I'm not trolling, but I have to admit I don't get RSS. What exactly DOES it do?
Many sites nowadays, especially blogs, have an XML file that lists recent articles. You copy the lociation of the XML file into an RSS reader and set it to check for updates every so often. Then, when you want to surf the web, instead of going to two dozen sites and finding that half of them haven't been updated, you just look at your feed-list, find the sites that have been updated, click on one, and then scan the list of new articles for ones that interest you.
If RSS has one flaw, it makes web surfing too efficient to be a proper time-waster.
Yea, we really need RSS, because it is much too much effort to click on the bookmark to slashdot or other fav' sites to get to the news.
RSS is, for all intents and purposes, a bookmark, just to an XML file instead of HTML. It also has the advantage of letting you see if a site's been updated without opening it. That may not sound like a big time-saver, but it's halved (at least) the amount of time I spend surfing the web.
Not to mention the scaling problem by folk's browsers requesting RSS content even when they don't read it.
If a site puts full articles in the feed, it can actually save on bandwidth since an RSS feed is a lot smaller than most webpages.
You're forgetting one thing -- for you to get tech support from OO.o (something pretty much every business will want), you have to pay for the Star Office version.
I wish I hadn't replied to this topic so I could mod the parent out of flamebait. He's absolutely right -- OO.o has a worse GUI than the Proxomitron's default psychedelic skin. There are simply too many buttons, the default set seems randomly chosen, and trying to reorganzine the toolbars is like sprinting through quicksand. The devs need to look at AbiWord and Firefox.
With IE vs FF, the Mozilla Foundation has the superior product. With MS Office vs OO.o it's pretty much a toss up -- they're both slow, bloated, and filled with annoying quirks.
The presumption of innocence only applies in courts of laws -- and only in those courts in those countries where that presumption is part of the law. But we are not in a court of law right now. We are not bound by such things, and to limit conversation to such technicalities is absurd.
As Ambrose Bierce once pointed out, there is ample legal evidence, including confessions, that witches once existed and were bent on destroying humanity.
Do you feel comfortable with an Attorney General that is looking for legal loopholes to torture of people with impunity?
I feel comfortable with an AG who, when asked a technical legal question, gives a technical legal answer. This is what lawyers are supposed to do. Calling it a loophole or technicality is just rhetoric which means you don't like the answer. But that doesn't make him wrong.
The new General Attorney is the very same man that wrote in a memorandum that the Geneva Convention is obsolete when it come to "the war on terror". That torture could be done. Who are now the bad guys?
The new Attorney General is the very same man who was asked what the US could legally do to terrorists captured by the military. He gave a legal answer. Does the fact that something's legal make it right? No. But he wasn't asked what the US can morally do to al Qaeda prisoners.
I was looking through the site last night, and the tuition is just under $30k for one year, and that covers all supplies and texts. Even figuring in the cost of instuructors and equipment, that leaves a pretty decent chunk of money for production.
The school's run out of the Universal Studios, Florida theme park, so likely they have Hollywood connections not available to regular colleges. Note that one of the earlier student projects was based upon Ghostbusters, which is a Universal property.
I log all my IM conversations with Gaim, then rewrite them as text narratives which I sell to pr0n sites. And all those 1u$3r$ on Yahoo who think they're chatting with an 18 year old nymphette will never know the truth!
If you don't get caught, you don't get punished. Thus, the end result is that the same thing happens to a law-breaker that happens to a non-law-breaker (i.e. nothing). Therefore, effectively, a law was not violated.
So what you're saying is that Jack the Ripper, effectively, never broke the law?
Because as Lucas moves closer to the source material, he has less wiggle-room to screw up the story.
This is the guy who reinterpreted "the greatest star pilot in the galaxy" to mean a seven year old kid who goes "yippie!" He doesn't have to stick to anything that he said in the previous films. He could quite easily decide that Luke is Anakin's clone, Amidala is Mon Mothma, and that Chewie is Jabba's son.
The Google cookie doesn't expire until the binary millennium, so as long as you have it on your system, they can track everything you (meaning your specific user profile on your computer) does through their site for the next forty-three years. If you set cookies to session-only, they can only see what you've done since you started your browser. With cookies completely disabled, they'd either have to track your IP address, which doesn't do much good if you share a connection, have a laptop or dialup; or they could resort to javascript tricks, but anyone who doesn't allow cookies probably have JS disabled too.
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Wrong. Debit charges placed at POS (point of sale) where you type your pin, you are NOT charged ATM fees.
Horsehockey. Just because your bank doesn't do it doesn't mean no bank does it.
Think next time before you make a universal statement on an international website.
I'm not trolling, but I have to admit I don't get RSS. What exactly DOES it do?
Many sites nowadays, especially blogs, have an XML file that lists recent articles. You copy the lociation of the XML file into an RSS reader and set it to check for updates every so often. Then, when you want to surf the web, instead of going to two dozen sites and finding that half of them haven't been updated, you just look at your feed-list, find the sites that have been updated, click on one, and then scan the list of new articles for ones that interest you.
