The problem with these laws is that they don't take into account how many people live in the house. It's perfectly reasonable to expect a couple with no kids to only produce 2 bags of trash a week, but if you have 3 kids, 2 of which are in diapers, then the two bags can fill up really fast. Also, there's no limit for people who live in apartment building who just throw their garbage down the chute. That's where a large percentage of the people live, and hence where a large percentage of the garbage comes from. Also, a lot of them don't recycle, because it's a lot easier to throw it down the chute than to take it down in the elevator, out back to the recycling bins.
One thing I find with English speaking people, is that they don't care so much about the pronunciation, or even if you use the correct grammar. Not that it doesn't matter, but that they are more tolerant of others who have less of a grasp of the language. One example. I was sending out a fax from a convenience store (in Ontario), and the clerk only knew French (talk about bad service). Anyway, I asked if I could borrow a pen and used the work "stylo" which is the word I've always used. She corrected me and said "plume", even though "stylo" is a perfectly cromulent word. I encounter stuff like this all the time with French people. If you don't use the correct (or expected) word, pronunciation, or grammar for what you're trying to say, then they act like they don't understand you, and even sometimes laugh about how badly you speak. Maybe it's just because I live in Canada an we are used to people who are speaking English as a second or third language, but I've never seen that kind of attitude from any english speaking person.
Depends on your definition of general. Fuel gets used for basically 1 thing. To make cars and other machines with internal combustion engines move. Plastics are used in the construction of just about everything. So, if you make fuel, you can sell it to people who need fuel. If you make plastic, you can sell it to people who need just about anything.
Just use Webdav and always use the shared drive. That way, you don't have to remember to upload. Ok, it's not quite as fast as a local drive, but it will get the job done. Personally I've tried running a home server, and it's just too much trouble. Between your cable connection cutting out, changing IP Addresses, it's just not worth the trouble.
Why not just get a shared hosting account. I'm currently getting 246 GB for 7.99 a month. A lot cheaper and a lot less maintenance than your solution. Plus you don't have to worry about your cable company getting angry with you for running a server.
I pay 7.99 a month for dream host, and I have 246 GB of data storage. Ok, I haven't actually tried to upload that much. Currently I have 1.5 gigs up there, but 246 GB is my quota. Why pay for something like.MAC when you can just get some shared hosting. You can use it as a website too. I'm surprised that more people don't have shared hosting plans. They are cheap, and provide you with a lot of features.
Did you read what I wrote? I said people don't want to be in a plane for 12 hours. Even if you draw a straight line as they do in over-the-pole flights from Canada to India, you are still in the air a very long time. You'd have to increase the flight speed dramatically in order to make that trip pleasant. According to this article, they can do San Fran to Mumbai in 16 hours. But who wants to be in the air that long? Even cutting the trip down to 10 hours would be too long for most people without a stopover.
But unless it's going quite a bit faster, it won't really help in connecting the cities. They had over-the-pole trips from Canada to India but I think they cancelled it, or very few people take it because it's such a long flight. People don't want to be stuck on a plane for that long. If you plan on travelling that far, it's much better to just make a 2 day trip out of it, or at least do a 5-6 hour stop-over to shop in Hong Kong.
I agree. One example (although not related to CSS) is how many PHP+MySQL examples you'll see where they're using queries constructed at run time and not prepared queries (prepared queries stored procedures). Personally I think that people shouldn't be using mysql_* and should be using something like PDO to make your code a little more database agnostic, but that's just me. Many of the examples you find on the net are just crap tutorials written up by people who are just starting out programming, saw some other really bad tutorial, and wanted to show of their 1337 skillz.
A book can be a very good resource. While learning by doing is definitely the best way to learn CSS and many other technologies, having a good reference book can be nice. Having a book that guides you through different examples can really help. I recently learned Regular Expressions by reading O'Reilly's Mastering Regular Expressions. While I didn't "Master Regular Expressions" by just reading the book, it gave me a nice starting point, and it's a great reference when I'm coding.
There's a difference between learning to shoot animals for food and learning to shoot people for fun. Granted, shooting people in games isn't the same as shooting people in real life, but saying stuff like this really doesn't help his image. Apparently I came off as saying this guy is guilty based on what he said. What I was actually trying to get across, is that the reason for the interview was that he was misunderstood, and he wanted an article that wouldn't cast him in a bad light, but this article did anything but that. Think about your average juror. How would most of them interpret what was said in the article?
For a game that really takes advantage of the Wii controller, check out Super Monkey Ball. I played it on the GC and like it, but it's completely different and so much better on the Wii.
