This sounds like the opposite to today's corporate culture, where a whole lot of smart people are part of a swarm, and the end product is utter stupidity...
Another javascript code monkey here. I think we all agree that fundamentally, javascript is quite a nice language. The point I think the GP was trying to make is that while the language itself is nice, the incompatabilities between the browsers, stupid APIs like the DOM, and other similar aspects mean that it would be easier to just start from scratch with another language where all of this goes away.
While there is nothing technically stopping us from drastically modifying javascript, the problem is that as long as we require backwards compatability (as Mozilla is proposing), we can't fix any of the real big problems. You can see this in IE7 - while it's CSS support is a whole lot better than IE6, the fact that it still needs to be able to render pages which are designed for IE6 is rather limiting.
The sad reality is you can't realistically "fix" javascript, due to how people expect backwards compatability from a language with the same name. While obviously the upgraded language would be backwards compatible, the APIs, which are what needs fixing in the first place, wouldn't be. The only way to work around that would be to completely separate the old and new languages. Which effectively, would be creating a new language.
The problem is, the artists have no say over how their music is used. They can cry all they want, but at the end of the day their music belongs to the record label, and what they think doesn't count.
The artists asking the RIAA to stop would be like a soldier asking their country to not go to war. You don't pay out on the soldiers when you don't like that a country is fighting a way - you get angry at the people that made the decision to go to war.
That may be the case for geeks, but there are many folks out there for who the perfect phone is one that they take out of the package, and it works. It calls people when they dial numbers, it rings when somebody calls them, and thats it. Configurability isn't always perfect.
Not true. Telstra is restricting access to new estates where RIMs are installed. Even relatively suburban ones (such as where I live). Even if other ISPs wanted to install their own DSLAMs in them, they wouldn't be allowed. Which means until recently, I havn't been able to get anything higher than 1.5M. I'm still with a limit of 8M, which I'm not using because they charge through the roof for it.
One thing that really surprised me after reading these comments first and then the article, is that stations can't just move to independent music. From TFA:
5. Well... independent music is cool. Why not just play independent music?
This is very important to understand, as lots of people see this as a solution. The statutory webcast license covers ANY copyright music, from the biggest labels, down to the smallest, and even independently-released music. Again, the license covers ANY copyright music. The copyright owner need NOT be part of SoundExchange or the RIAA. The ONLY exceptions to this are (A) direct deals with each and every sound recording copyright owner, (B) copyright owners that are willing to make a blanket "waive" of fees, or (C) non-copyright, public domain music.
I guess that means that this is about more than just the RIAA controlling the industry - its about putting them out of business. Of course, me being an Australian, I understand that they can't really do that because there are many other countries where it costs a bit more to buy yourself a politician.
And just for the record, one of my favorite stations is located in Switzerland anyway.
Don't forget that these are only the OEM copies which are going to be phased out by the end of the year. You can't just go out and buy 4 or 5 OEM copies of windows, and its (as far as I know) illegal to sell them on eBay, as you aren't selling them with hardware.
I think people that want to do the right thing would probably but a retail version anyhow, and everyone else will just pirate it. The biggest demand is going to come from people building their own computers, and by that time I think even that group will have moved onto Vista. They are mostly gamers, and gamers sort of are tied to Vista whether they like it or not...
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Whats to say that doing something like Canada, and banning hate speech, is a bad thing? I mean, what exactly is blind hate going to achieve? You can say the same things albeit a bit more subtly, and you are much more likely to get your messages across, let alone not arrested. That just seems like common sense to me.
Also - do you think banning slander/libel is really that much different to banning hate speech? You've still limited free speech. Even disallowing death threats is eroding the freedom that you seem to believe you are entitled to.
I know i'm going to get modded down for this but... if you have the wisdom to use linux, why are you using a dell laptop? Those things have precision engineering aimed at getting them to die 1 month after the warranty expires:-/
IANARS (I am not a rocket scientist), but I doubt they'd really use cryogenic fuel at all on most sats. Its way too complex. The uses I was referring to are more in the human spaceflight area, or where you need a higher ISP, or where you need to please the greenies (its going to happen one day). The type of stuff that we can't really do today that due to the weight of fuel at launch, which would be made way cheaper once you can launch propellant on a separate rocket.
I'm guessing one of the satellites has a tank containing excess fuel on board, just like a tanker truck will have a fuel tank and the big tank on the back.
Refueling in space isn't really that hard unless you are using cryogenic propellants. And in this case, the satellites use hydrazine, so its all good. I can't wait till somebody gets cryogenic propellant transfer working, because that will have so many more uses than what you can do with hydrazine.
