This is so funny - even here in France we feel obliged to buy a "Café WC" at the bar if we want to use a café toilet. Those squatters bring an odd image to mind - what do they do: Wander around town, laptop open, until they get a WiFi signal, then zoom in a squat? We should call this new speicies the "olfacitia oberraritus" or something...
You've tagged the dilemma perfectly with your questions; Unfortunately no-one is asking them here.
I've been living in this country (France) since 1989. Since then I've seen that not only are the French behind the times in adopting technology, but even later in spreading legislation to the "new ground" they open. For example it is illegal to sell taped radio programs in public places, but it took eight years after the invention of the "K7" for the law to be created.
This is all the same story again - but this time they're making legislation lightening retaliation against a crime without defining what that crime is. What exactly is piracy? The public here still hasn't a clue.
Combine this with the public's tendency to grumblingly accept other incoherent legislation and you have a mess. The legislation resulting in this thread may have something to do with an earlier (incoherent) tax on all "Burnable" media - which comes to around to 1€ a CD - money which goes to some "music maker" guild - I would have to Google for that one as it sure hasn't been divulged to the public in any clear or complete manner.
So in short, if the French government has already condoned file-swapping with its earlier CD tax, it can't very well condemn the people paying it.
I use it only for testing pages, and sometimes to look at complicated source code 'cause it makes it into pretty rainbows : )
All right for the thumbs-up/thumbs-down comments, but perhaps these would have a little more weight if one could understand HOW one application can break another? I haven't found a word about it here nor in the article. What exactly is the modified "common" dependancy (file?) that makes them incompatible?
Hey, there's wisdom out there if you're looking for it. Myself I'm a fan of the Rude Pundit who says things that, though in a way your parents most probably wouldn't find "digestive", are more than more often than not right on the ball.
Failed "Blogebrity" buzzword trial aside, this guy's worth a read.
That said, I'd suggest "Blig" as a term for something Blog and cool.
Though normally I disdain most anything catering to MS, here I can point out one of Mac's biggest errors - the single-button mouse. I started to use PC (again) when I had to use Macromedia products - Since I've discovered the mouse wheel I've never gone back. OS X since Jaguar has provided support for two-butten scroll-wheel mice, but Mac has yet to ship a computer with one of its own. Too bad.
...have you tried turning disk "journaling" off? I know that Tiger "doesn't reccomend" it, and you can't even do it (to the bood disk/partition) from disk utility while in Tiger, but you can if you boot from another configuration.
I found that it really speeds things up for my iMac 800mhz - that's not where I store all my "important" info so I can take that risk with that computer. I'm not even sure what the "risks" of turning off disk journaling even are if there are any... anyone?
I find javascript annoying as well, but I'm not o-so-pro webmaster you to feel moved to disable it. And probably 99% of most users share my case - but perhaps stating yours here does something for you, but that's none of our business, is it? Right.
Javascript was great while there was no other option, but since a while now (nudge nudge php wink wink) there have been better options that a user need not worry about or even see - no matter his browser. It's all a matter of looking, judging, learning and changing. That is, if you're above sitting on your *#$#*$& "but it worked before" laurels.
One of the biggest reasons for any innovation these days is saying "I can do that better". Google did. MS only seems hell-bent on "proving" (by out-selling) that it can "do the same".
Many would, comparing this statement to today's success "greed is good" standards, say that this is "true" and that they are "successful".
Microsoft's talents have nothing to do with software, yet that's what they insist their business is: That is exactly why I hate them. Move over, let someone really serious about communicating information publish their real means of communicating and let us be the judge whether it's good or not - stop making our lives hell by forcing us to "bend to" coding for the lemming majority you endoctrinate into using your second-hander second-idea second-rate products.
Er - I for one would not like to enter history as one who, though I may lead a comfortable existence, is always at best the second to (cough) develop any idea. That would be fine in itself, but using your second-best-but-most earnings to squilch anyone else marketing the same idea - including the person who first created it - is another thing entirely.
Once again, their being second will give them a chance to "do it better"; But most likely, as as they always have, they will develop it to the "working" stage and no farther, counting on their flagship (cough) product's market inertia to sell their (cough) idea.
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: ) my dumb. And yes, in many French cafés one still has to squat.
Damn! I was just *cough* getting to know a certain customs lady. Or rather she was getting to know me quite well.
Or could I consider this advance in technology as... changing positions?
..."olfacitia oberraritus" could also be used to describe a toilet-detector : )
This is so funny - even here in France we feel obliged to buy a "Café WC" at the bar if we want to use a café toilet. Those squatters bring an odd image to mind - what do they do: Wander around town, laptop open, until they get a WiFi signal, then zoom in a squat? We should call this new speicies the "olfacitia oberraritus" or something...
