pretty much every major hollywood release is cheesy. especially when they release it simultaneously around the world to prevent spoilers of the completely predictable plot twists.
"revolutions will also screen at selected imax venues, the first time a major hollywood release has ever premiered concurrently on both 35mm and the large-screen format.
Except Disney is a major hollywood studio, and they released Treasure Planet simultaneously in 35mm and IMAX, a year earlier. But hey, I'm sure they'll claim the Treasure Planet IMAX release had its first show start 15 minutes after the first 35mm show so it doesn't count.
Actually, most sites that claim to adhere to standard xy or z do. The real problem is that most site don't claim any standard at all.
Well, the page with your comment on it claims to be HTML 3.2, but W3's validator says it's not. Granted, that's a sample size of just the first page I looked at, but I maintain that it will hold for 99% of the pages with a doctype declaration (and the rest of pages, those without doctype declarations, are by definition not valid HTML.)
You can put up all the radar stations you want, and it's not going to help you predict the weather any better than they already do; i.e., about as well as you could just by making up the forecast with no data at all.
Yes it is, as long as its doctype declaration doesn't claim it's XHTML or something. Standards compliance has nothing to do with following the latest standards, it has to do with following some standard. 99% of the stuff on the web today doesn't follow whatever standard it claims to follow.
One of the key requirements of electronic voting is ability to audit.
No. Any good electronic voting system would include the ability to audit. What the US will get is a system with no ability to audit, because the companies designing it decides that it's not important, and the voting industry is able to prevent the IEEE from putting together a standard that requires auditing. You might as well assert that any military rebuilding contract has as a requirement an open bidding process, and then point to some Public Affairs textbook as proof instead of looking at what happens in the real world.
The Gun Lobby says we need guns to protect ourselves from the present government. Heiligefliegendekindersheisse! -- Have they looked at the government lately? To protect ourselves against the current government we each need 1700 tactical nuclear weapons, at least 100 earth-to-air missiles, 50,000 flame throwers, 10,000 grenade launchers and at least a hundred times as many assault weapons as NRA now owns, plus biologcal and chemical (viral) weaponry.
You also cannot measure the speed of light using meters as part of your units, since the meter is defined as the distance light travels in a certain amount of time.
The USA PATRIOT Act has nothing at all to do with the DMCA or RIAA.
Do you have any evidence at all that RIAA influenced to patriot act or has used a single one of its provisions in any way, or do you just enjoy making stuff up?
Yes, but you're equivocating on "quality." For music files, it makes sense to talk about things like bitrate as quality. But others may argue that a more reasonable comparison is that you can get crappy music for free (which you can), and pay for professionally written and produced music.
They could do that, in theory, but they don't. It really wouldn't be worth the effort. For one thing, they'd actually have to serve a different archive of the OS to each person downloading it instead of just one static file to everyone, and the effort of actually going through these minute UI changes to see which developer got the release with which UI element moved over a pixel to compare to a leaked screenshot somewhere would be a nontrivial problem.
If you order pizza to be delivered and pay for it with a credit card, you're 95% likely to be a terrorist. Rigorous government studies have proven this.
Well, that happened once, and they apologized.
Telemarketers call millions of people and don't apologize for it. They make all of their money off the clueless little old ladies who don't actually want what they're selling but can be talked into buying it. If RIAA started suing every single person in the US, regardless of whether they had a single MP3 on their computer, and hoped to make money by stupid people who hadn't shared any music settling out of court, it would be an analgous situation.
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That's what TiVo is for.
pretty much every major hollywood release is cheesy. especially when they release it simultaneously around the world to prevent spoilers of the completely predictable plot twists.
Except Disney is a major hollywood studio, and they released Treasure Planet simultaneously in 35mm and IMAX, a year earlier. But hey, I'm sure they'll claim the Treasure Planet IMAX release had its first show start 15 minutes after the first 35mm show so it doesn't count.
Microsoft is the most successful company in the world. You think the record companies and SCO are really worried about being hated?
In Soviet Russia, entire phonebook at once looks at you!
Well, the page with your comment on it claims to be HTML 3.2, but W3's validator says it's not. Granted, that's a sample size of just the first page I looked at, but I maintain that it will hold for 99% of the pages with a doctype declaration (and the rest of pages, those without doctype declarations, are by definition not valid HTML.)
Are you writing a gossip column or a slashdot comment?
You can put up all the radar stations you want, and it's not going to help you predict the weather any better than they already do; i.e., about as well as you could just by making up the forecast with no data at all.
Yes it is, as long as its doctype declaration doesn't claim it's XHTML or something. Standards compliance has nothing to do with following the latest standards, it has to do with following some standard. 99% of the stuff on the web today doesn't follow whatever standard it claims to follow.
No. Any good electronic voting system would include the ability to audit. What the US will get is a system with no ability to audit, because the companies designing it decides that it's not important, and the voting industry is able to prevent the IEEE from putting together a standard that requires auditing. You might as well assert that any military rebuilding contract has as a requirement an open bidding process, and then point to some Public Affairs textbook as proof instead of looking at what happens in the real world.
-Robert Anton Wilson
I for one welcome having Bill Gates elected President with 100% of the vote, despite not being on the ballot.
"Never" is a strong word from someone who apparently started using machines ripped off from the IBM PC model within the past 5-10 years.
You also cannot measure the speed of light using meters as part of your units, since the meter is defined as the distance light travels in a certain amount of time.
The USA PATRIOT Act has nothing at all to do with the DMCA or RIAA.
Do you have any evidence at all that RIAA influenced to patriot act or has used a single one of its provisions in any way, or do you just enjoy making stuff up?
Unfortunately, the ones who don't comply won't be publishing much after they're locked away in Cuba as "illegal combatants."
Yes, but you're equivocating on "quality." For music files, it makes sense to talk about things like bitrate as quality. But others may argue that a more reasonable comparison is that you can get crappy music for free (which you can), and pay for professionally written and produced music.
Except you're thinking of an iBook, and have obviously never seen either a tiBook or this troll before.
They could do that, in theory, but they don't. It really wouldn't be worth the effort. For one thing, they'd actually have to serve a different archive of the OS to each person downloading it instead of just one static file to everyone, and the effort of actually going through these minute UI changes to see which developer got the release with which UI element moved over a pixel to compare to a leaked screenshot somewhere would be a nontrivial problem.
Well, at least it's encouraging that he didn't manage to actually win any of those cases.
The Republicans would never allow an accurate census, even if it meant they could track everyone more efficiently.
Giving representation to the types of people who are more likely to ignore their census forms is the last thing they want.
If you order pizza to be delivered and pay for it with a credit card, you're 95% likely to be a terrorist. Rigorous government studies have proven this.
Well, that happened once, and they apologized. Telemarketers call millions of people and don't apologize for it. They make all of their money off the clueless little old ladies who don't actually want what they're selling but can be talked into buying it. If RIAA started suing every single person in the US, regardless of whether they had a single MP3 on their computer, and hoped to make money by stupid people who hadn't shared any music settling out of court, it would be an analgous situation.
You should consider moving to a state where 90% of the population isn't running for governor, then.
With telemarketing, they call you up and harrass you for no reason. The RIAA sues you because you're committing a crime. There's a big difference.