The problem is massive commercialization of the internet has led to massive abuses of javascript. Everyone is scrambling for their piece of the pie. The pop-up problem is an example of this abuse. The user shouldn't have to go to such extreams just to have a decent experience let alone a safe one. I knew the internet would go to hell in a handbasket when http://www.tampax.com/ went live. It's a cat and mouse game with everyone pushing for the attention of the user all the while the user's wishes are left out of the equation. The popularity of noscript and adblock should be a wakeup call for sites but I doubt they will get the point...
Although informative, your post does nothing to refute what I posted. The kernel of what I posted was that once the increase is in effect, it won't be decreasing.
The point is that the electric companies will still demand increases whether they change or not. Increases either to cover the cost of conversion or increases to cover the cost of the fuel. Either way, we won't see it decrease. It takes a lot of time / effort to politically push an increase through the system and they aren't about to go through that effort to decrease it. There is no incentive for that and every incentive to keep prices high.
Heh....West Virginia didn't have building codes until a couple years ago and we also don't have zoning statewide. The building codes we do have are so weak it is laughable. That issue aside...
From TFS:
State citizens will be paying slightly more to help cover the cost, though the project is expected to eventually lower the cost to consumers.
What a load of horseshit. I defy anyone to point me to an occasion anywhere where a utility has decreased prices to consumers once they got the increase they wanted from the PSC. Hell, I defy anyone to show where any of this renewable powerplant technology has had the effect of lowering the cost to end consumers. If anything it has increased the price on end users needlessly.
Since the network admin != your employer, the city is your employer, that is a dubious position to take at best. In the previous article it stated he tracked the communications (emails, IMs and otherwise) of those planning his firing. He used blackmail tactics to prevent his firing once and that was turned over to the authorities investigating this. Upon his imminent firing, he implemented a lockout of other admins. All of this on machines that are not his property to do with as he pleases. Administrative rights does not give you the authority to do any of the things this asshat did no matter what he thought of the other admins. They could have been the most yokel idiots on the face of the planet. That's the city's problem not his. It isn't like he was ever going to return to that job anyway. It should have been no skin off his ass if the place imploded after he was let loose. He took it personal in a wrong way is what it boils down to.
The only problem I have with web based apps, and one of its major stumbling blocks, is it is useless without an internet connection. Lose your connection, lose your productivity. No amount of portability can make up for that simple fact.
The government is already into it with the award of the bid for service. Why else do you think you don't have 2 or more cable providers in the same city. 2 or more phone providers in the same city as well. If the government weren't in it granting monopoly, then yes, I would agree with you...
They aren't "taking taxpayer's money" at all. They are simply avoiding the tax they would have to pay otherwise. Fraud...possibly...Tax evasion...Probably.
Woosh! It just went right over your head. Problems that were identified as problems in 4.0 got the brush off by the developers claiming it will be fixed in 4.1. That is 4.1 Alpha to be exact. If you identify a problem in 4.0 and are told it will be fixed for 4.1 and the problem is still there, then the user gets the impression it was all for nothing. It doesn't matter if it is 4.1 alpha, beta, or zeta for that matter. If identified problems are given the brush-off where is the incentive for reporting them?
That was addressed in TFA as not being the problem of the KDE team but the problem with the Debian based distributors rush in releasing it. That being said, I too tried KDE4 and disliked the interruption to workflow it presents. Change for changes sake isn't a good idea especially on the scale we are talking about here. It isn't the really new users, those who never tried Linux before, who are complaining so much as those who are familiar with the old KDE like myself. I can get far more done in far less time in KDE 3.5.* than I can in 4. That is why you are seeing poor reviews like in TFA.
I think if they would have phased in the changes over a longer time period we all could have gotten to like it. To spring the amount of changes they did all at once and expect no negative feedback is a bit silly to me. Worse, every complaint I read had some KDE developer answering with the old standby, "it is slated for 4.1". Well, 4.1 is here and they still have many of the same issues unaddressed.
So what it boils down to is for the sake of my workflow, I'll probably wait for the 4.7 release which should be stable and somewhat useful by then.
It isn't a matter of Amazon using the patented idea themselves but the loss of revenue from licensing deals based on the patent. Personally, I think one bandage for the patent system would be (besides the abolishment of method patents) to force refunding the license fees paid on invalid patents. It works like this:
You received $X Mil for patent A in licensing. Patent A is challenged and found invalid. You must reimburse all those who you duped into a license on that invalid patent. Sounds fair to me.
