But most people wouldn't have blamed Flash - especially if there wasn't an easy example of a non-flash version to point to. They'd have blamed the iPhone. Most people, even most iPhone users, don't read/. or related sites - that's one of the reasons that the iPhone has been a smashing commercial success, you don't need to be a geek to use it (N70, I'm looking at you here). Keeping Flash off the platform was exactly the right business decision to make.
Even if Adobe would release a version that wasn't a battery killing unstable one - which would be a great start - the usability experience isn't close to being there for multitouch devices. And the iPhone is all about user experience.
I don't know how it is in the states but here in Canada setting up a corporation can help you regulate the timing of your income but not avoid paying taxes on it altogether.
Here in the 'States there are an awful lot of totally legitimate expenses that can be deducted if you're running as a "business" but not as an individual. There's also a ton of stuff that less-than-ethical people manage to deduct on top of that.
If you set up a not-really-a-company limited company, and it makes a profit you will still want to transfer those profits into your personal account at some point...and when that happens the individual will be taxed on the income. (I'm not an accountant, but do have a limited company)
But why? If you leave the money in a (remember, non-taxed) company, you can always have the company spend it on whatever you feel like. Worst case, its not a tax-deductible expense - although if its not paying corporate income taxes, that doesn't matter any more either! So don't pay dividends and the value of the stock (of which you own 100%) just goes up... but that's not taxed either until you sell it which you never will...
USB is also a show of how devices that offload their work onto the CPU are here to stay. Integrated graphics is just going to become more and more common slashdotters.:-O
And its cheap, ubiquitous, and a damn sight better in many cases than the expensive wowOhMyGodThisIsAmazing state of the art was a couple of years ago.
I do not want them to grow up thinking profanity, nudity, violence or whatever is normal behaviour.
The thing is... it is normal. A lot of minor profanities are actually in common use. Nudity in the locker room is typical - and yet rarely if ever shown on television (thus when it is shown, its always a Big Deal). Violence sadly happens a lot too, but its covered (often live) on the evening news already. Pretending that these things aren't as commonplace as they really are just helps to distort the view of what the world is like - and, ironically, makes it harder to change that reality (if that's something you'd like to see happen).
These airwaves are for the public use. Want to drop the f-/n-/q-bomb? Start up your own pay channel and go nuts.
Not even sure I disagree with you but, when you get right down to it, you said it in your first sentence. Public use. Why does the public who wants to show a nipple have to go elsewhere, whereas the public who wants to show an exploding nipple get to do whatever they want? Or a dancing purple dinosaur for that matter? "Public" doesn't just mean "the part of the public who's views coincide with mine," you know.
Actually that's much more likely to be the case with the Republican party - part of the reason that they're in such a strong position is that in almost every case, the R block will vote as a bloc whereas the D block will vote... well, theoretically in the interests of their constituents, but more often completely randomly. In those cases the party that rules with an iron fist has a disproportionate amount of power.
And as a small business owner myself, I'd say that if corporations really weren't taxed at all that the number of not-really-a-company private-contractor corporations would balloon like crazy... and they're already pretty crazy. Of course, those aren't generally accessible to those at the lower end of the food chain (so to speak), so the rate at which the top few percent left the bottom 50% of the country behind would just grow even faster.
For formats in particular, though, I see some advantages to supporting the same formats everywhere. If "Firefox on Windows" and "Firefox on Linux" support different formats, that means that some webpages will be Windows-only or Linux-only, which defeats much of the cross-platform purpose of the web.
So instead you get cases in which pages are works-on-anything-except-Firefox only. And that's better how, exactly?
That makes sense until you get into the case where you write/create your own tools. Then patents make it so that you have to pay someone else for your own work.
And if you can truly do a clean-room implementation of h.264 then my hat's off to you. Think about how hard it is to do a clean-room implementation of even the most trivial piece of software, let alone a highly-efficient codec. When you stand on the shoulders of giants, its not unreasonable to slip them their $0.10 licensing fee.
Not sure that makes sense - if I'm making a hardware decoder and pay the royalties, then sell my units wholesale to Best Buy, they don't have to pay royalties when they sell the to the end-user. If Mozilla paid the $5mm cap (or probably less) it'd be ~ 5% of their revenue. Of course, if they just used the standard OS libraries like a well behaved application, it wouldn't cost them anything...
Firefox doesn't use system codecs for anything, because they want the exact same experience on all platforms. For example, they use internal image decoders, rather than relying on OS services like OSX's CoreImage. The downside is that therefore OSX on Firefox doesn't support everything that CoreImage does, unlike with WebKit, which just passes off to the system decoder. The upside is that the list of image formats Firefox supports doesn't vary by platform.
