Yes it is wrong that whoever is leaking this information is doing it. Yes, if caught they should be punished according to the law.
NO the press should not be forced to give up the name of said individual. If the press is forced to name names, then in the future people will be discouraged from going forward, and you would then never hear about the more important scandals, the kinds of things involving corruption, government, the environment, and the usbverting of laws.
Freedom of the press is one of the most important freedoms there is.Don't try to tak eit away to protect some company's bottom line.
There is little difference between MS DRM and the DRM iTunes uses. Both allow the music vendor to impose limits as they choose, and on both, most vendors allow a limited number of CD burns.
If your sole source of music is buying it online, (as in, you are young, and have not amassed a huge CD collection/mp3 collection), then the Napster subscription is a far better deal.
Assuming their math is cooect (I will not double check), it would cost you around $10,000 to buy enough music from iTunes to fill your iPod. Now, 10,000 / (15 / month) is 666 months, or 55 years. That means that you'd have to listen to that same set of music for 55 years before you break even with the napster subscription.
Sure, there is a commitment, in that if you cancel the subscription, you lose the songs. But over the long term, it is much cheaper.
Microsoft's total cash on hand is 34.5 billion. Their operating costs average around 6-8 billion a quarter. By my math, that means they could operate for anywhere to 1-1.5 years without taking in any revenue, unless they *seriously* scaled back their business ventures.
I have an 8 month old kitten who is very smart... too smart for his own good! Despite all our discipline whenever we catch him on top of the cupboard, I still come home some days to see how he has
a) Jumped onto the counter (a feat in and of itself, when you consider it is about 10 times his height. you try that!)
b) Open the closed cupboard
c) Pick up a bag of straws, and drag them to the floor.
d) Take our a straw, and bring it to his bed, so that he can play with it.
He alsy knows exactly when I am going to get up, so that he can run and meet me at the bedroom door and whine for food. And he seems to be totally aware of whenI am and when I am not looking at him, so that he can "be bad" - the second I turn to look at what he is doing, or walk into the room, he stops whatever he was doing!
..an awful lot of cities have already been doing it for a long time.
Including my town, which has had free WiFi covering a large portion of the city for over a year. I and I know for a fact that we aren't the only city doing this, plenty of others in the US already have simmilar setups.
If your home WAP had been using the same channel as the city, tough cookes. Change your channel. Is it really that freaking difficult? Took me less than 30 seconds on my linksys.
30-45.
At my school, we were around 30-33 kids I would say. But I knew of a few kids in the district where there was up to 36-38 in their homerooms for various reasons.
I kind of 'rounded up' to 45 to be safe, who knows what it is like now, 6 years later.
Let's see, Firefox already does the first two, and the third is arguably useful.
Er... so how do I add RSS feeds to My Yahoo! with Firefox again? Oh wait, I can't.
My Yahoo! is a pretty powerful portal (you have probably never really tried it). I much prefer it to Google news.. it is highly customizeable, I can integrate RSS feeds from anywhere, I can add my own personal calender and to-do list that is synched with my desktop and PDA automatically, it has quick access to my photo album, my local TV listings, the local movie showtimes.. all on one page. It is incredibly useful.
Their Yahoo! toolbar will probably also have a few other things Firefox can't do out of the box, like new mail notification for Yahoo! mail, notifications for calendar events, and possible Yahoo! IM integration.
All that aside, I won't be installing it. But don't dismiss it as redundant so quickly, you haven't even seen it yet.
And for God's sake, don't compare it to Gator, the spawn of Satan.
When I was in HS (which was only 6 years ago), there was no "tracking system" of any kind. Sure, some teachers took attendance. But most did not. And there was definitely no school-wide system.
Seriously, how hard is it for a dumbfuck teacher to notice when a kid is missing 2-3 days a week? It is not like we're talking university-style auditoriums of hundreds of students.. a typical HS class side is only 30-45 kids.
Is there really a *need* to automate this? Seems like a waste of money more than anything else. If I was a parent this would be my protest angle - get the teachers in line.
If the CPU fails, you just put the jumper back, remove the CPU fan, sitck some dust bunny in it big enough to clog it, and put it back.
The Mac Mini is very sensitive to airflow because it is so small. The fan not working for even a shirt period of time could be reason enough for the CPU to overheat and fail.
When a company with monopoly power writes software that accepts broken, non standards compliance input, it's creating a new standard, one that isn't published, since people will generally only work on their software until it produces an output that works with the monopoly's software.
