If you can't create a website that works adequately with all browsers, then you don't deserve to be employed as a web designer.
You sir are a genius.
From personal, experience, even the most piss poor web developers (and lazy ones at that) can put together a redirect to two different versions of html based off the Browser type to make the page compatible (although that's not technically what you are supposed to do, but if you can't even do that then well... you are just a horrid web developer and need to take up something else in life).
Yeah... And if anyone let the cat out of the bag that Peak Oil was a myth and that the oil companies actually have more oil than they know what to do with for the next 500 years and that oil really only costs $5 a barrel would also be a target... Oh wait...
If you were the publisher of it, you would surely consider it stealing.
No. I would not. I would not go to the police and file a stolen property report, but I would call my lawyer and ask him to start a case in a civil court. If somone broke into our place and stole our cds then I would report this to the police.
You were supposed to pay for it. How is that not stealing?
Who is to say that you pay for anything? It is the laws we have on the books. The law says you are to pay for others property. The law also says you must pay for the rights to copy others intellectual property. Because you do not pay to copy another persons property does not mean you steal away their property, it means you make you're own without acknowledging or compensating them for their design work.
I am not offended, but I want to educate and let people know that there is a difference in the US legal system just like assult and battery and libel and slander.
Have you ever been to court, or at least friends with a lawyer, and ever at least been on a Jury?
Criminal cases are extremely different than a civl case because in a civil case you don't know have to prove beyond a resonable doubt that they are guilty.
In a criminal case you do. (Even though you still may face jail time and/or harsh fine)
Secondly, because it is illegal it does not make it immoral and also because it is legal it does not always make it moral.
I could give you thousand of examples of legal tax code that makes this apparant.
I'm not justifying those of this particular issue and yes it is illegal and maybe immoral, but it's not stealing.
"STEAL - the wrongful or willful taking of money or property belonging to someone else with intent to deprive the owner of its use or benefit either temporarily or permanently. No particular type of movement or carrying away is required."
Have they deprived apple of the use of OS X or directly removed money from apples online back account?
NO!
- Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, but I have been to jury duty and have this explained for me for a long time and had to listen to my friend who is going to law school about her homework for a very long time. She is planning on being a corporate lawyer and I talk to her about issues with my record label.
For the love of God... Haven't you read enough/. sigs to understand the American Legal System?!
Piracy is:
Copyright infringment.
A civil offense.
Punishble in civil courts.
What piracy is not:
Stealing.
A criminal offense.
Punishble in Federal and State criminal courts.
A sin against God in any of the three major religions. (Unless the Pope or an Islamic Iman has spoken out against piracy lately... It's not high on their evil "you are going to hell" lists.)
However, they will never officially support it for non-Macs. The support costs alone would be unendurable trying to assist people will thousands of outdated and incompatible hardware issues. Not to mention the thousands of drivers that do not exist.
On the flip side... If Apple made is so you could us OS X as your desktop if you put for a bit of effort on your own, but you could never go to apple for support they would gain a market share in the shadows of people getting familiar with OS X.
Then of course this would hope to encourage the purchase of new OS X apps and the purchasing of a real Mac computer down the road.
But Nuclear reactors can generate the energy to make synthetic fuels from organic materials or create hydrogen cells. Any other alternatives would be welcome too.
(I read once that known deposits would supply the world at current power consumption for only a few hundred years)
If we haven't figured out Fusion by 2075, we deserve to be without power. Fission should be a temporary stop gap measure so we can keep the economy going when we hit Peak Oil around 2015-2025.
"There are more than 400 nuclear power stations across the globe, producing about 17% of the world's electricity."
With that thinking you could assume it would only take 2,353 more Power Plants to achieve total global power via Nuclear. When you compare it to the scale of 6 billion people, it's a rather small number to achieve.
Each of needs to wake up, find a way to snap out of these unsustainable lifestyles we all lead and avoid the terrible consequences that surely await us if we don't.
May I suggest virtual reality.
At least if everyone stayed at an apartment the size of a cubicle and we simulated a better life for them, we wouldn't use as many resources. Heck, you could simulate that nice SUV and jewrly. Not like enough EQ gold farmers make a living selling virtual property.
Although, lord knows we don't need any more web developers, but...