Amazingly, I find that I use multiple programs on one operating system far more often than I use the same product on multiple operating systems. And I'm a developer with multiple operating systems - for the vast majority of people out there, using the same program on multiple operating systems would be limited to home vs. work, and even then you're likely to use the same OS in both places (regardless of what it is - clueful people will campaign for their preferred OS at the office, and less clueful ones will just use their office OS at home).
Either way, while that decision makes sense from an optimizing-your-continuous-integration-test standpoint, its moderately balls-up in the real world.
Although these days you can work around that by having your gateway hold it as a CardOnFile - assuming that you're not implementing at a gateway level, that is. Makes life a lot easier:)
Exactly. And if developers (and I'm speaking as one in this case) can't be counted on to produce code that complies 100% of the time, which we'd all agree is a realistic statement, why assume that the developers will produce code that works perfectly, which is a lot harder?
Good theory, but the trouble is when the next-door-down-cart (a more professional operation) makes the legally defensible point that you can't have selective enforcement, and that if you let ___ small businesses (lemonade stands) with sales in the low-thousands of products go without inspection, then you have to let their sales also go without inspection. That way lies madness.
Making the health inspections simple and reasonable? Sure.
That's a great idea. Seriously - I'd be all in favor of it. Except.... where does that budget come from? Its a serious question - and one that, personally, I'd like to see fixed - but its not as if most governments can afford that kind of hand-holding cost (at our great misfortune).
Be fair - its "advanced" functionality that comes with a modest but non-zero set of additional responsibilities for the user, along with a moderate amount of additional power. If it was truly "basic functionality" then there wouldn't be many millions of people quite successfully and happily using their devices without it.
Love this one. They are the same folk who would probably advertise their used 37' TV on Craigslist for some ridiculously low price for an appliance that needs its own building, then try to pawn something only 3-4' in diagonal off on you.
"Whoosh", wrote the slashdotter with a smile on his face, feeling superior to the parent poster but slightly uneasy, for he was haunted by the possibility of nourishing a troll instead of educating the masses.
But now we're going to have to have a debate on whether American or British rules for comma placement near a set of quotation marks are ideal, especially since you used double-quotes (traditionally American) with the British comma placement. I applaud your multiculturalism.
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But most people wouldn't have blamed Flash - especially if there wasn't an easy example of a non-flash version to point to. They'd have blamed the iPhone. Most people, even most iPhone users, don't read /. or related sites - that's one of the reasons that the iPhone has been a smashing commercial success, you don't need to be a geek to use it (N70, I'm looking at you here). Keeping Flash off the platform was exactly the right business decision to make.
Even if Adobe would release a version that wasn't a battery killing unstable one - which would be a great start - the usability experience isn't close to being there for multitouch devices. And the iPhone is all about user experience.
I don't know how it is in the states but here in Canada setting up a corporation can help you regulate the timing of your income but not avoid paying taxes on it altogether.
Here in the 'States there are an awful lot of totally legitimate expenses that can be deducted if you're running as a "business" but not as an individual. There's also a ton of stuff that less-than-ethical people manage to deduct on top of that.
If you set up a not-really-a-company limited company, and it makes a profit you will still want to transfer those profits into your personal account at some point...and when that happens the individual will be taxed on the income. (I'm not an accountant, but do have a limited company)
But why? If you leave the money in a (remember, non-taxed) company, you can always have the company spend it on whatever you feel like. Worst case, its not a tax-deductible expense - although if its not paying corporate income taxes, that doesn't matter any more either! So don't pay dividends and the value of the stock (of which you own 100%) just goes up... but that's not taxed either until you sell it which you never will...
See the problem?
If they are breaking compatibility, they need a new connector (a non-symmetrical connector please)
Or how about a really symmetrical one? Its not hard... USB looks symmetrical but isn't. That's just stupid.
USB is also a show of how devices that offload their work onto the CPU are here to stay. Integrated graphics is just going to become more and more common slashdotters. :-O
And its cheap, ubiquitous, and a damn sight better in many cases than the expensive wowOhMyGodThisIsAmazing state of the art was a couple of years ago.
Your point?
Yeah, but I've been tested.
The thing is... it is normal. A lot of minor profanities are actually in common use. Nudity in the locker room is typical - and yet rarely if ever shown on television (thus when it is shown, its always a Big Deal). Violence sadly happens a lot too, but its covered (often live) on the evening news already. Pretending that these things aren't as commonplace as they really are just helps to distort the view of what the world is like - and, ironically, makes it harder to change that reality (if that's something you'd like to see happen).
