Grandparent is talking about where within the matching file the search string is, not where on the hard drive the matching file is.
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Actually, I think your example proves the opposite. ITV and Channel 5 are not offering terrible programming because the market wants it. On the contrary: ITV and Channel 5 are not nearly as popular as BBC programming. The problem lies with the TV executives who would rather go for easy sensationalist content with low risk, rather than provide useful and smart content like BBC. If the network executives would realize that more people would watch if the shows had real content, the private stations would be much more successful. I think, that if privatized, the BBC would still beat the commercial networks, simply by virtue of higher standards for content, leading to more viewers, and thus higher revenue from ads.
That's quite true. In fact, since all Chinese people have remote boxes in the UK to ssh into, there really is no effective censorship in China, and the fact that the Chinese government is even trying is more comical than scary.
Also, let's forget that China censors some sites totally, but also censors some sites only partially--blocking news items on touchy subjects like Taiwan, Xinjiang, and Tibet. We all know that the Chinese government is benevolent and fuzzy and happy, and the only people who say otherwise are those evil, racist, ignorant AmeriKKKans!
They already have these things, they're just not widely used except in featured articles. The footnote template allows you to cite things to endnotes. The endnotes can either be citations from books or links. It also has a nifty ISBN feature, which allows you to look up a cited book in an online bookseller by its ISBN number.
Doubtful that either amazon or google ads will appear though.
It's also a crying shame that the al-Qaeda cell that planned the 9/11 attacks was operationally based and then supported in Germany, and EU state. We can't just demand fingerprints from all the Muslim/Arab EUers, so we have to ask for it from all. It sucks that a few terrorists will ruin free and open travel between countries, but that's the deal.
the 20% per projects are "actively encouraged" - Joe suspects his review ratings might slip if he doesn't have one soon."
"I thought I remember you saying you wanted to express yourself. You do want to express yourself don't you? Well, I'm looking, and I still only see 15 pieces of flair. See Brian over there? He has 37 pieces of flair. Some people choose to do more, and we encourage that."
I can one-up that: I made by $3000 powerbook play Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" of Groundhog Day fame. I can't sleep through it, and I can't destroy my powerbook. All my roommates laugh at my way of waking up, but despite the willful-self-torture it's quite effective.
They use flash to prevent people from right-clicking to save your pictures. Extremely 1337.tec to prevent picture hax0r-pirates from stealing your copyright photos of dogs noses.
You have to wonder whether this will prompt some sort of sea change amongst Slashdotters. Has Apple crossed the Rubicon with this?
Personally, I think not. I see this affair as rather minor, and doesn't in any way deviate from previous Apple-lawyer mentality. In fact, their legal division has always been a pack of wolves, set out to be extremely aggressive. But that's different from Microsoft, which has the same mentality running through not only its legal department, but also its business, and development strategy cultures as well.
Yeah but you *know* the first thing Apple would do would be to make it a one-button remote...
(not a troll i swear, i own a powerbooks, mods don't hurt me...)
The sort-of do this already. They have changed from dictionary.com to answer.com for their search-term definitions. Answer.com scrapes certain content from Wikipedia. Indirectly what you've described has already happened.
Did anyone else notice that Answers.com scrapes info from Wikipedia? Google is one step closer to our favorite open encyclopedia. Weird. one can only imagine the possibilities when the two finally collide in some manner or another.
Mao slaughters 25 million of his own population: you buy his book and remark on its pretty red color.
The U.S. imprisons ~700 Afghans fighting alongside the Taliban and Al-Qaeda: you're so scandalized you get queasy and spit up on yourself.
The 100,000 estimate is neither conservative nor peer reviewed, and was rejected by nearly every credible expert the media has interviewed to date.
...China on one hand is a very modern, (mostly)Free Market economy, but the Government is still FIRMLY in control.
China not even close to being "mostly" free market. Only the areas along the coastline can actually take advantage of market mechanisms or the fruits of modernity. Up to 70% of the Chinese population is still locked in a pseudo-Communist agricultural sector. About 20% of the population (living on the coasts) could be called middle class (by Chinese standards, not Western standards), and about 10% are filthy rich because they're in the with corrupt party officials.
You are absolutely right, however, when you say that the Government is still firmly in control. Don't forget that.
Thanks a bunch. Unfortunately I don't add content to it much anymore, but I still do like to toy around with new themes.
That essay is actually written by a girl at my old high school. She emailed me to talk about this hang-out that my friends and I started. It has apparently continued to be a rather select hangout on the campus, even now, five years later.
That's debatable, but what's not debatable is that the flag picture posted by grand-parent most certainly does associate IP-freedom with the communist flags used by the USSR and China. That kind of association can only be damaging.
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Exhibit A why the EU Constitution tanked...
Saddam *did* try to assassinate former President Bush Sr. And look what we did to him (without UN sanction anyway)...
I don't know. Can you uninstall the kernel? ;)
Grandparent is talking about where within the matching file the search string is, not where on the hard drive the matching file is.
