I don't think you understand the point of the article at all. It is about DRM, not whether your monitor has the capability to display high-definition content. My 19" CRT monitor has great color quality and high resolution and could certainly display HDTV or HD-DVDs in full resolution, but Longhorn may force me to buy a newer, more expensive one anyway. I've heard of not RTFA, but I don't even think you read the effing summary.
How do you know the vast majority of users are sighted on a PC? There are literally thousands upon thousands of users who are using a PC, who are legally blind or entirely blind.
You're trolling, right? Thousands? Guess what, there are hundreds of millions of sighted PC users accessing the Internet too.
While your own personal userbase might be fully-sighted, don't assume that your demographic expands to the rest of the world... it doesn't.
Is there some huge nation of blind people who only browse the web using cellphones that I don't know about? Now if you're developing for HotBlindSingles.com, that's another matter.
If the most-important part of your website is the presentation and not the content, you're doing something wrong.
If you read the grandparent post, you'll see he wasn't talking about flashy presentation as much as he was about usability. Google Maps could be implemented with static HTML, but it's a lot easier to navigate with all the fancy DHTML.
And what about the illiterate? Using text on your webpage makes it hard for them to use. You should only illustrate concepts with simple ASCII art diagrams. That way, the blind, the stupid, and the illiterate can all understand them.
xxxxxxxxxxxxx Internet Archive xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/\ xxxxx |- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx II xxxxxx \\(wrong?) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx II(2b)xxxx \\ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx II xxxxxxxx \\ xHealthcare Assholes ===> Harding Elmer xxx of Philly xxxxxx (2a) Fudd & Frailey xxxxxxxx II xxxxxxxx II(1) xxxxxxxx II xxxxxxxx \/ xx Health Copycat
I know you're all going to find this shocking, but it looks like the/. summary was wrong. The lawsuit against the IA was brought by Healthcare Associates of Philadelphia. Here's how it went down:
1. Healthcare Associates of Philly sues Health Advocate. The law firm representing the plaintiff is McCarter & English. The defendant's is Harding et al.
2. Healthcare Assoc. modifies robots.txt to tell IA not to allow access to older versions of their site.
3. Harding et al. manages to get the IA to give them a peek anyway*.
4. Healthcare Assoc. sees "rapid fire" requests from Harding in their logs, and a few times the IA slipped up and granted access anyway.
5. Healthcare Assoc. sues Harding et al. and the IA.
*My guess is that the IA checks the current robots.txt everytime an archived page is accessed. If the server doesn't respond quickly enough, the assume it's OK to give access to the archived files. Harding et al. might have realized this and requested the pages over and over in rapid succession to slow down Healthcare Assoc.'s servers enough to trick IA into thinking they're not responding. This is all just my speculation, so take it with a grain of salt.
(Sorry for the crappiness of the diagram. Apparently Slashdot is more concerned with preventing 13-year-olds from posting ASCII art versions of gotse man that will be modded down to -1 in 2 seconds than it is with allowing people to make diagrams to illustrate something. And why the eff doesn't the "ecode" tag work properly?)
I don't even know why I'm bothering to respond to this, but...
If one "quad-trillion" = 4*1e12,
then 5 "quad-trillion" = 5*4*1e12 = 20e12 = 2e13.
By the way, in case you didn't get my point--and from your post, I'd say there's a good chance you didn't--I was pointing out that "quad-trillion" is not a number; the author obviously meant quadrillion or 1e15. For this error to slip by the editors in a scientific news site like Universe Today is rather dismaying.
With a girlfriend you need millions, coffee, chocolates, flowers and time but then you might find someone to be with you for the rest of your life.
That's pretty sad that you fell like you needed to bribe a woman with so much money and attention to get her to like you. Why not find someone who's not so shallow, someone who likes you for who you are?
... is that it's hard to find a container to store it in. This is discussed at the bottom of the article, where they talk about electromagnetic traps.
Also, they've invented a new number:
"Our long-range goals are five quad-trillion positrons per second."
