Here's the Chinese perspective. How do you write the number one?
Theres:
1) The western way "1"
2) The common Chinese character
3) The complex Chinese character used for legal documents, cheques (when not in English), etc
4) The Chinese character used in markets
Now, are they the same? Well, in legal documents etc, you MUST use (3) and none of the other characters.
(4) is ONLY ever used in the markets, however, in the markets (1) and (2) may also be used, but never (3).
OK, what about brand names or product names? There exists a magazine using (3), and I'm sure there'd be lots of crap flying if some reporter decided to talk about it using any of (1),(2),(4).
So then, are they the same, or not? The answer is NO. They all represent the number 1, sure, but there are concrete differences in where and how they may be used. Swapping them randomly would surely be unacceptable in certain circumstances.
The nightly build for win32 doesn't work for me. Every item there is nonstandard. ie they're all pictures made to look like buttons or scrollbars just as in NS6. None of my touchpad shortcuts work. So eat me because I'd rather have something that works than something that's themeable. I have wrist problems and I use my touchpad in preference to my mouse (both are connected). I can't do any scrolling I usually do on the touchpad.
OK, all that aside, the thing just keeps spawning blank windows every now and then instead of opening whatever window I wanted. Maybe the Linux version works great, whatever, but the rest of the world using windows are just stuffed.
I'm going to uninstall the damned thing now. It won't even load properly and is spawning tiny blank windows every 3 seconds.
Imagine if you were still in high school. Imagine your teacher giving you a major assignment, but said you could hand it in 'when it was ready'. Would you ever finish it? Maybe just in time for graduation...
Now fast forward to your work (if you're working). Think of the projects you have and the project plans. If they're well planned out you'd have clear deliverables and time schedules and if the times are realistic you would hardly ever miss a deadline.
Now think of another project where the plan wasn't so clear and detailed. The customer/boss came back to you every week with great new ideas for the project or changes to what you already finished. How badly did you miss the deadline, or how much OT did you have to put in for that?
Now tell me, given Mozilla has no deadline at all, and the developers are mostly volunteers! (no OT), and given every week someone has some great new ideas for the project, do you think we'd ever reach a 1.0 where everybody was satisfied?
Well, I lost 4GB and about $400 when my SparQ drive died after 1.5yrs of use. My friend's LS120 fried after 2 yrs of use (but at least he could get a new drive, SyQuest went bankrupt). Another friend's Zip100 freezes the computer whenever transferring data to/fro the drive, plus there is that problem of Zip drives losing data.
I wouldn't ever trust my data in a removable or portable drive again unless it was solid state.
It was recently ruled here in Australia that parallel imports of CDs and electrical goods were legal, and manufacturers/distributors could not penalise retailers who sold parallels in addition to 'official' imports. DVDs would obviously be included.
However, we also have relatively new legislation like the DMCA which makes circumvention illegal. If we have a multi region DVD player, that's fine. But it's illegal to modify the player yourself or for someone else to make it multi region, or even to buy a modified player.
Now I wonder how this new development will affect that law.
Actually, I've read many accounts of ppl that have met Bill and find him to be horrible.
However, on the other hand, I have read no accounts of ppl see Bill sit in his master chair and direct every bit of action that happens at MS. Sure we've heard SOME of his philosophies, but there's no proof he's the lone driving force behind all the business decisions.
Sure that's a great idea, but what on earth do the corps get out of it? Spend millions so they too can be a linux distro? Spend millions more to write drivers? Then later find geeks out there using the drivers but saying their distro sux?
Whereas going with your own OS, you don't risk a competitor doing better than you.
They don't seem to get it. Every time they encrypt content it gets cracked, same with watermarking schemes. Don't they realise there is only one sure protection against copying? They should be lobbying the gov't to ban DVDs! Since they tell us how much money they're losing from DVDs being copied or viewed in a different country to where it was bought. Surely it would be best if nobody bought any DVDs, then nobody would ever use them immorally.
Once upon a time/. was full of people who could think about issues by themselves and discuss them. Obviously this has now changed, as the editors feel a need to tell us what to think of an article inside the post itself. Here we have a piece on what the VP of a major IT company thinks on some issue. Now we've decided that due to which company he works for, we should all trash him before we read the article.
They can't even write software all that well, how on earth do they expect to write healing servers? Look at all the IBM and Lotus software, esp. notes. Everything is so clunky and bug reports are either ignored or never acted upon.
If it doesn't work in the first place, how can it heal? What if it decides to 'heal' from some modifications you've made to some inferior status?
That's the theory. Here's the reality. Eg, in Australia, the govt passed a law or something that gave the Bradman foundation the exclusive use of the word Bradman in ANY business name in ANY industry.
FYI, Don Bradman was a cricketer. A hero to some. But I don't see how they could claim any company with that word in their name is scamming off the foundation.
Now when you talk about someone as big as Coca Cola, I'm sure they have enough $ to convince the judge that coke.net is rightfully theirs to use as a coke fan network...
Unfreeze them? hehe, just take their money, freeze them, then when nobody's looking, dump their body in the incinerator somewhere. Meanwhile, the company that gives this freezing service grows rich and gains political power. Hrm, starting to sound like a movie...
