d like to see some sites using XUL for admin backends etc.
Thats the ticket. Encourage more vendor lockin. *rolleyes*
For those who are going to say XUL is open source so any browser can implement. While true, name one non-mozilla family mainstream browser that uses XUL.
Personally, I don't like the idea of hundreds of powerful PCs simply used for rendering web pages. They are not that incapable.
I personally love the idea. If I can visit websites that allow me to use a "program" over the web and it be just as fast and good as a well written app on my computer, I will happily use it.I use numerous different computers and it would be a big benefit to me.
Having said that, it won't happen. Because all that has to happen is your internet connection go down and you are screwed.
They don't own his implementation of scrabble. They cannot legally use his code. All they can do is stop other people from using his code (private use is most likely allowed as long as he doesn't distribute the code. Even if it isn't allowed, how is hasbro going to know? Set up an agent to become his close friend and monitor him? Yeah right).
Any DRM is your own fault for pirating music in the first place......It's not [your Dad's] fault
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. One of these days you should learn the definition of a word called logic. You are also assuming I have pirated music. Nice assumption there.
Before DRM, you all downloaded it for free off Napster/Kazaa etc. That's why they brought in DRM. If you hadn't all been illegally downloading it for free, they'd never have thought of implementing DRM.
Person #1: Why is it so difficult to BUY music?
Person #2: It is difficult to BUY music because of drm.
Person #3: It's your own fault for not buying it before they placed drm.
The logic of that conversation makes absolutely no sense. Person #1 and #2 are talking about BUYING music. You on the other hand mention downloading it.
My Dad never downloaded music illegally. He is now inconvenienced because of DRM. How is that his fault?
What goes around comes around? Guess my Dad should start downloading music illegally, because guess what. He won't have to put up with DRM then. DRM doesn't stop the pirate, it only stops/inconveniences the customer, thus alienating them and causing them to consider becoming a pirate (where they will no longer be inconvenienced by DRM). What goes around comes around indeed.
Many, many CDs do as well, which make playing on some players difficult, playing on computers difficult, playing with a CD-RW difficult (by difficult, I mean impossible on certain hardware).
I haven't had that problem myself, because I don't buy ANY new music. At all. I don't like new music period. But I hear people have problems quite a bit. And don't even get me started on computer games and DRM *annoyed*
It makes me sick that people can't fathom the concept that within such a large group you will have people at all extremes.
Fundamentalism is an extreme of religion. Anyone whose at an extreme (any extreme) in their beliefs often is beyond reason (extreme liberals, extreme conservatives, any extreme;)). There are of course the exception to the rule, but every rule has an exception or two.
That's got to be the most racist thing I've ever heard. "Oh no. We don't want any supporting our group. The will think we're just as bad as those." When you help perpetuate racist beliefs (which you are when you say "Oh no. We don't want any supporting our group. The will think we're just as bad as those." which is what your post amounts too) you're just as bad as the racists that believe that all arabs are terrorists.
What legitimate activities can you do with DRM-free music that you can't do with a song purchased from iTunes Music Store?
Itunes isn't the only way to purchase music that has DRM. Many, many CDs do as well, which make playing on some players difficult, playing on computers difficult, playing with a CD-RW difficult (by difficult, I mean impossible on certain hardware).
I haven't had that problem myself, because I don't buy ANY new music. At all. I don't like new music period. But I hear people have problems quite a bit. And don't even get me started on computer games and DRM *annoyed*
The point could be equally well made about every other subscription service, though -- why rent city water that keeps getting more expensive and goes away when you stop paying, when, with a larger initial investment, you could dig your own well and have water forever?
I think my neighbours would complain if I dug down to their apartment. Living in a block of flats can make digging a well difficult. FYI.
It was quite easy before the companies discovered DRM. Us crazy people like to do whatever we want with stuff we own (no, not sharing it. Before DRM we could do quite a bit with our music. Those were the days).
If you are OK with breaking the law, you might just.. purchase the CDs you want on the cheap from a used CD store.
Buying second hand CDs isn't illegal, yet. (If this isn't what you meant, sorry but it definitely came across that way. A "or if you want to go the legal route" would have cleared up any confusion).