Again, it is either adapt to a changing environment or die. If dependence on QT will kill KDE then I suspect KDE will adapt. If KDE adapts in a negative way (sacrificing their morals for money is one example) than users who wish to remain GPL will adapt and not use KDE. The choice is theirs. So it still boils down to adapt or die.
We can, but that leaves commercial developers in the dust, whose closed source applications then can't use the open source Qt fork anymore, no matter how much money they pay to Nokia.
Then they wither and die. Welcome to the real world of business. It isn't always nice.
The antibiotics you should be worried about are the ones in your food supply. That plus the growth hormones is why so many kids are so sick so young in the first place.
By linking it to Baidu, now they can advertise their music to a larger audience. I don't see why any sane musician would be against this.
Because it isn't the musicians making the complaint. It is the copyright holder which is something entirely different. This is RIAA members (read DISTRIBUTORS) that hold the copyrights.
Bad Things(TM) isn't just spam. It is everything from tracking 1 pixel images to phishing schemes to email worms and anything else that can be attached that does nasty things to your computer / internet life. Constantly morphing spam is only the tip of the iceburg although that tip is pretty darned big. Not all the zombies got that way from users playing punch the monkey you know.
I put the trademark behind it mostly as a joke and as an eye catcher. It got your attention didn't it...;-)
Yes, "better" is subjective but given both the hassle of email spam / Bad Things(TM) and the fact that most home users (which is the subject group here) have a very limited set of contacts, email is the least useful of the list of possibilities. You are coming from this from a business perspective where I am coming from a home perspective. Even in a business perspective, I would rather deal with a business one-on-one real-time even if that means they tell me they will contact me later with my answer that they don't know off hand in email. It is called "customer relations" in most circles. The point is, for me the spammers have won. I detest email to the point of only checking it when I know something is coming in.
If people needed to use e-mail then they would use e-mail. The summary seems to imply that if you've never sent an e-mail there is something wrong with you or you fail at life. I can think of plenty of careers that don't even involve working with computers, and some people like to enjoy a more "disconnected" lifestyle.
Absolutely! I do use technology and still won't use email unless I have no choice (for example, communication from some business that leaves no other option). There are far better ways to communicate besides digging through mounds of spam for that occasional one from the "Luddite" that insists on using email. Sure, you can bend over backwards to filter out spam but why go through the bother when there are better means to communicate...
From 1956 to 1962, approximately 10,000 children were born with severe malformities, including phocomelia, because their mothers had taken thalidomide during pregnancy.In 1962, in reaction to the tragedy, the United States Congress enacted laws requiring tests for safety during pregnancy before a drug can receive approval for sale in the U.S.Other countries enacted similar legislation, and thalidomide was not prescribed or sold for decades.
The problem of antibiotic resistance is made more widespread when antibiotics are used to treat disorders in which they have no efficacy, such as the common cold or other viral complaints, and when they are used broadly as prophylaxis rather than treatment (as in, for example, animal feeds), because this exposes more bacteria to selection for resistance.
The FDA exists to test and approve drugs to prevent tragedies such as the thalidomide and similar as well as to set usage policy to prevent future abuse of a drug. They are the balancing act between pharmaceutical advertisers pushing not only doctors but patients to demand specific drugs and the health and safety of the drug using public. In many cases, they are the only defense a patient has against the constant push for that magic bullet pill...
There's a hundred things in front of it that are more important. It's not like you'll die if you can't download videos for free. You've got to keep things in perspective.
Let's put things into perspective then....
The reason you have such a big uproar and draconian "IP" legislation being presented in the first place is because it is the only thing the US has left of its industry. Everything from steal to food production has been outsourced to the maximum extent possible. The dregs that are left behind are the service industries like McDonalds. The only thing in the US bigger than government grant of monopoly is government contracting which is another form of monopoly I won't go into here.
That's why you see term extensions on the monopoly grant. That's why you see legislation proposing criminal prosecution instead of civil.
A little off topic but related was the BRAC Commission hearings. I never saw so many congress critters crawl out of the woodwork as I did when they were proposing the closure of military bases. Again, it comes down to the US not having any real industry. Close the bases and watch whole towns dry up. It's the same with "IP".