It seems to have a similar principle to VASIMR engines. Basically, they can adjust the specific impulse in flight, higher specific impulse giving lower thrust but better efficiency.
Of course, the thrust that an engine like the one described would output is miniscule. It would not be useful for launch vehicles, but only for keeping satellites in orbit. That said, if you can reduce the amount of fuel a satellite uses by 40%, you can keep it up there for almost twice as long, which is never a bad thing.
Having a word processor act more like a web browser would be awesome. Ever since I started using word processors (which for me was a long time after I started using web browsers), i've always thought, why doesn't updating this style make all text with that style update? Why do I always have to change the same thing over and over again?
While turning word processors into web browsers would be stupid, things like CSS would be awesome to have in word processors.
2. All the members in the conversation *must* agree to write 1 paragraph with one idea per "message" I\n, hate\n, when\n, people\n, writes\n, one\n, word\n, and\n,press\n enter\n. cool.
Excuse my ignorance, but what actually happened in the first place? I'm kinda confused as to what has happened to registerfly? I'm presuming its a registrar, but that doesn't actually tell me all that much...
Because the average joe always takes into account the wavelength of radiation, and how the bacteria is going to be killed. And they especially know that microwaves have a wave length measured in the centimetre.
Common people, cut the laymen a bit of slack. They were just following instructions the best they knew how.
Using Christianity to try and get this movie banned is just cheap. While intelligent design and creationism both don't have hard proof (some would argue it does, but the fact is nothing is provable 100%), all that Gore's movie does is provide evidence. In reality, the parent would only be complaining because Al Gore is presenting it, and he ran for president against Bush.
I mean common, Al Gore didn't even collect the evidence himself, he's only repeating what other people have found. What a load of croc.
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The US won't be able to keep the data for 40 years, it won't exist by then!
This sounds like the opposite to today's corporate culture, where a whole lot of smart people are part of a swarm, and the end product is utter stupidity...
"None of us is as stupid as all of us".
Great, now the terrorists are going to disguise their bombs as American Flags.
Another javascript code monkey here. I think we all agree that fundamentally, javascript is quite a nice language. The point I think the GP was trying to make is that while the language itself is nice, the incompatabilities between the browsers, stupid APIs like the DOM, and other similar aspects mean that it would be easier to just start from scratch with another language where all of this goes away.
While there is nothing technically stopping us from drastically modifying javascript, the problem is that as long as we require backwards compatability (as Mozilla is proposing), we can't fix any of the real big problems. You can see this in IE7 - while it's CSS support is a whole lot better than IE6, the fact that it still needs to be able to render pages which are designed for IE6 is rather limiting.
The sad reality is you can't realistically "fix" javascript, due to how people expect backwards compatability from a language with the same name. While obviously the upgraded language would be backwards compatible, the APIs, which are what needs fixing in the first place, wouldn't be. The only way to work around that would be to completely separate the old and new languages. Which effectively, would be creating a new language.
The problem is, the artists have no say over how their music is used. They can cry all they want, but at the end of the day their music belongs to the record label, and what they think doesn't count.
The artists asking the RIAA to stop would be like a soldier asking their country to not go to war. You don't pay out on the soldiers when you don't like that a country is fighting a way - you get angry at the people that made the decision to go to war.
Bigelow made his fortune in Las Vegas, so it is kind of fitting.
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That may be the case for geeks, but there are many folks out there for who the perfect phone is one that they take out of the package, and it works. It calls people when they dial numbers, it rings when somebody calls them, and thats it. Configurability isn't always perfect.
Not true. Telstra is restricting access to new estates where RIMs are installed. Even relatively suburban ones (such as where I live). Even if other ISPs wanted to install their own DSLAMs in them, they wouldn't be allowed. Which means until recently, I havn't been able to get anything higher than 1.5M. I'm still with a limit of 8M, which I'm not using because they charge through the roof for it.
It wasn't severe at all. Except for the fact that oh, you know, we ran out of names for storms because there were too many of them...
Flowing rivers as in flowing years ago, or flowing currently? I havn't heard anything about that yet. Do you have a link for more details?
