So it may not seem like a huge advantage to do ethernet over your display cable, but the way I see it, that allows for a really nice consolidation of cables into a simple hub. If you've got a hub with an ethernet cable, a couple of USB's and a couple of these display port dealios, then you could have your whole desktop setup waiting for you when you get to your office/home with your laptop, and with one plug, you're wired to your network, keyboard, mouse, printer and display.
For my setup, I use wireless for printer and network, and I tried to do wireless (bluetooth) for keyboard and mouse, but it just wasn't quite the same, so when I get to my desk, I have to plug in power, monitor and USB to get going. Not a huge deal, but sometime in the not too distant future, I'm sure that'll seem archaic.
I'm not certain that's correct. Can you cite a source?
If you breach an enforceable contract, the party with whom you had the contract may be entitled to some redress, but I don't think that breach of contract is considered "illegal"; it is merely "breach of contract".
Now, it may be that certain types of contract breaches could successfully be termed by a plaintiff as fraud, and there are specific statutes surrounding fraud which define what sorts of behavior are legal and which are not. But breaking a contract is not in and of itself illegal, as far as I know, and that's what's at issue here.
Of course, if you break a contract, and the other party successfully sues you and you do not make good on the restitution determined appropriate in a civil court, it could imply some actual illegal activities, i.e. it could be considered theft, contempt of court, etc.
Right. And if I'm understanding correctly, mappings would also be possible for other communication methods such as email, text chat, etc. So you wouldn't have to specifically give out your e164 number, but, say, your email address (which is unique enough), and once someone has entered that in their phone, they can look you up and contact you by any of the methods you've published.
It would be great if it were even interactive, i.e. you could specify how you would want to be contacted at any given moment, and maybe even by any given person. So when your boss fires up his/her smartphone to contact you on the weekend, it doesn't even allow them to call you, but instead opens their email application. But your 8.5-mo-pregnant wife gets the option of email, SMS, chat, call, and smoke signal.
There was indeed a war about GIFs, but the point of the GP poster was that we don't need to worry about it now. You just specify and the browser supports all the majors.
I remember when Compuserve, excited that the genie seemed to have gotten out of the bottle and everyone was using GIFs on the web, tried to extract licensing fees from hundreds of shareware/freeware software authors who had implemented the specificaiton. You're right that PNG came out of that era because the market spoke, and Free made a good enough stand that PNG is at least equal in standing with GIF and JPG today.
So the point is do we want to go through the same drama with video formats? The end goal is the same: just specify the file name in a <video> tag and let the browser automagically display it. But to get to that end goal, it may be necessary to have a few commercial licensing wars to get some serious effort behind Free standards like Theora so that the proprietaries relent and release their products in at least a free context if not a Free one.
Of course, reading between the lines, there's a lot one could interpret about you. You seem to think you're totally in control, but don't forget that any of your friends (real of facebook-only) who has a picture of you could post it, tag it and publish it to the world.
That's why I would never hire anyone who would use a Mac. The OS just works, with no tinkering. Anyone who feels the same way about commodity services that they use, like email, clearly is an idiot.
For that matter, I don't hire anyone who uses a normal telephone. If they can't provide SIP# for me to contact them through, they're clearly an idiot.
If you need to reach me, my email is SocialSkillsCoach@ThoseWhoCantDo-Tea.ch.
Agreed. The American Automobile Association's trademark lawyers came after me for the use of three A's in a row in my free counter-services name.
I told them that there didn't appear to be a conflict, and offered some options, i.e. my providing a link to them along with "not affiliated" text, and allowing them to buy my domain for enough money to make it worthwhile to me to shift all my customers over to a new URL. They responded with the same threatening form letter.
I changed every instance of 'AAA Counters' to 'A-A-A Counters' so that searches for 'aaa' would be less likely to put my site above theirs, informed them of my proactive steps, and asked them politely for feedback as well as for consideration on my previous suggestion. They responded with the same threatening letter.
I did a search on 'aaa' and gave them a report about how widespread the use of that three-letter combination was, reminded them that as long as the term wasn't being used in the automotive/insurance industry, they had no legal standing to do anything. I stopped shy of telling them to F off, but I did indicate that, as they had no standing, and as I had acted in good faith, any further threats would be treated as harassment. While a non-form response would be welcome, I would take their silence as agreement that the situation was considered settled.
They have been blissfully silent since then. F'ing lawyers will go after people when they know they have no case, hoping that people who don't know their rights will buckle.
You're totally right, but here's what I foresee happening:
Disruptive cell phone company builds a phone that has all that hardware to support consumer choice.
