Mitochondria are organelles (kind of like organs for a single cell) that have their own DNA (some suspect that they might actually once have been separate life forms that sort of formed a permanent symbiosis with the rest of the cell).
Microsoft could go with ODF and still compete very well against OO.
You're assuming that Microsoft wants to compete. It's much easier and more profitable to dominate a market by lock-in than to compete in the market. Not to mention the fact that Microsoft's main competitor right now is not OpenOffice but its own earlier versions of MSOffice. One way they force people to upgrade is to change the file formats so your old MSOffice won't open documents from a newer version. They couldn't do that if they had to stick to a standard format.
So, what exactly is Python missing here, oh wise and mighty smartass C programmer?
C syntax, but don't worry, you're slowly getting there. With the shift from print "Hello world" to print("Hello world") and then finally to printf("Hello world") you'll have reinvented what Bell labs created in the 60's. By the way, it's a joke (thus the "smartass" qualifier), don't take it personally.
The biggest incompatibility is how you output to stdout. Instead of doing
print "This used to work"
You now have to do
print("This is how 3.0 rolls")
If you're going to call print as a function maybe you should rename it printf. Or better yet, switch to a real programming language that already has printf.
The law will be effective after the appropriate decree of the ministry, and will probably have an impact on pending p2p judicial cases.
Unless their legal system works differently from ours, new laws are generally not retroactive, so pending cases would be bound by whatever law was in effect at the time the offense was committed. Of course, IANAL.
I have to admit, while the Church's stance on human cloning and embryonic stem cell research is not surprising (albeit as ridiculous as ever), but I wonder how did artificial insemination make its way to the hate list?
Yes, especially since the Church is a big fan of Jesus (wouldn't a "virgin birth" by necessity be the result of some sort of artificial insemination?)
Thanks, but not everyone is interested in creating a memorable brand.
Yes you are, just because you're not selling something doesn't mean you're not "branding" your site. Otherwise you could save yourself some money and just use your IP address.
Have you actually tried that? Search google for 'auction' and auction.com comes up first, ebay second. Searching Google for 'books' leads to Google Book search, Barnes & Noble, the NY Times book reviews, fucking SALON.COM's books area (and by the way, salon.com has nothing to do with Salons, thankyouverymuch) and then Amazon. And then, ironically, books.ebay.com.
And your point is what exactly? You searched for "books" and you got sites about books. The more specific your search, the more relevant the results will be (another reason generic names like "books" are not a good "brand" name.
I would love to make a site with aspect ratio info. Rather than burying it in my own vaguely-related-to-imaging site, I'd like to go ahead and set up a domain just for that because it comes up a lot and I've got my own idea of how much information should be presented and organized, and just sending people to wikipedia or widescreen.org isn't as good. Aspectratio.com and.net are owned by the same company and are mostly blank. No problem, I'd rather have a.org because it's a free info site or hey, maybe even an.info. But noooo, both of those names are squatted. So, what--am I supposed to register something unique and memorable like carbonatedmilk.com (oops, taken) and use that for aspect ratio and just hope that I become famous enough that people start to equate carbonated milk with aspect ratio information?
If I were branding a site about aspect ratios, I might try something like asprat.org (available), but if you want to be boring aspectratios.org is also available (at least it was when I checked, so it's probably tasted now).
There are two reasons to have sites:
1) You are a business and you want people to find you. This is where Google and the rest help. But an obvious, accurate domain name also helps here.
2) You have a site which you want to tell people about. The domain name should be memorable, yes, but being RELEVANT is a big help. Again, "name" being equal to "what it's about" is good.
The GP said he had a good idea for a SITE, not a BUSINESS. The Internet CAN be about information, you know. We're not all just whores.
So really, your advice is only useful in one of those two cases, and even then, only half the time.
I disagree, my advice applies equally to informational sites (maybe more so). If you expect people to find your site by typing what they are looking for into the address box of their browser and adding.com or.org to the end, you are not going to get many visitors. They will find you by search engines and links from related pages and return visits come from bookmarks, none of which care what your URL is.
And finally, it really comes down to the quality of your site. Are you suggesting that Amazon and eBay would not be successful if their URLs were book/books.com and auction/auctions.com?