It doesn't have much to do with it, but it doesn't help his case. How is this kind of stuff going to look when it's put in front of a jury. Missing car seats and washed car floors don't necessarily prove his guilt either, but it doesn't help his case. I also agree that the murder without a body is suspicious, especially since the kids are now in Russia, and it doesn't look like they are coming back. I'm not saying he's guilty, but this whole interview doesn't put him in a good light. Which is odd, because the interview starts off with the assumption that Reiser requested the interview to clear his name, and put himself in a good light.
From what I've read, he doesn't come off as very innocent. I read the article in the paper magazine last weekend, and he just seems like a really weird guy. Despite the fact that they picked this interviewer because they thought he would understand Reiser, because he is a misunderstood geek, he still came off as quite a weird guy. The whole part about playing battlefield vietnam with his 6 year old so he could "become a man" was just kind of weird, and really made me question his values. Not that I'm against kids playing violent games, but his whole reasoning behind it was just kind of creepy.
I'm saying that although 32 bit colour wasn't all that important, I know a lot of people who thought that 3DFX had terrible cards simply because they didn't support 32 bit. Nevermind that it was too slow to even use the feature most of the time, people liked knowing that their card supported 32 bit color, even if they could never use it. It seems to be the same thing hear. They're supporting high resolutions, just to say they support them, when in reality nobody is using these high resolutions because they actually don't look as good as the lower resolutions, because of reduced refresh rates.
Here's my question. If it's problematic for the radio station to work out deals with every owner of every song, then how does SoundExchange do it? Oh, wait, they don't. They have ties to all the RIAA music, but not all music, and yet they still insist that you pay the royalties, even if you don't play any music that's covered by their licensing fees. So if I set up a station and play classical music including Bach, Mozart, and a bunch of other guys who have been dead for a long time, the I still have to pay them. Sounds like extortion to me. Is there actually any way of getting out paying these fees if you don't actually play any music that they cover?
That's why I back up my photos to DVD. DVDRs are actually cheaper in Canada specifically because of this stupid levy. I don't even know anybody who stores pirated music on CD anymore. Most people just leave it on their hard drive, and then transfer from there to their MP3 player. I haven't bought CDRs in years.
However it's so easy to set up an internet radio station that anybody could do it. This creates thousands of more stations all with different owners. It's one thing for the RIAA to pay off ClearChannel to get their songs played on every second terrestrial radio station. It's another thing entirely to try to work out deals with thousands of independent online radio stations, many of which are probably against the RIAA, and would use any attempt to make a deal as a way to show just how evil they are.
How is this even legal? If they are collecting money for bands that aren't even affiliated with them, then they aren't giving these bands any money either, so basically they are just taking money. How do they define a song anyway. If I start up my own internet radio station, and it has no music, then I probably shouldn't have to pay them. However, if I sing "jingle bells" on air, will they now require that I pay them? What about the opening musical jingle to my radio talk show? What about if I'm a band and I let my fans stream my songs from my website for free? Does this count as an internet radio station?
Why not? Won't they be the ones that are really affected in the end? People who are paying for the streams are the ones who are most likely to be annoyed if the service goes down. If I'm using some free service, and it gets shut down, it kind of sucks, but I wasn't paying for it anyway. If I'm paying for a service, I'm kind of expecting that it will stick around, and would be quite mad if it got shut down by some stupid laws.
3DFX thought the same of 32 bit graphics. They were still making 16bit cards when everyone else was doing 32 bit. In reality they got killer performance from doing 16 bit, blowing every other card out of the water in 16 bit performace. Most of the cards that had 32 bit couldn't even run most of the stuff in 32 bit because it ran too slow. 3DFX didn't care that it didn't do 32 bit, because 32 bit was too slow, and didn't actually improve the game that much. Now 3DFX is gone. The problem is, is that a lot of gamers don't want to get the card that only supports 16bit graphics, or in this case only supports 1900x1280 resolution. Because they feel that they aren't getting as good of a product, even if they can't tell the difference.
If your analogy made any sense, then there would only be 1 model of car. What actually happens is that we have thousands of different models of cars, each with their own options. And there's also a lot of third party accessories that you can add to your car. If Joe Schmoe can pick out which car they want to buy out of the thousands of models available, I'm sure that most people could pick out an OS that works well for them. It would probably be even easier. Because if you're looking for a "sedan" you have about 18 billion choices (ok, maybe I'm exaggerating), but if you want a desktop OS, there's probably only about 15 really good competitive offerings, maybe less than 10. Sure there's tons of specialized distros, but most users won't even have to research those since they don't have those specialized needs.
