Especially given my example what you're doing here is suggesting that it's better to cover up abuses than to let their natural consequences occur.
I'm saying journalists need to make sure the abuses are real. As I recall alegations were made about the Quran being flushed down the toilet at Gitmo. Riots broke out over those reports. As I recall the reports were later proved to be false. Erroneous reporting led to riots. Those journalists should have been a bit more careful rather than rushing off to what they hoped would be a new scandal.
There's a reason these things are called standards, they follow a standard method. A dtd might be good for someone doing something unique, but if a person is following the atom standard or one of the rss standards, retrieving the dtd should be unnecessary.
If that wasn't a warning, I don't know WHAT it was
It was a very true statement - people DO need to be careful about what they say. For those whose mouths tend to be heard, one offhand comment can spark riots around the world.
You can and will be hauled off to gitmo for what you write or publish if the powers-that-be deem that it should be so.
Care to cite examples? In the last couple of years I only recall a couple of cases where journalists were jailed, and it wasn't for what they wrote but for not revealing their sources.
And the reason we don't see more of that is because of Microsoft's historic tendancy to punish (or at
least make life difficult for) vendors that try.
Yes, how foolish of me not to have noticed this! All this time I thought the primary reason was the fact that the vast majority of computer buyers aren't interested in machines that have Linux pre-installed...
If WMV becomes popular because it is better than the alternatives, then that is fine, but it is not acceptable for it to become popular because it is already installed on everyone's computer.
And that is why a monopoly abuser like Microsoft must be regulated. The only correct solution to this WMV problem is for the EU to impose mandatory royalty free licensing.
This kind of thing always bugs me. Monopoly abuser? Microsoft has the product that has gained majority market share. Of course they are going to promote that in every way they can. They are a business, that's what they should be doing. It wouldn't make sense for them to act in a way that will promote the competition. The competition's job, then, is to be innovative enough for people to take notice. Apple has done that in some ways. Linux, and many FOSS projects, all too often tend to the path of trying to offer free alternatives to Microsoft products, rather than trying to offer something innovative. If you want to break Microsoft, don't try to be Microsoft. Offer something so compellingly different and better that people have a clear reason to switch.
As we all know that Microsoft Vista was originally scheduled to be released in 2003, after two years of Windows XP, but it got delayed by over five years...
Call my math fuzzy (it's happened before) but if it was originally scheduled to be released in 2003, and it's being released in 2007, then the delay was less than five years...
...but the delayed in the launch has cost Microsoft, billions of dollars.
I've heard similar figures thrown out before, but where do these figures come from? How has the delay cost them? One could argue it has resulted in lost revenue, but XP was still selling well during that time and Vista will be making its sales now. Delayed revenue perhaps, but lost? Are they talking perhaps money spent on developers and such? That might be a point, but billions? What would be the reference for that?
If Bush had only gotten his environmental policies right, things like this wouldn't be happening. Surely this has to be a human-induced event like global warming, it cannot possibly be a natural phenomenon!
Well it's nothing new, Microsoft has already been there, done that. Give it 10 years and Google will be the new company geeks love to hate. It's already getting that way for a growing minority.
Tidal energy comes from our moon. You can thank the Mondochiwan's for waiting too long to align all 5 elements the first time. Bruce Willis hasn't yet waited too long the second time, we still have a couple hundred years for that.
Hardly true in every case, though it may be in some. Many media sources have a message/theme/idea they want to get out into the general public, sponsors are the way to get that message out.
Going on the market puts some control of the company into the hands of shareholders, not the general public. Become a shareholder, then you can have a say and ask for a nice, friendly email.
the fact that the Government can simply order the cell phone companies in an area to shut their networks down.
I tend to agree with the original post that I don't know why exactly the jammers would be useful, but your argument does have one problem. If they did have a real need to turn off the networks in an emergency it would be much faster to hit a switch than to get in touch with all the networks and have them shut down that area.
Then you are endangering other people's lives. You do realize that in a doctor's office, noise isn't the only problem caused by an EM generating cell phone?
My concern is being able to use a service that I'm paying big bucks for. You don't have the right to take that away from me just because of a few brats with no manners.
Just because you pay company 'A' for a service doesn't in any way obligate company 'B' to provide a conducive environment to use that service. If what you use is in some way detrimental to their business, they are within their rights to ban that. (ignoring a long and offtopic discussion on antitrust issues since that doesn't in any way relate here anyway). See previous post about food in theaters and stadiums.
I'll remember that as I'm sitting my seat with chest pains and can't even cry out.
Okay not to be stupid but, if you can't cry out how would a landline do better than a cell phone?
Not to mention the minor little fact that somebody paid for the license to the channels that you want to jam and they have a right to expect to be able to use that license....
By gosh you're right! I also paid for the license to drive a car... I should be able to drive it up and down the grocery store aisles!
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Especially given my example what you're doing here is suggesting that it's better to cover up abuses than to let their natural consequences occur.
I'm saying journalists need to make sure the abuses are real. As I recall alegations were made about the Quran being flushed down the toilet at Gitmo. Riots broke out over those reports. As I recall the reports were later proved to be false. Erroneous reporting led to riots. Those journalists should have been a bit more careful rather than rushing off to what they hoped would be a new scandal.
