Maybe their "Don't be evil" clause also means keeping YouTube out of the hands of Newscorp.
I doubt it. I think they just want to buy the popular domain name and all the subscribers. Then YouTube's appeal will go way down after they legalize it, but Google Video will hang on because it's biggest competition will be out of the way.
Rightly or wrongly, our justice system tends to protect the cop on the beat.
Sometimes, I think it goes too far, but on balance, they ARE the ones putting
their lives on the line for us, and some leeway should acrue for that sacrifice.
I disagree. Aside from the fact that this would mean firemen, stunt men, ane
people who sign up for medical testing should all get to commit crimes unpunished
because they risk their lives for us, being a law enforcement officer is a
responsibility, and they are given power ordinary citizens don't have. When
you're given that kind of power and you abuse it, I think the punishment should
not be less strict, but more strict because more is at stake. The entire mission
the officer was hired to carry out is compromised. And it makes people less
likely to trust or co-operate with the good cops.
As to the punishment, that DOES happen, internally, and out of public view.
Do you think that a cop that constantly wastes police time and resources
AND prosecutorial time and resources by constantly conducting illegal searches
that get cases tossed out DOESN'T get brought up short by his boss?
I disagree with this too. At every job i've worked at, there has been somebody
who wastes company time and resources, and gets away with it because he or
she has favor with the boss, whether it be because they're friends, family,
or they have the same demographic and the people who suffered are of a different
demographic.
I'd rather the system encourage the cops to obey the constitutional guarantees
of freedom the Bill of Rights gives us than allow them to ignore them.
If you think they should be encouraged to follow the rules then why do you
think they should be given a free ride when they break those rules?
Or perhaps,
being black hat types, they are trying to discredit Firefox because
it makes their jobs tougher than IE does. Maybe they want to drive
people back to IE.
Or perhaps this is a problem with Firefox and has nothing to do with
Microsoft.
I've never heard of them. For all I know, Claria could have changed its name to Zert. If this caught on, I'm sure all the companies that release fake anti-spyware software would get into the business of releasing third-party operating system patches. Maybe GooglePatch could close all the privacy holes and all you have to do is accept the agreement that it collects aggregate data of your operating system use and stores it for all time. And I guess we don't have to worry at all about some other part of the operating system being updated with something that requires certain functions/methods to exist in a dll from an official patch. Just wait for another bootleg patch to fix the compatibility issue. Then wait for a patch to fix that compatibility issue. And wait for a patch to fix the rootkit from GatorVML or whatever you downloaded. I've spent too much time on this message.
I don't know about all that but it seems to me that a few versions ago, I used to be able to play a song and it wouldn't skip even if I was loading and using other software. Now additional hard drive activity makes the song skip. It's like they just eliminated music buffer. Version 7 has a limited download manager, kind of like Firefox and it's way better than what they had before. And the way they make it scroll through the album covers is really nice. It's like looking into one of those 400-disc DVD changers as it switches discs. I bought some of the music videos while they were the smaller size. They struggled to play but it was tolerable. But I haven't been able to get any of their 640x480 videos to play at all, even though they're low-quality. I just get still frames and maybe some audio. It's strange because the h.64 version of DL.TV is almost as big, much better quality, and plays fine. Large high-quality videos from outside sources play fine but little crappy videos from iTunes hardly play and the big ones just don't play. It doesn't make any sense. I suspect the performance issue is coming from the DRM. Maybe the overhead of having to decrypt and decompress at the same time is bogging down the video player, especially at higher resolution. I can't imagine anything else that would explain this.
I can just see that getting out of control. You'll find yourself struggling to stay awake one night. Every time you blink and open your eyes again, it seems like your potted fern is a little closer to you. You'll be fine. Just go back to sleep...
I'm imagining a nerd putting on one of these suits and approaching the bully who's been taking his lunch money. After 29 minutes of playing with his new super strength, he finally taps the bully on the shoulder. It's about this time that his battery dies. The camera pans to the side so we can only hear the gory details: wham, wham, wham! Shoop. Then the camera pans back to show our hero sitting in a trash dumpster, checking his battery. Supervolt. Nooooooo! Tune in for part two when our hero is sure he'll get even with the bully once and for all, now that his Supervolt battery has been replaced with a Sony one. Go get him, tiger.
