I don't want censored but am aware that it happens already. ISPs decide for themselves what they will allow through.
At the moment, I have some democratic rights that theoretically affect my government. I have a lot less control over what billion dollar companies do. Governments are swayed by ideas - some good and some not so. Companies are affected by money. They are not, and probably should not be, affected by what makes me happy. Their job is to make the best money for their shareholders.
One day, we might actually get a responsive government. Why should a corporation do the right or popular thing if there is more money in something else?
But why am I being taught to put these declarations in everything I do?
I wrote some simple pages of html - text, frames, pictures etc. I have tried them out under IE6, 7, firefox, amaya, opera, safari and lynx. Obviously no pictures in lynx but the only one that objects to them is amaya. It then shows everything fine anyway.
My point is that we are blindly putting these things in where there is no need. It seems a pity because other aspects of the standards make some useful differences - for example, like everything in lower case and proper nesting. They make it easier to follow someone else's stuff.
We are trying to put everything in xhtml where html is more appropriate. It seems a bit like saying that all car drivers need 5 point harnesses, crash helmets and flame proof clothing because it is needed by some. Many people stick to the speed limits and never do anything clever. We should be smart enough to stick to simple html where that is all we are needing.
These comments don't actually do much. In fact all they do is slow the system down/
The only reason I put them on the stuff I am working on at present is that it says in the first paragraph of my assignment to do so. If I don't, I will loose marks..
Straight html seems to be enough in reality...
<html> <head> <title>test</title> </head>
Yes, I know that it is not correct without all the other stuff. It does not check with Amaya or the W3C site if all the other stuff is missing. I see no benefit in putting anything else in there except perhaps
Just because someone is patenting huge amounts of stuff, it does not indicate that they have innovated anything.
It means only that they have a large number of people whose job is to take existing ideas and patent them.
In Microsoft's defence, this does not prove that they have not invented anything either.
I think it is quite likely that some of the very clever people that they have working for them did create new ideas. It just hasn't got much connection with this abuse of the patent system.
No. I doubt you will find many of us who object to the idea of having money. It is the methods of getting it and the attitudes that MS have that people here may not be happy with.
In a place like/. I am unable to speak for others, so I shall speak for myself.
I don't like the fact that software is sent out before it is ready, just because some manager types want it to be released now.
If I buy clothes, I assume things are made and they didn't just ship me the cloth and expect me to sew it together myself.
When they release a new product, they will tell us all how fantastic it is.
A couple of years later, when it is about ready for use, they drop it and bring out the next item. They then tell us how this fixes the many shortcomings of its precescessor. I am told how bad it was. I know that in a couple of years, I will be told how rubbish this one is too.
Microsoft bears at least some, and perhaps much, of the blame for the mess we are all in with patents and copyrights.
So they think that GPL is socialism and thus theft? I think that Closed source is protectionist racketeering and thus theft.
When they were small and growing, they relied on the fact that lots of people "borrowed" their software. This enabled them to grow. It was profiting from theft.
Now they are in a position of market dominance, they object to what they once relied on. Stealing is wrong, so when people ask me for a dodgy copy of Office, I point them to a free alternative. I object to their hypocrisy, not the fact that they object to people stealing.
If I buy something, I expect to be able to use what I buy. I expect to be able to sell what I buy, when I no longer want it. I do this with books and cars, so why are MS different?
As I started, I don't object to making money. I just object to some methods of extortion and hypocrisy. I work for money and would love to have more. I will not hit people over the head to get it. My basic objection is that they are no longer a software company. They are a protection racket.
True, you could have someone read everything to you. Most people just don't have the luxury of a full time personal servant at the age of 6.
Classrooms will teach so much, and then you need to do a lot yourself, even at the age of 6/5/4.
It sounds to me like this child has been given a poor start in life. Help her and she can catch up and pass where she should be by now. Some work on the part of her parents and she will be fine.
As you are paying 10 pence (20c) a minute can I presume you are on pay as you go? That 39p a minute is on a contract! My contract works out at 3.3 pence a minute which I am told is excessive.
I think this is just an attempt to see if Europe will accept US price levels, as well as functionality. Hopefully the experiment will fail...
There will be a larger number of IT tinkerers running Firefox than IE. Most IE users run it because they think it is "the internet". Anyone who has had the initiative to install FF or actually run a different operating system will be much more likely to give this a try.
I think it is an excellent hobby. Some people travel everywhere and get themselves in pictures - Buckingham Palace, Eiffel Tower, The Alamo and do on. This guy just waits until the world walks past him and gets a picture. Sounds a lot more environmentally friendly.
It's his collection so he can order them how he likes, but I would have put people like Linus and RMS in the "Tech Giants" section rather than Carly.
Some of that is not political, left or right, some is.
