Since when is call forwarding innovative? I'm not saying the service is useless, but it's nothing new at all. Yet everyone with a hardon for google goes on and on like it is.
No, you don't pick your battles when it comes to violation of your rights. You always fight, because it is the moral thing to do.. not only for yourself, but for all other people.
I'd rather not be treated like a criminal when flying, and allow the government to violate my rights. Planes are private property - if you don't like it don't fly on it. You can always drive to your destination, or take a boat ride.
It's also wise from a practical standpoint to either give up your rights and cooperate with the agents asking questions you have a right to not answer, or plan your itinerary such that you can miss your flight.
No, the wise thing to do is stand up and defend your rights, because if you don't, the government will continue to trample them.
You mean like my right to buy an ultra violent or sexual video game? Or to watch such content on tv? What what two consenting people do with each other?
Please, you're taking away rights, just different ones. The Bill of Rights is not an enumeration of all of our rights, it merely spells out SOME of them.
So while you're at work you're supposed to suspend all web-related activity? Including on breaks?
If that's what the owners want, yup. Its still not your computer or network just because you're taking a break.
In any modern company, they realize that the internet, and connectivity, are facts of life -- they're just as important as letting your employees talk about their cats (or whatever) over the cubicle wall.
They also realize that if left unrestricted you'll spend all day on/. Just as talking about yoru cats all day would be grounds for dismissal.
If you don't let your employees socialize at all, everyone loses, since they'll be as motivated as inanimate objects (and, statistically, this is well known).
Yet unrestricted socialization isn't good either. You are there to work, after all.
So are you supposed to bring your own computer with you to work?
At work, you're supposed to be doing your work. Youtube can wait until you're home.
Also, you're right, it's not your network, it's the company's network, which means that the company's security is being compromised by using IE6. If something you did, with IE6, made your company vulnerable to an attack, and this action is traced back to you, who do you think will be held accountable?
Yes, which is why the company can force down IE7 or IE8 very easily, and lock it down just as easily... which is where FF and Chrome are lacking. If you're following company rules, you shouldn't have any way to make your company vulnerable to an attack, because you shouldn't be visiting any non-work releated sites to begin with! See how it works?
The system defaults to requiring callers with previously unseen caller-id's to state their name before it will even ring my real phone(s). No automated system knows how to do that so far.
Not exactly innovative. Verizon gave me that at my apartment in 2002.
I may be mistaken on this but I don't believe.Net server-side page controls, by default, translate into standards compliant HTML and Javascript. That is not to say they can't, with some modification, but just that they don't in a new install of Visual Web Developer or Visual Studio.
I believe you are mistaken. Of course, they also can talior their output based on browser, so that the control still works properly on IE6 and IE8. I would think that'd be a net plus, since using the control frees developers from having to worry about different browsers. In fact, standards and flexiblity were the primary benefits touted when.Net was first released.
I would point out that while Frontpage has indeed left us with a rather nasty legacy in the form of many horribly written and horrible looking websites, the software itself has thankfully died and its successor is actually a pretty nice program. I was majorly skeptical when my previous employer wanted me to start using Expression Web but after using it a while I found it to be quite useful and I suspect the next versions of it with SuperPreview and all of that will be as well.
Agreed here; Expression Web has greatly impressed me. It should even handle PHP, but I can't comment, since I keep far far away from PHP.
1. Everything is "worth" what its buyer is willing to pay for it.
By that argument your car is worthless because I wouldn't pay you for it and chose to steal it instead.
2. You are not entitled to be paid for every little bit of "labor" you do.. first you have to find a buyer.
What? Everything must now be produced on demand? I can't build a birdhouse and THEN go find a buyer? If no one wants to buy it (yet) and it's then stolen, it was worthless?
Also, I'd like to point out that if you don't have a right to be paid for your labor WHICH BENEFITS ANOTHER, that's pretty much the definition of slavery, isn't it? Forcing someone to labor for you?
3. The second-hand market is legitimate and yet the exact same "robs someone" argument applies.
No, the "robs someone" doesn't apply, because the first hand buyer already paid the producer of the good. Now, the second-hand market becomes illegitmate if the object was first stolen. So you buying a DVD player from best buy is fine... but buying a DVD player from a guy in a truck which stole the DVD player to begin with is illegal. See how that works?
. If I go up to someone's handbag, make an exact copy of it, and walk off with the copy, the owner of the handbag probably won't care (nor would I have done anything illegal anyway).