I was going to make a comment about the Myspace Phone, but then I realized
that's not really "content".
I agree but I think you probably came up with an idea that would work. The
myspace user base and the ringtone-buying teen phone users are probably a strongly
overlapping demographic. The music and videos on myspace would do a lot better
on a mobile phone screen than a sporting event would, and they go to the site
every day anyway. Being able to see a version optimized for the mobile phone
would probably be worth paying for to somebody who is willing to pay money
for a game or ringtone that expires after three months.
I think your pain in the ass comes from the idiot who decided to wait this long
to upgrade to Service Pack 2. I've despised Microsoft for a long time, but at
least I have legitimate reasons for it. Bashing them for not releasing patches,
and then bashing them for releasing patches just seems stupid to me. I suppose
I'll get modded as a troll again,
but lately that seems like a compliment here.
Mindlessly attacking Windows doesn't make this flaw go away in the open source software, just as saying something bad about China doesn't make the United States the land of the free or the home of the brave. Replying to this message with some inaccurate claim about Windows having a thousand new bugs every day won't make it go away either.
Poor and stupid are two distinct groups. I don't think technology would necessarily decline if poor people took over. They have more incentive to do more with less resources, which in my opinion is a good catalyst for technological development. As for the decrease in the number of rich people, that would also mean a decrease in the number of people stifling technology now, such as the RIAA and the politicians performing oral sex acts on corporate heads.
I suspect this will be met with resistance, but I personally think the number one misrepresentation of technology in movies is the enemy drones in Star Wars. Our world has highly accurate weapons in it right now, yet in these movies, thousands of robot soldiers that are supposed to be more advanced than us can't hit any target whatsoever.
And the news article six months from now will read, "RIAA gets court to accept evidence that people are not sharing files as evidence that people are sharing files."
It's not any more stupid than what they're doing right now, if this is for real.
I don't like it either, but if it's the most popular site on the internet then there must be somebody who likes it. And I guarantee you there are people who have equally harsh comments about the layout and format of Slashdot. Just as you'd call their stuff bloated and busy, they might call your stuff dull and dead.
Slashdot Mirror
I doubt it. I think they just want to buy the popular domain name and all the subscribers. Then YouTube's appeal will go way down after they legalize it, but Google Video will hang on because it's biggest competition will be out of the way.
That's right. I'm pissed.
America welcomes everybody looking for a better life, as long as they're not Mexican or Haitian.
I disagree. Aside from the fact that this would mean firemen, stunt men, ane people who sign up for medical testing should all get to commit crimes unpunished because they risk their lives for us, being a law enforcement officer is a responsibility, and they are given power ordinary citizens don't have. When you're given that kind of power and you abuse it, I think the punishment should not be less strict, but more strict because more is at stake. The entire mission the officer was hired to carry out is compromised. And it makes people less likely to trust or co-operate with the good cops.
I disagree with this too. At every job i've worked at, there has been somebody who wastes company time and resources, and gets away with it because he or she has favor with the boss, whether it be because they're friends, family, or they have the same demographic and the people who suffered are of a different demographic.
If you think they should be encouraged to follow the rules then why do you think they should be given a free ride when they break those rules?
Or perhaps this is a problem with Firefox and has nothing to do with Microsoft.
He's probably been on Google too long to know what beta means anymore.
I've never heard of them. For all I know, Claria could have changed its name to Zert. If this caught on, I'm sure all the companies that release fake anti-spyware software would get into the business of releasing third-party operating system patches. Maybe GooglePatch could close all the privacy holes and all you have to do is accept the agreement that it collects aggregate data of your operating system use and stores it for all time. And I guess we don't have to worry at all about some other part of the operating system being updated with something that requires certain functions/methods to exist in a dll from an official patch. Just wait for another bootleg patch to fix the compatibility issue. Then wait for a patch to fix that compatibility issue. And wait for a patch to fix the rootkit from GatorVML or whatever you downloaded. I've spent too much time on this message.