The anti-trust theory was already tried in Wallace vs. International Business Machines et al.. OK, Wallace represented himself, and wasn't a lawyer. But it's not going to fly. Why is eBay asleep at the switch while some rogue laywer at Skype pulls this? They have nothing to lose from releasing the kernel, and both reputation and money to lose while they balk.
It depends on how much stock a Munich court puts in US legal decisions. The Wallace case was a US case and according to TFA this one is in Munich. I know the US courts don't put that much weight in European decisions.
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The problem is massive commercialization of the internet has led to massive abuses of javascript. Everyone is scrambling for their piece of the pie. The pop-up problem is an example of this abuse. The user shouldn't have to go to such extreams just to have a decent experience let alone a safe one. I knew the internet would go to hell in a handbasket when http://www.tampax.com/ went live. It's a cat and mouse game with everyone pushing for the attention of the user all the while the user's wishes are left out of the equation. The popularity of noscript and adblock should be a wakeup call for sites but I doubt they will get the point...
Although informative, your post does nothing to refute what I posted. The kernel of what I posted was that once the increase is in effect, it won't be decreasing.
The point is that the electric companies will still demand increases whether they change or not. Increases either to cover the cost of conversion or increases to cover the cost of the fuel. Either way, we won't see it decrease. It takes a lot of time / effort to politically push an increase through the system and they aren't about to go through that effort to decrease it. There is no incentive for that and every incentive to keep prices high.
Heh....West Virginia didn't have building codes until a couple years ago and we also don't have zoning statewide. The building codes we do have are so weak it is laughable. That issue aside...
From TFS:
What a load of horseshit. I defy anyone to point me to an occasion anywhere where a utility has decreased prices to consumers once they got the increase they wanted from the PSC. Hell, I defy anyone to show where any of this renewable powerplant technology has had the effect of lowering the cost to end consumers. If anything it has increased the price on end users needlessly.
Since the network admin != your employer, the city is your employer, that is a dubious position to take at best. In the previous article it stated he tracked the communications (emails, IMs and otherwise) of those planning his firing. He used blackmail tactics to prevent his firing once and that was turned over to the authorities investigating this. Upon his imminent firing, he implemented a lockout of other admins. All of this on machines that are not his property to do with as he pleases. Administrative rights does not give you the authority to do any of the things this asshat did no matter what he thought of the other admins. They could have been the most yokel idiots on the face of the planet. That's the city's problem not his. It isn't like he was ever going to return to that job anyway. It should have been no skin off his ass if the place imploded after he was let loose. He took it personal in a wrong way is what it boils down to.
The only problem I have with web based apps, and one of its major stumbling blocks, is it is useless without an internet connection. Lose your connection, lose your productivity. No amount of portability can make up for that simple fact.
The government is already into it with the award of the bid for service. Why else do you think you don't have 2 or more cable providers in the same city. 2 or more phone providers in the same city as well. If the government weren't in it granting monopoly, then yes, I would agree with you...
They aren't "taking taxpayer's money" at all. They are simply avoiding the tax they would have to pay otherwise. Fraud...possibly...Tax evasion...Probably.
KDE 3.5.9 does have kinfocenter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinfocenter
It will tell you the specs for your system.
Woosh! It just went right over your head. Problems that were identified as problems in 4.0 got the brush off by the developers claiming it will be fixed in 4.1. That is 4.1 Alpha to be exact. If you identify a problem in 4.0 and are told it will be fixed for 4.1 and the problem is still there, then the user gets the impression it was all for nothing. It doesn't matter if it is 4.1 alpha, beta, or zeta for that matter. If identified problems are given the brush-off where is the incentive for reporting them?
That was addressed in TFA as not being the problem of the KDE team but the problem with the Debian based distributors rush in releasing it. That being said, I too tried KDE4 and disliked the interruption to workflow it presents. Change for changes sake isn't a good idea especially on the scale we are talking about here. It isn't the really new users, those who never tried Linux before, who are complaining so much as those who are familiar with the old KDE like myself. I can get far more done in far less time in KDE 3.5.* than I can in 4. That is why you are seeing poor reviews like in TFA.