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The problem with these laws is that they don't take into account how many people live in the house. It's perfectly reasonable to expect a couple with no kids to only produce 2 bags of trash a week, but if you have 3 kids, 2 of which are in diapers, then the two bags can fill up really fast. Also, there's no limit for people who live in apartment building who just throw their garbage down the chute. That's where a large percentage of the people live, and hence where a large percentage of the garbage comes from. Also, a lot of them don't recycle, because it's a lot easier to throw it down the chute than to take it down in the elevator, out back to the recycling bins.
One thing I find with English speaking people, is that they don't care so much about the pronunciation, or even if you use the correct grammar. Not that it doesn't matter, but that they are more tolerant of others who have less of a grasp of the language. One example. I was sending out a fax from a convenience store (in Ontario), and the clerk only knew French (talk about bad service). Anyway, I asked if I could borrow a pen and used the work "stylo" which is the word I've always used. She corrected me and said "plume", even though "stylo" is a perfectly cromulent word. I encounter stuff like this all the time with French people. If you don't use the correct (or expected) word, pronunciation, or grammar for what you're trying to say, then they act like they don't understand you, and even sometimes laugh about how badly you speak. Maybe it's just because I live in Canada an we are used to people who are speaking English as a second or third language, but I've never seen that kind of attitude from any english speaking person.
Depends on your definition of general. Fuel gets used for basically 1 thing. To make cars and other machines with internal combustion engines move. Plastics are used in the construction of just about everything. So, if you make fuel, you can sell it to people who need fuel. If you make plastic, you can sell it to people who need just about anything.
Just use Webdav and always use the shared drive. That way, you don't have to remember to upload. Ok, it's not quite as fast as a local drive, but it will get the job done. Personally I've tried running a home server, and it's just too much trouble. Between your cable connection cutting out, changing IP Addresses, it's just not worth the trouble.
Why not just get a shared hosting account. I'm currently getting 246 GB for 7.99 a month. A lot cheaper and a lot less maintenance than your solution. Plus you don't have to worry about your cable company getting angry with you for running a server.
I pay 7.99 a month for dream host, and I have 246 GB of data storage. Ok, I haven't actually tried to upload that much. Currently I have 1.5 gigs up there, but 246 GB is my quota. Why pay for something like .MAC when you can just get some shared hosting. You can use it as a website too. I'm surprised that more people don't have shared hosting plans. They are cheap, and provide you with a lot of features.
Did you read what I wrote? I said people don't want to be in a plane for 12 hours. Even if you draw a straight line as they do in over-the-pole flights from Canada to India, you are still in the air a very long time. You'd have to increase the flight speed dramatically in order to make that trip pleasant. According to this article, they can do San Fran to Mumbai in 16 hours. But who wants to be in the air that long? Even cutting the trip down to 10 hours would be too long for most people without a stopover.
But unless it's going quite a bit faster, it won't really help in connecting the cities. They had over-the-pole trips from Canada to India but I think they cancelled it, or very few people take it because it's such a long flight. People don't want to be stuck on a plane for that long. If you plan on travelling that far, it's much better to just make a 2 day trip out of it, or at least do a 5-6 hour stop-over to shop in Hong Kong.
Why not just use an editor that supports code highlighting. That way you'll be able to see that the stuff you just typed in isn't comments.
I agree. One example (although not related to CSS) is how many PHP+MySQL examples you'll see where they're using queries constructed at run time and not prepared queries (prepared queries stored procedures). Personally I think that people shouldn't be using mysql_* and should be using something like PDO to make your code a little more database agnostic, but that's just me. Many of the examples you find on the net are just crap tutorials written up by people who are just starting out programming, saw some other really bad tutorial, and wanted to show of their 1337 skillz.
A book can be a very good resource. While learning by doing is definitely the best way to learn CSS and many other technologies, having a good reference book can be nice. Having a book that guides you through different examples can really help. I recently learned Regular Expressions by reading O'Reilly's Mastering Regular Expressions. While I didn't "Master Regular Expressions" by just reading the book, it gave me a nice starting point, and it's a great reference when I'm coding.
There's a difference between learning to shoot animals for food and learning to shoot people for fun. Granted, shooting people in games isn't the same as shooting people in real life, but saying stuff like this really doesn't help his image. Apparently I came off as saying this guy is guilty based on what he said. What I was actually trying to get across, is that the reason for the interview was that he was misunderstood, and he wanted an article that wouldn't cast him in a bad light, but this article did anything but that. Think about your average juror. How would most of them interpret what was said in the article?
For a game that really takes advantage of the Wii controller, check out Super Monkey Ball. I played it on the GC and like it, but it's completely different and so much better on the Wii.