This is a non sequitur. Forget the fact that probably 60%+ of the internet is stillusing HTML 4.0 (which is non-compliant) - people are going to create invalid input regardless.
Also, I don't really even get what you are asking - you want the *browser* to throw and error to tell the user that the HTML compliance *on a website he doesn't own or control* is invalid? How is that supposed to help anything?
People *always* create invalid input. It is the job of the engineer to handle this input the best he can. No, this does not always include spitting out an error and saying "give me the input THIS way".
I suggest you read this (specifically, see number 6).
Man, talk about searching left and right for a problem...
The whole point of XHTML compliant documents is so that the data can be parsed by a non-HTML user agent without issue, as regular XML. This lets you do nice things like XSLT transforms on the HTML, XPath data queries, etc. It is not to make things nicer in the browser, it is not to make things faster, and in fact, both Mozilla and IE can render XHTML compliant pages SLOWER under certain circumstances, because of the validation procedures involved in the parsing.
Using JavaScript to fancy up a page has absolutely no effect on this. Unless the website is actually placing useable data on the page via JavaScript (**ahem**), then the JavaScript has ZERO impact on either the compliance level or the utility of XHTML. And from what I can see, this is exactly what MSN Search (and what most websites) are dong - using JavaScript to write fancy navigation and whatnot, none of which is really useful to a non-HTML user agent.
Having tried both, from my experience, MythTv offered far more plugins, far better configurability, and far better performance. It can be harder to set up for the novice. I suggest reading up at the wiki at http://mythtv.info before attempting an install, Or follow Jared's Fedora guide.
MediaPortal, last I tried it, was crashy and very slow (took 30+ seconds to even start up on my XP 2800!), and I couldn't get it wo work at all with software encoding.
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For HTML? No, I can't give a good reason really (other than that it is "more compliant", sort of.
For XML? Well, Table tags don't work there, do they?:P
That's the point, and half the power of CSS.. you can write a simple style sheet, and apply it to an XML DOC that you got from Excel or OpenOffice or whatever, and have it appear pretty.
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Firstly, it does not seem to be possible (unless I just haven't found it yet, please feel free to correct me) to say that I want style FOO to be the same as style BAR except with these changes.
What?? It is called Cascading Style Sheets for exactly that reason, it cascades!
<div class="foo bar">This has red bg color with blue fg color.</div>
Secondly, CSS' styling system is very, very limited. How do you say, I want this container to be big enough to fit this string into? You can't.
Big enough to fit what string? A container can fit any string with a proper overflow property.
This means that any kind of layout where you have sized objects with text in them --- such as columns, or a header --- has to be specified in fixed values.
This is simply not true. It is fairly simple to generate tabular layouts using pure CSS (that is what display:table-row and whatnot are for!)
You can't say, I want a graphic followed by a line of text followed by something that fills all the rest of the space.
Seriously man.. CSS has lots of limitations (some of which will be addressed in V3, some of which aren't), but nothing like what you are spewing. I really suggest you read up some on the spec before you start bashing it so hashly.
It would take *forever8 to use an OS designed around this concept. Instead of just clicking an icon and *boom*, it executes, you need to zzzoooooommmmmm in on it to use it.
Some people have said there would be "snap levels" to aleviate this, as in, the icon woudl just snap into a full size. after two clicks. But if this is the case, hwo does it figger from the file preview icons in KDE and Windows?
Which is why I now always pay at the pump, and try to avoid any situation where my card will be in the hands of someone else. Most places where you swipe the card yourself, the cashier does not have access to that information.
Guess you havent heard about skimming, which is becoming extremely proliferated.
Cable monopolies, lack of competition, lack of demand? I don't know, I would just be speculating. Maybe demand for broadband in the US has always been slower moving because so many people were originally with AOL.
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Yes it is wrong that whoever is leaking this information is doing it. Yes, if caught they should be punished according to the law.
NO the press should not be forced to give up the name of said individual. If the press is forced to name names, then in the future people will be discouraged from going forward, and you would then never hear about the more important scandals, the kinds of things involving corruption, government, the environment, and the usbverting of laws.
Freedom of the press is one of the most important freedoms there is.Don't try to tak eit away to protect some company's bottom line.
Same as with iTunes, you burn them?
There is little difference between MS DRM and the DRM iTunes uses. Both allow the music vendor to impose limits as they choose, and on both, most vendors allow a limited number of CD burns.
