Huh? There's not much difference between HTML and XHTML. The latter is essentially just the former converted to valid XM. You have to close your tags, but that's about it.
Uhm, doesn't that depend on whether you use strict or transitional?
IMO you're really dumbing down the standard if you're saying that's all it is.
How hard is it to not run software mailed to you by a stranger?
Harder than you think. Ever installed the XP Pro, pre SP1? It'll get pwn3d within 10 minutes, maybe even less. You'll have stuff on your hard drive you never expected to be there.
Which reminds me. If Democracy is supposed to be such a good thing - and any government defying its principles is deficient, if not questionably moral - then why does the same not hold true for corporations? Why are they run by charismatic autocrats, backed by semi-secretive cabals?
All publicly traded corporations are a democracy. They are reponsible to their shareholders, the same way a government is responsible to their voters. The only difference is that it isn't a simple matter of one shareholder, one vote. It's more like the system of electoral colleges in the US. One state can have a larger interest than another.
A private enterpreneurship is more like a dictatorship, where the leader is only responsible to themselves, and answeres to no one.
I don't think so. For example, the firmware in a Canon camera runs a flavour of DOS of some kind. So it doesn't use an "MBR" and there's no way that camera could read anything but FAT.
But the poster to whom you replied was not generalizing.
In fact he was making a hasty generalization. He was implying that because he has seen a couple computers blue screen, that in fact windows isn't as good as the general population feels it is.
He doesn't directly say that windows is teh sUx, but he does say it isn't as good as the general populace believes it is, because he's seen a couple Windowz computers blue screen (isn't it black in XP?)
The point everyone is making against the article submitter, is that buying a Mac vs a PC isn't going to magically make you immune to hardware deficiencies.
Bingo. The guy I work for is on his third iBook, having blown the logic board on the last two, each within a year. I heckle him all the time for it too. Hardly the "quality" mac zealots would have you expect.
You still have to trust those doing the peer review that they are honest
Those doing the peer review are also subject to peer review.
Researchers argue all the time in scientific journals. One article will come out disagreeing with the results of another. It happens all the time. Pick up a psych or med journal some time and you'll see what I'm talking about.
They are the same as people who believe Marijuana is bad because it's illegal.
I hear it all the time on radio shows when people call in; it's illegal ergo it's bad. The argument should be: Marijuana's bad because of x (I don't know wtf x is personally), ergo we made it illegal, not the other way around. People don't stop to ask that question.
Same with the bible. The bible tells us we were moulded from dirt, and woman came from our rib, and all the other lame-assed stories like the tower of Babel and Noah's ark, etc. No one stops to question the source of their morality. They just appeal to it as a higher force of reason than their own.
One of these days some Attorney General planning to run for Governor will wise up to this scam, and go after these firms for criminal extortion.
Generally though the Attoerney General is a lawyer and has many lawyer friends, probably some of which funded his campaign.
Beacuse the US has such an open system of corruption (which country doesn't though?), it's unlikely you'll ever see this business model done away with any time soon.
Since when do we put parents in jail for the crimes of their children? If my teenaged child grabs my car keys and runs someone down, I may be frowned upon for being a bad parent, but I won't be held accountable, under basic rule of law.
Prove it was her at the computer and not her kids.
Of course, the DMCA probably undermines the rule of law.
I've been in business since the age of 13 and there has never been a market I couldn't enter.
I'm starting a wireless ISP in my trailer park in March
You wouldn't be living in a trailer park if you were so capable. Just a small observation. I realize it's partially an ad-hominem attack, but you cite your own experience as starting a wireless ISP in a trailer park as an example of how easy it is to get into any business. I find it ironic that you live in a trailer park and are debunking economic theories that propogate far beyond your own business experiences, which incidnetally demonstrate you have failed, not succeeded if
Truth is, you can't just go and start a leasing company without startup capital. Sometimes the barrier to entry is so high it's almost impossible for a business to start and be competitive.
Complete deregulation in the telecom field wouldn't lead to "thousands of little companies". It'd lead to one company.
I agree totally. There's a natural tendancy for companies to consolidate, when growth cannot be achieved without consolidation. Economists theorize that in a normal environment, businesses consolidate, raise their prices, and when those prices rise, the incentive for new business to start is better and those businesses will be competitive.
