Actually I spoke too soon and am going to take back what I said. I loaded up the page in Opera 6.0 and the margin -30 is supposed to fix a bug in Opera 6.0's rendering of lists. In fact, it's the very same problem I ran into while designing some webpages a few weeks ago that annoyed me to no end. Basically, Opera 6.0 indents list items by about 30 pixels to the right, unlike other browsers. Thus that -30 value is there to correct that problem. Opera 7.0 doesn't exhibit that tabbing effect (thus consistant with the latest IE and Mozilla browsers). Apparently MSN is serving Opera 7.0 the same CSS sheet as Opera 6.0 even though 7.0 works best when it's served the same style sheet as IE. Thus, saying that this problem is browser sabotage is too strong of an accusation.
So does the patent imply that if I myself were to read a sentence composed of One Stroke (tm) letters using the pateneted algorithm, I would be violating Xerox's IP?
Better yet, just tune out of Time Warner. Let's face it, the United States is a workaholic nation. I know way too many people who work themselves to near death just so that they can afford the latest video game systems, pay off their monthly cable bills, or buy the latest DVD. They do this so they can relax? Yeah, they sure do look relaxed slamming their down their game controller and swearing at their video game console whenever the computer opponent defeats them. Time Warner's online services are 99.5% entertainment. Even CNN.com in which most of the so-called news is about celebrities (I can definitely live without hearing any of that crap), homocide suicides (Columbine-- again that was some good entertainment especially when everybody had to vocalize their own opinion about the incident), and advertisements (company XYZ releases new shiny gadget-- it's a phone and a toaster all in one). The entertainment industry thrives on a vicious circle-- the more stressed out a person feels, the more that person feels entitled to, say, watching a movie. The more movies that person watches, the more they must work to pay for the tickets. The more they work, the more stress they must endure, and thus they feel like they deserve more. The cycle repeats ad infinitum.
Personally, I'll be glad when America just says no to all of these entertainment fees. The content industry must reduce its million dollar salaries and Americans will actually take a breather. No longer concerned about having to pay for their entertainment, they may actually reduce their stress the only way possible-- by not working so goddamn hard. That'd be great because the entertainment industry is making America's stressed-out workaholic culture worse.
Turn off the sports channel, log-out of the sports news sites, turn off the soccer video game, stop raising your bloodpressure about all the advertisements you must endure while keeping up with your favorite teams, and learn how to play a sport yourself.
Heh, not to mention the xterm window skewed at 30 degrees. Ahh. I mean if your boss came into your office and saw this or this, he'd wonder what the heck was wrong with your computer.
It's quite possible the current political parties are very disappointing and they do not follow the will of the voters but the will of those with money. We are stuck with a bipartisian mediocrity and cannot easily elect third parties to office due to flaws in the U.S. democratic process. For example, representatives and senators are elected as all or nothing-- if 20% of the population votes for a particular independant party, there is no guarantee that any person of that party is elected. In some European countries, the equivalent of representatives are elected by percentage-- in this case 20% of the representatives will be from the independant party. Likewise, voters for the presidential elections have only one choice, whereas in other democratic countries, voters choose the candidates in the order of preference. This prevents the whole Greens vs. Democrats problem that plagued the previous presidential election, in which Green voters (who'd rather have a Democratic president than a Republican even though voting Green may tip the scales and cause a Republican to win office). Not to mention presidents aren't even chosen by popular vote...
Remember the second amendment! Don't let the government disarm the people.
Wow! I bet next you are going to tell me your company will produce a keyboard using this technology. It will receive it's power through your secure RF medium and thus not need to have it's batteries replaced. I want all the technology your company will produce because I'm sure tired of replacing the batteries in my keyboard, mouse, hard drive, sound module, headphones, etc. Sure the batteries last a couple of months for each device, but when you got about a dozen GrueMolar (tm) devices, battery changes happen roughly once every three days.
What we are seeing is the beginning of western capitalism's demise. Ironically, it is collapsing into a form of privatized communism. Never before have people had such debt as they do now. Never before have there been so many articles concerning the power wielded by megacorporations. George "Dubya" Bush profitted over $300,000 from Enron and I have yet to see him return any portion of it to the Enron employees who lost their money in the scandal. Let's face it, America's government is corrupt. Politicians will get away with anything as long as Joe Blow remains glued to his television set or Bill Gheek writes a letter to his congressman, which for all practical purposes means he sent his thoughts to/dev/null. The United States is no longer a democracy. Both political parties merged into a "non-bipartisian" mediocrity whose will follows the money trail, not election votes.
Remember the second amendment! A government can only do good if it fears its own people.
I hate those stupid lists! My state has a no call list and they want money for people to sign up. WTF???? Why not create a list of people who want to be called by telemarketers?