Oh, I'd also like to point out that while the owner of the handbag would not care, it's designer certainly would. Imagine all the effort that goes into designing, testing, and building a new BMW. Do you really think BMW would continue if they build ONE car and every ran up to it with their portable replicators and drove off in a copy? No, BMW would throw up its hands and give up, as would pretty much every other car manufacturer. So who would pick up the slack?
Honestly, the reason the whole "piracy is stealing" but will never sink in is because piracy isn't really stealing and people know it.
No, people know it's stealing and simply don't care. You're being dishonest. Most people will be honest, but the truth is if it's 1) really really easy, and 2) no one will notice and 3) there's almost no chance of being caught, yeah, they probably will steal.
1) Stop producing cr@p that nobody is interested in. How many remakes of classic films can you do, do you think people don't realise a rip-off? How many formulaic "artists" are in the music charts when there's other stuff out there which does not get a look in because of the rigged radio market.
Apparently they aren't producing crap though. Otherwise, people wouldn't either spend money to see, or spend time to download it. If nobody listened to the "forumlaic artists" which fill the charts, they wouldn't be filling the charts, would they? Clearly enough people LIKE the content that they are willingly consuming it.
2) Stop selling the DVD's and CD's at such high prices. The market has moved on and there's competition for the money, people have more things they can buy, as I mentioned already, computer games, mobile phones etc.. It's not the 1960's where for teenagers there was music, film, and that's it.
$1.00 for an unrestricted MP3 is a "high price?" $20 for a DVD is too expensive? Especially compared to a PS3 game, which runs around $60 new, or even Wii games, which run around $40 new.
3) Stop loading DVD's with unskippable cr@p (Disney the worst offender), stop putting idiotic unskippable trailers on copyrights - we just bought your legit DVD damn it! At least with VHS you could rewind to a spot where the actual content starts!
I rarely find a DVD where I can't skip the previews. Of course, sometimes I actually want to watch them, because they advertise similar films I would likely enjoy. Then again, I'm a bit too mature to be watching Disney movies, so maybe that's the difference.
4) Stop putting crapware on CD's, we want Red Book Standard CD's, and we also want the cases and CD's to have the logo on it to prove they are REAL audio CD's, not the fake crap put out today.
Um, most CDs are redbook. And at any rate, you can build the full MP3 album of just about anything over at Amazon.com. But then, that's how I've been buying music exclusively for a while now... I didn't realize anyone actually bought CDs anymore.
5) Stop putting DRM on legit downloads. It p1sses me off that such and such file is restricted to what file format a device will play (with DRM built in to the player). I don't want to pay extra for a MP3 player to make some DRM licensee richer.
Again, have you heard of Amazon.com? $1 per song isn't anymore than iTunes.
6) Improve the audio quality of Audio CD's, and digital downloads. Audio CD's are chasing the loudness battle - I recently bought a compilation CD and had to give it away because I had ear ache after 5 minutes of this unlistenable compressed music. Digital downloads are also not much better, where are the file formats like FLAC on ALL download sites, not just highly specialised sites. Hell, you can buy a CD then rip it to make a FLAC and it will outclass and MP3.
MP3 is fine as long as the bitrate is high enough. I think amazon's are 256, and sound perfectly fine to me. As far as loudness... you have a volume control on your audio device, right?
7) Get rid of the copy restrictions on DVD's, HD discs, camcorders, and the other formats.
Don't have any BR discs, but I've been able to move a DVD onto my PSP so I have something to wath on the plane. My camcorder doesn't have any restrictions I know of.
MAYBE after all that, downloaders MIGHT think about buying more music and films.
Oh, so you expect them to do everything you want, on the hope that you MIGHT stop stealing their content? Sorry, but it seems things are improving, and more and more content is available for legal download.
Still, as angry as I would be about someone lying and wasting my time, I'd have a hard time handing that person an almost $2 million verdict against them.
And what the hell does "Manageability" mean? Rate at which the browser is able to be handled or controled? What the hell?! And their little quip for this one:
It means that IT cannot control any setting it wants on FF or Chrome. With IE though, I can set IE settings, and the user won't be able to change them.
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Since when is call forwarding innovative? I'm not saying the service is useless, but it's nothing new at all. Yet everyone with a hardon for google goes on and on like it is.
No, you don't pick your battles when it comes to violation of your rights. You always fight, because it is the moral thing to do.. not only for yourself, but for all other people.
No case, except the pesky 4th amedment which prohibits the government (of which the TSA is a part) from performing searches without a warrant.
I'd rather not be treated like a criminal when flying, and allow the government to violate my rights. Planes are private property - if you don't like it don't fly on it. You can always drive to your destination, or take a boat ride.
