a lot of large organizations waited two years to migrate from 2000 to XP
From Microsoft's point of view, a worryingly number still haven't. Which is why updates are still appearing regularly for 2000 -- leaving big customers vulnerable is admitting to the elephant in the room; having produced an insecure product in the first place.
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...is this leaked version using any new rendering components? If so, has anyone dissected the differences between it and IE 6 yet?
You won't find cartridges for your printer 14 years from now
Sure I will. Worked just fine with the Laserjet II, will work just fine with the laser I have now... failing that, remanufactured cartridges and bottled toner will be around for longer...
In fact, I'm pretty sure you can buy generic cartridges too.
I highly doubt Kylie Minogue is the only Kylie out there with recorded material, for example. Blocking specific artist+album+song combinations might be reasonable, but there's a lot of room for false positives.
In time, even more absurd terms may become blocked... eg, The.
Yeah, someone really misfiled that one... (although Tripod have removed the site in question. It's a photo of a penis, for those who don't feel like clicking the link.) Possibly it got selected by a human at Google, the image was switched or defaced, and then was automatically updated by a crawler bot.
he would have us believe that the cool kids would immediately go down the 2.50 new releases, buying each one and scorning the cheap songs. I don't see it working like that.
Exactly. It's how he'd like them to react, certainly. Online stores aren't like shop shelves where the 'bargain' material is thrown into a wire bin where it can't be looked through easily, though...
Bring it on, basically. I think it'll help small artists tremendously, at the cost of decreasing sales and increasing illicit copying of label favourites.
Yeah... and I don't think it works with music. People don't turn round and say "hey, that album costs $25 so it must be better", at least in my experience... they say things like "wow, that's overpriced."
On the other hand, if there's an RRP of $25 and stores are selling it for $15, people may feel they're getting a bit of a bargain, and spend more freely...
release their next single straight into the $0.99 category, which will kill it dead no matter how good it is.
Depends on whether the other singles are slipping towards $1.49 or £1.99... I'd certainly be looking at the $0.99 range for new or favourite artists. If the comparison is between, say, $0.49 (for back catalogue stuff, of which there's now decades) and $0.99, then yes the artists are in trouble...
At a guess, the Herald has accepted (or thinly reworded) a press release from a PR firm paid to pass such things on to media such as TV or newspapers. In this instance, the PR firm will be working on behalf of a manufacturer that produces suits.
It's unlikely the Herald is engaged in any active thought whatsoever.
That game is such a bastard without multiple save points (the joys of emulation and just dumping the system to file, eh?) And of course it's perfectly possible to get far into the game without having done something back near the beginning that becomes essential to progress further...
I find I like the idea of text adventures more than the practice. Mostly me being crap and needing hints rather than evil designers, though. A lot of games seem to allow for enough backtracking to not simply write off an entire gaming experience because of the aforementioned "you didn't do something earlier" syndrome found in HHG.
If you use MP3, encode with --alt-preset standard for best filesize/quality trade-off... it's surprising how many people still think MP3 is limited to the 128kbps non-variable bitrate version of "CD quality".
MP3 players are cheap to the point it doesn't matter as much having one to carry around that's functionally disposable. As such, I keep any Ogg music files I come across, but transcode for regular listening.
No, I wouldn't be concerned, although pleading the case for areas apart from language is a bit outside the scope of this reply (and the article.) Languages are mediums as well as subjects of academic study, and ideologically I'd rather remove barriers to communication than fight to keep them in place.
But if I could take my subject specialities (literature, history, teaching) and give them to people in tablet form -- I'd do that too. Share some knowledge, get some back from other subject areas... such as applications programming, etc. Just a different type of interchange.
The problem (in the above scenario) would come with subjects in which interpretation plays a larger part than fact. Being able to "inject" people with prefab political viewpoints, for instance, would be dangerous -- whoever's viewpoints they were.
And would someone tell me why the hell Slashdot filters out character code 8212 (the m-dash)? Comment above should read "in public--an iPod or laptop is a clear theft risk, anyway."
