There should be some way of informing CNN that their blatant disregard for accessibility via their irrational usage of random javascript for everything is probably illegal due to accessibility laws.
I guess I'm not the only one who is having trouble reading that page. I tried it in Firefox on my Mac and the photo gallery absolutely refuses to show anything even after I allowed Javascript globally via NoScript. I then opened the page in Camino and it opens some kind of flash ad overlaying half the page WITH SOUND turned on and some woman talking over the ad so I shut it down quickly. Finally I opened it in Safari and it opens fine except there's these god damn animated banner ads all over the place distracting me from reading the actual content. How in the hell does anyone browse the web these days like that? I can only imagine what kind of seizure-fest it must be like to use IE on a daily basis. Can't anybody design a decent news site that doesn't feature any animated *anything*? Why can't they just have nicely formatted plain text? Slashdot is about the closest thing to it but even they have banner ads unless you block them. Digg is also close, but their pastel color scheme reminds me of some kind of Easter egg joke. Bah.
I have never felt more free than when I hopped on a Shinkansen with little more than 30 minutes' notice, and traveled all the way across Japan in less than four hours -- all while reading a book.
Now add your wife, kid, a stroller, shopping bags, etc. No thanks, I'll stick with my car. I couldn't even possibly imagine how people that take trains go grocery shopping.. they must eat out all the time. There's absolutely no way I could carry 20 or 30 bags of groceries on a train without a team of sherpas. It's trivial to load that stuff into my car.
Wow, if they could accomplish all that with a mere $50-$100 billion imagine what kind of diseases we could cure if we had devoted the money we spent on the Iraq war towards peaceful scientific research. Cancer might have been a thing of the past within 5 years!
/not holding my breath for Bill's Foundation to cure anything except his tax burden.
Just because you produce a certain product doesn't mean you'll never go to the competition.
That doesn't mean you won't get blackballed for doing so. Ever work for Coca-Cola and come into the factory with a Pepsi? Ever drive into the Ford lot in your new Honda Accord? They may not be able to stop you, but they can sure make your life hell.
It sounds more like a bunch of people are going to be calling up and harassing people. If you don't like their policies, DON'T BUY THEIR MUSIC! It's that simple. You don't need to explain why you're not buying it since you're not doing business with them anymore. Go buy from Indie labels. You're acting like a kid who says he's not going to talk to you anymore and then spends the next 2 hours trying to get you to ask him why he's not talking to you anymore. You know what? They don't care!
I just assumed it was a flash item that didn't work in Linux because of lack of flash 8 player.
The entire page is all flash. If you don't have Flash and Javascript enabled you're not going to see much... actually you'll see nothing but a blank page.
It's a coffee shop! They couldn't care less about protecting the integrity of users' machines, they just don't want him to leech their bandwidth without paying for a cup of coffee.
I responded to the Dell AC recall with their official website form. Two units. Never heard from them again.
I responded to the recall and it said it'd take 8-12 weeks to get my replacement so I ended up buying one on eBay. 2 days later I got my eBay replacement power supply via UPS and a day later my "official" Dell replacement showed up.
Why not just stream the video/photos in real-time to a satellite (encrypted of course) and not even worry about losing your data if the plane crashes? I imagine that's what the Predator drones do.
Did you watch the cartoon?? They're in favor of not regulating the Internet and keeping cool technologies like HDTV or on-demand movies or VoIP from our homes. They're in favor of very high bandwidth fiber optic links coming into our houses and being able to properly segment those links to ensure quality of service for the services in question. I think that's an awesome idea so I can ensure my VoIP phone from my cable company gets the QoS it needs to function without being choppy while I'm watching on-demand video or streaming content from an authorized content provider like my cable company or one of its authorized affiliate service providers.
Why should companies like Google or Slashdot get a free ride to use MY bandwidth that *I'm* paying for just to serve me streaming video or geek news? Shouldn't these sites pay their fair share instead of offloading the costs to me? Sure, Slashdot buys bandwidth from some provider, but what about *my* provider? Who is going to offset the burden on their network to provide me with Slashdot's services? Why should I be forced to pay for that content?