One thing that really surprised me after reading these comments first and then the article, is that stations can't just move to independent music. From TFA:
5. Well... independent music is cool. Why not just play independent music?
This is very important to understand, as lots of people see this as a solution. The statutory webcast license covers ANY copyright music, from the biggest labels, down to the smallest, and even independently-released music. Again, the license covers ANY copyright music. The copyright owner need NOT be part of SoundExchange or the RIAA. The ONLY exceptions to this are (A) direct deals with each and every sound recording copyright owner, (B) copyright owners that are willing to make a blanket "waive" of fees, or (C) non-copyright, public domain music.
I guess that means that this is about more than just the RIAA controlling the industry - its about putting them out of business. Of course, me being an Australian, I understand that they can't really do that because there are many other countries where it costs a bit more to buy yourself a politician.
And just for the record, one of my favorite stations is located in Switzerland anyway.
Don't forget that these are only the OEM copies which are going to be phased out by the end of the year. You can't just go out and buy 4 or 5 OEM copies of windows, and its (as far as I know) illegal to sell them on eBay, as you aren't selling them with hardware.
I think people that want to do the right thing would probably but a retail version anyhow, and everyone else will just pirate it. The biggest demand is going to come from people building their own computers, and by that time I think even that group will have moved onto Vista. They are mostly gamers, and gamers sort of are tied to Vista whether they like it or not...
Whats to say that doing something like Canada, and banning hate speech, is a bad thing? I mean, what exactly is blind hate going to achieve? You can say the same things albeit a bit more subtly, and you are much more likely to get your messages across, let alone not arrested. That just seems like common sense to me.
Also - do you think banning slander/libel is really that much different to banning hate speech? You've still limited free speech. Even disallowing death threats is eroding the freedom that you seem to believe you are entitled to.
No country is perfect. Not even the USA.
I know i'm going to get modded down for this but... if you have the wisdom to use linux, why are you using a dell laptop? Those things have precision engineering aimed at getting them to die 1 month after the warranty expires :-/
IANARS (I am not a rocket scientist), but I doubt they'd really use cryogenic fuel at all on most sats. Its way too complex. The uses I was referring to are more in the human spaceflight area, or where you need a higher ISP, or where you need to please the greenies (its going to happen one day). The type of stuff that we can't really do today that due to the weight of fuel at launch, which would be made way cheaper once you can launch propellant on a separate rocket.
I'm guessing one of the satellites has a tank containing excess fuel on board, just like a tanker truck will have a fuel tank and the big tank on the back.
Refueling in space isn't really that hard unless you are using cryogenic propellants. And in this case, the satellites use hydrazine, so its all good. I can't wait till somebody gets cryogenic propellant transfer working, because that will have so many more uses than what you can do with hydrazine.
It seems to have a similar principle to VASIMR engines. Basically, they can adjust the specific impulse in flight, higher specific impulse giving lower thrust but better efficiency.
Of course, the thrust that an engine like the one described would output is miniscule. It would not be useful for launch vehicles, but only for keeping satellites in orbit. That said, if you can reduce the amount of fuel a satellite uses by 40%, you can keep it up there for almost twice as long, which is never a bad thing.
Having a word processor act more like a web browser would be awesome. Ever since I started using word processors (which for me was a long time after I started using web browsers), i've always thought, why doesn't updating this style make all text with that style update? Why do I always have to change the same thing over and over again?
While turning word processors into web browsers would be stupid, things like CSS would be awesome to have in word processors.
Excuse my ignorance, but what actually happened in the first place? I'm kinda confused as to what has happened to registerfly? I'm presuming its a registrar, but that doesn't actually tell me all that much...
If we were to combine the recent US stance on cyber attacks with spam laws, the problem would disappear overnight. Bomb the spammers :-)
Because the average joe always takes into account the wavelength of radiation, and how the bacteria is going to be killed. And they especially know that microwaves have a wave length measured in the centimetre.
Common people, cut the laymen a bit of slack. They were just following instructions the best they knew how.
So let me get this straight. Stargate started as a movie. Because it did quite well, the execs at whatever company had this bright idea:
"Hey, how about we make this a series?"
10 Seasons later, the execs in charge of whatever studio notice that stargate is still not doing bad. Of course, somebody has this brilliant idea:
"Gee, stargate would really suit a movie format. Why didn't anybody think of that before? Lets make a movie out of it!"
...
*cry*
Using Christianity to try and get this movie banned is just cheap. While intelligent design and creationism both don't have hard proof (some would argue it does, but the fact is nothing is provable 100%), all that Gore's movie does is provide evidence. In reality, the parent would only be complaining because Al Gore is presenting it, and he ran for president against Bush.
I mean common, Al Gore didn't even collect the evidence himself, he's only repeating what other people have found. What a load of croc.