If your sole source of music is buying it online, (as in, you are young, and have not amassed a huge CD collection/mp3 collection), then the Napster subscription is a far better deal.
Assuming their math is cooect (I will not double check), it would cost you around $10,000 to buy enough music from iTunes to fill your iPod. Now, 10,000 / (15 / month) is 666 months, or 55 years. That means that you'd have to listen to that same set of music for 55 years before you break even with the napster subscription.
Sure, there is a commitment, in that if you cancel the subscription, you lose the songs. But over the long term, it is much cheaper.
Accroding to Yahoo! finance, they only have $34.5 billion in cash. Not $60 billion.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFT
Microsoft's total cash on hand is 34.5 billion. Their operating costs average around 6-8 billion a quarter. By my math, that means they could operate for anywhere to 1-1.5 years without taking in any revenue, unless they *seriously* scaled back their business ventures.
That is quite far from "decades"
You just haven't met the right cats.
I have an 8 month old kitten who is very smart... too smart for his own good! Despite all our discipline whenever we catch him on top of the cupboard, I still come home some days to see how he has
a) Jumped onto the counter (a feat in and of itself, when you consider it is about 10 times his height. you try that!)
b) Open the closed cupboard
c) Pick up a bag of straws, and drag them to the floor.
d) Take our a straw, and bring it to his bed, so that he can play with it.
He alsy knows exactly when I am going to get up, so that he can run and meet me at the bedroom door and whine for food. And he seems to be totally aware of whenI am and when I am not looking at him, so that he can "be bad" - the second I turn to look at what he is doing, or walk into the room, he stops whatever he was doing!
..an awful lot of cities have already been doing it for a long time.
Including my town, which has had free WiFi covering a large portion of the city for over a year. I and I know for a fact that we aren't the only city doing this, plenty of others in the US already have simmilar setups.
If your home WAP had been using the same channel as the city, tough cookes. Change your channel. Is it really that freaking difficult? Took me less than 30 seconds on my linksys.
30-45. At my school, we were around 30-33 kids I would say. But I knew of a few kids in the district where there was up to 36-38 in their homerooms for various reasons. I kind of 'rounded up' to 45 to be safe, who knows what it is like now, 6 years later.
Let's see, Firefox already does the first two, and the third is arguably useful.
Er... so how do I add RSS feeds to My Yahoo! with Firefox again? Oh wait, I can't.
My Yahoo! is a pretty powerful portal (you have probably never really tried it). I much prefer it to Google news.. it is highly customizeable, I can integrate RSS feeds from anywhere, I can add my own personal calender and to-do list that is synched with my desktop and PDA automatically, it has quick access to my photo album, my local TV listings, the local movie showtimes.. all on one page. It is incredibly useful.
Their Yahoo! toolbar will probably also have a few other things Firefox can't do out of the box, like new mail notification for Yahoo! mail, notifications for calendar events, and possible Yahoo! IM integration.
All that aside, I won't be installing it. But don't dismiss it as redundant so quickly, you haven't even seen it yet.
And for God's sake, don't compare it to Gator, the spawn of Satan.
When I was in HS (which was only 6 years ago), there was no "tracking system" of any kind. Sure, some teachers took attendance. But most did not. And there was definitely no school-wide system.
Seriously, how hard is it for a dumbfuck teacher to notice when a kid is missing 2-3 days a week? It is not like we're talking university-style auditoriums of hundreds of students.. a typical HS class side is only 30-45 kids.
Is there really a *need* to automate this? Seems like a waste of money more than anything else. If I was a parent this would be my protest angle - get the teachers in line.
Yeah, and in OS X, the continue to use the crappy dock, despite the known flaws it its design with respect to usability.
Seriously man, Apple is great, but give it a rest. We don't need any more zealots around here, we have enough already.
I refer you to the ongoing research article on the subject.
http://www.liquidgeneration.com/poptoons/britneys_ breasts.asp
It is anything but conclusive.
You an offset higher costs in two ways - higher markups, or higher volumes.
Higher volumes usually accompany better customer service, s they might not necessarily mark up prices right away.
Then again, Ebay is a business, so you can't fault them if they do.
How would they know you overclocked it?
If the CPU fails, you just put the jumper back, remove the CPU fan, sitck some dust bunny in it big enough to clog it, and put it back.
The Mac Mini is very sensitive to airflow because it is so small. The fan not working for even a shirt period of time could be reason enough for the CPU to overheat and fail.