Actually, I think your example proves the opposite. ITV and Channel 5 are not offering terrible programming because the market wants it. On the contrary: ITV and Channel 5 are not nearly as popular as BBC programming. The problem lies with the TV executives who would rather go for easy sensationalist content with low risk, rather than provide useful and smart content like BBC. If the network executives would realize that more people would watch if the shows had real content, the private stations would be much more successful. I think, that if privatized, the BBC would still beat the commercial networks, simply by virtue of higher standards for content, leading to more viewers, and thus higher revenue from ads.
Someone needs to re-calibrate their sarcasm-o-meter...
Jesus, even planned parenthood, national organization for women, marxists.org, infidels.org and the UN are still up. Bushitler is really dropping the ball for the reich-publi-fascists...
That's quite true. In fact, since all Chinese people have remote boxes in the UK to ssh into, there really is no effective censorship in China, and the fact that the Chinese government is even trying is more comical than scary. Also, let's forget that China censors some sites totally, but also censors some sites only partially--blocking news items on touchy subjects like Taiwan, Xinjiang, and Tibet. We all know that the Chinese government is benevolent and fuzzy and happy, and the only people who say otherwise are those evil, racist, ignorant AmeriKKKans!
They already have these things, they're just not widely used except in featured articles. The footnote template allows you to cite things to endnotes. The endnotes can either be citations from books or links. It also has a nifty ISBN feature, which allows you to look up a cited book in an online bookseller by its ISBN number.
Doubtful that either amazon or google ads will appear though.
It's also a crying shame that the al-Qaeda cell that planned the 9/11 attacks was operationally based and then supported in Germany, and EU state. We can't just demand fingerprints from all the Muslim/Arab EUers, so we have to ask for it from all. It sucks that a few terrorists will ruin free and open travel between countries, but that's the deal.
"I thought I remember you saying you wanted to express yourself. You do want to express yourself don't you? Well, I'm looking, and I still only see 15 pieces of flair. See Brian over there? He has 37 pieces of flair. Some people choose to do more, and we encourage that."
(Yes I messed up the quote, shut up)
I can one-up that: I made by $3000 powerbook play Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" of Groundhog Day fame. I can't sleep through it, and I can't destroy my powerbook. All my roommates laugh at my way of waking up, but despite the willful-self-torture it's quite effective.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Unauthorized reproduction of AFP content is illegal. Please expect a letter from our lawyers very soon.
Love, AFP
P.S. We do hope you have $17.5 million lying around in a bank account somewhere, or else you are le screwed.
...is love, sweet love, no not just for one, but for eeeeeveryoooooone!!
They use flash to prevent people from right-clicking to save your pictures. Extremely 1337 .tec to prevent picture hax0r-pirates from stealing your copyright photos of dogs noses.
Personally, I think not. I see this affair as rather minor, and doesn't in any way deviate from previous Apple-lawyer mentality. In fact, their legal division has always been a pack of wolves, set out to be extremely aggressive. But that's different from Microsoft, which has the same mentality running through not only its legal department, but also its business, and development strategy cultures as well.
Yeah but you *know* the first thing Apple would do would be to make it a one-button remote... (not a troll i swear, i own a powerbooks, mods don't hurt me...)
Wall Street Confirms it: Apple is dying.
The sort-of do this already. They have changed from dictionary.com to answer.com for their search-term definitions. Answer.com scrapes certain content from Wikipedia. Indirectly what you've described has already happened.
Did anyone else notice that Answers.com scrapes info from Wikipedia? Google is one step closer to our favorite open encyclopedia. Weird. one can only imagine the possibilities when the two finally collide in some manner or another.
Mao slaughters 25 million of his own population: you buy his book and remark on its pretty red color.
The U.S. imprisons ~700 Afghans fighting alongside the Taliban and Al-Qaeda: you're so scandalized you get queasy and spit up on yourself.
The 100,000 estimate is neither conservative nor peer reviewed, and was rejected by nearly every credible expert the media has interviewed to date.
China not even close to being "mostly" free market. Only the areas along the coastline can actually take advantage of market mechanisms or the fruits of modernity. Up to 70% of the Chinese population is still locked in a pseudo-Communist agricultural sector. About 20% of the population (living on the coasts) could be called middle class (by Chinese standards, not Western standards), and about 10% are filthy rich because they're in the with corrupt party officials.
You are absolutely right, however, when you say that the Government is still firmly in control. Don't forget that.
Thanks a bunch. Unfortunately I don't add content to it much anymore, but I still do like to toy around with new themes. That essay is actually written by a girl at my old high school. She emailed me to talk about this hang-out that my friends and I started. It has apparently continued to be a rather select hangout on the campus, even now, five years later.
That's debatable, but what's not debatable is that the flag picture posted by grand-parent most certainly does associate IP-freedom with the communist flags used by the USSR and China. That kind of association can only be damaging.
I'm Seoul will send its thanks once Dear Leader safely rolls across the DMZ and reunites his peninsula...