They expand on that theory to point out that when economies of scale are reached, the barrier to entry is too high, and big fish will swallow the little fish because of it.
I'd like to draw attention to Fido and Clearnet in Canada.
At one time we only had two Cell providers in Wester Canada - Telus and Rogers and they hosed us on the rates. It was an oligopoly, where the incentive to keep rates high was better than the incentive to compete. So two new cell providers came to play: Fido and Clearnet. Fido offered amazing rates that were highly competitive - 200 mins for $20/mo. So did Clearnet - unlimited incoming calls for $29/mo. And they did this without a 3 year contract. All of which was unheard of before.
Telus bought clearnet, Rogers bought Fido.
Do you think they bought those cell carriers to compete, or to increase margins?
The barrier to entry for the cell market is very high now. We probably won't see a new cell providor in Canada for a long time now, and rates will stay where they are.
I think this plan will backfire on ISP's. They presently do not filter content, so they are held excempt from liability of the content. Plenty of court cases have backed that.
However if they are filtering content, controlling what an end user can and cannot access, then won't the courts hold them accountable for this behaviour?
This will be a splippery slope, one where a few ISPs will get burned from it.
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Huh? There's not much difference between HTML and XHTML. The latter is essentially just the former converted to valid XM. You have to close your tags, but that's about it.
Uhm, doesn't that depend on whether you use strict or transitional?
IMO you're really dumbing down the standard if you're saying that's all it is.
How hard is it to not run software mailed to you by a stranger?
Harder than you think. Ever installed the XP Pro, pre SP1? It'll get pwn3d within 10 minutes, maybe even less. You'll have stuff on your hard drive you never expected to be there.
Unless you're dragged to Guantanimo Bay, and then it can be years.
I was going to add that in, but didn't want to get modded down as a troll ^_^
Or anti-american..
I'll agree with you on that - Firefox is really bad with memory management, especially on windows.
I really don't notice it though on my linux boxen...
US, they can't drag you off without a charge.
Correction. They can drag you off on a whim. They can hold you for a short period of time, and have to release you if they cannot press charges.
In Canada, that means a 24h period. Probably something similar in the US.
Which reminds me. If Democracy is supposed to be such a good thing - and any government defying its principles is deficient, if not questionably moral - then why does the same not hold true for corporations? Why are they run by charismatic autocrats, backed by semi-secretive cabals?
All publicly traded corporations are a democracy. They are reponsible to their shareholders, the same way a government is responsible to their voters. The only difference is that it isn't a simple matter of one shareholder, one vote. It's more like the system of electoral colleges in the US. One state can have a larger interest than another.
A private enterpreneurship is more like a dictatorship, where the leader is only responsible to themselves, and answeres to no one.
Uhm, I think they mean natively, not through an emulator.
Or were you trying to be funny?
why not dump Itanium compatibility and just go back to Alpha?
Because all the old Alpha engineers now work for AMD =D
OS X: Quit crowding XP!
/me ducks for cover...
XP: But I need room for my Recycle Bin!
Linux (shaking head): Amateurs...
FreeBSD - just churning away, ignoreing the others.
I don't think so. For example, the firmware in a Canon camera runs a flavour of DOS of some kind. So it doesn't use an "MBR" and there's no way that camera could read anything but FAT.
But the poster to whom you replied was not generalizing.
In fact he was making a hasty generalization. He was implying that because he has seen a couple computers blue screen, that in fact windows isn't as good as the general population feels it is.
He doesn't directly say that windows is teh sUx, but he does say it isn't as good as the general populace believes it is, because he's seen a couple Windowz computers blue screen (isn't it black in XP?)
What's a "Temporary Internet Files" directory?
/tmp
I think they are referring to
=D
The point everyone is making against the article submitter, is that buying a Mac vs a PC isn't going to magically make you immune to hardware deficiencies.
Bingo. The guy I work for is on his third iBook, having blown the logic board on the last two, each within a year. I heckle him all the time for it too. Hardly the "quality" mac zealots would have you expect.
But that'll just send him underground, and he'll accept cash payment to send out spam instead of his present situation.
I'm sure he's already sent money to an offshore bank account anyway. He's probably going to end up on a beach in Morocco or something.
Yes, true, but if it's not coded right, it can be a big pain to make it work with anything by mysql.
Creating a database independant application needs to be a consideration from the beginning, not an after thought.
