This may be true in some circumstances, but try making a large purchase at once (around $4k) and Visa won't let the purchase go through without a representative phoning the store and getting verbal assurance that the clerk has seen a valid ID.
Exactly. The only point of having a URL associated with a DTD is to assure a unique identifier for each one. It wasn't worth starting a group specifically to regulate DTD identifiers, so they hooked it to a system that's already regulated. Yeah, it's nice to have the DTD live at that location, so if you get a file with a reference to an unfamiliar DTD you can pull it down on the spot, but it shouldn't be required.
Funny... I moved from Iowa to Seattle a couple years back, and I like the theaters out here a lot better. I'm more of an indie buff, though, and that tends to draw less of the annoying types, and more people to talk about the movies with after.
The original files that compose a site are not the problem. You can throw all the raw CSS you can find into memory and not make a dent. The problem is that Firefox is saving the final DOM that's parsed out of those original source files. That's a lot bigger than the raw data, and it's not something that "simple" websites do any better at.
Flash is actually SMALLER than some alternatives, when done correctly. Vector graphics are extremely small compared to any pixel-based format you can name. Of course, then some flash developers slam their flash app so full of pixel-based images it takes minutes to download on fast broadband, but that's going to take the same amount of time whether the images are wrapped inside flash or not.
You're not going to the right movies with the right people. I've had none of the bad experiences you have, and all of the good ones you've missed, and I go to at least 100 movies a year. About half of those are festival showings, but even so. A lot of the theater experience is what you make of it.
Plenty of people go see movies in theaters. It's pretty hard to replicate that experience in the average home. Your implication that there's no way to make money off movies but selling individual copies is flawed.
That's fair. Looking back at it, I was misreading the statement.
I do stand by my statement that there are a lot of users out there who just find it works for them, and aren't fanatical about it. He makes it sound like all users are two steps away from being marxists or something. (not that this is a bad thing, but you see my point)
Lord knows anyone who uses Linux or free and open source software is dedicated to spreading the gospel of St. Linus Torvalds and St. Richard Stallman.
I interpreted this as implying that both the projects and the users are fanatics. I think there are plenty of coders out there who just want to share some stuff, and plenty of users who use the product for logical, non-cult reasons as well.
By the same token, a lot of OSS projects aren't released by people who are fanatical about the GPL. Claims of the article's author to the contrary, there are plenty of open source projects that are just hobby applications that weren't worth charging for, and the creators wanted to see their work survive and be useful to a larger group of people.
Amen. The writers and actors for the show are great, and part of being good at that job is that you can pull off the slower, more personal dramatic stories as well as the large space battles and galaxy-spanning intrigue. It's good to get to see them try something different, and not have every episode be the exact same tone as all the others.
As much as I take issue with the SciFi channel canceling amazing shows (see: Farscape), this is not one of those times. The 4th season is, I'm almost positive, a 22 episode season. Well, Ron Moore is on record saying that he'd do 2 more 13 episode seasons, or a single 22-23 episode season, and in that time he felt like he could bring the story to the conclusion that he'd been working towards. Now, I suppose part of that might be ending early to make sure they GET an ending, but this is not just SciFi killing a great show. They've had a definite climax planned for the story, and if they can reach it in one season, and not have as much filler as in season 2.5 and 3.5, I'm all for it.
Someone should print off one of the/. threads that predicted the Wii vs. PS3 performance over a year ago, and send it to Sony. Possibly with a xerox of some buttocks attached as well.
As long as we have the hardware, we can always take back control. It may just mean things like resorting to building a new network from scratch, either wired or wireless. There's always a way, if people want it badly enough.
I question whether even the RIAA has enough time on its hands to go after internet radio stations playing amateur flute music. Usually this kind of thing is either automated (looking for tracks by artists they're sure are being played without contract or payment) or complaint-based.
If they actually start enforcing this, I'm just going to start an internet radio station with my own music. Other artists should do the same. Just let them try to sue me for royalties on music that I wrote/recorded/produced.
If you do, you'll be waiting for quite a long time. This arrangement doesn't apply to situations where an explicit contract is present, such as in the case of creating a station with your own music. It only applies if you want to use someone else's music without going to them for permission.
Either they're assuming that the person making such a foolish argument is aware that it's foolish, or else they've concluded that they don't even understand the theory they're supporting (ID), and don't want to waste their time with them. Either way, it's the person raising the question who has failed, not the one they're confronting.
Blood, sex and booze. Drugs, drugs, drugs are fun. Stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, s... t... a... b..., puke. So I had this dream last night where I went into a building, pulled out two P90s and started shooting everyone, then had sex with the dead bodies. Well, not really, but it would be funny if I did.
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as a teacher, don't be surprised on inspiring the first CG shooting.
Every write-up I've seen also insists on calling it an "essay", when it was really a free-writing exercise conducted in class. They were specifically supposed to go stream of consciousness, and not censor what they were writing.
Can you explain why ongoing implementation following a fixed ruleset makes evolutionists STFU? Evolution would be such a ruleset, wouldn't it?
No. Intelligent Design specifically claims that random chance, even guided by a logical ruleset such as evolution, is not sufficient to produce the complexity found in low-level structural pieces of biological systems.