When a company with monopoly power writes software that accepts broken, non standards compliance input, it's creating a new standard, one that isn't published, since people will generally only work on their software until it produces an output that works with the monopoly's software.
This is a non sequitur. Forget the fact that probably 60%+ of the internet is stillusing HTML 4.0 (which is non-compliant) - people are going to create invalid input regardless.
Also, I don't really even get what you are asking - you want the *browser* to throw and error to tell the user that the HTML compliance *on a website he doesn't own or control* is invalid? How is that supposed to help anything?
People *always* create invalid input. It is the job of the engineer to handle this input the best he can. No, this does not always include spitting out an error and saying "give me the input THIS way".
I suggest you read this (specifically, see number 6).
.. is on their feedback page.
Optional: if you were not able to find a web page, enter its address or URL here.
Er... if I could not find the page, how the he** would I know it's URL?
The whole point of XHTML compliant documents is so that the data can be parsed by a non-HTML user agent without issue, as regular XML. This lets you do nice things like XSLT transforms on the HTML, XPath data queries, etc. It is not to make things nicer in the browser, it is not to make things faster, and in fact, both Mozilla and IE can render XHTML compliant pages SLOWER under certain circumstances, because of the validation procedures involved in the parsing.
Using JavaScript to fancy up a page has absolutely no effect on this. Unless the website is actually placing useable data on the page via JavaScript (**ahem**), then the JavaScript has ZERO impact on either the compliance level or the utility of XHTML. And from what I can see, this is exactly what MSN Search (and what most websites) are dong - using JavaScript to write fancy navigation and whatnot, none of which is really useful to a non-HTML user agent.
Microsoft's parser is probably broken in a way that it doesn't look for closing tags
Or, you could say that Microsoft's parser is much more robust in how it deals with malformed documents.
Seriously, you can't blame MS for writing a better XML parser. Just because a parser knows that
Having tried both, from my experience, MythTv offered far more plugins, far better configurability, and far better performance. It can be harder to set up for the novice. I suggest reading up at the wiki at http://mythtv.info before attempting an install, Or follow Jared's Fedora guide.
MediaPortal, last I tried it, was crashy and very slow (took 30+ seconds to even start up on my XP 2800!), and I couldn't get it wo work at all with software encoding.
For HTML? No, I can't give a good reason really (other than that it is "more compliant", sort of.
:P
For XML? Well, Table tags don't work there, do they?
That's the point, and half the power of CSS.. you can write a simple style sheet, and apply it to an XML DOC that you got from Excel or OpenOffice or whatever, and have it appear pretty.
Firstly, it does not seem to be possible (unless I just haven't found it yet, please feel free to correct me) to say that I want style FOO to be the same as style BAR except with these changes.
What?? It is called Cascading Style Sheets for exactly that reason, it cascades!
Secondly, CSS' styling system is very, very limited. How do you say, I want this container to be big enough to fit this string into? You can't.
Big enough to fit what string? A container can fit any string with a proper overflow property.
This means that any kind of layout where you have sized objects with text in them --- such as columns, or a header --- has to be specified in fixed values.
This is simply not true. It is fairly simple to generate tabular layouts using pure CSS (that is what display:table-row and whatnot are for!)
You can't say, I want a graphic followed by a line of text followed by something that fills all the rest of the space.
Try this:
Seriously man.. CSS has lots of limitations (some of which will be addressed in V3, some of which aren't), but nothing like what you are spewing. I really suggest you read up some on the spec before you start bashing it so hashly.
It would take *forever8 to use an OS designed around this concept. Instead of just clicking an icon and *boom*, it executes, you need to zzzoooooommmmmm in on it to use it.
Some people have said there would be "snap levels" to aleviate this, as in, the icon woudl just snap into a full size. after two clicks. But if this is the case, hwo does it figger from the file preview icons in KDE and Windows?
I duno, to me, this is nothing groundbreaking.
Which is why I now always pay at the pump, and try to avoid any situation where my card will be in the hands of someone else. Most places where you swipe the card yourself, the cashier does not have access to that information.
Guess you havent heard about skimming, which is becoming extremely proliferated.
http://www.identity-theft-protection.com/articles/ skimming.htm
Cable monopolies, lack of competition, lack of demand? I don't know, I would just be speculating. Maybe demand for broadband in the US has always been slower moving because so many people were originally with AOL.
Canada has only 32 million people spread across roughly 3.85 million square miles, and by just about any measure (broadband penetration, cost of access), it surpasses the US by a fair margin.
The problems in the US have roots other than the size of the country alone.