This is also why they buy cheap shitty clothes for a huge cost because of the brand.
Well, thanks for your opinion, but that's not quite reality. My wife bought some clothes at Walmart. They fell apart in the first washing. I've bought clothes from a varity of places; Old Navy and Gap, for example. Guess which brand is still around, and guess which one fell apart?
Also, there's more to clothing than quality. There's something called "style." And yes, many people will still judge you based on how you look.
Well, to be fair, why should a teacher pay much much more attention to one child over any other child? If a child needs specialized help, that's fine, but i don't think having the general education teachers provide said help at the expense of other students is the right thing either.
Really? What leads you to that assumption? Seems like you just pulled it out of your ass. Several here already stated they had internet and rabbit ears. Also, radios are so cheap I'd be suprised if anyone didn't have at least ONE in the house.
Quite whining and either go buy what you need, or find something else to do. I hate that my tax money is being given out to boost the profits of converter manufactures.
What, are you bashing MS for implementing a standard exactly, and not added any bells and whistles to it? If the POSIX standard is such that you can't do anything useful with it... perhaps the standard itself sucks.
Well, what happens now if all I want is more HP in my car, but not the extra features (sunroof, xm radio, whatever)?
You can look at the Civic DX vs. EX, pick one and only one feature on the EX that you want... but you can't get it in the DX.. you have to move up at least to the next level... possibly all the way to EX.
Funny, and here I thought we were a free people that had rights. I don't see anywhere in the Constitution that says government can limit what I put in my body...
Because the company, when it incorporated, agreed to the rules we setup, and we allow it to exist soley to benefit us here LOCALLY. Not some 3rd world country.
Japan is taking your advise you'd be happy to know!
At some point though, our technology will be such that we can live in space.. I imagine we could have "stations" floating around growing food. We'd need to send water up, but since we're going up to get the food anyway..
Yes, there is. It's in IE8. Hit F12. You can edit anything in the tree, and see your changes in real time. You can also see what styles ended up being applied. Don't know if it's better or worse than similar functionality (because I never used anything like that in FF), but it's there now. I think it's call the Developer pane or something like that.
Just the fact that it's gaining is proof enough that things are changing. I'm not really interested in your opinion on the speed with which things are changing. What happens when you get your way, and IE still remains the dominate browser? Personally its likely these "other browsers" which YOU claim are better are ones you have to buy.. which is likely why they aren't being adopted. As far as Opera goes, no, it's not a better browser than IE. IE6 is junk, but IE7 isn't bad, and IE8 has me considering dropping FF. XHTML = HTML4, but with XML rules thrown in, and there are many sites out there using HTML 4. So your claim that we should all be on XHTML is very misleading, because the only advantage is for easier machine parsing.. and since browsers do well with HTML 4, there's little incentive to go to XHTML. SVG isn't taking off because it has limited use; mainly, people put photos on the web, they don't hand draw graphics.
Your claim that IE held up the web is bogus; it's no longer true. Whether it was ever true or not is highly debatable... especially since if IE hadn't come around, we'd all likely be locked into Netscape and THIER embrace extend standards. Oh, did you forget about the developers back then complaining about tags only NS understood? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator#The_rise_of_Netscape Little more than a foot-note now, but a hot topic at the time.
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This is also why they buy cheap shitty clothes for a huge cost because of the brand.
Well, thanks for your opinion, but that's not quite reality. My wife bought some clothes at Walmart. They fell apart in the first washing. I've bought clothes from a varity of places; Old Navy and Gap, for example. Guess which brand is still around, and guess which one fell apart?
Also, there's more to clothing than quality. There's something called "style." And yes, many people will still judge you based on how you look.
Sorry, but what "web service applications" are you refering to?
Well, to be fair, why should a teacher pay much much more attention to one child over any other child? If a child needs specialized help, that's fine, but i don't think having the general education teachers provide said help at the expense of other students is the right thing either.
Really? What leads you to that assumption? Seems like you just pulled it out of your ass. Several here already stated they had internet and rabbit ears. Also, radios are so cheap I'd be suprised if anyone didn't have at least ONE in the house.