This is probably completely legally unsound, but wouldn't it make a difference as to what they were contracted to do? I.E. "we want to buy some software that does x, y, and z from you" as opposed to, "we want to pay you to build for us this software which does x, y, and z".
The only place I see high Vista update is colleges, because everyone buys a new laptop to go to college, and unless they buy a MacBook (which more and more are!), they're getting Vista.
Nope. In the SUMMARY of the story you're posting under it points out that Dell has reintroduced XP as an option on the configuration page when buying a new system. And they did this because so many people called in to request it. A new computer is no longer a guaranteed Vista sale.
Ah, sorry. Yes, I agree that they have more time to spend on character, and on story. I still maintain that there are plenty of stories that don't NEED more than a movie length to portray, so it's not a question of "TV is better than movies because they have more time". Both can be mediums for fantastic stories.
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This may be true in some circumstances, but try making a large purchase at once (around $4k) and Visa won't let the purchase go through without a representative phoning the store and getting verbal assurance that the clerk has seen a valid ID.
Exactly. The only point of having a URL associated with a DTD is to assure a unique identifier for each one. It wasn't worth starting a group specifically to regulate DTD identifiers, so they hooked it to a system that's already regulated. Yeah, it's nice to have the DTD live at that location, so if you get a file with a reference to an unfamiliar DTD you can pull it down on the spot, but it shouldn't be required.
Funny... I moved from Iowa to Seattle a couple years back, and I like the theaters out here a lot better. I'm more of an indie buff, though, and that tends to draw less of the annoying types, and more people to talk about the movies with after.
Flash is not larger than fonts either...
The original files that compose a site are not the problem. You can throw all the raw CSS you can find into memory and not make a dent. The problem is that Firefox is saving the final DOM that's parsed out of those original source files. That's a lot bigger than the raw data, and it's not something that "simple" websites do any better at.
Flash is actually SMALLER than some alternatives, when done correctly. Vector graphics are extremely small compared to any pixel-based format you can name. Of course, then some flash developers slam their flash app so full of pixel-based images it takes minutes to download on fast broadband, but that's going to take the same amount of time whether the images are wrapped inside flash or not.
You're not going to the right movies with the right people. I've had none of the bad experiences you have, and all of the good ones you've missed, and I go to at least 100 movies a year. About half of those are festival showings, but even so. A lot of the theater experience is what you make of it.
Plenty of people go see movies in theaters. It's pretty hard to replicate that experience in the average home. Your implication that there's no way to make money off movies but selling individual copies is flawed.
That's fair. Looking back at it, I was misreading the statement.
I do stand by my statement that there are a lot of users out there who just find it works for them, and aren't fanatical about it. He makes it sound like all users are two steps away from being marxists or something. (not that this is a bad thing, but you see my point)
By the same token, a lot of OSS projects aren't released by people who are fanatical about the GPL. Claims of the article's author to the contrary, there are plenty of open source projects that are just hobby applications that weren't worth charging for, and the creators wanted to see their work survive and be useful to a larger group of people.
Amen. The writers and actors for the show are great, and part of being good at that job is that you can pull off the slower, more personal dramatic stories as well as the large space battles and galaxy-spanning intrigue. It's good to get to see them try something different, and not have every episode be the exact same tone as all the others.
As much as I take issue with the SciFi channel canceling amazing shows (see: Farscape), this is not one of those times. The 4th season is, I'm almost positive, a 22 episode season. Well, Ron Moore is on record saying that he'd do 2 more 13 episode seasons, or a single 22-23 episode season, and in that time he felt like he could bring the story to the conclusion that he'd been working towards. Now, I suppose part of that might be ending early to make sure they GET an ending, but this is not just SciFi killing a great show. They've had a definite climax planned for the story, and if they can reach it in one season, and not have as much filler as in season 2.5 and 3.5, I'm all for it.
Queen's stuff from the 70s was better, though... they need to put Liar in GH. Good lord, would that be awesome.
Someone should print off one of the /. threads that predicted the Wii vs. PS3 performance over a year ago, and send it to Sony. Possibly with a xerox of some buttocks attached as well.
As long as we have the hardware, we can always take back control. It may just mean things like resorting to building a new network from scratch, either wired or wireless. There's always a way, if people want it badly enough.
I question whether even the RIAA has enough time on its hands to go after internet radio stations playing amateur flute music. Usually this kind of thing is either automated (looking for tracks by artists they're sure are being played without contract or payment) or complaint-based.
Either they're assuming that the person making such a foolish argument is aware that it's foolish, or else they've concluded that they don't even understand the theory they're supporting (ID), and don't want to waste their time with them. Either way, it's the person raising the question who has failed, not the one they're confronting.
This is probably completely legally unsound, but wouldn't it make a difference as to what they were contracted to do? I.E. "we want to buy some software that does x, y, and z from you" as opposed to, "we want to pay you to build for us this software which does x, y, and z".
Nonsense. I've worked on a number of ASP websites that behaved perfectly under Firefox.
Ah, sorry. Yes, I agree that they have more time to spend on character, and on story. I still maintain that there are plenty of stories that don't NEED more than a movie length to portray, so it's not a question of "TV is better than movies because they have more time". Both can be mediums for fantastic stories.