I would like to humbly thank you for an apparently considered and seemingly expert reply, in which you used no explicit language, nor did you employ ad hominem devices.
This is a stark contrast to the textually violent outbursts commonly found in response to unqualified statements hereabouts.
So eBay purchases Skype, thereby vastly increasing its effective client base. Not what I would have predicted - everyone's favourite not-being-evil search organisation didn't get to buy Skype after all.
But imagine the power in a purchase or alliance the two ultra heavyweights... EBay's worth too much for Google to buy outright at current prices (> $50bn) but the resulting search and information possibilities would be mind boggling if they could integrate effectively.
Even if they fix it, though, the problem quickly becomes about the huge installed user base. They certainly won't retrospectively fix IE6, so we'll all still be catering for bad previous versions...
At least we will have the ability to determine whether our legal CDs will be playable in our equally legal car CD-players.
People have already got a way to copy the media: a well shielded audio cable. However, many feel that everything must remain in the ever-perfect digital realm until the last split second before it reaches our ears... and then they listen to it at 128kbps in MP3 format. Go figure. [Use Ogg, it's better!]
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I trust I'm not the only one noticing that the screenshot they use in TFA is particularly relevant?
Suffice to say it features two important characters, both holding guns...
I would like to humbly thank you for an apparently considered and seemingly expert reply, in which you used no explicit language, nor did you employ ad hominem devices.
This is a stark contrast to the textually violent outbursts commonly found in response to unqualified statements hereabouts.
Bravo.
- M
So eBay purchases Skype, thereby vastly increasing its effective client base. Not what I would have predicted - everyone's favourite not-being-evil search organisation didn't get to buy Skype after all.
But imagine the power in a purchase or alliance the two ultra heavyweights... EBay's worth too much for Google to buy outright at current prices (> $50bn) but the resulting search and information possibilities would be mind boggling if they could integrate effectively.
- M
I fail it.
Even if they fix it, though, the problem quickly becomes about the huge installed user base. They certainly won't retrospectively fix IE6, so we'll all still be catering for bad previous versions...
- M
At 18MB we'll see how strong the Force is with said webserver, I'm sure.
At least we will have the ability to determine whether our legal CDs will be playable in our equally legal car CD-players.
People have already got a way to copy the media: a well shielded audio cable. However, many feel that everything must remain in the ever-perfect digital realm until the last split second before it reaches our ears... and then they listen to it at 128kbps in MP3 format. Go figure. [Use Ogg, it's better!]
Matt