And it's not as if Flickr's functions are patented
Can Yahoo now patent Flickr's functions? If so, they may not have bought Flickr. They may have bought prior art (had they tried to patent Flickr's functions people could shout "prior art". It's likely there is prior art anyway, but Yahoo probably figured the crazy US legal system wouldn't care).
Not necessarily. Is the surface obscured like Titan's? If not, then there isn't as much incentive. I think Europa would be much more important then this moon. Why not send a probe to Triton? After all, Triton may have been liquid for billions of years. It's also possible that Triton may have once harbored life (due to it once having liquid), and that if it did, such life would be COMPLETELY different to Earth's. That sounds more significant then Enceladus.
Why this moon? Just because it's in the news today, doesn't mean it will be all that important tomorrow. Neptune isn't an impossible goal. We can send probes to places other then Saturn.
Excluding the first it's the first? We have a word for that. "Second".
People tend to think that the second isn't important, so they like to make stuff the first. It is the first that this probe has discovered. Titan having an atmosphere has been known for some time, this is the first discovery of one of Saturn's moons having an atmosphere in quite a while. This is also what the article meant.
So while your comment has been marked interesting, it's really not. It's pedantic more then anything.
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Thanks. I finally saw one of these fabled Firefox pop-ups and I am now protected against them :)
Well I'll be damned. I just got a pop-up from a website (not dictionary.com). I then used this page to block them :)
Dictionary.com the standard firefox install shows a popup (sometimes?)
I use dictionary.com often and have yet to have a pop-up in Firefox.
some extensions probably manage to block it
I have:
* ieview
* chatzilla
* linkification
* quicktabpreftoggle
* Compact Menu
* EditCSS
* Popup ALT attribute
* Conquery
Which of those extensions blocks it?
I have flash player turned on. I personally think the firefox pop-up is a myth. People just haven't updated or have their settings incorrectly setted.
d like to see some sites using XUL for admin backends etc.
Thats the ticket. Encourage more vendor lockin. *rolleyes*
For those who are going to say XUL is open source so any browser can implement. While true, name one non-mozilla family mainstream browser that uses XUL.
Personally, I don't like the idea of hundreds of powerful PCs simply used for rendering web pages. They are not that incapable.
I personally love the idea. If I can visit websites that allow me to use a "program" over the web and it be just as fast and good as a well written app on my computer, I will happily use it.I use numerous different computers and it would be a big benefit to me.
Having said that, it won't happen. Because all that has to happen is your internet connection go down and you are screwed.
seeing as how I'm already getting popups on some sites now
Could you link to one of these sites? I've yet to find one.
It is. OP is just being a dipshit and got modded Funny +4 for some reason. Mods: If you don't understand something. Don't mod it.
It would be like starting up a new websoftware company called eMicrosoft. OO i wonder who would sue me then!
What about www.SkraBle.com Would I be allowed that? What if it was my name.
Skra, whose cousin is Mike.
'm sure by now the patent is expired, since the game was invented during the Great Depression.
I'm sure a new patent on monopoly was asked for and granted. Probably by the same guy/company.
Why would you buy what you already own?
They don't own his implementation of scrabble. They cannot legally use his code. All they can do is stop other people from using his code (private use is most likely allowed as long as he doesn't distribute the code. Even if it isn't allowed, how is hasbro going to know? Set up an agent to become his close friend and monitor him? Yeah right).
Any DRM is your own fault for pirating music in the first place......It's not [your Dad's] fault
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. One of these days you should learn the definition of a word called logic. You are also assuming I have pirated music. Nice assumption there.
Before DRM, you all downloaded it for free off Napster/Kazaa etc. That's why they brought in DRM. If you hadn't all been illegally downloading it for free, they'd never have thought of implementing DRM.
Person #1: Why is it so difficult to BUY music?
Person #2: It is difficult to BUY music because of drm.
Person #3: It's your own fault for not buying it before they placed drm.
The logic of that conversation makes absolutely no sense. Person #1 and #2 are talking about BUYING music. You on the other hand mention downloading it.
My Dad never downloaded music illegally. He is now inconvenienced because of DRM. How is that his fault?