Possibly someone travelling for a few days away from home without a laptop. Having a portable device doesn't imply people will use it in publican iPod or laptop is a clear theft risk, anyway.
It has a decent built-in BASIC with easy access to system calls, which makes building WIMP (GUI) applications extremely straightforward even for total beginners -- or at least that's how I found it as a kid fourteen years ago, and stuck with it until it made more economic sense to build a PC from components.
Since then the rest of the world has accelerated, and RISC OS has been playing catch-up for a long time. It does what it does competently, I found it very intuitive and a great learning tool, but the only appeal for me these days would be nostalgia and to catch up with a few old hands in the community, who still seem to be mainstays judging by the site I just stumbled upon.
All just personal opinion, of course. Consume with salt.:)
You ARE aware Queen of Wands is no longer being produced? The 'rerun with commentary' is somewhat amusing, but not something I would ever pay for... would you? As such, the license it is released under makes little difference.
Licensing still matters. A new writer may take a character or identifiable element of a series in a different but rewarding direction, and if they can do that with the blessing of the author who inspired them, so much the better. That's what TFA is suggesting, I think.
Sig: ah, but his long-term plans... <echo>long-term plans...</echo>
As others have pointed out, it would lend legitimacy to BitTorrent through a form of self-policing -- particularly if a specialised BT search spider becomes more reliable a centralised source for finding torrents than Google.
I've tried the very-small-portable-editor thing, and unfortunately typing on a small device proved slow enough to get in the way of thinking... what I was using was a Sharp 770 (they were sold in ZQ and OZ flavours depending on geography) with OzOffice. About equal in complexity to a Psion 3a.
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a lot of large organizations waited two years to migrate from 2000 to XP
From Microsoft's point of view, a worryingly number still haven't. Which is why updates are still appearing regularly for 2000 -- leaving big customers vulnerable is admitting to the elephant in the room; having produced an insecure product in the first place.
...is this leaked version using any new rendering components? If so, has anyone dissected the differences between it and IE 6 yet?
You won't find cartridges for your printer 14 years from now
Sure I will. Worked just fine with the Laserjet II, will work just fine with the laser I have now... failing that, remanufactured cartridges and bottled toner will be around for longer...
In fact, I'm pretty sure you can buy generic cartridges too.
Consider... what if Google bought the code, opened it and the improvements dovetailed into one browser? Each currently has its strengths.
I highly doubt Kylie Minogue is the only Kylie out there with recorded material, for example. Blocking specific artist+album+song combinations might be reasonable, but there's a lot of room for false positives.
In time, even more absurd terms may become blocked... eg, The.
So people steal a few of your clock cycles, a bit of your bandwidth. So what?
They're using a connection you're legally liable for to commit what may be criminal actions.
Pretty simple, really.
"Moderate SafeSearch is on"
Yeah, someone really misfiled that one... (although Tripod have removed the site in question. It's a photo of a penis, for those who don't feel like clicking the link.) Possibly it got selected by a human at Google, the image was switched or defaced, and then was automatically updated by a crawler bot.
he would have us believe that the cool kids would immediately go down the 2.50 new releases, buying each one and scorning the cheap songs. I don't see it working like that.
Exactly. It's how he'd like them to react, certainly. Online stores aren't like shop shelves where the 'bargain' material is thrown into a wire bin where it can't be looked through easily, though...
Bring it on, basically. I think it'll help small artists tremendously, at the cost of decreasing sales and increasing illicit copying of label favourites.
Yeah... and I don't think it works with music. People don't turn round and say "hey, that album costs $25 so it must be better", at least in my experience... they say things like "wow, that's overpriced."
On the other hand, if there's an RRP of $25 and stores are selling it for $15, people may feel they're getting a bit of a bargain, and spend more freely...
release their next single straight into the $0.99 category, which will kill it dead no matter how good it is.
... I'd certainly be looking at the $0.99 range for new or favourite artists. If the comparison is between, say, $0.49 (for back catalogue stuff, of which there's now decades) and $0.99, then yes the artists are in trouble...
