building a nuclear bomb is worried about getting charged with patent infringement.
Well, you're not getting much enjoyment or money out of it. If it's not worth the cost of a theatre ticket for you to register your domain for a year, I would ask why you even want to have one.
All people who drive are criminals. They are killing the environment. :P. Ok on a more serious note, it sucks, but it's probably the only way to keep the squatters away. Make it not financially viable to operate, and they will go away. However, I would support that the extra fees go to charities, so that they can be put to better use than lining the pockets of verisign.
I think last time I updated my .ca address it was $20 a year. Not that expensive. $100 a year seems a little prohibitive. Especially if it's just for personal use.
What customers?
If you can't manage to afford $25 a year for your website, you could just go with yourband.myspace.com, or something along those lines. $25 is pretty minimal. It's about the same as a couple packs of guitar strings.
If your running a website, the $9 registration fee is pretty minimal. If you can't afford that, you probably aren't getting much out of having your site anyway.
If it's a real person, and they actually want to talk to you, they'll figure they got disconnected somehow and call right back.
I personally think the problem is with Adblock. Tons of people seem to report problems with memory usage, and a lot of people use adblock. The group may not necessarily be correlated, but it's worth investigating. I don't use Adblock, and have never had a problem with memory usage. You should try disabling it for a few days to see if that clears up the problem. I don't have to use adblock, because years of being bombarded with ads has given me mental adblock, which means even though the ads are in my field of view, I don't notice them.
You could always use webkit on windows, either by using Safari, or Konquerer
Since you can save your session, is there really any reason to be keeping your browser open for 3 days. Granted, I also keep my browser window open for days on end, but I rarely see it go past 150M of memory usage. I suspect it's probably some extension you are running that is consuming all the memory.
Yeah, I remember getting Linux to work on my brother's analog TV under Linux. Editing modelines to get it to look correct. Lots of fun there. Linux certainly has come a long way.
Which is why on my Linux box, I prefer having an Intel video card. I don't do much (if any) gaming on it, so graphics don't really matter too much to me. So I would rather have something that was really stable over something that got me 400 FPS (when the refresh rate is only 60-100 Hz).
What feature on your web browser doesn't run under a limited user. There's no reason you can't start Firefox (or any other browser) as a different user, and just do everything else with your regular old admin user.
Yeah, I mean they have entire applications written in Java, and it's run on web servers and everything, I just don't see why Java applets are so unpopular. It takes a while to get rid of the negative momentum. It's kind of like with Javascript (yes, I know, no relation), I still hate it from the memories of NS4 VS. IE. Even though now with the DOM, it's actually quite nice to program in, and you rarely have to do browser hacks. I think one thing they need to do is get the JVM plugin to start faster. It really sucks when you visit a site and your computer pauses for 20 seconds while it loads the plugin.
If it has almost none of the features of the real photoshop, why call it photoshop? If this is the first taste somebody has of "photoshop", they may well be turning away a lot of customers. It would be like making a product called MS Word Express, and giving them notepad.