It's also wise from a practical standpoint to either give up your rights and cooperate with the agents asking questions you have a right to not answer, or plan your itinerary such that you can miss your flight.
No, the wise thing to do is stand up and defend your rights, because if you don't, the government will continue to trample them.
Well that and there's the NRA who's focus in the 2nd amendment... so perhaps they figure that right is already covered well by another group.
You mean like my right to buy an ultra violent or sexual video game? Or to watch such content on tv? What what two consenting people do with each other?
Please, you're taking away rights, just different ones. The Bill of Rights is not an enumeration of all of our rights, it merely spells out SOME of them.
So while you're at work you're supposed to suspend all web-related activity? Including on breaks?
If that's what the owners want, yup. Its still not your computer or network just because you're taking a break.
In any modern company, they realize that the internet, and connectivity, are facts of life -- they're just as important as letting your employees talk about their cats (or whatever) over the cubicle wall.
They also realize that if left unrestricted you'll spend all day on /. Just as talking about yoru cats all day would be grounds for dismissal.
If you don't let your employees socialize at all, everyone loses, since they'll be as motivated as inanimate objects (and, statistically, this is well known).
Yet unrestricted socialization isn't good either. You are there to work, after all.
So are you supposed to bring your own computer with you to work?
At work, you're supposed to be doing your work. Youtube can wait until you're home.
Also, you're right, it's not your network, it's the company's network, which means that the company's security is being compromised by using IE6. If something you did, with IE6, made your company vulnerable to an attack, and this action is traced back to you, who do you think will be held accountable?
Yes, which is why the company can force down IE7 or IE8 very easily, and lock it down just as easily... which is where FF and Chrome are lacking. If you're following company rules, you shouldn't have any way to make your company vulnerable to an attack, because you shouldn't be visiting any non-work releated sites to begin with! See how it works?
The system defaults to requiring callers with previously unseen caller-id's to state their name before it will even ring my real phone(s). No automated system knows how to do that so far.
Not exactly innovative. Verizon gave me that at my apartment in 2002.
I may be mistaken on this but I don't believe .Net server-side page controls, by default, translate into standards compliant HTML and Javascript. That is not to say they can't, with some modification, but just that they don't in a new install of Visual Web Developer or Visual Studio.
I believe you are mistaken. Of course, they also can talior their output based on browser, so that the control still works properly on IE6 and IE8. I would think that'd be a net plus, since using the control frees developers from having to worry about different browsers. In fact, standards and flexiblity were the primary benefits touted when .Net was first released.
I would point out that while Frontpage has indeed left us with a rather nasty legacy in the form of many horribly written and horrible looking websites, the software itself has thankfully died and its successor is actually a pretty nice program. I was majorly skeptical when my previous employer wanted me to start using Expression Web but after using it a while I found it to be quite useful and I suspect the next versions of it with SuperPreview and all of that will be as well.
Agreed here; Expression Web has greatly impressed me. It should even handle PHP, but I can't comment, since I keep far far away from PHP.
At work, it's not your computer, not your network, not your electricy.. how is blocking ActiveX or flash for all users oppression?
Yes, but the problem was that the OP was suggesting we should have NO highrises.
1. Everything is "worth" what its buyer is willing to pay for it.
By that argument your car is worthless because I wouldn't pay you for it and chose to steal it instead.
2. You are not entitled to be paid for every little bit of "labor" you do.. first you have to find a buyer.
What? Everything must now be produced on demand? I can't build a birdhouse and THEN go find a buyer? If no one wants to buy it (yet) and it's then stolen, it was worthless?
Also, I'd like to point out that if you don't have a right to be paid for your labor WHICH BENEFITS ANOTHER, that's pretty much the definition of slavery, isn't it? Forcing someone to labor for you?
3. The second-hand market is legitimate and yet the exact same "robs someone" argument applies.
No, the "robs someone" doesn't apply, because the first hand buyer already paid the producer of the good. Now, the second-hand market becomes illegitmate if the object was first stolen. So you buying a DVD player from best buy is fine... but buying a DVD player from a guy in a truck which stole the DVD player to begin with is illegal. See how that works?
. If I go up to someone's handbag, make an exact copy of it, and walk off with the copy, the owner of the handbag probably won't care (nor would I have done anything illegal anyway).
Oh, I'd also like to point out that while the owner of the handbag would not care, it's designer certainly would. Imagine all the effort that goes into designing, testing, and building a new BMW. Do you really think BMW would continue if they build ONE car and every ran up to it with their portable replicators and drove off in a copy? No, BMW would throw up its hands and give up, as would pretty much every other car manufacturer. So who would pick up the slack?