If they kids have access to notepad and some type of free webhosting then they can always work on a web page regardless of having to have a compiler. Once they understand how syntax works (like closing your tags!) then they can move up to more complicated programs that make you hunt down errors after you compile.
Although some people would debate getting the inner workings down pat first is more important (like hello world programs in C), I'd debate that web page development brings instant gratification to the person making the page fairly quickly and from there you can expand on advanced topics such as Java and PHP programming.
The kids that are more visual oriented will drift towards the more graphic parts of the web development like Flash while those who find themselves interesting in the gut coding towards C++.
And maybe you can teach them Photoshop skills and how to not make a fugly web page while you are at it...
ALthough Energy Prices are linked directly with oil prices, they aren't 100% dependant. Since it does not preclude you have to use gasoline to ship electrons over a wire from a Nuclear Power Plant to you home (Yes, there is always gas used for the mining and refining of uranium and you have to drive the fuel and the waste around and you still have to have oil for the moving parts in the station, but you know what I mean).
But you don't have to have a truck to haul electrons directly to the consumer.
If technologies enable the consumer to do more without traveling like say download movies to his house so he doesn't have to drive to the store and visit relatives online instead of buying planeticets (which are quite expensive now because of fuel prices) with video confrencing then it will be more efficient and time saving.
Technologies that do not directly result in burning of gasoline will increase and those who cause more gasoline usage will decrease. (like the SUV)
If they had released Doom 3 with just "Resurrection of Evil" as it's title, with no reference whatsoever to it's Doom legacy, what do you think it's sales would have been?
As someone else pointed out, if my mom had had an abortion, it wouldn't make a lick of difference to me because I simply would have never existed.
Chances are you would have been born as something else.
Existence is a very tricky philosophy subject.
But when you look at the probability of you existing as yourself compared to the rest of the chaos and timeframe of the universe then on the outside it looks as those that probability was almost nihl. Like... Life happend on this planet... The dinosaurs went extinct... Humans came about... Roman civilization didn't die out and Christianity somehow survived like it did and the West won WWII and the Soviets didn't declare nuclear war in 1953 and so on in those infinite probabilities that you would not exist.
Not to mention that your parents ever met or were born themselves.
Then we look at time itself and the probability of parrallel universe. If you have infinite time to work with then anything is possible. Humans have a hard time grasping what happens in the universe over 4 billions years or even conceptializing. What we do know is that we have no memory of past lives nor knowledge that we come back. In theory, your existance may not be bound to you. This is sort of Hinduish, but more Buddhist, but you only are aware of yourself because of your physical memories. If you wiped out your memories from yesterday and before it would seem that you have existed today only (take this as grain of salt from a heavy drinker).
So... Even if you weren't going to be reincarnated as something else or someone else or even yourself on another time frame if you were aborted then we don't know if the universe is infinite. There is the big cruch where the universe collapses and then there is the "Heat Death" theory (look it up on Wikipedia) on the various ends of the universe. Even so... If you aren't concious of time then a million or a billion years is just the same if you slept a few hours. You have no awarness of not existing (since you don't exist) and therefore you will immediatley come into existance (even if say a different dimension or the universe ends and recreate itself even if is a scale of 1000000^10000000 trillion years or even more you won't exist and so therefore can't measure time). Of course this new existence will have no memory of anything prior existance and the fact of the matter is existance may not even be linear. This is hard for us humans to comprehend, but existance may not be something that ends or begins, but as a living organism we just only become aware of it became we are able to retain memories.
So... On the other hand there is the distinct possiblity if the "Big Crunch" were to happen instead of Heat Death (Heat Death seems to entail the universe just dies in a constant state and remains that way for inifity would means we would have to spontaneously exist in another universe in which heat death did not happen), but if the Big Crunch happend and then the universe collapsed to a single point then it would be safe to say that the universe could explode in the same exact fashion and we just come into being as the same exact person and live the same exact life over and over again.
But because we are dead and don't exist most of the time in this process we have no awareness of the time other than the short span that we walk around on the earth.
This may all be speculation, but I think it's more logical than you never existing at all. Besides if there were no such thing as existance then how are we talking right now... oh wait *poof*
"We could also see environmental destruction from space."
