Isn't that easier then screwing around with a stupid broken DVD?
I think the easier thing is to stop buying their products and stop watching their movies. There are plenty of other companies vying for your entertainment dollars that aren't trying to make your life more difficult.
"Error: the operation completed successfully" I kid you not! This was common in Win98 and observed also in Win2k - if an app crashed, causing DrWatson to pop up and offer to save some kind of crash log, just click the save as button, and then cancel the save. Voila.
I have received a spam to my gmail account exactly once.
I wish my Gmail account was like that. Maybe you're new to Gmail. I get several spams in my inbox per week. Mostly these are spam messages in Russian and Chinese but I still get a lot of spam in English as well. I always use the button to mark them as spam, but Gmail doesn't seem to get the message that I don't want anything written in Russian. It's also disappointing that I can't create a filter to mark messages as spam. The best I can do is catch emails with Russian or Chinese characters and filter them off to a folder where I later go and mark them as spam.
Uhhhm, research? The internet is THE tool for a lot of things now and even more so if the school has subscriptions to online resources. This holds even more true for anything CS related (please see comments on the previous slashdot regarding new MySQL reference book).
I don't buy your argument. Generations of students have successfully learned how to conduct research long before the general populace even heard of the Internet. Schools still have libraries, I assume.
I don't think that the principal should have so much power over the IT staff. IT should do his job: keeping the IT services running. He shouldnÃt waste his time doing private stuff for the principal.
What I wonder is why does a school have Internet access at all, particularly for students.
I suspect that these were the last two ducklings that had to fall in line. Once they were in position the EFF could fire their shot the next time a case got to the stage that exposed the target.
If we can hit that bulls-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate! [1]
If Google is pushing OCR I could see it eventually becoming good enough to parse at least some types of captchas.
I hope so. I'm looking forward to a Firefox extension that'll let me decode a captcha so I don't have to figure it out. Some of the captchas I've seen lately are so confusing, with warped text, noise, and fonts that make zero and oh look identical, that I have to go through two or three of them before I can get an entry correct.
"It doesn't make sense to have thick clients anymore, when the web apps can do everything that the desktop apps can..."
Until you don't have an Internet connection. I can type up 30 emails and queue them in the outbox until I do get connected if it is local.
I use Gmail and I can type 30 emails and send them later too. What do you think text editors are for? I realize that if you find yourself without a network connection often then working with local application might be useful. But don't pretend that because you don't have a network connection every so often that you are suddenly unable to type.
To which I completely agree. It's about the fifth story I've read today on slashdot and other sources about intellectual property and licensing and copyright.
It would be nice if Slashdot created a legal section like they did for politics and games. That way it will be easier for people to filter out/in.
Interesting how the submitter writes the post suggesting as if they're a user....
What makes you think they aren't an end user? When submitting a story you can enter any name and any URL for your home page. Just because they included a link to the SF page doesn't mean they wrote it.
Let me stop the damn animated gifs and flash things with the "stop" button like the old Netscape let me.
You can stop animated GIFs by pressing the Escape key. Also, if you're like me and want to stop all GIF animation entirely, hop into about:config and set "image.animation_mode" to "none".
Those are good suggestions but they don't solve his problem. He wants to stop animated gifs by clicking on the stop button, just like Netscape and the old Mozilla suite used to do. His hand is already on the mouse and he doesn't want to remove it to reach for the escape key. This was a useful feature and it's a shame that it's gone.
In the future you might want to place the text "FRO" (for review only) or something like that over all the images that aren't licensed. That way it's clear that the images in the mockup are not the ones to be used for the final site. I picked this up from some colleagues when I worked in print. The text was placed over all mockup images and was faint enough that it wouldn't interfere with the idea, but clear enough that anyone could read it and notice it.
I didn't know, but I fully expected it to. This was reinforced by the care and handling instructions in the CD insert, like most from that era, which listed the proper care and handling of the CD and ensured that it was last for a lifetime if handled properly.
I submit to you the anecdotal evidence of my sister's "iPod." She purchased songs through iTMS and attempted to move the DRM'd files onto her SanDisk MP3 Player. Then she wondered why it didn't work. It didn't work because the files have digital rights management & only brand specific players will play it--and vice versa.
That's exactly why I haven't ever bought something from iTMS and won't buy DRM encumbered files. I still own the first CD I bought. It's a Herbie Hancock album that I bought over 21 years ago. It still plays in any CD player without problems. If I buy a song or album off of iTMS, how do I know that I'll still be able to play it 10 or 20 years from now?
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You are correct. You can find the interview here: http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Stallman/interv iews.shtml
I recommend tagging this "copyvio"
I think everything you said is summarized in this image.
Does this mean you got modded insightful for a reason?
In the future you might want to place the text "FRO" (for review only) or something like that over all the images that aren't licensed. That way it's clear that the images in the mockup are not the ones to be used for the final site. I picked this up from some colleagues when I worked in print. The text was placed over all mockup images and was faint enough that it wouldn't interfere with the idea, but clear enough that anyone could read it and notice it.