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Actually I spoke too soon and am going to take back what I said. I loaded up the page in Opera 6.0 and the margin -30 is supposed to fix a bug in Opera 6.0's rendering of lists. In fact, it's the very same problem I ran into while designing some webpages a few weeks ago that annoyed me to no end. Basically, Opera 6.0 indents list items by about 30 pixels to the right, unlike other browsers. Thus that -30 value is there to correct that problem. Opera 7.0 doesn't exhibit that tabbing effect (thus consistant with the latest IE and Mozilla browsers). Apparently MSN is serving Opera 7.0 the same CSS sheet as Opera 6.0 even though 7.0 works best when it's served the same style sheet as IE. Thus, saying that this problem is browser sabotage is too strong of an accusation.
Corporate mob rule is what it is. It's only going to get worse, folks.
So does the patent imply that if I myself were to read a sentence composed of One Stroke (tm) letters using the pateneted algorithm, I would be violating Xerox's IP?
Better yet, just tune out of Time Warner. Let's face it, the United States is a workaholic nation. I know way too many people who work themselves to near death just so that they can afford the latest video game systems, pay off their monthly cable bills, or buy the latest DVD. They do this so they can relax? Yeah, they sure do look relaxed slamming their down their game controller and swearing at their video game console whenever the computer opponent defeats them. Time Warner's online services are 99.5% entertainment. Even CNN.com in which most of the so-called news is about celebrities (I can definitely live without hearing any of that crap), homocide suicides (Columbine-- again that was some good entertainment especially when everybody had to vocalize their own opinion about the incident), and advertisements (company XYZ releases new shiny gadget-- it's a phone and a toaster all in one). The entertainment industry thrives on a vicious circle-- the more stressed out a person feels, the more that person feels entitled to, say, watching a movie. The more movies that person watches, the more they must work to pay for the tickets. The more they work, the more stress they must endure, and thus they feel like they deserve more. The cycle repeats ad infinitum.
Personally, I'll be glad when America just says no to all of these entertainment fees. The content industry must reduce its million dollar salaries and Americans will actually take a breather. No longer concerned about having to pay for their entertainment, they may actually reduce their stress the only way possible-- by not working so goddamn hard. That'd be great because the entertainment industry is making America's stressed-out workaholic culture worse.
Turn off the sports channel, log-out of the sports news sites, turn off the soccer video game, stop raising your bloodpressure about all the advertisements you must endure while keeping up with your favorite teams, and learn how to play a sport yourself.
Heh, not to mention the xterm window skewed at 30 degrees. Ahh. I mean if your boss came into your office and saw this or this, he'd wonder what the heck was wrong with your computer.
It's quite possible the current political parties are very disappointing and they do not follow the will of the voters but the will of those with money. We are stuck with a bipartisian mediocrity and cannot easily elect third parties to office due to flaws in the U.S. democratic process. For example, representatives and senators are elected as all or nothing-- if 20% of the population votes for a particular independant party, there is no guarantee that any person of that party is elected. In some European countries, the equivalent of representatives are elected by percentage-- in this case 20% of the representatives will be from the independant party. Likewise, voters for the presidential elections have only one choice, whereas in other democratic countries, voters choose the candidates in the order of preference. This prevents the whole Greens vs. Democrats problem that plagued the previous presidential election, in which Green voters (who'd rather have a Democratic president than a Republican even though voting Green may tip the scales and cause a Republican to win office). Not to mention presidents aren't even chosen by popular vote...
Remember the second amendment! Don't let the government disarm the people.
Wow! I bet next you are going to tell me your company will produce a keyboard using this technology. It will receive it's power through your secure RF medium and thus not need to have it's batteries replaced. I want all the technology your company will produce because I'm sure tired of replacing the batteries in my keyboard, mouse, hard drive, sound module, headphones, etc. Sure the batteries last a couple of months for each device, but when you got about a dozen GrueMolar (tm) devices, battery changes happen roughly once every three days.
What we are seeing is the beginning of western capitalism's demise. Ironically, it is collapsing into a form of privatized communism. Never before have people had such debt as they do now. Never before have there been so many articles concerning the power wielded by megacorporations. George "Dubya" Bush profitted over $300,000 from Enron and I have yet to see him return any portion of it to the Enron employees who lost their money in the scandal. Let's face it, America's government is corrupt. Politicians will get away with anything as long as Joe Blow remains glued to his television set or Bill Gheek writes a letter to his congressman, which for all practical purposes means he sent his thoughts to /dev/null. The United States is no longer a democracy. Both political parties merged into a "non-bipartisian" mediocrity whose will follows the money trail, not election votes.
Remember the second amendment! A government can only do good if it fears its own people.
I hate those stupid lists! My state has a no call list and they want money for people to sign up. WTF???? Why not create a list of people who want to be called by telemarketers?