If RSS has one flaw, it makes web surfing too efficient to be a proper time-waster.
Yea, we really need RSS, because it is much too much effort to click on the bookmark to slashdot or other fav' sites to get to the news.
RSS is, for all intents and purposes, a bookmark, just to an XML file instead of HTML. It also has the advantage of letting you see if a site's been updated without opening it. That may not sound like a big time-saver, but it's halved (at least) the amount of time I spend surfing the web.
Not to mention the scaling problem by folk's browsers requesting RSS content even when they don't read it.
If a site puts full articles in the feed, it can actually save on bandwidth since an RSS feed is a lot smaller than most webpages.
You're forgetting one thing -- for you to get tech support from OO.o (something pretty much every business will want), you have to pay for the Star Office version.
I wish I hadn't replied to this topic so I could mod the parent out of flamebait. He's absolutely right -- OO.o has a worse GUI than the Proxomitron's default psychedelic skin. There are simply too many buttons, the default set seems randomly chosen, and trying to reorganzine the toolbars is like sprinting through quicksand. The devs need to look at AbiWord and Firefox.
Even better, switch connections in mid-download, make it look like your entire neighborhood downloaded one file.
With IE vs FF, the Mozilla Foundation has the superior product. With MS Office vs OO.o it's pretty much a toss up -- they're both slow, bloated, and filled with annoying quirks.
The presumption of innocence only applies in courts of laws -- and only in those courts in those countries where that presumption is part of the law. But we are not in a court of law right now. We are not bound by such things, and to limit conversation to such technicalities is absurd.
As Ambrose Bierce once pointed out, there is ample legal evidence, including confessions, that witches once existed and were bent on destroying humanity.
Do you feel comfortable with an Attorney General that is looking for legal loopholes to torture of people with impunity?
I feel comfortable with an AG who, when asked a technical legal question, gives a technical legal answer. This is what lawyers are supposed to do. Calling it a loophole or technicality is just rhetoric which means you don't like the answer. But that doesn't make him wrong.
The new General Attorney is the very same man that wrote in a memorandum that the Geneva Convention is obsolete when it come to "the war on terror". That torture could be done. Who are now the bad guys?
The new Attorney General is the very same man who was asked what the US could legally do to terrorists captured by the military. He gave a legal answer. Does the fact that something's legal make it right? No. But he wasn't asked what the US can morally do to al Qaeda prisoners.
uh, I kind of assume that they just ripped soundbites from the stars and put them in the movie.
WTFV. Unless Van Dyke's been in a movie where he references Batman and Joker in the same sentence, it's original voice work.
I was looking through the site last night, and the tuition is just under $30k for one year, and that covers all supplies and texts. Even figuring in the cost of instuructors and equipment, that leaves a pretty decent chunk of money for production.
This is one of the best short animations I've seen.
Not only that, it's better than the last two Batman films combined.
The school's run out of the Universal Studios, Florida theme park, so likely they have Hollywood connections not available to regular colleges. Note that one of the earlier student projects was based upon Ghostbusters, which is a Universal property.
I don't think real legos would get a passing grade at the Digital Animation and Visual Effects school.
I log all my IM conversations with Gaim, then rewrite them as text narratives which I sell to pr0n sites. And all those 1u$3r$ on Yahoo who think they're chatting with an 18 year old nymphette will never know the truth!
Oops, I've said too much.
If you don't get caught, you don't get punished. Thus, the end result is that the same thing happens to a law-breaker that happens to a non-law-breaker (i.e. nothing). Therefore, effectively, a law was not violated.
So what you're saying is that Jack the Ripper, effectively, never broke the law?
Jabber's not P2P; you have to rely upon servers that other people provide -- and in my experience, those aren't terribly reliable.
You can use your own wav files, you know. Preferences -> Interface -> Sounds -> Choose.
If you use Freenet you can legally share anything. Why? Because nobody knows (or can ever know) what you're sharing and what you're downloading.
So if you break a law and don't get caught, it's legal? Riiiiiiight.
Because as Lucas moves closer to the source material, he has less wiggle-room to screw up the story.
This is the guy who reinterpreted "the greatest star pilot in the galaxy" to mean a seven year old kid who goes "yippie!" He doesn't have to stick to anything that he said in the previous films. He could quite easily decide that Luke is Anakin's clone, Amidala is Mon Mothma, and that Chewie is Jabba's son.
Wow, that looks like crap.
And the video quality sucks too.
The Google cookie doesn't expire until the binary millennium, so as long as you have it on your system, they can track everything you (meaning your specific user profile on your computer) does through their site for the next forty-three years. If you set cookies to session-only, they can only see what you've done since you started your browser. With cookies completely disabled, they'd either have to track your IP address, which doesn't do much good if you share a connection, have a laptop or dialup; or they could resort to javascript tricks, but anyone who doesn't allow cookies probably have JS disabled too.
Depending where you shop, 10 CDs will cost you between $100 and $180. For a middle class American that's a moderate entertainment budget.
CD Rot was a problem with early CDs and modern Cheap CD-*; CDs bought in the last fifteen years shouldn't have a problem.