Not even sure I disagree with you but, when you get right down to it, you said it in your first sentence. Public use. Why does the public who wants to show a nipple have to go elsewhere, whereas the public who wants to show an exploding nipple get to do whatever they want? Or a dancing purple dinosaur for that matter? "Public" doesn't just mean "the part of the public who's views coincide with mine," you know.
Actually that's much more likely to be the case with the Republican party - part of the reason that they're in such a strong position is that in almost every case, the R block will vote as a bloc whereas the D block will vote... well, theoretically in the interests of their constituents, but more often completely randomly. In those cases the party that rules with an iron fist has a disproportionate amount of power.
And as a small business owner myself, I'd say that if corporations really weren't taxed at all that the number of not-really-a-company private-contractor corporations would balloon like crazy... and they're already pretty crazy. Of course, those aren't generally accessible to those at the lower end of the food chain (so to speak), so the rate at which the top few percent left the bottom 50% of the country behind would just grow even faster.
But boxing, on the other hand, is eagerly shown on 172" big screen HD TVs in sports bars around the country. Not to mention on ESPN.
So instead you get cases in which pages are works-on-anything-except-Firefox only. And that's better how, exactly?
Yeah, so there's obviously no IP reuse there...
And if you can truly do a clean-room implementation of h.264 then my hat's off to you. Think about how hard it is to do a clean-room implementation of even the most trivial piece of software, let alone a highly-efficient codec. When you stand on the shoulders of giants, its not unreasonable to slip them their $0.10 licensing fee.
Not sure that makes sense - if I'm making a hardware decoder and pay the royalties, then sell my units wholesale to Best Buy, they don't have to pay royalties when they sell the to the end-user. If Mozilla paid the $5mm cap (or probably less) it'd be ~ 5% of their revenue. Of course, if they just used the standard OS libraries like a well behaved application, it wouldn't cost them anything...
Amazingly, I find that I use multiple programs on one operating system far more often than I use the same product on multiple operating systems. And I'm a developer with multiple operating systems - for the vast majority of people out there, using the same program on multiple operating systems would be limited to home vs. work, and even then you're likely to use the same OS in both places (regardless of what it is - clueful people will campaign for their preferred OS at the office, and less clueful ones will just use their office OS at home).
Either way, while that decision makes sense from an optimizing-your-continuous-integration-test standpoint, its moderately balls-up in the real world.
Although these days you can work around that by having your gateway hold it as a CardOnFile - assuming that you're not implementing at a gateway level, that is. Makes life a lot easier :)
Exactly. And if developers (and I'm speaking as one in this case) can't be counted on to produce code that complies 100% of the time, which we'd all agree is a realistic statement, why assume that the developers will produce code that works perfectly, which is a lot harder?
It's a symptom of being overweight, not doing enough sports, and having way too much cholesterol in your bloodstream.
If that's in the same way that a broken leg is a symptom of having an anvil land on you, then I guess we're all in agreement.
Good theory, but the trouble is when the next-door-down-cart (a more professional operation) makes the legally defensible point that you can't have selective enforcement, and that if you let ___ small businesses (lemonade stands) with sales in the low-thousands of products go without inspection, then you have to let their sales also go without inspection. That way lies madness.
Making the health inspections simple and reasonable? Sure.
That's a great idea. Seriously - I'd be all in favor of it. Except.... where does that budget come from? Its a serious question - and one that, personally, I'd like to see fixed - but its not as if most governments can afford that kind of hand-holding cost (at our great misfortune).
Be fair - its "advanced" functionality that comes with a modest but non-zero set of additional responsibilities for the user, along with a moderate amount of additional power. If it was truly "basic functionality" then there wouldn't be many millions of people quite successfully and happily using their devices without it.
But how else would they tell us that they have "Free!!! DVD's for Sale!"?
Didn't the new rules just declare that an apostrophe meant, "Look out, an 'S' is coming," anyway?
Love this one. They are the same folk who would probably advertise their used 37' TV on Craigslist for some ridiculously low price for an appliance that needs its own building, then try to pawn something only 3-4' in diagonal off on you.
Enough with your add-homynym attacks!
"Whoosh", wrote the slashdotter with a smile on his face, feeling superior to the parent poster but slightly uneasy, for he was haunted by the possibility of nourishing a troll instead of educating the masses.
But now we're going to have to have a debate on whether American or British rules for comma placement near a set of quotation marks are ideal, especially since you used double-quotes (traditionally American) with the British comma placement. I applaud your multiculturalism.