/devil's advocate view of the completely ludicrous stance the telco and cable monopolies are portraying
The way I understand it, some people have extremely corrosive (acidic) oils, and others don't.
That would explain the Powerbook G4 (TiBook? It has a black keyboard and is 1 GHz) I inherited. Half the trackpad is so smooth that my finger doesn't even slide over it smoothly anymore without sticking... almost like someone wore down the non-stick coating over it.
I have an iBook G3 and it's going on 4 years now and it has no discoloration. I'm not arguing with you about it because I've see a coworker's iBook G4 and it's filthy on the handrests, but I haven't experienced that with my G3. Maybe I'm just super-compulsive at washing my hands.
what often annoys me is when people don't come back and say if it worked and say thanks
Ugh, that's another pet peeve. Don't just come back and say "Hey, I figured it out, thanks anyway" or something like that. Recap what you did to get it working!! Chances are someone else is having that same exact problem or will in the future and it's best to sum it up so Google can archive it.;-)
The real bitch of this is that "RTFM" is considered a perfectly reasonable response, but if I tell them off for it, it's now a flame.
Not entirely. It's permissible to say "RTFM" if the answer is obviously contained within said FM. A lot of the lusers that say "RTFM" haven't bothered to RTFM themselves and are just trying to look like they know their ass from a hole in the wall by beating up on a newbie, but there are many people who get sick and tired of answering the same question over and over again when it is clearly explained in the manual and they know it. I don't think I've asked a question on a forum or newsgroup in years because I can ALWAYS find something in the manual, the source code, or by using Google with the appropriate search keywords to find someone else who had a similar or the same problem. The only problems I have are with proprietary software and in that case I have to bug the vendor about it because they choose not to distribute the source code with their app.
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So what are you proposing? That all homes be connected into some city or county-owned peering networks and then allow vendors to peer with them or that your dry copper would go back to a central point and then ILECs or cable companies or CLECs could choose to patch that copper into their POP located there? I guess that would work fine and that's how Covad basically works by putting equipment at a telco CO, but rerunning all that cable to a new location would be astronomically expensive without firm committments from vendors for use. You'd pretty much have to force telco and cable companies to sign up to use the new system within X number of months/years and quit using the old wires.
It's too expensive to do your 1. and 2. steps, and every day the mass of information grows and it becomes increasingly more expensive.
You may not be aware of this, CmdrTaco doesn't like to advertise it much, but one of the Google Summer of Code projects from last year involved creating an API to interface between Slashdot and the Google Search engine... not to search Google though, for Google to search Slashdot and all its logs going back to 1998. Very disturbing stuff. I don't have the link available right now, but go look up last year's summer of code at Google. Anyone can instantly search Google with the prefix "slashdot:" in the keyword and it'll correlate usernames to IP addresses, e-mail addresses, and so forth.
5th-3rd puts a hold on any check over 5000 regardless, even a cashiers check.
Since when? I deposited three cashiers checks from Key Bank for $6000 each on a Thursday into my Fifth Third account and it was credited to my account when I checked it online that Friday. That was last month.
I just thought I'd mention that I am licensing the idea for jacobw's post and will be coming out with something similar shortly, but I will be posting the comment exclusively on TotalFark so you'll need a TotalFark subscription to read it.
What really excited me about this bill was the wording didn't discriminate against home users providing content on their broadband service either. Many ISPs have taken to blocking server ports or prohibiting the serving of content on those lines even though you're inherently limited by upload speeds anyway. When I buy a line from an ISP I expect bandwidth, period. I don't want them to filter *anything* and if they do (to protect the majority of Windows PCs for instance) then I expect to be able to request that they remove those limitations if I request it and show I have sufficient protections of my own. Speakeasy treats me like a customer they want to retain not like a consumer of services and a burden on their network like the cable company does in my area.
I think people will quickly wise up and switch ISPs if that happens.