A few people buy it, and maybe 1/10 of those people actually move from provider to provider. Once those folks have moved a couple of times, they run out of choices unless they move to a new region.
Within the product's two-year life cycle, a brazillian new features come into existence.
Purchasers of the disruptive phone decide to go with a less hardware-laden model which costs $100.00 less.
[ears prick up] What? I've spent quite a bit of time in Darmstadt, and I'm guessing there's only one town by that name. Are you saying that there was a music movement based there? Even if it was trash, I'm intrigued if only for sentimental reasons.
I'm about to do some googling, but if you've got any references you can post here, I'd appreciate it.
A 1985 Amiga could multitask better than any 1995 Windows PC.
Yup. I remember using a shareware 3d rendering program I got from the Fred Fish archives which would let you draw up wireframe images, set light points, surface colors, etc, and start the ray trace going. Even with a fairly simple scene, a frame might take 3 hours to render. I had built a fairly long animation, and so I'd usually have one render going in the background while I was doing other stuff, and when I was ready to go to bed, I'd fire off three instances of the program and have it render three frames simultaneously.
Of course, if the damn program had had a queueing mechanism, I wouldn't have had to do that, but it was pretty cool to wake up in the morning to three freshly rendered frames. Fire off three more before going to school... at that rate, a full second of animation took no more than 4 days to render!
Sometimes I wish that Obama really was a Socialist or Liberal.
People have short memories. Obama's not that far left of Bush Sr.; if Bush Jr. hadn't been such a wacko, nobody would be calling O anything left-er than a centrist.
much like a line can't be straight and curved at the same time
Says you, liberal! Sarah Palin tells me that this is exactly the "intellectual" mindset that has prevented us from fixing government, lowering taxes, eliminating terrorism, and balancing the budget.
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So it may not seem like a huge advantage to do ethernet over your display cable, but the way I see it, that allows for a really nice consolidation of cables into a simple hub. If you've got a hub with an ethernet cable, a couple of USB's and a couple of these display port dealios, then you could have your whole desktop setup waiting for you when you get to your office/home with your laptop, and with one plug, you're wired to your network, keyboard, mouse, printer and display.
For my setup, I use wireless for printer and network, and I tried to do wireless (bluetooth) for keyboard and mouse, but it just wasn't quite the same, so when I get to my desk, I have to plug in power, monitor and USB to get going. Not a huge deal, but sometime in the not too distant future, I'm sure that'll seem archaic.
I'm not certain that's correct. Can you cite a source?
If you breach an enforceable contract, the party with whom you had the contract may be entitled to some redress, but I don't think that breach of contract is considered "illegal"; it is merely "breach of contract".
Now, it may be that certain types of contract breaches could successfully be termed by a plaintiff as fraud, and there are specific statutes surrounding fraud which define what sorts of behavior are legal and which are not. But breaking a contract is not in and of itself illegal, as far as I know, and that's what's at issue here.
Of course, if you break a contract, and the other party successfully sues you and you do not make good on the restitution determined appropriate in a civil court, it could imply some actual illegal activities, i.e. it could be considered theft, contempt of court, etc.
Right. And if I'm understanding correctly, mappings would also be possible for other communication methods such as email, text chat, etc. So you wouldn't have to specifically give out your e164 number, but, say, your email address (which is unique enough), and once someone has entered that in their phone, they can look you up and contact you by any of the methods you've published.
It would be great if it were even interactive, i.e. you could specify how you would want to be contacted at any given moment, and maybe even by any given person. So when your boss fires up his/her smartphone to contact you on the weekend, it doesn't even allow them to call you, but instead opens their email application. But your 8.5-mo-pregnant wife gets the option of email, SMS, chat, call, and smoke signal.
Did you AC troll yourself for the sake of a punch line?
You appear to have just called the members of MPEG-LA "political assholes".
Was that wrong? :)
There was indeed a war about GIFs, but the point of the GP poster was that we don't need to worry about it now. You just specify and the browser supports all the majors.
I remember when Compuserve, excited that the genie seemed to have gotten out of the bottle and everyone was using GIFs on the web, tried to extract licensing fees from hundreds of shareware/freeware software authors who had implemented the specificaiton. You're right that PNG came out of that era because the market spoke, and Free made a good enough stand that PNG is at least equal in standing with GIF and JPG today.
So the point is do we want to go through the same drama with video formats? The end goal is the same: just specify the file name in a <video> tag and let the browser automagically display it. But to get to that end goal, it may be necessary to have a few commercial licensing wars to get some serious effort behind Free standards like Theora so that the proprietaries relent and release their products in at least a free context if not a Free one.