If you mean something that is 1,000km wide and made mostly of iron and nickel and is on an earth bound trajectory, then yes, I can plainly see how you could have environmental destruction from space.
Sorry, I meant if the server reuqires a Novell Client Login. There is an OS X version by a 3rd party, but no support by Novell or Apple. If your server doesn't require a Novell Login Client (even it is an Netware backend) then OS X will have no issues with it out of the box.
I'll bet any of you a shiny nickel that in ten years, the number of people like me (i.e., those who don't play MMORPGs) will still outnumber those who do.
If I told you in 10 years, that MMOGs have direct neural interfaces and that you could have sex with Hollywood movie star(s) of your choice (mind you depending on your expansion pack), would you still bet that nickel?
Buy all desktops as Mini-Macs if you are going to or have to use MS Office. It'll save you the trouble of Windows licensing, admin issues (OS X has a pretty sweet lock down features and remote admin as well) and can generally work without you have to bother futzing around with configurations.
Unless of course you need to connect to a Novell Server or what to use Exchange (well there is always Entourage, but it's not that good), but then we have to ask why are you using both of those since most small businesses don't need 50 login licenses and an Exchange server for a handful of employees.
You fall into the trap that so many others do of failing to think of the long term and thinking only in the short.
Living in a world free from pollution and cancer is nice, but the only thing that can save the human race from extinction is a space program and a rather good one at that.
Meteor impacts are inevitable and the earth is actually covered with thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) impact craters and we will more than likely get hit with a big one in a few thousand years or so.
That and the sun will die or explode eventually... So no matter how much we give the environment, it's going to all to turn to space dust as the red giant blows solar winds that strip the earth of it's atmosphere.
On the bright side we have a few billion years to get out of the solar system.
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I don't use Firefox because of stability issues on Windows.
;)
Well if Windows has stability issues, I could see why you use Safari instead, but I don't see why you couldn't download the OS X version of FireFox.
If you can't create a website that works adequately with all browsers, then you don't deserve to be employed as a web designer.
You sir are a genius.
From personal, experience, even the most piss poor web developers (and lazy ones at that) can put together a redirect to two different versions of html based off the Browser type to make the page compatible (although that's not technically what you are supposed to do, but if you can't even do that then well... you are just a horrid web developer and need to take up something else in life).
Someone always pays, and that would still be you every week. You just wouldn't need your credit card.
Well considering it wasn't my credit card to begin with, I'd have to agree!
it is that people, especially in the US, don't want to buy them
They'll want to buy them when gas hits $5 a gallon.
Yeah... And if anyone let the cat out of the bag that Peak Oil was a myth and that the oil companies actually have more oil than they know what to do with for the next 500 years and that oil really only costs $5 a barrel would also be a target... Oh wait...
Shit... Gotta go!
If you were the publisher of it, you would surely consider it stealing.
No. I would not. I would not go to the police and file a stolen property report, but I would call my lawyer and ask him to start a case in a civil court. If somone broke into our place and stole our cds then I would report this to the police.
You were supposed to pay for it. How is that not stealing?
Who is to say that you pay for anything? It is the laws we have on the books. The law says you are to pay for others property. The law also says you must pay for the rights to copy others intellectual property. Because you do not pay to copy another persons property does not mean you steal away their property, it means you make you're own without acknowledging or compensating them for their design work.
I am not offended, but I want to educate and let people know that there is a difference in the US legal system just like assult and battery and libel and slander.
ARRRGH!
Have you ever been to court, or at least friends with a lawyer, and ever at least been on a Jury?
Criminal cases are extremely different than a civl case because in a civil case you don't know have to prove beyond a resonable doubt that they are guilty.
In a criminal case you do. (Even though you still may face jail time and/or harsh fine)
Secondly, because it is illegal it does not make it immoral and also because it is legal it does not always make it moral.
I could give you thousand of examples of legal tax code that makes this apparant.
I'm not justifying those of this particular issue and yes it is illegal and maybe immoral, but it's not stealing.
Here is the US legal definition of stealing:
http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/s074.htm
"STEAL - the wrongful or willful taking of money or property belonging to someone else with intent to deprive the owner of its use or benefit either temporarily or permanently. No particular type of movement or carrying away is required."
Have they deprived apple of the use of OS X or directly removed money from apples online back account?