I think if they would have phased in the changes over a longer time period we all could have gotten to like it. To spring the amount of changes they did all at once and expect no negative feedback is a bit silly to me. Worse, every complaint I read had some KDE developer answering with the old standby, "it is slated for 4.1". Well, 4.1 is here and they still have many of the same issues unaddressed.
So what it boils down to is for the sake of my workflow, I'll probably wait for the 4.7 release which should be stable and somewhat useful by then.
It isn't a matter of Amazon using the patented idea themselves but the loss of revenue from licensing deals based on the patent. Personally, I think one bandage for the patent system would be (besides the abolishment of method patents) to force refunding the license fees paid on invalid patents. It works like this:
You received $X Mil for patent A in licensing. Patent A is challenged and found invalid. You must reimburse all those who you duped into a license on that invalid patent. Sounds fair to me.
Umm...Because HTML was MEANT for the web and NOT for email...
Besides the fact that
Because it is unnecessary and leads to ugly nasties like TFA is referring to.
OK, so the solution is to not use HTML in email like the OP said since images and links are the whole point of using HTML. Glad you agree...
Again, it is either adapt to a changing environment or die. If dependence on QT will kill KDE then I suspect KDE will adapt. If KDE adapts in a negative way (sacrificing their morals for money is one example) than users who wish to remain GPL will adapt and not use KDE. The choice is theirs. So it still boils down to adapt or die.
Then they wither and die. Welcome to the real world of business. It isn't always nice.
The antibiotics you should be worried about are the ones in your food supply. That plus the growth hormones is why so many kids are so sick so young in the first place.
http://www.al.com/news/press-register/index.ssf?/base/news/1205313362147140.xml&coll=3
Possession laws suck....
Because it isn't the musicians making the complaint. It is the copyright holder which is something entirely different. This is RIAA members (read DISTRIBUTORS) that hold the copyrights.
Bad Things(TM) isn't just spam. It is everything from tracking 1 pixel images to phishing schemes to email worms and anything else that can be attached that does nasty things to your computer / internet life. Constantly morphing spam is only the tip of the iceburg although that tip is pretty darned big. Not all the zombies got that way from users playing punch the monkey you know.
I put the trademark behind it mostly as a joke and as an eye catcher. It got your attention didn't it...;-)
Yes, "better" is subjective but given both the hassle of email spam / Bad Things(TM) and the fact that most home users (which is the subject group here) have a very limited set of contacts, email is the least useful of the list of possibilities. You are coming from this from a business perspective where I am coming from a home perspective. Even in a business perspective, I would rather deal with a business one-on-one real-time even if that means they tell me they will contact me later with my answer that they don't know off hand in email. It is called "customer relations" in most circles. The point is, for me the spammers have won. I detest email to the point of only checking it when I know something is coming in.
Absolutely! I do use technology and still won't use email unless I have no choice (for example, communication from some business that leaves no other option). There are far better ways to communicate besides digging through mounds of spam for that occasional one from the "Luddite" that insists on using email. Sure, you can bend over backwards to filter out spam but why go through the bother when there are better means to communicate...
We could resort to the always reliable Cone of Silence. It should prove to be about as reliable as this technology...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
And from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic#Antibiotic_resistance
The FDA exists to test and approve drugs to prevent tragedies such as the thalidomide and similar as well as to set usage policy to prevent future abuse of a drug. They are the balancing act between pharmaceutical advertisers pushing not only doctors but patients to demand specific drugs and the health and safety of the drug using public. In many cases, they are the only defense a patient has against the constant push for that magic bullet pill...
Let's put things into perspective then....
The reason you have such a big uproar and draconian "IP" legislation being presented in the first place is because it is the only thing the US has left of its industry. Everything from steal to food production has been outsourced to the maximum extent possible. The dregs that are left behind are the service industries like McDonalds. The only thing in the US bigger than government grant of monopoly is government contracting which is another form of monopoly I won't go into here.
That's why you see term extensions on the monopoly grant. That's why you see legislation proposing criminal prosecution instead of civil.
A little off topic but related was the BRAC Commission hearings. I never saw so many congress critters crawl out of the woodwork as I did when they were proposing the closure of military bases. Again, it comes down to the US not having any real industry. Close the bases and watch whole towns dry up. It's the same with "IP".
It depends on how much stock a Munich court puts in US legal decisions. The Wallace case was a US case and according to TFA this one is in Munich. I know the US courts don't put that much weight in European decisions.