That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
Your sig seems to disagree with the content of your message...:-)
But seriously, though, I don't see what the huge deal is. At my high school, we have many websites blocked. So, when I really need to go to a blocked site (I do not use MSN, MySpace or any such nonesense, but, for example, they had a site with old AMC, AIME, USAMO and IMO problems blocked, I just logged in to my computer at home via SSH and accessed whatever I want.
I never suggested that it was a conspiracy. I only meant that the link from the post suggested that we could directly access the script, which turned out to not be the case.
As many other people pointed out, this could easily be avoided by using, for example, wget.
I personally do not understand the whole point of the ACID2 test. It is not valid CSS, so it does not accurately measure how well the site adheres to CSS.
I disagree. Getting a computer is not that difficult. They are so commonplace that it is not that difficult to find an older model for free (Craigslist, family, streets, etc.) Four of my computers were obtained in these ways. Ads slow down computers (consider that since they are free, the hardware is probably not that good), and annoy the user into potentially giving up computers.
Also, paying ads does not help in the long run, because you never own it. Paying some amount a month is a lot better of an option.
IANAL, but as I understand it, a threat is almost like a conspiracy. If you threaten someone, then you are conspiring to commit a crime against them, in a sense.
If you come to someone's house and, knowing that they do not own a car, threaten to blow up their car, then that is just obnoxious/harassment. If you, however, believe they had a car, then that is a threat. Same with souls. The difference is that it is not you who is doing the damnation to hell, but God.
A threat, in the legal sense, means claiming that you will do something. You are simply stating a fact. If the Pope told you that if you do not donate money, you will be damned to Hell (by him), then that is a threat. Whether or not he should be punished for it is another matter.
...Microsoft enters a market where another company has a near monopoly with an inferior, more expensive product, whose only real advantage is a feature, which is now crippled half the time?
Except that there are all kinds of reasons why something that normally costs 600 dollars was sold for 20, that do not involve theft. For example, my father works for Bose Corporation, where they have insane discounts on some things - for example, he was able to get Microsoft Office, which normally costs around 400 bucks for 20.
Why are the teachers mad about the video? Shouldn't they be more mad about the broken window?
Besides, whoever recorded the incident was clearly a by-stander (the person throwing the rock was in the video). I do not understand why this is bothering the teachers so much.
Rather than running their own social network, why not just focus on the loan aspect and leave the social networking to the social networking service?
The answer to your question: The computer does not care what you are talking about.
From a technological viewpoint, all that is relevant is that you have a way to communicate. Sure, you may have 1 or two additional features, like embedded credit card transfers or something similar, but it won't be anything nearly complicated to warrant creating a whole service for it.
It is in the best interest of the companies which provide these services to create everything themselves, because it does not help their competitors any, that way. It is not that difficult to create the basic aspects of social networking, and so, creating it themselves boosts business.
MySpace arguably has some of the worse tech and a hideous interface
Arguably?
But seriously, people will keep switching, no doubt about it. What will change is what they switch. Instead of changing small, dedicated services, they will switch larger ones.
Why, you ask? The reason is that as the number of things that people do increases, so does the number of things that social networking sites offer. A great example is Yahoo! which I would argue is a social networking site. It offers email, games, news, music, you name it. I am convinced beyond a doubt that they will start offering blogging in the near future, particularly, as competition to Google's Blogger.
Yahoo! is a great example of an all-in-one philosophy. Google is doing similar things. Pretty soon, however, people are just going to have one account on one giant social networking site. There will be competition, of course, and some will have accounts on one but not the other, but pretty soon, very few people are going to actually have many different accounts.
Dawnspire looks like a very good game. I have yet to try it, but judging by what I have so far seen, I am amazed that it was ranked so poorly (relative to the other ones, at #6), considering, especially, that Gumboy got #1.
Well, for two reasons. The first is that it makes it easier for new users to switch to GNU/Linux, and the second is that it is a pretty good system (*gasp*).