Frankly, yes I am. Generic names make poor brands. They're not memorable and they are difficult to defend legally against copy-cats (ibooks, mybooks, bookspace, etc). It's worth noting that Barnes & Noble owns books.com but they don't market it, they simply redirect it to their main site www.bn.com.
It is so infuriating to have a good idea for a website, only to have 99% of the possible/good domain names being taken and being part of some advertizement network.
If you have a good idea for a website, pick a unique, memorable name, not an obvious one. Who's the number one auction site; auction.com or eBay? Who's the number one on-line bookseller; books.com or Amazon? What is an ebay anyway? What does a river in Brazil have to do with books? Nothing, it doesn't matter, most people are going to find your website through Google anyway rather than typing in a URL.
It'll be an interesting market shift since I don't think we've seen a case where a replacement format could co-exist and slowly take over from an existing/entrenched format, until now.
There are lots of examples where backwards compatibility eased the transition to a new format:
While slightly off-topic, the end of the referenced article is far more interesting:
While Microsoft is nudging consumers and businesses in developed markets to use its latest Windows Vista operating system, XP will remain the OS the company supports for low-cost laptops such as the Asus Eee and Intel's Classmate PC, Ayala said.
The reason is XP has a smaller footprint than Vista, Ayala said, referring to factors such as how much memory the OS uses and the size of the OS on a PC's hard drive.
Microsoft is still working through some of the "technical limitations" that remain in putting XP on the XO, the green PC from the One Laptop Per Child project, Ayala said.
Considering MS is already talking about Vista's replacement next year with Windows 7, is anyone else shocked that they are continuing to put development resources into XP?
The OP is a coward who uses anonymous posts to hide his identity. But the fact that he consistently manages to get the first or second post means he's also a subscriber. Why not make it so subscribers can't post anonymously until the topic is opened up to everyone? That would limit the visibility of this kind of post without limiting anyone else's freedom.
If this were the "old days" and your translation work was done on a typewriter would you be looking for self-destructing paper? Why are people always looking for technical solutions for business problems? Have your clients sign a contract before beginning the work and if they don't pay when you deliver then hire a collections agency (or take them to small-claims court, or demand payment up-front for first-time customers, or write it off as a business loss, or hire the mob to shake them down). Business people have been facing the problem of dead-beat customers for millenniums, the solutions are already out there.
An interesting idea, but I don't know how well having each ISP host a copy of the entire internet would work. In the early 90's some ISPs experimented with keeping a cache of the most frequently visited sites (CNN, etc) to try to minimize bandwidth but the web quickly grew too large and diverse for this to be practical. How to do you keep a local copy of Google?
5) Struggling businesses looking to save any costs they can might actually consider switching from MS Office to OpenOffice and perhaps even making the big switch from Windows to Linux. At the very least, it will certainly slow the adoption of Vista (as if it wasn't slow enough already) which can only help Open Source.
I guess people only want to give mod points when they agree with what is being written not necessarily if it offers a unique perspective.
No, they give mod points when comments are well written and/or entertaining (at least I do). Your comment was misdirected (it was really a comment on the original article and not on the book sharing comment you replied to), unoriginal and needlessly accusatory. If you had worded it differently (politely advising people to check their ISP's usage agreement to be sure they weren't in violation) you might have got a +1 informative mod. Whining about your lack of mod points (or the mod points someone else got) doesn't usually work either. If I were you, I would count myself lucky I didn't get a -1 troll mod.
with ISP you've specifically agreed you wont do that. Get some integrity!
You mean the same ISP that agreed to give me unlimited downloads but cancels my service if I pass their secret limit? The same ISP that sold me unlimited high-speed but throttles it back for certain applications? Who is that needs the integrity?
If Paramount were supporters of HD DVD all the way, why didn't they say as much? Why issue such a limp wristed statement which is open to interpretation.
Because until there is a clear winner, no studio can afford to be dismissive of the other format (or the customers who support that format) since they may have backed the loser and will end up switching. The only studios that can be 100% supporters of their current format are the ones who have a serious vested interest in it (i.e. Sony Pictures); the rest are understandably wishy-washy.
Now, with prospects for developments such as the Pentagon assigning IP addresses to individual bullets to keep track of its inventories, IPv4 address shortage workarounds that have succeeded so far increasingly will create problems, according to McManus and Tseronis.