I guess that means 4x10^12, so that's 2x10^13 altogether. Way to go, Universe Today editors!;)
Enjoy it while it lasts. Anonymous telecommunications will be eliminated and/or criminalized in the future. The Feds will insist that they need a way to quickly and easily tap all of your communications.
Do you realize that your post was self-contradictory? First, you say that the reason that Europeans are taller on average is the different demographics. I agree with this. Then you say that each generation is getting taller than the last. The evidence you give is purely anecdotal, and this point has nothing to do with your previous argument.
First, if you've installed BT, you don't have to "ferret around for it". You just choose the "open file" option from the dialog box that pops up. I like it better as a separate window. I can minimize it while it does its thing, and it doesn't take up a tab in my browser. I prefer to do most things this way. For example, I always save.mov's to disk and watch them when they finish downloading. Also, I eventually uninstalled the Acrobat Reader plugin because it kept freezing my browser.
I think this story is just another paid advertisement for Opera.
"Or maybe you live in a Red County, which is why you're whining about paying taxes to support the government that protects and enables your wealth...."
Well, Mr. Bluestate, how exactly did the Iraq war protect and enable your wealth? How does all the billions of dollars in pork that goes into each federal budget protect and enable your wealth? Do the park benches or new sidewalks in a town in another state that you paid for because their representative wanted to get re-elected benefit you?
Don't try to turn this into a "class war" debate. I can't stand it when you liberals support every new idiotic tax because you want to "stick it to those rich bastards." And might I remind you that those poor people you're so concerned about pay next to nothing in taxes, receive free medical care, and sometimes they even get a paycheck from the government for doing nothing.
Thanks for the clarification. I don't know Latin. However, all of the dictionaries I've looked in, including the Merriam-Webster dictionary, list "exempli gratia", and most translate it as simply "for example".
Here's all you need to know about the differences between Mexico and the U.S. In America, most people aspire to get a good job, contribute to society, and raise a family to do the same. In Mexico, most people aspire to sneak across their northern border, reproduce, and start collecting Wellfare checks.
No, the Spanish is doble-ve, "DO-blay bay" (literally "double V"). I believe it also goes by other names in the Spanish-speaking world, but this is the one I learned.
You sound like a man who would appreciate a little constructive criticism of his own grammar. Here goes:
I'm tired of being the grammar / spelling [N]azi around here.
(A slash used to indicate the concept and or or should not be surrounded by spaces. Nazi is a proper noun, and, thus, should be capitalized.)
And[,] yes[,] I'm sh*t tired of people using stupid grammar just because they're [too] lazy to learn the language.
(There are no filters on Slashdot, so feel free to say shit all you like.)
Maybe it's a coincidence, but the fact that I'm _NOT_ a native [E]nglish speaker answers why people have such a weak grammar / spelling. I didn't learn [E]nglish by hearing[,] but by reading[.] (In fact I had some trouble knowing how to pronounce certain words).
(Slashdot allows the use of some HTML presentation elements, so feel free to use italics instead of underscores.)
But anyway, [in] Mexico, it's [a] common the rumour that [A]mericans are[,] oh [G]od[,] the cream of the crop[,] and they're so superior to us in everything. And then I come, and after a while of chatting[,] I end up making a huge "WTF!? O.O" face.
Please[,] kids, learn a little grammar. Is that too hard?
Perhaps you had better spend a little time perfecting your own English before criticizing others' English. Besides, most of the mistakes you made in your post are also mistakes in Spanish.
I agree. English is kind of like MS Windows. It sucks, and there are better alternatives, but it's the most widely used standard. The world would probably be better off if we all switched to Linux, but until that happens, there's not a lot of return on your investment in learning a new system.
A perfect example would be the adoption of "google" as a verb; would you prefer to say "navigate to google's site and use it to search for widgets" or "google widgets"
This isn't a very good analogy. A better one that supports your argument is: if most people started spelling google as gogle, it would become the correct spelling.
But, this is all moot, because "should of" is not common usage. Just google "should of" and "should have" and look at the numbers of results. And the top result for "should of" is a site explaining why it's incorrect.