I mean, think about it. What are the parts that are copied? Similar looking and placed minimize, maximize, close buttons, a menu button, some sort of a menu and panels. Those are all very useful. Their exact location and appearance is there because it is more familiar to Windows users. It is fairly easy to change, too.
For example, my setup is as follows:
A Mac OSX-esque panel thing at the bottom (autohides). It has some of the programs I use regularly). I use the Mist GNOME theme, with a Close button (looks like an X) in the left corner, centered title text (this took editing raw XML to accomplish, BTW, since Mist has title text aligned to the left, by default), and a minimize button on the right. There is no maximize button, because that effect can be accomplished by double-clicking on the title bar. At the top, there is a short panel with the menu, weather, workspace switcher, window list, sound applet, language applet, notification area, sticky-notes applet, power supply applet, networking applet and clock applet.
An analogy is a tool to present an idea in a more understandable and universal light. It is, IMHO, unfortunate when an analogy presents something incorrectly, as it gives people the wrong idea about the issue.
Now that I think about it, TFA actually never mentioned anything about how these links were presented. If it is more like my example, where the neighbor tells someone to look at the Christmas decoration, then, the plaintiff has no case, IMO. If it is more like your example, then at least they have an argument.
Your logic is heavily flawed. It would be much more like this situation if the guy was embedding their videos on his page. However, he was linking to them. That would be like you putting up a Christmas decoration, and your neighbor putting up a sign, saying ``Look at the decoration next door'', and as a result of this, the concrete next to your house getting worn, and you having to pay to fix it. Can you sue your neighbor for this?
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Your sig seems to disagree with the content of your message... :-)
But seriously, though, I don't see what the huge deal is. At my high school, we have many websites blocked. So, when I really need to go to a blocked site (I do not use MSN, MySpace or any such nonesense, but, for example, they had a site with old AMC, AIME, USAMO and IMO problems blocked, I just logged in to my computer at home via SSH and accessed whatever I want.
I never suggested that it was a conspiracy. I only meant that the link from the post suggested that we could directly access the script, which turned out to not be the case.
As many other people pointed out, this could easily be avoided by using, for example, wget.
Or, you can do that. Though, I am confused, why does that work. They are trying to block by referral link. Does wget not send that?
I personally do not understand the whole point of the ACID2 test. It is not valid CSS, so it does not accurately measure how well the site adheres to CSS.
Has anyone else noticed that GameFAQs is blocking the direct link to the file, so you actually have to search for it?
I have downloaded it. If you want, email me at lgrinberg@gmail.com, and I will send you the link to my server.
The problem with that is that in order for the rental company to make a profit, the time you will have to use ads could be as long as several years.
I disagree. Getting a computer is not that difficult. They are so commonplace that it is not that difficult to find an older model for free (Craigslist, family, streets, etc.) Four of my computers were obtained in these ways. Ads slow down computers (consider that since they are free, the hardware is probably not that good), and annoy the user into potentially giving up computers.
Also, paying ads does not help in the long run, because you never own it. Paying some amount a month is a lot better of an option.
First of all, both GP and P (from your post's perspective), are moderated Flamebait, so that particular problem is solved.
Second, a disagreement with a specific moderation is a very bad reason to condemn an entire site.
IANAL, but as I understand it, a threat is almost like a conspiracy. If you threaten someone, then you are conspiring to commit a crime against them, in a sense.
If you come to someone's house and, knowing that they do not own a car, threaten to blow up their car, then that is just obnoxious/harassment. If you, however, believe they had a car, then that is a threat. Same with souls. The difference is that it is not you who is doing the damnation to hell, but God.
A threat, in the legal sense, means claiming that you will do something. You are simply stating a fact. If the Pope told you that if you do not donate money, you will be damned to Hell (by him), then that is a threat. Whether or not he should be punished for it is another matter.
...Microsoft enters a market where another company has a near monopoly with an inferior, more expensive product, whose only real advantage is a feature, which is now crippled half the time?
Why did they do that?