I recognise the socialised medicine etc but legalising prostitution and removing drug & drink laws don't sound like anything trying to make a fairer society. Can I guess that you see restrictions on gun ownership and use as a bad thing too? Just sounds like you don't like other peoples needs to infringe upon your play.
And that may be why your don't have some of the basics of a civilised society including things like...
Universal Health Care
No Judicial Death Sentences
Government plans to end social injustice
Financial aid to those who need it.
If you take off some parts of your boat, you will not get anywhere and may eventually sink. Balanced politics may never cure all the problems of society. It will mean that some get smaller and some won't. It is a mark of decency that we try!
That means nobody then. The USA does not have a political left...
Here at/. I have seen evidence of middle of the range viewpoints, right wing and extreme right wing.
As far as can be seen then, you are saying that Michael Moore belongs to something that does not exist. Is this to say that he is independent and following no guidance beyond his own opinions?
There are 25 alphanumeric characters in the registration.
According to the MS Windows calculator 36 to the power of 25 is...
8.0828127746476406064313960045654e+38
That is over 124,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 copies for every human being on the planet!
I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to object to this.
I can think of several 'problems' they might bring up...
copyright
security
warranty
There might not be a real reason for them to object, but they don't like other people improving their stuff. I think it is somesort of perceived self interest.
when you take something from someone and deprive them of it.
If someone makes copies of files they find on my PC, they are invading my privacy and that is bad. They are not stealing from me. I still have all my pictures.
If I have found that someone has invaded my privacy in this way, I will be unhappy but I should not accuse them of theft!
The difficulty you face is that in your country, the law defines that church & state are separate. Here, (one very small part of) the church is the state.
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I don't want censored but am aware that it happens already. ISPs decide for themselves what they will allow through.
At the moment, I have some democratic rights that theoretically affect my government. I have a lot less control over what billion dollar companies do. Governments are swayed by ideas - some good and some not so. Companies are affected by money. They are not, and probably should not be, affected by what makes me happy. Their job is to make the best money for their shareholders.
One day, we might actually get a responsive government. Why should a corporation do the right or popular thing if there is more money in something else?
I think we had Cliff brought out to help push for this already.
I think part of the reason it did not happen was that...
- He has plenty of money and does not need welfare.
- He is bringing out new stuff on occasion anyway
- If someone is no longer getting money out of something this far on, they should have found alternative incomes by now anyway.
- All the others advocating it did not seem poor either.
This is just the parasites trying to force on us what has already been rejected.But why am I being taught to put these declarations in everything I do?
I wrote some simple pages of html - text, frames, pictures etc. I have tried them out under IE6, 7, firefox, amaya, opera, safari and lynx. Obviously no pictures in lynx but the only one that objects to them is amaya. It then shows everything fine anyway.
My point is that we are blindly putting these things in where there is no need. It seems a pity because other aspects of the standards make some useful differences - for example, like everything in lower case and proper nesting. They make it easier to follow someone else's stuff.
We are trying to put everything in xhtml where html is more appropriate. It seems a bit like saying that all car drivers need 5 point harnesses, crash helmets and flame proof clothing because it is needed by some. Many people stick to the speed limits and never do anything clever. We should be smart enough to stick to simple html where that is all we are needing.
These comments don't actually do much. In fact all they do is slow the system down/
The only reason I put them on the stuff I am working on at present is that it says in the first paragraph of my assignment to do so. If I don't, I will loose marks..
Straight html seems to be enough in reality...
Yes, I know that it is not correct without all the other stuff. It does not check with Amaya or the W3C site if all the other stuff is missing. I see no benefit in putting anything else in there except perhaps
This is to make sure it works anywhere on any computer. The rest does nothing and sites work fine without it. It seems like a waste of bandwidth...Just because someone is patenting huge amounts of stuff, it does not indicate that they have innovated anything.
It means only that they have a large number of people whose job is to take existing ideas and patent them.
In Microsoft's defence, this does not prove that they have not invented anything either.
I think it is quite likely that some of the very clever people that they have working for them did create new ideas. It just hasn't got much connection with this abuse of the patent system.
No. I doubt you will find many of us who object to the idea of having money. It is the methods of getting it and the attitudes that MS have that people here may not be happy with. /. I am unable to speak for others, so I shall speak for myself.
In a place like
I don't like the fact that software is sent out before it is ready, just because some manager types want it to be released now.
If I buy clothes, I assume things are made and they didn't just ship me the cloth and expect me to sew it together myself.
When they release a new product, they will tell us all how fantastic it is.
A couple of years later, when it is about ready for use, they drop it and bring out the next item. They then tell us how this fixes the many shortcomings of its precescessor. I am told how bad it was. I know that in a couple of years, I will be told how rubbish this one is too.