Why shouldn't it happen? A person doesn't learn to speak and write well by osmosis. One must study the rules of the grammar formally. Therefore, your grammar reflects on your education. When I encounter an adult who doesn't know the difference between "you're" and "your" or "their", "there", and "they're", it tells me that they were poorly educated. Now, it's possible that they were just poorly educated in English and not in other areas, but in my experience that's usually not the case. To make matters worse, they often outright refuse to learn the correct way.
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You mean I have to pay for my high-res porn AND the video player to watch it on?!!
I don't think you understand the point of the article at all. It is about DRM, not whether your monitor has the capability to display high-definition content. My 19" CRT monitor has great color quality and high resolution and could certainly display HDTV or HD-DVDs in full resolution, but Longhorn may force me to buy a newer, more expensive one anyway. I've heard of not RTFA, but I don't even think you read the effing summary.
Great! Now, the next time I'm walking around with my laptop and I need to find a hotspot, I'll just bring up this page and... oh, wait... ;)
And what about the illiterate? Using text on your webpage makes it hard for them to use. You should only illustrate concepts with simple ASCII art diagrams. That way, the blind, the stupid, and the illiterate can all understand them.
That method's fine if you only want to support IE. The standard way is:
I know you're all going to find this shocking, but it looks like the
1. Healthcare Associates of Philly sues Health Advocate. The law firm representing the plaintiff is McCarter & English. The defendant's is Harding et al.
2. Healthcare Assoc. modifies robots.txt to tell IA not to allow access to older versions of their site. 3. Harding et al. manages to get the IA to give them a peek anyway*.
4. Healthcare Assoc. sees "rapid fire" requests from Harding in their logs, and a few times the IA slipped up and granted access anyway.
5. Healthcare Assoc. sues Harding et al. and the IA.
*My guess is that the IA checks the current robots.txt everytime an archived page is accessed. If the server doesn't respond quickly enough, the assume it's OK to give access to the archived files. Harding et al. might have realized this and requested the pages over and over in rapid succession to slow down Healthcare Assoc.'s servers enough to trick IA into thinking they're not responding. This is all just my speculation, so take it with a grain of salt.
(Sorry for the crappiness of the diagram. Apparently Slashdot is more concerned with preventing 13-year-olds from posting ASCII art versions of gotse man that will be modded down to -1 in 2 seconds than it is with allowing people to make diagrams to illustrate something. And why the eff doesn't the "ecode" tag work properly?)
I don't even know why I'm bothering to respond to this, but... If one "quad-trillion" = 4*1e12,
then 5 "quad-trillion" = 5*4*1e12 = 20e12 = 2e13. By the way, in case you didn't get my point--and from your post, I'd say there's a good chance you didn't--I was pointing out that "quad-trillion" is not a number; the author obviously meant quadrillion or 1e15. For this error to slip by the editors in a scientific news site like Universe Today is rather dismaying.
With a girlfriend you need millions, coffee, chocolates, flowers and time but then you might find someone to be with you for the rest of your life.
That's pretty sad that you fell like you needed to bribe a woman with so much money and attention to get her to like you. Why not find someone who's not so shallow, someone who likes you for who you are?
... is that it's hard to find a container to store it in. This is discussed at the bottom of the article, where they talk about electromagnetic traps. Also, they've invented a new number:
;)
"Our long-range goals are five quad-trillion positrons per second."
I guess that means 4x10^12, so that's 2x10^13 altogether. Way to go, Universe Today editors!
What has you chained to your firewall?"
I ain't chained nothin' to my firewall. That would be a fire hazard.
Enjoy it while it lasts. Anonymous telecommunications will be eliminated and/or criminalized in the future. The Feds will insist that they need a way to quickly and easily tap all of your communications.
That'll never happen. What would happen when the Slash-vertisements get modded down.
Do you realize that your post was self-contradictory? First, you say that the reason that Europeans are taller on average is the different demographics. I agree with this. Then you say that each generation is getting taller than the last. The evidence you give is purely anecdotal, and this point has nothing to do with your previous argument.