...that's why I pluck : )
Merde - je viens de dire le meme chose dans mon post - sans le SCPP. Merci du tuyaux : )
You don't necessarily have to be a nun to wear one.
(looking down) I may have a few "hardware" problems. At least nuns don't have to shave.
You've tagged the dilemma perfectly with your questions; Unfortunately no-one is asking them here.
I've been living in this country (France) since 1989. Since then I've seen that not only are the French behind the times in adopting technology, but even later in spreading legislation to the "new ground" they open. For example it is illegal to sell taped radio programs in public places, but it took eight years after the invention of the "K7" for the law to be created.
This is all the same story again - but this time they're making legislation lightening retaliation against a crime without defining what that crime is. What exactly is piracy? The public here still hasn't a clue.
Combine this with the public's tendency to grumblingly accept other incoherent legislation and you have a mess. The legislation resulting in this thread may have something to do with an earlier (incoherent) tax on all "Burnable" media - which comes to around to 1€ a CD - money which goes to some "music maker" guild - I would have to Google for that one as it sure hasn't been divulged to the public in any clear or complete manner.
So in short, if the French government has already condoned file-swapping with its earlier CD tax, it can't very well condemn the people paying it.
I use it only for testing pages, and sometimes to look at complicated source code 'cause it makes it into pretty rainbows : )
All right for the thumbs-up/thumbs-down comments, but perhaps these would have a little more weight if one could understand HOW one application can break another? I haven't found a word about it here nor in the article. What exactly is the modified "common" dependancy (file?) that makes them incompatible?
Hey, there's wisdom out there if you're looking for it. Myself I'm a fan of the Rude Pundit who says things that, though in a way your parents most probably wouldn't find "digestive", are more than more often than not right on the ball.
Failed "Blogebrity" buzzword trial aside, this guy's worth a read.
That said, I'd suggest "Blig" as a term for something Blog and cool.
Though normally I disdain most anything catering to MS, here I can point out one of Mac's biggest errors - the single-button mouse. I started to use PC (again) when I had to use Macromedia products - Since I've discovered the mouse wheel I've never gone back. OS X since Jaguar has provided support for two-butten scroll-wheel mice, but Mac has yet to ship a computer with one of its own. Too bad.
(craning neck to look at seat)
Mine's still fine - I haven't stopped working out every day. Is yours beginning to droop or something?
While it's there, I'll send it a message to have a look around... I think that's where I left my sunglasses.
...have you tried turning disk "journaling" off? I know that Tiger "doesn't reccomend" it, and you can't even do it (to the bood disk/partition) from disk utility while in Tiger, but you can if you boot from another configuration.
... anyone?
I found that it really speeds things up for my iMac 800mhz - that's not where I store all my "important" info so I can take that risk with that computer. I'm not even sure what the "risks" of turning off disk journaling even are if there are any
Yes, yes, I see your point. And never mind my grumpiness.
I find javascript annoying as well, but I'm not o-so-pro webmaster you to feel moved to disable it. And probably 99% of most users share my case - but perhaps stating yours here does something for you, but that's none of our business, is it? Right.
Javascript was great while there was no other option, but since a while now (nudge nudge php wink wink) there have been better options that a user need not worry about or even see - no matter his browser. It's all a matter of looking, judging, learning and changing. That is, if you're above sitting on your *#$#*$& "but it worked before" laurels.
One of the biggest reasons for any innovation these days is saying "I can do that better". Google did. MS only seems hell-bent on "proving" (by out-selling) that it can "do the same".
Many would, comparing this statement to today's success "greed is good" standards, say that this is "true" and that they are "successful".
Microsoft's talents have nothing to do with software, yet that's what they insist their business is: That is exactly why I hate them. Move over, let someone really serious about communicating information publish their real means of communicating and let us be the judge whether it's good or not - stop making our lives hell by forcing us to "bend to" coding for the lemming majority you endoctrinate into using your second-hander second-idea second-rate products.
Er - I for one would not like to enter history as one who, though I may lead a comfortable existence, is always at best the second to (cough) develop any idea. That would be fine in itself, but using your second-best-but-most earnings to squilch anyone else marketing the same idea - including the person who first created it - is another thing entirely.
Once again, their being second will give them a chance to "do it better"; But most likely, as as they always have, they will develop it to the "working" stage and no farther, counting on their flagship (cough) product's market inertia to sell their (cough) idea.
DanG MicRoWAveS!
Dang. This one works.
Maybe they read this article.
...and if he was stored in Windows? He'd be in a hell of his own making. And always crashing to boot...
...out of the normally unsourcable. Bravo!
um... All Data / Bearing Clubs?