Depends on whether the other singles are slipping towards $1.49 or £1.99
At a guess, the Herald has accepted (or thinly reworded) a press release from a PR firm paid to pass such things on to media such as TV or newspapers. In this instance, the PR firm will be working on behalf of a manufacturer that produces suits.
It's unlikely the Herald is engaged in any active thought whatsoever.
That game is such a bastard without multiple save points (the joys of emulation and just dumping the system to file, eh?) And of course it's perfectly possible to get far into the game without having done something back near the beginning that becomes essential to progress further...
I find I like the idea of text adventures more than the practice. Mostly me being crap and needing hints rather than evil designers, though. A lot of games seem to allow for enough backtracking to not simply write off an entire gaming experience because of the aforementioned "you didn't do something earlier" syndrome found in HHG.
If you use MP3, encode with --alt-preset standard for best filesize/quality trade-off... it's surprising how many people still think MP3 is limited to the 128kbps non-variable bitrate version of "CD quality".
MP3 players are cheap to the point it doesn't matter as much having one to carry around that's functionally disposable. As such, I keep any Ogg music files I come across, but transcode for regular listening.
No, I wouldn't be concerned, although pleading the case for areas apart from language is a bit outside the scope of this reply (and the article.) Languages are mediums as well as subjects of academic study, and ideologically I'd rather remove barriers to communication than fight to keep them in place.
But if I could take my subject specialities (literature, history, teaching) and give them to people in tablet form -- I'd do that too. Share some knowledge, get some back from other subject areas... such as applications programming, etc. Just a different type of interchange.
The problem (in the above scenario) would come with subjects in which interpretation plays a larger part than fact. Being able to "inject" people with prefab political viewpoints, for instance, would be dangerous -- whoever's viewpoints they were.
And would someone tell me why the hell Slashdot filters out character code 8212 (the m-dash)? Comment above should read "in public--an iPod or laptop is a clear theft risk, anyway."
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/emen/
Possibly someone travelling for a few days away from home without a laptop. Having a portable device doesn't imply people will use it in publican iPod or laptop is a clear theft risk, anyway.
Parent was intended as a quick troll, I know, but those with more interest might want to google "Council of Carthage".
fandom has long speculated that the main character's species reproduces asexually.
g barrow/
Read this, it'll clear that question at least up:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/lun
(It does create as many new questions as it answers, though.)
I can't justify supporting a law which is crafted to make an example out of one man's action on Federal level.
It isn't. On the other hand, a large proportion of spam comes from only a few offenders... and is no less a problem or resource theft because of it.
It has a decent built-in BASIC with easy access to system calls, which makes building WIMP (GUI) applications extremely straightforward even for total beginners -- or at least that's how I found it as a kid fourteen years ago, and stuck with it until it made more economic sense to build a PC from components.
:)
Since then the rest of the world has accelerated, and RISC OS has been playing catch-up for a long time. It does what it does competently, I found it very intuitive and a great learning tool, but the only appeal for me these days would be nostalgia and to catch up with a few old hands in the community, who still seem to be mainstays judging by the site I just stumbled upon.
All just personal opinion, of course. Consume with salt.
Er, Doohan did a better Scottish accent than Gregor Fisher in Rab C Nesbitt.
Back on thread, his role in Trek made technical stuff interesting, and I'm thankful he helped spur that interest for me. RIP, dude.
Licensing still matters. A new writer may take a character or identifiable element of a series in a different but rewarding direction, and if they can do that with the blessing of the author who inspired them, so much the better. That's what TFA is suggesting, I think.
Sig: ah, but his long-term plans... <echo>long-term plans...</echo>
http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02242005.shtml
http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com/d/20050224.ht ml
http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/fanart/queenofwan ds.html
Of course, this being Slashdot, five people have probably already posted this by now...
As others have pointed out, it would lend legitimacy to BitTorrent through a form of self-policing -- particularly if a specialised BT search spider becomes more reliable a centralised source for finding torrents than Google.