Quite whining and either go buy what you need, or find something else to do. I hate that my tax money is being given out to boost the profits of converter manufactures.
Hmm... how much does a loaf of bread cost in US dollars there? Just trying to get an idea of how much your money is worth.
Anyway... I still don't care if you or anyone else loses the ablitity to watch TV.
What, are you bashing MS for implementing a standard exactly, and not added any bells and whistles to it? If the POSIX standard is such that you can't do anything useful with it... perhaps the standard itself sucks.
Well, what happens now if all I want is more HP in my car, but not the extra features (sunroof, xm radio, whatever)?
You can look at the Civic DX vs. EX, pick one and only one feature on the EX that you want... but you can't get it in the DX.. you have to move up at least to the next level... possibly all the way to EX.
Reviled as pointless by anyone who had a clue
That depends; if you can't afford the next version up, maybe it has some appeal to be able to use Windows at all.
imposed ridiculous restrictions on legitimate users
Hmm... I guess if you buy the Honda Civic DX , you have "ridiculous restrictions" on you, because the EX version has features the DX doesn't?
did nothing to impede software piracy
If its easy to steal, and there's no penality... many will steal. Somehow I'm not suprised.
Mmm... doughnuts.
I think the TV stations should just flip the switch anyway. Are they in any way prohibited from doing this now?
Oh well. I don't care if someone can't watch TV anymore than I can if someone can't afford a bicycle, or a new DVD player.
I bet your converter boxes were cheaper than ours too.
You can afford an internet connection and computer, but not a $40 converter box without a coupon?
They aren't unique anyway.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=300161
Bleach is a posion, it's freely sold. So is rat posion. You could claim fast food is posion too, but that is freely sold.
Hmm... here's a mind bender for the poster to which you're responding.
I actually DO eat more than 2,000 calories per day. More like 4,000. Yet I'm losing weight. Wonder how that will affect his answer.
Funny, and here I thought we were a free people that had rights. I don't see anywhere in the Constitution that says government can limit what I put in my body...
Oh, you think that all the money that goes into keeping pot illegal doens't get pocketed by someone?
Because the company, when it incorporated, agreed to the rules we setup, and we allow it to exist soley to benefit us here LOCALLY. Not some 3rd world country.
4GB. The reason is that the 2GB system can't be faster when it's crashing.
Where will all the electricity come from for all the stuff that is going electric (read "GREEN") now?
Nuclear.
Japan is taking your advise you'd be happy to know!
At some point though, our technology will be such that we can live in space.. I imagine we could have "stations" floating around growing food. We'd need to send water up, but since we're going up to get the food anyway..
Hey, it might work.
Yes, there is. It's in IE8. Hit F12. You can edit anything in the tree, and see your changes in real time. You can also see what styles ended up being applied. Don't know if it's better or worse than similar functionality (because I never used anything like that in FF), but it's there now. I think it's call the Developer pane or something like that.
Ya, and what the hell are those stupid things called Add-ons anyway?? I won't use IE until they get plugins!
Just the fact that it's gaining is proof enough that things are changing. I'm not really interested in your opinion on the speed with which things are changing. What happens when you get your way, and IE still remains the dominate browser? Personally its likely these "other browsers" which YOU claim are better are ones you have to buy.. which is likely why they aren't being adopted. As far as Opera goes, no, it's not a better browser than IE. IE6 is junk, but IE7 isn't bad, and IE8 has me considering dropping FF. XHTML = HTML4, but with XML rules thrown in, and there are many sites out there using HTML 4. So your claim that we should all be on XHTML is very misleading, because the only advantage is for easier machine parsing.. and since browsers do well with HTML 4, there's little incentive to go to XHTML. SVG isn't taking off because it has limited use; mainly, people put photos on the web, they don't hand draw graphics.
Your claim that IE held up the web is bogus; it's no longer true. Whether it was ever true or not is highly debatable... especially since if IE hadn't come around, we'd all likely be locked into Netscape and THIER embrace extend standards. Oh, did you forget about the developers back then complaining about tags only NS understood? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator#The_rise_of_Netscape Little more than a foot-note now, but a hot topic at the time.