I don't know about all that but it seems to me that a few versions ago, I used to be able to play a song and it wouldn't skip even if I was loading and using other software. Now additional hard drive activity makes the song skip. It's like they just eliminated music buffer. Version 7 has a limited download manager, kind of like Firefox and it's way better than what they had before. And the way they make it scroll through the album covers is really nice. It's like looking into one of those 400-disc DVD changers as it switches discs. I bought some of the music videos while they were the smaller size. They struggled to play but it was tolerable. But I haven't been able to get any of their 640x480 videos to play at all, even though they're low-quality. I just get still frames and maybe some audio. It's strange because the h.64 version of DL.TV is almost as big, much better quality, and plays fine. Large high-quality videos from outside sources play fine but little crappy videos from iTunes hardly play and the big ones just don't play. It doesn't make any sense. I suspect the performance issue is coming from the DRM. Maybe the overhead of having to decrypt and decompress at the same time is bogging down the video player, especially at higher resolution. I can't imagine anything else that would explain this.
I can just see that getting out of control. You'll find yourself struggling to stay awake one night. Every time you blink and open your eyes again, it seems like your potted fern is a little closer to you. You'll be fine. Just go back to sleep...
I'm imagining a nerd putting on one of these suits and approaching the bully who's been taking his lunch money. After 29 minutes of playing with his new super strength, he finally taps the bully on the shoulder. It's about this time that his battery dies. The camera pans to the side so we can only hear the gory details: wham, wham, wham! Shoop. Then the camera pans back to show our hero sitting in a trash dumpster, checking his battery. Supervolt. Nooooooo! Tune in for part two when our hero is sure he'll get even with the bully once and for all, now that his Supervolt battery has been replaced with a Sony one. Go get him, tiger.
I agree but I think you probably came up with an idea that would work. The myspace user base and the ringtone-buying teen phone users are probably a strongly overlapping demographic. The music and videos on myspace would do a lot better on a mobile phone screen than a sporting event would, and they go to the site every day anyway. Being able to see a version optimized for the mobile phone would probably be worth paying for to somebody who is willing to pay money for a game or ringtone that expires after three months.
Man, now I gotta bake a pie.
Windows XP. I'm not going to do Linux again till I'm ready to do my webcam broadcast to show off my newly acquired superhuman abilities.
I used to dual-boot Linux and Windows. Of course you have no idea if I'm hot or a girl though... or if I really ran Linux... Never mind.
I think your pain in the ass comes from the idiot who decided to wait this long to upgrade to Service Pack 2. I've despised Microsoft for a long time, but at least I have legitimate reasons for it. Bashing them for not releasing patches, and then bashing them for releasing patches just seems stupid to me. I suppose I'll get modded as a troll again, but lately that seems like a compliment here.
Girl, not boy.
Mindlessly attacking Windows doesn't make this flaw go away in the open source software, just as saying something bad about China doesn't make the United States the land of the free or the home of the brave. Replying to this message with some inaccurate claim about Windows having a thousand new bugs every day won't make it go away either.
I like high megapixel counts so I can crop a picture and it will still look sharp if i print it at the same size it was before it was cropped.
Poor and stupid are two distinct groups. I don't think technology would necessarily decline if poor people took over. They have more incentive to do more with less resources, which in my opinion is a good catalyst for technological development. As for the decrease in the number of rich people, that would also mean a decrease in the number of people stifling technology now, such as the RIAA and the politicians performing oral sex acts on corporate heads.
I suspect this will be met with resistance, but I personally think the number one misrepresentation of technology in movies is the enemy drones in Star Wars. Our world has highly accurate weapons in it right now, yet in these movies, thousands of robot soldiers that are supposed to be more advanced than us can't hit any target whatsoever.
And the news article six months from now will read, "RIAA gets court to accept evidence that people are not sharing files as evidence that people are sharing files."
It's not any more stupid than what they're doing right now, if this is for real.
We still have Nintendo.
I don't like it either, but if it's the most popular site on the internet then there must be somebody who likes it. And I guarantee you there are people who have equally harsh comments about the layout and format of Slashdot. Just as you'd call their stuff bloated and busy, they might call your stuff dull and dead.
There was an accountant at one of my former jobs who was all four.
They will be as soon as they switch to Linux.