Honestly, the reason the whole "piracy is stealing" but will never sink in is because piracy isn't really stealing and people know it.
No, people know it's stealing and simply don't care. You're being dishonest. Most people will be honest, but the truth is if it's 1) really really easy, and 2) no one will notice and 3) there's almost no chance of being caught, yeah, they probably will steal.
1) Stop producing cr@p that nobody is interested in. How many remakes of classic films can you do, do you think people don't realise a rip-off? How many formulaic "artists" are in the music charts when there's other stuff out there which does not get a look in because of the rigged radio market.
Apparently they aren't producing crap though. Otherwise, people wouldn't either spend money to see, or spend time to download it. If nobody listened to the "forumlaic artists" which fill the charts, they wouldn't be filling the charts, would they? Clearly enough people LIKE the content that they are willingly consuming it.
2) Stop selling the DVD's and CD's at such high prices. The market has moved on and there's competition for the money, people have more things they can buy, as I mentioned already, computer games, mobile phones etc.. It's not the 1960's where for teenagers there was music, film, and that's it.
$1.00 for an unrestricted MP3 is a "high price?" $20 for a DVD is too expensive? Especially compared to a PS3 game, which runs around $60 new, or even Wii games, which run around $40 new.
3) Stop loading DVD's with unskippable cr@p (Disney the worst offender), stop putting idiotic unskippable trailers on copyrights - we just bought your legit DVD damn it! At least with VHS you could rewind to a spot where the actual content starts!
I rarely find a DVD where I can't skip the previews. Of course, sometimes I actually want to watch them, because they advertise similar films I would likely enjoy. Then again, I'm a bit too mature to be watching Disney movies, so maybe that's the difference.
4) Stop putting crapware on CD's, we want Red Book Standard CD's, and we also want the cases and CD's to have the logo on it to prove they are REAL audio CD's, not the fake crap put out today.
Um, most CDs are redbook. And at any rate, you can build the full MP3 album of just about anything over at Amazon.com. But then, that's how I've been buying music exclusively for a while now... I didn't realize anyone actually bought CDs anymore.
5) Stop putting DRM on legit downloads. It p1sses me off that such and such file is restricted to what file format a device will play (with DRM built in to the player). I don't want to pay extra for a MP3 player to make some DRM licensee richer.
Again, have you heard of Amazon.com? $1 per song isn't anymore than iTunes.
6) Improve the audio quality of Audio CD's, and digital downloads. Audio CD's are chasing the loudness battle - I recently bought a compilation CD and had to give it away because I had ear ache after 5 minutes of this unlistenable compressed music. Digital downloads are also not much better, where are the file formats like FLAC on ALL download sites, not just highly specialised sites. Hell, you can buy a CD then rip it to make a FLAC and it will outclass and MP3.
MP3 is fine as long as the bitrate is high enough. I think amazon's are 256, and sound perfectly fine to me. As far as loudness... you have a volume control on your audio device, right?
7) Get rid of the copy restrictions on DVD's, HD discs, camcorders, and the other formats.
Don't have any BR discs, but I've been able to move a DVD onto my PSP so I have something to wath on the plane. My camcorder doesn't have any restrictions I know of.
MAYBE after all that, downloaders MIGHT think about buying more music and films.
Oh, so you expect them to do everything you want, on the hope that you MIGHT stop stealing their content? Sorry, but it seems things are improving, and more and more content is available for legal download.
The judge does have the final say on the damages, and could reduce it if he felt it was excessive.
Still, as angry as I would be about someone lying and wasting my time, I'd have a hard time handing that person an almost $2 million verdict against them.
The world will be a better place when kids stop belittling their elders for no factual reason.
You mean the elders that destoryed this country and left us without any real rights?
And yet when a Linux distro includes everything but the kitchen sink, that's helpful.
Really? So the MSN link isn't a tipoff, nor is the (C) 2009 Microsoft at the bottom, in plain view?
Conclusion: You're an idiot. All you had to do was hit the Compatibility View, and you'd be fine. IE8 includes IE7s rendering engine.
Frontpage and .Net have caused immeasurable damage to the web with their completely broken markup
Please, tell me what broken markup .net server controls emit.
And what the hell does "Manageability" mean? Rate at which the browser is able to be handled or controled? What the hell?! And their little quip for this one:
It means that IT cannot control any setting it wants on FF or Chrome. With IE though, I can set IE settings, and the user won't be able to change them.
Whats wrong with living in a high rise? I'd be happy to do so, if there were any here.