What goes around comes around? Guess my Dad should start downloading music illegally, because guess what. He won't have to put up with DRM then. DRM doesn't stop the pirate, it only stops/inconveniences the customer, thus alienating them and causing them to consider becoming a pirate (where they will no longer be inconvenienced by DRM). What goes around comes around indeed.
Many, many CDs do as well, which make playing on some players difficult, playing on computers difficult, playing with a CD-RW difficult (by difficult, I mean impossible on certain hardware).
I haven't had that problem myself, because I don't buy ANY new music. At all. I don't like new music period. But I hear people have problems quite a bit. And don't even get me started on computer games and DRM *annoyed*
It makes me sick that people can't fathom the concept that within such a large group you will have people at all extremes.
;)). There are of course the exception to the rule, but every rule has an exception or two.
Fundamentalism is an extreme of religion. Anyone whose at an extreme (any extreme) in their beliefs often is beyond reason (extreme liberals, extreme conservatives, any extreme
That's got to be the most racist thing I've ever heard. "Oh no. We don't want any supporting our group. The will think we're just as bad as those ." When you help perpetuate racist beliefs (which you are when you say "Oh no. We don't want any supporting our group. The will think we're just as bad as those ." which is what your post amounts too) you're just as bad as the racists that believe that all arabs are terrorists.
What legitimate activities can you do with DRM-free music that you can't do with a song purchased from iTunes Music Store?
Itunes isn't the only way to purchase music that has DRM. Many, many CDs do as well, which make playing on some players difficult, playing on computers difficult, playing with a CD-RW difficult (by difficult, I mean impossible on certain hardware).
I haven't had that problem myself, because I don't buy ANY new music. At all. I don't like new music period. But I hear people have problems quite a bit. And don't even get me started on computer games and DRM *annoyed*
The point could be equally well made about every other subscription service, though -- why rent city water that keeps getting more expensive and goes away when you stop paying, when, with a larger initial investment, you could dig your own well and have water forever?
I think my neighbours would complain if I dug down to their apartment. Living in a block of flats can make digging a well difficult. FYI.
Why is is to friggin' hard to just pay for music?
It was quite easy before the companies discovered DRM. Us crazy people like to do whatever we want with stuff we own (no, not sharing it. Before DRM we could do quite a bit with our music. Those were the days).
If you are OK with breaking the law, you might just .. purchase the CDs you want on the cheap from a used CD store.
Buying second hand CDs isn't illegal, yet. (If this isn't what you meant, sorry but it definitely came across that way. A "or if you want to go the legal route" would have cleared up any confusion).
And it's not as if Flickr's functions are patented
Can Yahoo now patent Flickr's functions? If so, they may not have bought Flickr. They may have bought prior art (had they tried to patent Flickr's functions people could shout "prior art". It's likely there is prior art anyway, but Yahoo probably figured the crazy US legal system wouldn't care).
but the headline and the first sentence or two? That's silly, even from a legal standpoint.
;) If it had any merit they'd probably sue from France.
Why do you think they're suing in America? Because it's a silly complaint
why did you pick Triton?
The above AC is correct. Triton was once quite warm due to tidal heating.
I can understand people arguing for life on Titan - it has extensive organic chemistry occurring in its upper atmosphere
Got a link?
Not necessarily. Is the surface obscured like Titan's? If not, then there isn't as much incentive. I think Europa would be much more important then this moon. Why not send a probe to Triton? After all, Triton may have been liquid for billions of years. It's also possible that Triton may have once harbored life (due to it once having liquid), and that if it did, such life would be COMPLETELY different to Earth's. That sounds more significant then Enceladus.
Why this moon? Just because it's in the news today, doesn't mean it will be all that important tomorrow. Neptune isn't an impossible goal. We can send probes to places other then Saturn.
It's right here. Why that page wasn't linked to in the first place is beyond me.
Excluding the first it's the first? We have a word for that. "Second".
People tend to think that the second isn't important, so they like to make stuff the first. It is the first that this probe has discovered. Titan having an atmosphere has been known for some time, this is the first discovery of one of Saturn's moons having an atmosphere in quite a while. This is also what the article meant.
So while your comment has been marked interesting, it's really not. It's pedantic more then anything.