There's a reason these things are called standards, they follow a standard method. A dtd might be good for someone doing something unique, but if a person is following the atom standard or one of the rss standards, retrieving the dtd should be unnecessary.
If that wasn't a warning, I don't know WHAT it was
It was a very true statement - people DO need to be careful about what they say. For those whose mouths tend to be heard, one offhand comment can spark riots around the world.
You can and will be hauled off to gitmo for what you write or publish if the powers-that-be deem that it should be so.
Care to cite examples? In the last couple of years I only recall a couple of cases where journalists were jailed, and it wasn't for what they wrote but for not revealing their sources.
Three D just doesn't quite have the same ring to it...
And the reason we don't see more of that is because of Microsoft's historic tendancy to punish (or at least make life difficult for) vendors that try.
Yes, how foolish of me not to have noticed this! All this time I thought the primary reason was the fact that the vast majority of computer buyers aren't interested in machines that have Linux pre-installed...
If WMV becomes popular because it is better than the alternatives, then that is fine, but it is not acceptable for it to become popular because it is already installed on everyone's computer.
Good point.
And that is why a monopoly abuser like Microsoft must be regulated. The only correct solution to this WMV problem is for the EU to impose mandatory royalty free licensing.
This kind of thing always bugs me. Monopoly abuser? Microsoft has the product that has gained majority market share. Of course they are going to promote that in every way they can. They are a business, that's what they should be doing. It wouldn't make sense for them to act in a way that will promote the competition. The competition's job, then, is to be innovative enough for people to take notice. Apple has done that in some ways. Linux, and many FOSS projects, all too often tend to the path of trying to offer free alternatives to Microsoft products, rather than trying to offer something innovative. If you want to break Microsoft, don't try to be Microsoft. Offer something so compellingly different and better that people have a clear reason to switch.
As we all know that Microsoft Vista was originally scheduled to be released in 2003, after two years of Windows XP, but it got delayed by over five years...
...but the delayed in the launch has cost Microsoft, billions of dollars.
Call my math fuzzy (it's happened before) but if it was originally scheduled to be released in 2003, and it's being released in 2007, then the delay was less than five years...
I've heard similar figures thrown out before, but where do these figures come from? How has the delay cost them? One could argue it has resulted in lost revenue, but XP was still selling well during that time and Vista will be making its sales now. Delayed revenue perhaps, but lost? Are they talking perhaps money spent on developers and such? That might be a point, but billions? What would be the reference for that?
If Bush had only gotten his environmental policies right, things like this wouldn't be happening. Surely this has to be a human-induced event like global warming, it cannot possibly be a natural phenomenon!
And of course, everyone coped when there was no GUI available.
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Everyone as in the relatively low percentage of the population that was on computers, compared with the relatively high percentage on computers today?
As for neverball, that looks fun. emerge neverball is running now.
The fact that the original post was modded -1 troll only helps to prove your point.
It's worth pondering whether or not she was ever curious as to where her kids kept getting all that new music they were listening to...
But if you ever lived in the town of Jericho, Kansas, you could use your Morse Code skill to find out what cities had been nuked.
Then or than, that's a pretty small grammatical error, especially on Slashdot.
Well it's nothing new, Microsoft has already been there, done that. Give it 10 years and Google will be the new company geeks love to hate. It's already getting that way for a growing minority.
Tidal energy comes from our moon. You can thank the Mondochiwan's for waiting too long to align all 5 elements the first time. Bruce Willis hasn't yet waited too long the second time, we still have a couple hundred years for that.
Hear hear! Are you running for president, by chance? I'll give you a vote.
Hardly true in every case, though it may be in some. Many media sources have a message/theme/idea they want to get out into the general public, sponsors are the way to get that message out.
Going on the market puts some control of the company into the hands of shareholders, not the general public. Become a shareholder, then you can have a say and ask for a nice, friendly email.
the fact that the Government can simply order the cell phone companies in an area to shut their networks down.
I tend to agree with the original post that I don't know why exactly the jammers would be useful, but your argument does have one problem. If they did have a real need to turn off the networks in an emergency it would be much faster to hit a switch than to get in touch with all the networks and have them shut down that area.
Why yes, of course! How was I so blind. Law enforcement wants this because they are racist and want to persecute black people.
And I refuse. That's what vibrate is for.
Then you are endangering other people's lives. You do realize that in a doctor's office, noise isn't the only problem caused by an EM generating cell phone?
My concern is being able to use a service that I'm paying big bucks for. You don't have the right to take that away from me just because of a few brats with no manners.
Just because you pay company 'A' for a service doesn't in any way obligate company 'B' to provide a conducive environment to use that service. If what you use is in some way detrimental to their business, they are within their rights to ban that. (ignoring a long and offtopic discussion on antitrust issues since that doesn't in any way relate here anyway). See previous post about food in theaters and stadiums.
I'll remember that as I'm sitting my seat with chest pains and can't even cry out.
Okay not to be stupid but, if you can't cry out how would a landline do better than a cell phone?
Not to mention the minor little fact that somebody paid for the license to the channels that you want to jam and they have a right to expect to be able to use that license....
By gosh you're right! I also paid for the license to drive a car... I should be able to drive it up and down the grocery store aisles!