Imagine the future where you spend your whole life from birth to death living in one of these things. You'd never need to go outside your 'module', it has all the services you need.
Instead of going overseas for holidays, you'd just take the lift down to the next module.
Have you seen how normal buildings have thicker walls at the bottom than the top? From my experience in a residential building we went up 10 floors and they had 1 foot extra in their living room. Now imagine the outer walls of this... thing.... How thick would they have to be?
Also, how deep are the foundations going to be for this thing? You can only go so far down before the crust becomes unstable.
Lithium Ion batteries are quite common on higher end components. They are lighter than NiMH for similar performance.
Lithium Polymer batteries are completely different. They are even lighter, but way expensive, and have fewer recharge cycles (I think about 250, half compared to the other types).
I've been writing software and giving it away for 5yrs. I'm even losing money on domain names and web hosting.
The only difference is that some of these artists want money for their art. That's fine.
But just because one downloads their songs, it doesn't mean they won't buy the album. Half the albums I now own I have downloaded songs from. All the albums I plan to buy I have the mp3s to about half the songs in them.
It should be clear to you that merchandise in shops cannot be duplicated, while mp3s can. To try to simplify things as you have done just to make your point is no excuse.
Actually, in the US they already have people lobbying that libraries should have to pay per copy for electronic books etc. If that goes thru, the exceptions in the EU may come down too..
This is like buying a box with a lock on it, and the seller says you're not allowed to open it.
This raises the following questions:
1. Why ru buying this stupid locked box then?
2. Why is the seller selling you the box if it's so important to them that it's not opened ever?
3. What if they forgot to lock the box?
4. If you called the locksmith, would you or the locksmith be liable?
The link comes back as document contains no data.
The main page crashes NS if you have JS turned on.
After turning it off, half the links from their main page also come back as document contains no data.
The rest of them feature black text on black background (probably as a result of not having JS turned on)
Does anybody have a mirror of the article or someting?
If your html is so complex that the differences on NS and IE really affect usability, then you should ask yourself whether you're putting form over content.
Of course, unfortunately, if you work for a company, usually your job IS to put form over content....
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Here's the Chinese perspective. How do you write the number one?
Theres:
1) The western way "1"
2) The common Chinese character
3) The complex Chinese character used for legal documents, cheques (when not in English), etc
4) The Chinese character used in markets
Now, are they the same? Well, in legal documents etc, you MUST use (3) and none of the other characters.
(4) is ONLY ever used in the markets, however, in the markets (1) and (2) may also be used, but never (3).
OK, what about brand names or product names? There exists a magazine using (3), and I'm sure there'd be lots of crap flying if some reporter decided to talk about it using any of (1),(2),(4).
So then, are they the same, or not? The answer is NO. They all represent the number 1, sure, but there are concrete differences in where and how they may be used. Swapping them randomly would surely be unacceptable in certain circumstances.
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The nightly build for win32 doesn't work for me. Every item there is nonstandard. ie they're all pictures made to look like buttons or scrollbars just as in NS6. None of my touchpad shortcuts work. So eat me because I'd rather have something that works than something that's themeable. I have wrist problems and I use my touchpad in preference to my mouse (both are connected). I can't do any scrolling I usually do on the touchpad.
OK, all that aside, the thing just keeps spawning blank windows every now and then instead of opening whatever window I wanted. Maybe the Linux version works great, whatever, but the rest of the world using windows are just stuffed.
I'm going to uninstall the damned thing now. It won't even load properly and is spawning tiny blank windows every 3 seconds.
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Imagine if you were still in high school. Imagine your teacher giving you a major assignment, but said you could hand it in 'when it was ready'. Would you ever finish it? Maybe just in time for graduation...
Now fast forward to your work (if you're working). Think of the projects you have and the project plans. If they're well planned out you'd have clear deliverables and time schedules and if the times are realistic you would hardly ever miss a deadline.
Now think of another project where the plan wasn't so clear and detailed. The customer/boss came back to you every week with great new ideas for the project or changes to what you already finished. How badly did you miss the deadline, or how much OT did you have to put in for that?
Now tell me, given Mozilla has no deadline at all, and the developers are mostly volunteers! (no OT), and given every week someone has some great new ideas for the project, do you think we'd ever reach a 1.0 where everybody was satisfied?
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Does that mean nobody else would have a drive like mine?
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Well, I lost 4GB and about $400 when my SparQ drive died after 1.5yrs of use. My friend's LS120 fried after 2 yrs of use (but at least he could get a new drive, SyQuest went bankrupt). Another friend's Zip100 freezes the computer whenever transferring data to/fro the drive, plus there is that problem of Zip drives losing data.
I wouldn't ever trust my data in a removable or portable drive again unless it was solid state.
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Well, just as Zip250 drives can read Zip100 disks, this drive would have to read at least one of the previous Iomega disks. That would be compatible.
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It was recently ruled here in Australia that parallel imports of CDs and electrical goods were legal, and manufacturers/distributors could not penalise retailers who sold parallels in addition to 'official' imports. DVDs would obviously be included.