You still have to trust those doing the peer review that they are honest
Those doing the peer review are also subject to peer review.
Researchers argue all the time in scientific journals. One article will come out disagreeing with the results of another. It happens all the time. Pick up a psych or med journal some time and you'll see what I'm talking about.
"Freddy Freddinson earlier said this. Do you agree?"
Objection your honour -> leading the witness!
Don't you watch Law & Order?
People who argue religion are impossible.
They are the same as people who believe Marijuana is bad because it's illegal.
I hear it all the time on radio shows when people call in; it's illegal ergo it's bad. The argument should be: Marijuana's bad because of x (I don't know wtf x is personally), ergo we made it illegal, not the other way around. People don't stop to ask that question.
Same with the bible. The bible tells us we were moulded from dirt, and woman came from our rib, and all the other lame-assed stories like the tower of Babel and Noah's ark, etc. No one stops to question the source of their morality. They just appeal to it as a higher force of reason than their own.
One of these days some Attorney General planning to run for Governor will wise up to this scam, and go after these firms for criminal extortion.
Generally though the Attoerney General is a lawyer and has many lawyer friends, probably some of which funded his campaign.
Beacuse the US has such an open system of corruption (which country doesn't though?), it's unlikely you'll ever see this business model done away with any time soon.
Science is a religion my friend. The guy seems to misunderstand this.
What a load of crap. Science is based on empirical reasoning and is always held subject to peer review.
Is religion?
Let's argue this another way.
If A=B, as you suggest, than A has all the properties of B and vice versa.
Infact A!=B because B is not subject to empirical reasoning and peer review.
Since when do we put parents in jail for the crimes of their children? If my teenaged child grabs my car keys and runs someone down, I may be frowned upon for being a bad parent, but I won't be held accountable, under basic rule of law.
Prove it was her at the computer and not her kids.
Of course, the DMCA probably undermines the rule of law.
I've been in business since the age of 13 and there has never been a market I couldn't enter.
I'm starting a wireless ISP in my trailer park in March
You wouldn't be living in a trailer park if you were so capable. Just a small observation. I realize it's partially an ad-hominem attack, but you cite your own experience as starting a wireless ISP in a trailer park as an example of how easy it is to get into any business. I find it ironic that you live in a trailer park and are debunking economic theories that propogate far beyond your own business experiences, which incidnetally demonstrate you have failed, not succeeded if
Truth is, you can't just go and start a leasing company without startup capital. Sometimes the barrier to entry is so high it's almost impossible for a business to start and be competitive.
Complete deregulation in the telecom field wouldn't lead to "thousands of little companies". It'd lead to one company.
I agree totally. There's a natural tendancy for companies to consolidate, when growth cannot be achieved without consolidation. Economists theorize that in a normal environment, businesses consolidate, raise their prices, and when those prices rise, the incentive for new business to start is better and those businesses will be competitive.
They expand on that theory to point out that when economies of scale are reached, the barrier to entry is too high, and big fish will swallow the little fish because of it.
I'd like to draw attention to Fido and Clearnet in Canada.
At one time we only had two Cell providers in Wester Canada - Telus and Rogers and they hosed us on the rates. It was an oligopoly, where the incentive to keep rates high was better than the incentive to compete. So two new cell providers came to play: Fido and Clearnet. Fido offered amazing rates that were highly competitive - 200 mins for $20/mo. So did Clearnet - unlimited incoming calls for $29/mo. And they did this without a 3 year contract. All of which was unheard of before.
Telus bought clearnet, Rogers bought Fido.
Do you think they bought those cell carriers to compete, or to increase margins?
The barrier to entry for the cell market is very high now. We probably won't see a new cell providor in Canada for a long time now, and rates will stay where they are.
Just in a way. I'm all for freedom of speech.
I think this plan will backfire on ISP's. They presently do not filter content, so they are held excempt from liability of the content. Plenty of court cases have backed that.
However if they are filtering content, controlling what an end user can and cannot access, then won't the courts hold them accountable for this behaviour?
This will be a splippery slope, one where a few ISPs will get burned from it.
Most are all about profits, some don't care about profits and lots fall in between.
To expand on that, most are out there to increase shareholder or owner value, whatever it may be.
In the case of Gentoo, the shareholder/owner value is to make a better Linux.
In the case of GE, it's to make money to pay out dividends to shareholders.