Except that there are all kinds of reasons why something that normally costs 600 dollars was sold for 20, that do not involve theft. For example, my father works for Bose Corporation, where they have insane discounts on some things - for example, he was able to get Microsoft Office, which normally costs around 400 bucks for 20.
Very good question. My guess is that they will be tracked down and required to return the items, but will be compensated at the expense of the thief.
They will certainly not get into trouble for the purchase of stolen goods, and if they do, any reasonable judge would automatically acquit them.
Just a minute, sir. I'm almost done downloading this pr0n.
Why are the teachers mad about the video? Shouldn't they be more mad about the broken window?
Besides, whoever recorded the incident was clearly a by-stander (the person throwing the rock was in the video). I do not understand why this is bothering the teachers so much.
The answer to your question: The computer does not care what you are talking about.
From a technological viewpoint, all that is relevant is that you have a way to communicate. Sure, you may have 1 or two additional features, like embedded credit card transfers or something similar, but it won't be anything nearly complicated to warrant creating a whole service for it.
It is in the best interest of the companies which provide these services to create everything themselves, because it does not help their competitors any, that way. It is not that difficult to create the basic aspects of social networking, and so, creating it themselves boosts business.
Arguably?
But seriously, people will keep switching, no doubt about it. What will change is what they switch. Instead of changing small, dedicated services, they will switch larger ones.
Social network fatigue is not coming.
Why, you ask? The reason is that as the number of things that people do increases, so does the number of things that social networking sites offer. A great example is Yahoo! which I would argue is a social networking site. It offers email, games, news, music, you name it. I am convinced beyond a doubt that they will start offering blogging in the near future, particularly, as competition to Google's Blogger.
Yahoo! is a great example of an all-in-one philosophy. Google is doing similar things. Pretty soon, however, people are just going to have one account on one giant social networking site. There will be competition, of course, and some will have accounts on one but not the other, but pretty soon, very few people are going to actually have many different accounts.
Dawnspire looks like a very good game. I have yet to try it, but judging by what I have so far seen, I am amazed that it was ranked so poorly (relative to the other ones, at #6), considering, especially, that Gumboy got #1.
Note the bolded text. If he is ``ooh'ing and aah'ing [sic] about the fonts and graphics'', then those are clearly important to him.
Well, for two reasons. The first is that it makes it easier for new users to switch to GNU/Linux, and the second is that it is a pretty good system (*gasp*).
I mean, think about it. What are the parts that are copied? Similar looking and placed minimize, maximize, close buttons, a menu button, some sort of a menu and panels. Those are all very useful. Their exact location and appearance is there because it is more familiar to Windows users. It is fairly easy to change, too.
For example, my setup is as follows:
A Mac OSX-esque panel thing at the bottom (autohides). It has some of the programs I use regularly). I use the Mist GNOME theme, with a Close button (looks like an X) in the left corner, centered title text (this took editing raw XML to accomplish, BTW, since Mist has title text aligned to the left, by default), and a minimize button on the right. There is no maximize button, because that effect can be accomplished by double-clicking on the title bar. At the top, there is a short panel with the menu, weather, workspace switcher, window list, sound applet, language applet, notification area, sticky-notes applet, power supply applet, networking applet and clock applet.
Thanks! I just hope others were more supportive... :(
An analogy is a tool to present an idea in a more understandable and universal light. It is, IMHO, unfortunate when an analogy presents something incorrectly, as it gives people the wrong idea about the issue.
Now that I think about it, TFA actually never mentioned anything about how these links were presented. If it is more like my example, where the neighbor tells someone to look at the Christmas decoration, then, the plaintiff has no case, IMO. If it is more like your example, then at least they have an argument.
Your logic is heavily flawed. It would be much more like this situation if the guy was embedding their videos on his page. However, he was linking to them. That would be like you putting up a Christmas decoration, and your neighbor putting up a sign, saying ``Look at the decoration next door'', and as a result of this, the concrete next to your house getting worn, and you having to pay to fix it. Can you sue your neighbor for this?
perhaps?!