NO!
-
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, but I have been to jury duty and have this explained for me for a long time and had to listen to my friend who is going to law school about her homework for a very long time. She is planning on being a corporate lawyer and I talk to her about issues with my record label.
but that it still stealing.
/. sigs to understand the American Legal System?!
For the love of God... Haven't you read enough
Piracy is:
Copyright infringment.
A civil offense.
Punishble in civil courts.
What piracy is not:
Stealing.
A criminal offense.
Punishble in Federal and State criminal courts.
A sin against God in any of the three major religions. (Unless the Pope or an Islamic Iman has spoken out against piracy lately... It's not high on their evil "you are going to hell" lists.)
However, they will never officially support it for non-Macs. The support costs alone would be unendurable trying to assist people will thousands of outdated and incompatible hardware issues. Not to mention the thousands of drivers that do not exist.
On the flip side... If Apple made is so you could us OS X as your desktop if you put for a bit of effort on your own, but you could never go to apple for support they would gain a market share in the shadows of people getting familiar with OS X.
Then of course this would hope to encourage the purchase of new OS X apps and the purchasing of a real Mac computer down the road.
Can't they find another way to make money?
Well that was the point of DRM.
You also forgot Pirates. It's a bit easier to pirate computer games than it is for a console.
Car engines can't be nuclear.
But Nuclear reactors can generate the energy to make synthetic fuels from organic materials or create hydrogen cells. Any other alternatives would be welcome too.
(I read once that known deposits would supply the world at current power consumption for only a few hundred years)
If we haven't figured out Fusion by 2075, we deserve to be without power. Fission should be a temporary stop gap measure so we can keep the economy going when we hit Peak Oil around 2015-2025.
From the BBC:
"There are more than 400 nuclear power stations across the globe, producing about 17% of the world's electricity."
With that thinking you could assume it would only take 2,353 more Power Plants to achieve total global power via Nuclear. When you compare it to the scale of 6 billion people, it's a rather small number to achieve.
Each of needs to wake up, find a way to snap out of these unsustainable lifestyles we all lead and avoid the terrible consequences that surely await us if we don't.
May I suggest virtual reality.
At least if everyone stayed at an apartment the size of a cubicle and we simulated a better life for them, we wouldn't use as many resources. Heck, you could simulate that nice SUV and jewrly. Not like enough EQ gold farmers make a living selling virtual property.
Although, lord knows we don't need any more web developers, but...
If they kids have access to notepad and some type of free webhosting then they can always work on a web page regardless of having to have a compiler. Once they understand how syntax works (like closing your tags!) then they can move up to more complicated programs that make you hunt down errors after you compile.
Although some people would debate getting the inner workings down pat first is more important (like hello world programs in C), I'd debate that web page development brings instant gratification to the person making the page fairly quickly and from there you can expand on advanced topics such as Java and PHP programming.
The kids that are more visual oriented will drift towards the more graphic parts of the web development like Flash while those who find themselves interesting in the gut coding towards C++.
And maybe you can teach them Photoshop skills and how to not make a fugly web page while you are at it...
ALthough Energy Prices are linked directly with oil prices, they aren't 100% dependant. Since it does not preclude you have to use gasoline to ship electrons over a wire from a Nuclear Power Plant to you home (Yes, there is always gas used for the mining and refining of uranium and you have to drive the fuel and the waste around and you still have to have oil for the moving parts in the station, but you know what I mean).
But you don't have to have a truck to haul electrons directly to the consumer.
If technologies enable the consumer to do more without traveling like say download movies to his house so he doesn't have to drive to the store and visit relatives online instead of buying planeticets (which are quite expensive now because of fuel prices) with video confrencing then it will be more efficient and time saving.
Technologies that do not directly result in burning of gasoline will increase and those who cause more gasoline usage will decrease. (like the SUV)
If they had released Doom 3 with just "Resurrection of Evil" as it's title, with no reference whatsoever to it's Doom legacy, what do you think it's sales would have been?
How many did Quake sell?
1. Do I need a biger pipe?
2. Does it count if I point the video camera at my cable TV?
As someone else pointed out, if my mom had had an abortion, it wouldn't make a lick of difference to me because I simply would have never existed.
Chances are you would have been born as something else.