Switch ISPs to who!? As the bill notes, most US citizens, if they can get broadband at all, are limited to one or two choices... either the local cable monopoly or the local telephone monopoly. We already know AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast were heavily in favor of a tiered Internet, so if your telephone is provided by AT&T and Verizon and your cable by Comcast you are shit out of luck. Welcome your new broadband overlords and prepare to only browse their Premium Content Providers at more than 20KB/sec. If you're lucky enough to have Covad in your CO then you have some more choices for now like Speakeasy, but it's not clear whether they will be able to continue to resell those last mile circuits anymore. Also, say goodbye to Vonage as well. I was debating whether to get a traditional telephone line from AT&T when I move or switch to VOIP with Vonage, but this decision cements my choice back to the traditional POTS line. Vonage will be pushed out of business within 2 years by QoS issues.
2)companies already pay for ISP's [Buy Snacky Smores. Snacky Smores are the most nutritious and delicious smore supplement available on the market today. Snacky Smores! This inline advertisement presented to you by AT&T Yahoo DSL] and webhosting; tiered service is not anything new. Anyway, webhosting costs have been decreasing in price. I find it highly unlikely that this downward trend won't continue across the board.
I agree, I doubt anything will come of this whole thing. Companies like Google will have to foot the bill to get their data to us, but I'm sure the entrenched telco monopolies will leave individual websites or smaller sites like Slashdot alone and not interfere with their traffic in any way.
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Now add your wife, kid, a stroller, shopping bags, etc. No thanks, I'll stick with my car. I couldn't even possibly imagine how people that take trains go grocery shopping.. they must eat out all the time. There's absolutely no way I could carry 20 or 30 bags of groceries on a train without a team of sherpas. It's trivial to load that stuff into my car.
That doesn't mean you won't get blackballed for doing so. Ever work for Coca-Cola and come into the factory with a Pepsi? Ever drive into the Ford lot in your new Honda Accord? They may not be able to stop you, but they can sure make your life hell.
It sounds more like a bunch of people are going to be calling up and harassing people. If you don't like their policies, DON'T BUY THEIR MUSIC! It's that simple. You don't need to explain why you're not buying it since you're not doing business with them anymore. Go buy from Indie labels. You're acting like a kid who says he's not going to talk to you anymore and then spends the next 2 hours trying to get you to ask him why he's not talking to you anymore. You know what? They don't care!
The entire page is all flash. If you don't have Flash and Javascript enabled you're not going to see much... actually you'll see nothing but a blank page.
It's a coffee shop! They couldn't care less about protecting the integrity of users' machines, they just don't want him to leech their bandwidth without paying for a cup of coffee.
I responded to the recall and it said it'd take 8-12 weeks to get my replacement so I ended up buying one on eBay. 2 days later I got my eBay replacement power supply via UPS and a day later my "official" Dell replacement showed up.
GAIM doesn't support VoIP with Yahoo Messenger does it? I think the Windows version of Yahoo Messenger is the only one that supports it.
Who are you, James Bond?
Why not just stream the video/photos in real-time to a satellite (encrypted of course) and not even worry about losing your data if the plane crashes? I imagine that's what the Predator drones do.
Why should companies like Google or Slashdot get a free ride to use MY bandwidth that *I'm* paying for just to serve me streaming video or geek news? Shouldn't these sites pay their fair share instead of offloading the costs to me? Sure, Slashdot buys bandwidth from some provider, but what about *my* provider? Who is going to offset the burden on their network to provide me with Slashdot's services? Why should I be forced to pay for that content?
That would explain the Powerbook G4 (TiBook? It has a black keyboard and is 1 GHz) I inherited. Half the trackpad is so smooth that my finger doesn't even slide over it smoothly anymore without sticking... almost like someone wore down the non-stick coating over it.
I have an iBook G3 and it's going on 4 years now and it has no discoloration. I'm not arguing with you about it because I've see a coworker's iBook G4 and it's filthy on the handrests, but I haven't experienced that with my G3. Maybe I'm just super-compulsive at washing my hands.
Sounds like al Qaeda needs a copy of that version of Clippy.
