Having listened to a recording (as a British, Leftie, Bush-disliker) I really don't think that there is any clear pretence at the message being from the democrats, really. I'd like to believe, I really would, and I suppose there might be some people who hang up before getting the message, but I don't think the message was deliberately engineered to be that way.
Because sometimes society decides that the market result is not the result that society wants. The Market was quite happy to have shops with cards in the window saying "No niggers". Society decided against that.
Boy, you sure do have an big supply of those straw men available don't you? Presumably you're against audio signals for blind people crossing the road at traffic signals - the audio component adds expense and, well they're blind god-damnit so what are they doing wandering around in the street anyway.
No? You're not against that? OK. Now, making a Web site accessible is not particularly hard or costly and whereas one TDD machine in a shop may benefit a handful of blind people at most, making a Web site accessible can improve the lives of thousands. If society mandates that it wants to place this burden on companies so beit. I suspect that once it becomes enforced it will become second nature to developers, much less onerous than having to support both IE and Firefox users.
You can "not skimp" on a Web site and still have something simple, quick to load and well designed. In fact, skimping on the planning stage will often lead to a heap of bloated junk since no-one has bother with the annoying hard work of deciding what to prioritise and what to leave out.
Ah, the new discussion system. I tried to help test it for about 3 weeks and finally gave up, flummoxed as to how to make it work. I salute your superior intelligence.
Out of the box - imovie, idvd, garageband, iphoto, itunes, iweb. The were the reasons that I switched to Mac about 3 years ago, combined with the fact that I wanted to tinker with Unix, but didn't want to *have* to learn the internals if I didn't want to.
Well, I hate to be contrarian (actually I don't) but in this case Microsoft is attempting to address you point 1. in a reasonable way, by disallowing unsigned drivers. The fact that the protection can be broken is problematic. The fact that Microsoft is now looking to close the loophole is fine.
Because at the time Netscape really did look as if it was going to turn the browser into something akin to an alternative OS that might chip away at MS's desktop monopoly. That threat no longer exists.
That whooshing noise was the goal-posts moving. My original point was, any bank that hasn't designed its systems to be immune from key-loggers is not one to be trusted. But you're right - a totally compromised machine is, indeed totally compromised.
I suspect it is going to become quite an old-fashioned modern-world-centric presumption quite quickly. Several parts of the UK are planning to turn off all street lighting outside of town centres from midnight to 5am to save on electricity, carbon emissions and to reduce light pollution.
You don't really understand natural selection, do you? Or are you really expecting massive fatalities among non-restant people sufficient to stop them breeding?
Exactly As you point out, Apple already outsources its manufacturing to low-cost Asian suppliers. So what, precisely is the point in turning manufacturing to Dell which uses comparable Asian manufacturers. It just inserts another cost in the middle of the supply chain.
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Having listened to a recording (as a British, Leftie, Bush-disliker) I really don't think that there is any clear pretence at the message being from the democrats, really. I'd like to believe, I really would, and I suppose there might be some people who hang up before getting the message, but I don't think the message was deliberately engineered to be that way.
Because sometimes society decides that the market result is not the result that society wants. The Market was quite happy to have shops with cards in the window saying "No niggers". Society decided against that.
Boy, you sure do have an big supply of those straw men available don't you? Presumably you're against audio signals for blind people crossing the road at traffic signals - the audio component adds expense and, well they're blind god-damnit so what are they doing wandering around in the street anyway.
No? You're not against that? OK. Now, making a Web site accessible is not particularly hard or costly and whereas one TDD machine in a shop may benefit a handful of blind people at most, making a Web site accessible can improve the lives of thousands. If society mandates that it wants to place this burden on companies so beit. I suspect that once it becomes enforced it will become second nature to developers, much less onerous than having to support both IE and Firefox users.
You can "not skimp" on a Web site and still have something simple, quick to load and well designed. In fact, skimping on the planning stage will often lead to a heap of bloated junk since no-one has bother with the annoying hard work of deciding what to prioritise and what to leave out.
Ah, the new discussion system. I tried to help test it for about 3 weeks and finally gave up, flummoxed as to how to make it work. I salute your superior intelligence.
Not sure. But I haven't had mod points in two months or so, which is fairly unusual.
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http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/webcast.htm
Go on. Educate me, you know you want to.
Out of the box - imovie, idvd, garageband, iphoto, itunes, iweb. The were the reasons that I switched to Mac about 3 years ago, combined with the fact that I wanted to tinker with Unix, but didn't want to *have* to learn the internals if I didn't want to.
Well, I hate to be contrarian (actually I don't) but in this case Microsoft is attempting to address you point 1. in a reasonable way, by disallowing unsigned drivers. The fact that the protection can be broken is problematic. The fact that Microsoft is now looking to close the loophole is fine.
Blimey, thanks. Live and learn.
Because at the time Netscape really did look as if it was going to turn the browser into something akin to an alternative OS that might chip away at MS's desktop monopoly. That threat no longer exists.
My guess is that the survey site was using some ActiveX component. These were only ever supported in Windows.
You saw the 'outside of town centres' bit, I presume.
That whooshing noise was the goal-posts moving. My original point was, any bank that hasn't designed its systems to be immune from key-loggers is not one to be trusted. But you're right - a totally compromised machine is, indeed totally compromised.
Not as annoying as the people who cannot distinguish between Kelvin (K) and kilo (k)
I would hope that your bank has a Web site immune from threat by key-loggers. If not, change banks.
I suspect it is going to become quite an old-fashioned modern-world-centric presumption quite quickly. Several parts of the UK are planning to turn off all street lighting outside of town centres from midnight to 5am to save on electricity, carbon emissions and to reduce light pollution.
Actually, that raises the question - who is next in line of succession after Great Leader and Dear Leader?
Since the tax is on devices that can receive TV content over the Internet, the tax is, by definition going to fund Internet accessible content.
You don't really understand natural selection, do you? Or are you really expecting massive fatalities among non-restant people sufficient to stop them breeding?
All of the published works are online. They are still working on the notebooks etc.
Exactly As you point out, Apple already outsources its manufacturing to low-cost Asian suppliers. So what, precisely is the point in turning manufacturing to Dell which uses comparable Asian manufacturers. It just inserts another cost in the middle of the supply chain.
Sorry, for a moment I thought you were suggesting that arguing with slippery slope protagonists was the thin end of the wedge.
Thanks for pointing that out. Sadly, it's a G4 anglepoise iMac.