However, we also have relatively new legislation like the DMCA which makes circumvention illegal. If we have a multi region DVD player, that's fine. But it's illegal to modify the player yourself or for someone else to make it multi region, or even to buy a modified player.
Now I wonder how this new development will affect that law.
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OK, some person makes an arguably racist comment and 4 idiots mod it up as funny?
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Actually, I've read many accounts of ppl that have met Bill and find him to be horrible.
However, on the other hand, I have read no accounts of ppl see Bill sit in his master chair and direct every bit of action that happens at MS. Sure we've heard SOME of his philosophies, but there's no proof he's the lone driving force behind all the business decisions.
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Sure that's a great idea, but what on earth do the corps get out of it? Spend millions so they too can be a linux distro? Spend millions more to write drivers? Then later find geeks out there using the drivers but saying their distro sux?
Whereas going with your own OS, you don't risk a competitor doing better than you.
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They don't seem to get it. Every time they encrypt content it gets cracked, same with watermarking schemes. Don't they realise there is only one sure protection against copying? They should be lobbying the gov't to ban DVDs! Since they tell us how much money they're losing from DVDs being copied or viewed in a different country to where it was bought. Surely it would be best if nobody bought any DVDs, then nobody would ever use them immorally.
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Once upon a time /. was full of people who could think about issues by themselves and discuss them. Obviously this has now changed, as the editors feel a need to tell us what to think of an article inside the post itself. Here we have a piece on what the VP of a major IT company thinks on some issue. Now we've decided that due to which company he works for, we should all trash him before we read the article.
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They can't even write software all that well, how on earth do they expect to write healing servers? Look at all the IBM and Lotus software, esp. notes. Everything is so clunky and bug reports are either ignored or never acted upon.
If it doesn't work in the first place, how can it heal? What if it decides to 'heal' from some modifications you've made to some inferior status?
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That's the theory. Here's the reality. Eg, in Australia, the govt passed a law or something that gave the Bradman foundation the exclusive use of the word Bradman in ANY business name in ANY industry.
FYI, Don Bradman was a cricketer. A hero to some. But I don't see how they could claim any company with that word in their name is scamming off the foundation.
Now when you talk about someone as big as Coca Cola, I'm sure they have enough $ to convince the judge that coke.net is rightfully theirs to use as a coke fan network...
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Unfreeze them? hehe, just take their money, freeze them, then when nobody's looking, dump their body in the incinerator somewhere. Meanwhile, the company that gives this freezing service grows rich and gains political power. Hrm, starting to sound like a movie...
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Imagine the future where you spend your whole life from birth to death living in one of these things. You'd never need to go outside your 'module', it has all the services you need.
Instead of going overseas for holidays, you'd just take the lift down to the next module.
Wierd stuff
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Have you seen how normal buildings have thicker walls at the bottom than the top? From my experience in a residential building we went up 10 floors and they had 1 foot extra in their living room. Now imagine the outer walls of this... thing.... How thick would they have to be?
Also, how deep are the foundations going to be for this thing? You can only go so far down before the crust becomes unstable.
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What's with the memory cards thing anyway. We have compactflash, smartmedia, now multimedia cards
This is only the so called open formats. Sony hav their memstick and others have other crap.
Why can't we settle on one format?
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Lithium Ion batteries are quite common on higher end components. They are lighter than NiMH for similar performance.
Lithium Polymer batteries are completely different. They are even lighter, but way expensive, and have fewer recharge cycles (I think about 250, half compared to the other types).
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It's hard to define hurt.
I've been writing software and giving it away for 5yrs. I'm even losing money on domain names and web hosting.
The only difference is that some of these artists want money for their art. That's fine.
But just because one downloads their songs, it doesn't mean they won't buy the album. Half the albums I now own I have downloaded songs from. All the albums I plan to buy I have the mp3s to about half the songs in them.
It should be clear to you that merchandise in shops cannot be duplicated, while mp3s can. To try to simplify things as you have done just to make your point is no excuse.
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Actually, in the US they already have people lobbying that libraries should have to pay per copy for electronic books etc. If that goes thru, the exceptions in the EU may come down too..
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This is like buying a box with a lock on it, and the seller says you're not allowed to open it.
This raises the following questions:
1. Why ru buying this stupid locked box then?
2. Why is the seller selling you the box if it's so important to them that it's not opened ever?
3. What if they forgot to lock the box?
4. If you called the locksmith, would you or the locksmith be liable?
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Gads, where do you come up with 12 combinations from?!?!?
You have 3 people, each person can have 1 of 2 colors. Thus you have 3^2 permutations = 8....
Why is everybody posting the answer which is already in the article (which we should all read, right?)
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The link comes back as document contains no data.
The main page crashes NS if you have JS turned on.
After turning it off, half the links from their main page also come back as document contains no data.
The rest of them feature black text on black background (probably as a result of not having JS turned on)
Does anybody have a mirror of the article or someting?
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plain text works pretty well on both browsers.
If your html is so complex that the differences on NS and IE really affect usability, then you should ask yourself whether you're putting form over content.
Of course, unfortunately, if you work for a company, usually your job IS to put form over content....
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