Microsoft bears at least some, and perhaps much, of the blame for the mess we are all in with patents and copyrights.
So they think that GPL is socialism and thus theft? I think that Closed source is protectionist racketeering and thus theft.
When they were small and growing, they relied on the fact that lots of people "borrowed" their software. This enabled them to grow. It was profiting from theft.
Now they are in a position of market dominance, they object to what they once relied on. Stealing is wrong, so when people ask me for a dodgy copy of Office, I point them to a free alternative. I object to their hypocrisy, not the fact that they object to people stealing.
If I buy something, I expect to be able to use what I buy. I expect to be able to sell what I buy, when I no longer want it. I do this with books and cars, so why are MS different?
As I started, I don't object to making money. I just object to some methods of extortion and hypocrisy. I work for money and would love to have more. I will not hit people over the head to get it. My basic objection is that they are no longer a software company. They are a protection racket.
something more important
There are very few things more important than decent communication skills!
These days reading isn't the only way to learn.
True, you could have someone read everything to you. Most people just don't have the luxury of a full time personal servant at the age of 6.
Classrooms will teach so much, and then you need to do a lot yourself, even at the age of 6/5/4.
It sounds to me like this child has been given a poor start in life. Help her and she can catch up and pass where she should be by now. Some work on the part of her parents and she will be fine.
My understanding of Microsoft fix timescales is something like
That makes 3 months. Is that a scheme that the rest of us should Embrace & Extend?
As you are paying 10 pence (20c) a minute can I presume you are on pay as you go? That 39p a minute is on a contract! My contract works out at 3.3 pence a minute which I am told is excessive.
I think this is just an attempt to see if Europe will accept US price levels, as well as functionality. Hopefully the experiment will fail...
You are probably right. 3 serif and 3 sans would be plenty. I am not sure how to get the 0.4 of a font though...
There will be a larger number of IT tinkerers running Firefox than IE. Most IE users run it because they think it is "the internet". Anyone who has had the initiative to install FF or actually run a different operating system will be much more likely to give this a try.
Can it download podcasts for me?
Getting stuff straight from itunes is all very clever but I fancy getting my podcasts on it.
I think it is an excellent hobby. Some people travel everywhere and get themselves in pictures - Buckingham Palace, Eiffel Tower, The Alamo and do on. This guy just waits until the world walks past him and gets a picture. Sounds a lot more environmentally friendly.
It's his collection so he can order them how he likes, but I would have put people like Linus and RMS in the "Tech Giants" section rather than Carly.
If they are the moral successors of Al Capone, perhaps they can be tamed in the same way he first came unstuck?
Perhaps even more attention should be paid to their financial activities...
Some of that is not political, left or right, some is.
I recognise the socialised medicine etc but legalising prostitution and removing drug & drink laws don't sound like anything trying to make a fairer society. Can I guess that you see restrictions on gun ownership and use as a bad thing too? Just sounds like you don't like other peoples needs to infringe upon your play.
And that may be why your don't have some of the basics of a civilised society including things like...
Universal Health Care
No Judicial Death Sentences
Government plans to end social injustice
Financial aid to those who need it.
If you take off some parts of your boat, you will not get anywhere and may eventually sink. Balanced politics may never cure all the problems of society. It will mean that some get smaller and some won't. It is a mark of decency that we try!
shrill faction of the American political left
That means nobody then. The USA does not have a political left...
Here at /. I have seen evidence of middle of the range viewpoints, right wing and extreme right wing.
As far as can be seen then, you are saying that Michael Moore belongs to something that does not exist. Is this to say that he is independent and following no guidance beyond his own opinions?
How often does someone make a victim put a robe on while they point a gun at them where you live?
Here, someone might get robbed at gunpoint. I like your version better...
There are 25 alphanumeric characters in the registration.
According to the MS Windows calculator 36 to the power of 25 is...
8.0828127746476406064313960045654e+38
That is over 124,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 copies for every human being on the planet!
Is this an American joke? Please enlighten me.
If that sort of report came from my country - UK - I would read it as sarcasm, but I generally find sarcasm uncommon in anything from the USA.
Of course, if this is for real, it could just be showing how unutterably weird the US media is!
I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to object to this.
I can think of several 'problems' they might bring up...
copyrightsecurity
warranty
There might not be a real reason for them to object, but they don't like other people improving their stuff. I think it is somesort of perceived self interest.
What other objections might they raise?
when you take something from someone and deprive them of it.
If someone makes copies of files they find on my PC, they are invading my privacy and that is bad. They are not stealing from me. I still have all my pictures.
If I have found that someone has invaded my privacy in this way, I will be unhappy but I should not accuse them of theft!
The difficulty you face is that in your country, the law defines that church & state are separate. Here, (one very small part of) the church is the state.