It doesn't have much to do with it, but it doesn't help his case. How is this kind of stuff going to look when it's put in front of a jury. Missing car seats and washed car floors don't necessarily prove his guilt either, but it doesn't help his case. I also agree that the murder without a body is suspicious, especially since the kids are now in Russia, and it doesn't look like they are coming back. I'm not saying he's guilty, but this whole interview doesn't put him in a good light. Which is odd, because the interview starts off with the assumption that Reiser requested the interview to clear his name, and put himself in a good light.
From what I've read, he doesn't come off as very innocent. I read the article in the paper magazine last weekend, and he just seems like a really weird guy. Despite the fact that they picked this interviewer because they thought he would understand Reiser, because he is a misunderstood geek, he still came off as quite a weird guy. The whole part about playing battlefield vietnam with his 6 year old so he could "become a man" was just kind of weird, and really made me question his values. Not that I'm against kids playing violent games, but his whole reasoning behind it was just kind of creepy.
Especially when the vote is in November, and the inauguration isn't until January. There's lots of time to count votes there.
I'm saying that although 32 bit colour wasn't all that important, I know a lot of people who thought that 3DFX had terrible cards simply because they didn't support 32 bit. Nevermind that it was too slow to even use the feature most of the time, people liked knowing that their card supported 32 bit color, even if they could never use it. It seems to be the same thing hear. They're supporting high resolutions, just to say they support them, when in reality nobody is using these high resolutions because they actually don't look as good as the lower resolutions, because of reduced refresh rates.
Here's my question. If it's problematic for the radio station to work out deals with every owner of every song, then how does SoundExchange do it? Oh, wait, they don't. They have ties to all the RIAA music, but not all music, and yet they still insist that you pay the royalties, even if you don't play any music that's covered by their licensing fees. So if I set up a station and play classical music including Bach, Mozart, and a bunch of other guys who have been dead for a long time, the I still have to pay them. Sounds like extortion to me. Is there actually any way of getting out paying these fees if you don't actually play any music that they cover?
That's why I back up my photos to DVD. DVDRs are actually cheaper in Canada specifically because of this stupid levy. I don't even know anybody who stores pirated music on CD anymore. Most people just leave it on their hard drive, and then transfer from there to their MP3 player. I haven't bought CDRs in years.
The American people don't have high gas prices. If you want high gas prices, just look north, to Canada, or even better, to Europe.
However it's so easy to set up an internet radio station that anybody could do it. This creates thousands of more stations all with different owners. It's one thing for the RIAA to pay off ClearChannel to get their songs played on every second terrestrial radio station. It's another thing entirely to try to work out deals with thousands of independent online radio stations, many of which are probably against the RIAA, and would use any attempt to make a deal as a way to show just how evil they are.
How is this even legal? If they are collecting money for bands that aren't even affiliated with them, then they aren't giving these bands any money either, so basically they are just taking money. How do they define a song anyway. If I start up my own internet radio station, and it has no music, then I probably shouldn't have to pay them. However, if I sing "jingle bells" on air, will they now require that I pay them? What about the opening musical jingle to my radio talk show? What about if I'm a band and I let my fans stream my songs from my website for free? Does this count as an internet radio station?
Why not? Won't they be the ones that are really affected in the end? People who are paying for the streams are the ones who are most likely to be annoyed if the service goes down. If I'm using some free service, and it gets shut down, it kind of sucks, but I wasn't paying for it anyway. If I'm paying for a service, I'm kind of expecting that it will stick around, and would be quite mad if it got shut down by some stupid laws.
3DFX thought the same of 32 bit graphics. They were still making 16bit cards when everyone else was doing 32 bit. In reality they got killer performance from doing 16 bit, blowing every other card out of the water in 16 bit performace. Most of the cards that had 32 bit couldn't even run most of the stuff in 32 bit because it ran too slow. 3DFX didn't care that it didn't do 32 bit, because 32 bit was too slow, and didn't actually improve the game that much. Now 3DFX is gone. The problem is, is that a lot of gamers don't want to get the card that only supports 16bit graphics, or in this case only supports 1900x1280 resolution. Because they feel that they aren't getting as good of a product, even if they can't tell the difference.
If your analogy made any sense, then there would only be 1 model of car. What actually happens is that we have thousands of different models of cars, each with their own options. And there's also a lot of third party accessories that you can add to your car. If Joe Schmoe can pick out which car they want to buy out of the thousands of models available, I'm sure that most people could pick out an OS that works well for them. It would probably be even easier. Because if you're looking for a "sedan" you have about 18 billion choices (ok, maybe I'm exaggerating), but if you want a desktop OS, there's probably only about 15 really good competitive offerings, maybe less than 10. Sure there's tons of specialized distros, but most users won't even have to research those since they don't have those specialized needs.