You don't give a rat's rectum now, but you'll be bitching like hell when your pointy-haired-Dilbert-boss comes to you and says, "We've opened a branch office in Podunk, and they need to do e-commerce. Put that catalog you've been working on online."
You *should* give a flying fluck about web graphics, because it all seems to be converging. It's no longer the technology that leaves boys typing with one hand-- it's the tech that my mom just ordered a car with.
Okay, I'll use all PNGs on my next web project. Then I'll go cash in my unemployment the next week. I'd love to use PNG, but it's kinda hard to go to a client who's hired my company for a project and explain: "Well, no, your audience will probably be limited to the techie 5% of the Internet population, but it's the Right Thing to Do."
It's just not that simple. I really wish it were. If it were, I'd have nary a speck of WinNT running in my local world.
Oh, grow up. Stop whining about the trivialities of life, and get some work done. As has been said before, this tracking thing has been done before, you just never realized it.
Oh, grow up. Stop whining about your life, and get back to work. As has been said before, this freedom thing has been compromised and eroded before, you just never realized it.
Well, either live with the prospect of banners, ads, and links-- or start sending money. How else do you expect Google to stick around when everyone flocks to it?\
Been meaning to go back to learning Python... I just have a huge, huge, huge pet peeve with any language that uses indentation as a language construct. I hate Python indentation style!
"The article also calls Microsoft's motives into question for failing to mention this patent application to the World Wide Web Consortium, with whom it has been working for some time to develop a style sheet standard."
Of course... I see now. Let's work with an open standards body, let them do the bulk of the work in hashing out the details, we'll let everyone else start using it, then we'll implement it and patent it and drink champaign to toast all that good will effort making us money now. Oh yeah, and we won't charge them that much to use the tech they've given us.
Jeeeeesus! "The Seybold article casts doubt on the... competence of the US Patent and Trademark Office for awarding it."
No kidding! Seeing more and more stories like this popping up everyday, such as the possibility to create an entire business model around patenting and litigating against commonly used open technology...
Is there anyway someone can sue this bunch of gov't numbskulls to either give it up, or if we can't get rid of patents like that, at least get their acts together? Wouldn't it be smarter to have industry-specific patent awarding groups rather than a monolithic gov't body??
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You don't give a rat's rectum now, but you'll be bitching like hell when your pointy-haired-Dilbert-boss comes to you and says, "We've opened a branch office in Podunk, and they need to do e-commerce. Put that catalog you've been working on online."
You *should* give a flying fluck about web graphics, because it all seems to be converging. It's no longer the technology that leaves boys typing with one hand-- it's the tech that my mom just ordered a car with.
Okay, I'll use all PNGs on my next web project. Then I'll go cash in my unemployment the next week. I'd love to use PNG, but it's kinda hard to go to a client who's hired my company for a project and explain: "Well, no, your audience will probably be limited to the techie 5% of the Internet population, but it's the Right Thing to Do."
It's just not that simple. I really wish it were. If it were, I'd have nary a speck of WinNT running in my local world.
Oh, grow up. Stop whining about the trivialities of life, and get some work done. As has been said before, this tracking thing has been done before, you just never realized it.
Oh, grow up. Stop whining about your life, and get back to work. As has been said before, this freedom thing has been compromised and eroded before, you just never realized it.
Well, either live with the prospect of banners, ads, and links-- or start sending money. How else do you expect Google to stick around when everyone flocks to it?\
Been meaning to go back to learning Python... I just have a huge, huge, huge pet peeve with any language that uses indentation as a language construct. I hate Python indentation style!
"The article also calls Microsoft's motives into question for failing to mention this patent application to the World Wide Web Consortium, with whom it has been working for some time to develop a style sheet standard."
Of course... I see now. Let's work with an open standards body, let them do the bulk of the work in hashing out the details, we'll let everyone else start using it, then we'll implement it and patent it and drink champaign to toast all that good will effort making us money now. Oh yeah, and we won't charge them that much to use the tech they've given us.
Jeeeeesus! "The Seybold article casts doubt on the... competence of the US Patent and Trademark Office for awarding it."
No kidding! Seeing more and more stories like this popping up everyday, such as the possibility to create an entire business model around patenting and litigating against commonly used open technology...
Is there anyway someone can sue this bunch of gov't numbskulls to either give it up, or if we can't get rid of patents like that, at least get their acts together? Wouldn't it be smarter to have industry-specific patent awarding groups rather than a monolithic gov't body??