Ugh, that's another pet peeve. Don't just come back and say "Hey, I figured it out, thanks anyway" or something like that. Recap what you did to get it working!! Chances are someone else is having that same exact problem or will in the future and it's best to sum it up so Google can archive it. ;-)
Not entirely. It's permissible to say "RTFM" if the answer is obviously contained within said FM. A lot of the lusers that say "RTFM" haven't bothered to RTFM themselves and are just trying to look like they know their ass from a hole in the wall by beating up on a newbie, but there are many people who get sick and tired of answering the same question over and over again when it is clearly explained in the manual and they know it. I don't think I've asked a question on a forum or newsgroup in years because I can ALWAYS find something in the manual, the source code, or by using Google with the appropriate search keywords to find someone else who had a similar or the same problem. The only problems I have are with proprietary software and in that case I have to bug the vendor about it because they choose not to distribute the source code with their app.
So what are you proposing? That all homes be connected into some city or county-owned peering networks and then allow vendors to peer with them or that your dry copper would go back to a central point and then ILECs or cable companies or CLECs could choose to patch that copper into their POP located there? I guess that would work fine and that's how Covad basically works by putting equipment at a telco CO, but rerunning all that cable to a new location would be astronomically expensive without firm committments from vendors for use. You'd pretty much have to force telco and cable companies to sign up to use the new system within X number of months/years and quit using the old wires.
The tier-1 providers are getting greedy lately. I knew cooperative peering and free transit between tier-1 backbone networks wouldn't last long.
You may not be aware of this, CmdrTaco doesn't like to advertise it much, but one of the Google Summer of Code projects from last year involved creating an API to interface between Slashdot and the Google Search engine... not to search Google though, for Google to search Slashdot and all its logs going back to 1998. Very disturbing stuff. I don't have the link available right now, but go look up last year's summer of code at Google. Anyone can instantly search Google with the prefix "slashdot:" in the keyword and it'll correlate usernames to IP addresses, e-mail addresses, and so forth.
Since when? I deposited three cashiers checks from Key Bank for $6000 each on a Thursday into my Fifth Third account and it was credited to my account when I checked it online that Friday. That was last month.
I just thought I'd mention that I am licensing the idea for jacobw's post and will be coming out with something similar shortly, but I will be posting the comment exclusively on TotalFark so you'll need a TotalFark subscription to read it.
What really excited me about this bill was the wording didn't discriminate against home users providing content on their broadband service either. Many ISPs have taken to blocking server ports or prohibiting the serving of content on those lines even though you're inherently limited by upload speeds anyway. When I buy a line from an ISP I expect bandwidth, period. I don't want them to filter *anything* and if they do (to protect the majority of Windows PCs for instance) then I expect to be able to request that they remove those limitations if I request it and show I have sufficient protections of my own. Speakeasy treats me like a customer they want to retain not like a consumer of services and a burden on their network like the cable company does in my area.
Switch ISPs to who!? As the bill notes, most US citizens, if they can get broadband at all, are limited to one or two choices... either the local cable monopoly or the local telephone monopoly. We already know AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast were heavily in favor of a tiered Internet, so if your telephone is provided by AT&T and Verizon and your cable by Comcast you are shit out of luck. Welcome your new broadband overlords and prepare to only browse their Premium Content Providers at more than 20KB/sec. If you're lucky enough to have Covad in your CO then you have some more choices for now like Speakeasy, but it's not clear whether they will be able to continue to resell those last mile circuits anymore. Also, say goodbye to Vonage as well. I was debating whether to get a traditional telephone line from AT&T when I move or switch to VOIP with Vonage, but this decision cements my choice back to the traditional POTS line. Vonage will be pushed out of business within 2 years by QoS issues.
2)companies already pay for ISP's [Buy Snacky Smores. Snacky Smores are the most nutritious and delicious smore supplement available on the market today. Snacky Smores! This inline advertisement presented to you by AT&T Yahoo DSL] and webhosting; tiered service is not anything new. Anyway, webhosting costs have been decreasing in price. I find it highly unlikely that this downward trend won't continue across the board. I agree, I doubt anything will come of this whole thing. Companies like Google will have to foot the bill to get their data to us, but I'm sure the entrenched telco monopolies will leave individual websites or smaller sites like Slashdot alone and not interfere with their traffic in any way.