What I wonder is why anyone thinks disbarment will make any difference in terms of his crusade against gaming? If Fox News et al were trusting his status as an expert in the field before, this won't change that.
If there is no law to protect your rights, then you only have whatever rights you can guarantee for yourself. Some people would rather not go back to the stone age.
Sometimes is the operative word. I think you would rather society protect your freedom to live, versus you know someone else's right to kill you. These things must be weighed by society.
Not supporting the runaway winner of the current generation of consoles seems like a very poor business decision, but I guess we should expect that from Capcom whose business model seems to specifically avoid innovation.
This is one of the reasons I enjoy At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper. On that show they discuss the movies and usually I get the sense that they are considering the genre aspect of them. Ebert has been ill and not on the show for quite some time, but Roeper has a guest critic every week. Check it out online.
I love the TiVo easter egg for enabling 30-second skip. I don't know how I lived without it before. I've heard of Myth and other software DVRs stripping out commercials altogether, but I enjoy the TiVo service.
to sell us something, spin the information we get and otherwise screw with our reality in a way that works to somebody else's advantage at our expense You just summed up the modern world.
Especially with the validator's stupidity in treating & signs in the href attribute of my a elements as the beginning of an entity which it's not!/rant >.> That's 'cause it should be &.;)
As a professional web developer, I am surprised that this is even news. I would have found it surprising if they were using a WYSIWYG application to generate their site. I don't know of any huge sites that do this. Some get by using a CMS, but they're generally more limited in scope and more vanilla in nature.
That is a good point. But, at least for the time being, the average person isn't likely to be using VoIP; thus vastly fewer and probably more technologically savvy people making voice calls in flight.
Naturally, this notion didn't go over well on Slashdot at all. If we have our way, the law will go unchanged, and tracks will continue to have royalties of anywhere between $0.08 and $0.25. I missed that article, so I can't weigh in, but from past experience here I would imagine the sentiment was that they didn't believe the intention was to cut those costs in order to lower prices, but rather to increase management profits.
I couldn't disagree more. I use allofmp3.com as an example because people were spending substantial aggregate money there en masse in order to use a convenient, non-crippled, reasonably-priced, easy-to-use service.
If the industry could manage to open a store exactly like it, they would make plenty of money from the moral majority who don't mind paying for things. But they expect market forces to answer to their demands.
Firefox 3 Beta 5 scores only 71/100 compared to 75/100 for Safari 3.1 and 79/100 for the latest Opera 9.5 snapshot I thought it was reported a few days ago that Safari was around 95% and Opera had achieved 100%? I can't be bothered to search the/. archive.:P
I have NEVER heard ANYTHING said on an airliner's PA system which made one whit of difference to me. Sure there are things that aren't that important, but I usually like to know things I've heard on the PA like "we're landing at a different airport due to weather."
Cool. I'm glad the newest wave of consumer WAPs are starting to support this, but I would not consider that "average" since it will take a while for all of these to be replaced.
Also, as I mentioned in another response, none of this is all that relevant since they still ship with the security features off.
I've never seen one that doesn't support at MINIMUM WEP. Me neither, but you almost never see any security features on by default. I know it's hard to imagine approaching a product that intimidates and confuses you, but it's definitely not unusual for the average consumer to want it to "just work" out of the box. This works against security features since some level of knowledge is required to understand the need, and from the manufacturers point of view it makes the most sense to ship with the most broad configuration.
If you choose the (not suggested) option of not running the wizard, aren't you pretty much saying that you WANT it open? This is a matter of user education, which in my experience with technology takes some doing. Granted WAPs have improved over time in this regard with setup wizards and the like, but it will take a while for that knowledge to percolate into general use.
don't broadcast an SSID I'm not sure that your average consumer-grade WAP supports the ability to disable SSID broadcasting. Can you substantiate that?
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What I wonder is why anyone thinks disbarment will make any difference in terms of his crusade against gaming? If Fox News et al were trusting his status as an expert in the field before, this won't change that.
In this case the GPL is restricting the "right" of commerical vendors to restrict the "rights" of the downstream recipient. It's not arbitrary at all.
If there is no law to protect your rights, then you only have whatever rights you can guarantee for yourself. Some people would rather not go back to the stone age.
Sometimes is the operative word. I think you would rather society protect your freedom to live, versus you know someone else's right to kill you. These things must be weighed by society.
Sometimes to protect the freedom of something, you must restrict the freedom of something else. At least that's the argument I've heard.
One needn't rely on the UA. IE has the ability to load version-specific stylesheets merely from coding a conditional comment in the markup.
The low attach rate is a myth.
Not supporting the runaway winner of the current generation of consoles seems like a very poor business decision, but I guess we should expect that from Capcom whose business model seems to specifically avoid innovation.
This is one of the reasons I enjoy At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper. On that show they discuss the movies and usually I get the sense that they are considering the genre aspect of them. Ebert has been ill and not on the show for quite some time, but Roeper has a guest critic every week. Check it out online.
I love the TiVo easter egg for enabling 30-second skip. I don't know how I lived without it before. I've heard of Myth and other software DVRs stripping out commercials altogether, but I enjoy the TiVo service.
As a professional web developer, I am surprised that this is even news. I would have found it surprising if they were using a WYSIWYG application to generate their site. I don't know of any huge sites that do this. Some get by using a CMS, but they're generally more limited in scope and more vanilla in nature.
That is a good point. But, at least for the time being, the average person isn't likely to be using VoIP; thus vastly fewer and probably more technologically savvy people making voice calls in flight.
I couldn't disagree more. I use allofmp3.com as an example because people were spending substantial aggregate money there en masse in order to use a convenient, non-crippled, reasonably-priced, easy-to-use service. If the industry could manage to open a store exactly like it, they would make plenty of money from the moral majority who don't mind paying for things. But they expect market forces to answer to their demands.
Wow. Who knew /. was moderated by gypsies? O_O
In other news: Gypsies found to be untrustworthy.
It makes it impossible to hear announcements over the PA.
Cool. I'm glad the newest wave of consumer WAPs are starting to support this, but I would not consider that "average" since it will take a while for all of these to be replaced. Also, as I mentioned in another response, none of this is all that relevant since they still ship with the security features off.