I've been thinking of backing out of FB for a while. This might be a good excuse. Of course, Google still knows everything about me...
Of course, reading between the lines, there's a lot one could interpret about you. You seem to think you're totally in control, but don't forget that any of your friends (real of facebook-only) who has a picture of you could post it, tag it and publish it to the world.
It's the hip-hop definition of 'drop', i.e., "Yo Dre! Drop me a funky-ass bass line!"
"Xcode is pretty good, but I really miss the Vi keybindings" -- Winston Churchill
I don't know why, but this made me chuckle.
That's why I would never hire anyone who would use a Mac. The OS just works, with no tinkering. Anyone who feels the same way about commodity services that they use, like email, clearly is an idiot.
For that matter, I don't hire anyone who uses a normal telephone. If they can't provide SIP# for me to contact them through, they're clearly an idiot.
If you need to reach me, my email is SocialSkillsCoach@ThoseWhoCantDo-Tea.ch.
No, Java's is less efficient, so there's no comparison.
f u cn rd ths u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgmng
F u 2!! ;)
Agreed. The American Automobile Association's trademark lawyers came after me for the use of three A's in a row in my free counter-services name.
I told them that there didn't appear to be a conflict, and offered some options, i.e. my providing a link to them along with "not affiliated" text, and allowing them to buy my domain for enough money to make it worthwhile to me to shift all my customers over to a new URL. They responded with the same threatening form letter.
I changed every instance of 'AAA Counters' to 'A-A-A Counters' so that searches for 'aaa' would be less likely to put my site above theirs, informed them of my proactive steps, and asked them politely for feedback as well as for consideration on my previous suggestion. They responded with the same threatening letter.
I did a search on 'aaa' and gave them a report about how widespread the use of that three-letter combination was, reminded them that as long as the term wasn't being used in the automotive/insurance industry, they had no legal standing to do anything. I stopped shy of telling them to F off, but I did indicate that, as they had no standing, and as I had acted in good faith, any further threats would be treated as harassment. While a non-form response would be welcome, I would take their silence as agreement that the situation was considered settled.
They have been blissfully silent since then. F'ing lawyers will go after people when they know they have no case, hoping that people who don't know their rights will buckle.
You're totally right, but here's what I foresee happening:
Disruptive cell phone company builds a phone that has all that hardware to support consumer choice.
A few people buy it, and maybe 1/10 of those people actually move from provider to provider. Once those folks have moved a couple of times, they run out of choices unless they move to a new region.
Within the product's two-year life cycle, a brazillian new features come into existence.
Purchasers of the disruptive phone decide to go with a less hardware-laden model which costs $100.00 less.
Yeah, but if you don't like the process, don't fly. Bada bing, bada boom.
No pun intended, right?
even the 1950s Darmstadt bleep-bloop stuff.
[ears prick up] What? I've spent quite a bit of time in Darmstadt, and I'm guessing there's only one town by that name. Are you saying that there was a music movement based there? Even if it was trash, I'm intrigued if only for sentimental reasons.
I'm about to do some googling, but if you've got any references you can post here, I'd appreciate it.
A 1985 Amiga could multitask better than any 1995 Windows PC.
Yup. I remember using a shareware 3d rendering program I got from the Fred Fish archives which would let you draw up wireframe images, set light points, surface colors, etc, and start the ray trace going. Even with a fairly simple scene, a frame might take 3 hours to render. I had built a fairly long animation, and so I'd usually have one render going in the background while I was doing other stuff, and when I was ready to go to bed, I'd fire off three instances of the program and have it render three frames simultaneously.
Of course, if the damn program had had a queueing mechanism, I wouldn't have had to do that, but it was pretty cool to wake up in the morning to three freshly rendered frames. Fire off three more before going to school... at that rate, a full second of animation took no more than 4 days to render!
It didn't crash... it meditated.
Right. I think the GP was making the point that now, today, it's time to move on.
Sometimes I wish that Obama really was a Socialist or Liberal.
People have short memories. Obama's not that far left of Bush Sr.; if Bush Jr. hadn't been such a wacko, nobody would be calling O anything left-er than a centrist.
much like a line can't be straight and curved at the same time
Says you, liberal! Sarah Palin tells me that this is exactly the "intellectual" mindset that has prevented us from fixing government, lowering taxes, eliminating terrorism, and balancing the budget.
What's the matter? Do you hate America?
Thank you. In my heart, I've been modded up by your comment.
I think the poster might have been trying to make some sort of joke, but, if so... "whoosh". Please, man, give me a Simpsons reference, or something!