Existence is a very tricky philosophy subject.
But when you look at the probability of you existing as yourself compared to the rest of the chaos and timeframe of the universe then on the outside it looks as those that probability was almost nihl. Like... Life happend on this planet... The dinosaurs went extinct... Humans came about... Roman civilization didn't die out and Christianity somehow survived like it did and the West won WWII and the Soviets didn't declare nuclear war in 1953 and so on in those infinite probabilities that you would not exist.
Not to mention that your parents ever met or were born themselves.
Then we look at time itself and the probability of parrallel universe. If you have infinite time to work with then anything is possible. Humans have a hard time grasping what happens in the universe over 4 billions years or even conceptializing. What we do know is that we have no memory of past lives nor knowledge that we come back. In theory, your existance may not be bound to you. This is sort of Hinduish, but more Buddhist, but you only are aware of yourself because of your physical memories. If you wiped out your memories from yesterday and before it would seem that you have existed today only (take this as grain of salt from a heavy drinker).
So... Even if you weren't going to be reincarnated as something else or someone else or even yourself on another time frame if you were aborted then we don't know if the universe is infinite. There is the big cruch where the universe collapses and then there is the "Heat Death" theory (look it up on Wikipedia) on the various ends of the universe. Even so... If you aren't concious of time then a million or a billion years is just the same if you slept a few hours. You have no awarness of not existing (since you don't exist) and therefore you will immediatley come into existance (even if say a different dimension or the universe ends and recreate itself even if is a scale of 1000000^10000000 trillion years or even more you won't exist and so therefore can't measure time). Of course this new existence will have no memory of anything prior existance and the fact of the matter is existance may not even be linear. This is hard for us humans to comprehend, but existance may not be something that ends or begins, but as a living organism we just only become aware of it became we are able to retain memories.
So... On the other hand there is the distinct possiblity if the "Big Crunch" were to happen instead of Heat Death (Heat Death seems to entail the universe just dies in a constant state and remains that way for inifity would means we would have to spontaneously exist in another universe in which heat death did not happen), but if the Big Crunch happend and then the universe collapsed to a single point then it would be safe to say that the universe could explode in the same exact fashion and we just come into being as the same exact person and live the same exact life over and over again.
But because we are dead and don't exist most of the time in this process we have no awareness of the time other than the short span that we walk around on the earth.
This may all be speculation, but I think it's more logical than you never existing at all. Besides if there were no such thing as existance then how are we talking right now... oh wait *poof*
From the /. post:
"We could also see environmental destruction from space."
If you mean something that is 1,000km wide and made mostly of iron and nickel and is on an earth bound trajectory, then yes, I can plainly see how you could have environmental destruction from space.
Sorry, I meant if the server reuqires a Novell Client Login. There is an OS X version by a 3rd party, but no support by Novell or Apple. If your server doesn't require a Novell Login Client (even it is an Netware backend) then OS X will have no issues with it out of the box.
I'll bet any of you a shiny nickel that in ten years, the number of people like me (i.e., those who don't play MMORPGs) will still outnumber those who do.
If I told you in 10 years, that MMOGs have direct neural interfaces and that you could have sex with Hollywood movie star(s) of your choice (mind you depending on your expansion pack), would you still bet that nickel?
Buy all desktops as Mini-Macs if you are going to or have to use MS Office. It'll save you the trouble of Windows licensing, admin issues (OS X has a pretty sweet lock down features and remote admin as well) and can generally work without you have to bother futzing around with configurations.
Unless of course you need to connect to a Novell Server or what to use Exchange (well there is always Entourage, but it's not that good), but then we have to ask why are you using both of those since most small businesses don't need 50 login licenses and an Exchange server for a handful of employees.
You fall into the trap that so many others do of failing to think of the long term and thinking only in the short.
Living in a world free from pollution and cancer is nice, but the only thing that can save the human race from extinction is a space program and a rather good one at that.
Meteor impacts are inevitable and the earth is actually covered with thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) impact craters and we will more than likely get hit with a big one in a few thousand years or so.
That and the sun will die or explode eventually... So no matter how much we give the environment, it's going to all to turn to space dust as the red giant blows solar winds that strip the earth of it's atmosphere.
On the bright side we have a few billion years to get out of the solar system.