First, if you've installed BT, you don't have to "ferret around for it". You just choose the "open file" option from the dialog box that pops up. I like it better as a separate window. I can minimize it while it does its thing, and it doesn't take up a tab in my browser. I prefer to do most things this way. For example, I always save .mov's to disk and watch them when they finish downloading. Also, I eventually uninstalled the Acrobat Reader plugin because it kept freezing my browser.
I think this story is just another paid advertisement for Opera.
"Or maybe you live in a Red County, which is why you're whining about paying taxes to support the government that protects and enables your wealth...."
Well, Mr. Bluestate, how exactly did the Iraq war protect and enable your wealth? How does all the billions of dollars in pork that goes into each federal budget protect and enable your wealth? Do the park benches or new sidewalks in a town in another state that you paid for because their representative wanted to get re-elected benefit you?
Don't try to turn this into a "class war" debate. I can't stand it when you liberals support every new idiotic tax because you want to "stick it to those rich bastards." And might I remind you that those poor people you're so concerned about pay next to nothing in taxes, receive free medical care, and sometimes they even get a paycheck from the government for doing nothing.
Thanks for the clarification. I don't know Latin. However, all of the dictionaries I've looked in, including the Merriam-Webster dictionary, list "exempli gratia", and most translate it as simply "for example".
You're just anonymous and cowardly, Anonymous Coward.
Here's all you need to know about the differences between Mexico and the U.S. In America, most people aspire to get a good job, contribute to society, and raise a family to do the same. In Mexico, most people aspire to sneak across their northern border, reproduce, and start collecting Wellfare checks.
No, the Spanish is doble-ve, "DO-blay bay" (literally "double V"). I believe it also goes by other names in the Spanish-speaking world, but this is the one I learned.
You sound like a man who would appreciate a little constructive criticism of his own grammar. Here goes:
I'm tired of being the grammar / spelling [N]azi around here.
(A slash used to indicate the concept and or or should not be surrounded by spaces. Nazi is a proper noun, and, thus, should be capitalized.)
And[,] yes[,] I'm sh*t tired of people using stupid grammar just because they're [too] lazy to learn the language.
(There are no filters on Slashdot, so feel free to say shit all you like.)
Maybe it's a coincidence, but the fact that I'm _NOT_ a native [E]nglish speaker answers why people have such a weak grammar / spelling. I didn't learn [E]nglish by hearing[,] but by reading[.] (In fact I had some trouble knowing how to pronounce certain words).
(Slashdot allows the use of some HTML presentation elements, so feel free to use italics instead of underscores.)
But anyway, [in] Mexico, it's [a] common the rumour that [A]mericans are[,] oh [G]od[,] the cream of the crop[,] and they're so superior to us in everything. And then I come, and after a while of chatting[,] I end up making a huge "WTF!? O.O" face.
Please[,] kids, learn a little grammar. Is that too hard?
Perhaps you had better spend a little time perfecting your own English before criticizing others' English. Besides, most of the mistakes you made in your post are also mistakes in Spanish.
I agree. English is kind of like MS Windows. It sucks, and there are better alternatives, but it's the most widely used standard. The world would probably be better off if we all switched to Linux, but until that happens, there's not a lot of return on your investment in learning a new system.
A perfect example would be the adoption of "google" as a verb; would you prefer to say "navigate to google's site and use it to search for widgets" or "google widgets"
This isn't a very good analogy. A better one that supports your argument is: if most people started spelling google as gogle, it would become the correct spelling.
But, this is all moot, because "should of" is not common usage. Just google "should of" and "should have" and look at the numbers of results. And the top result for "should of" is a site explaining why it's incorrect.
You're just bitter, Angostura.
He probably assumed it was a spelling error. Remember, this is Slashdot; the "editors" don't actually edit anything.
I know it shouldn't happen, but it does....
Why shouldn't it happen? A person doesn't learn to speak and write well by osmosis. One must study the rules of the grammar formally. Therefore, your grammar reflects on your education. When I encounter an adult who doesn't know the difference between "you're" and "your" or "their", "there", and "they're", it tells me that they were poorly educated. Now, it's possible that they were just poorly educated in English and not in other areas, but in my experience that's usually not the case. To make matters worse, they often outright refuse to learn the correct way.