I found a relevant article in the second result with this search (dropping 'fired' which probably isn't helpful and narrows the search too much and using 'track' instead of 'tracking' which allows for more variations in wording). BTW, while tracking inventory electronically is probably a good thing, I can't for the life of me understand why IP addresses would be used instead of DOD inventory numbers.
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No, you're thinking of midichlorians. :-)
You're assuming that Microsoft wants to compete. It's much easier and more profitable to dominate a market by lock-in than to compete in the market. Not to mention the fact that Microsoft's main competitor right now is not OpenOffice but its own earlier versions of MSOffice. One way they force people to upgrade is to change the file formats so your old MSOffice won't open documents from a newer version. They couldn't do that if they had to stick to a standard format.
C syntax, but don't worry, you're slowly getting there. With the shift from print "Hello world" to print("Hello world") and then finally to printf("Hello world") you'll have reinvented what Bell labs created in the 60's. By the way, it's a joke (thus the "smartass" qualifier), don't take it personally.
If you're going to call print as a function maybe you should rename it printf. Or better yet, switch to a real programming language that already has printf.
Unless their legal system works differently from ours, new laws are generally not retroactive, so pending cases would be bound by whatever law was in effect at the time the offense was committed. Of course, IANAL.
Yes, especially since the Church is a big fan of Jesus (wouldn't a "virgin birth" by necessity be the result of some sort of artificial insemination?)
Yes you are, just because you're not selling something doesn't mean you're not "branding" your site. Otherwise you could save yourself some money and just use your IP address.
Have you actually tried that? Search google for 'auction' and auction.com comes up first, ebay second. Searching Google for 'books' leads to Google Book search, Barnes & Noble, the NY Times book reviews, fucking SALON.COM's books area (and by the way, salon.com has nothing to do with Salons, thankyouverymuch) and then Amazon. And then, ironically, books.ebay.com.
And your point is what exactly? You searched for "books" and you got sites about books. The more specific your search, the more relevant the results will be (another reason generic names like "books" are not a good "brand" name.
I would love to make a site with aspect ratio info. Rather than burying it in my own vaguely-related-to-imaging site, I'd like to go ahead and set up a domain just for that because it comes up a lot and I've got my own idea of how much information should be presented and organized, and just sending people to wikipedia or widescreen.org isn't as good. Aspectratio.com and .net are owned by the same company and are mostly blank. No problem, I'd rather have a .org because it's a free info site or hey, maybe even an .info. But noooo, both of those names are squatted. So, what--am I supposed to register something unique and memorable like carbonatedmilk.com (oops, taken) and use that for aspect ratio and just hope that I become famous enough that people start to equate carbonated milk with aspect ratio information?
If I were branding a site about aspect ratios, I might try something like asprat.org (available), but if you want to be boring aspectratios.org is also available (at least it was when I checked, so it's probably tasted now).
There are two reasons to have sites: 1) You are a business and you want people to find you. This is where Google and the rest help. But an obvious, accurate domain name also helps here. 2) You have a site which you want to tell people about. The domain name should be memorable, yes, but being RELEVANT is a big help. Again, "name" being equal to "what it's about" is good. The GP said he had a good idea for a SITE, not a BUSINESS. The Internet CAN be about information, you know. We're not all just whores. So really, your advice is only useful in one of those two cases, and even then, only half the time.
I disagree, my advice applies equally to informational sites (maybe more so). If you expect people to find your site by typing what they are looking for into the address box of their browser and adding .com or .org to the end, you are not going to get many visitors. They will find you by search engines and links from related pages and return visits come from bookmarks, none of which care what your URL is.
And finally, it really comes down to the quality of your site. Are you suggesting that Amazon and eBay would not be successful if their URLs were book/books.com and auction/auctions.com?
Frankly, yes I am. Generic names make poor brands. They're not memorable and they are difficult to defend legally against copy-cats (ibooks, mybooks, bookspace, etc). It's worth noting that Barnes & Noble owns books.com but they don't market it, they simply redirect it to their main site www.bn.com.
If you have a good idea for a website, pick a unique, memorable name, not an obvious one. Who's the number one auction site; auction.com or eBay? Who's the number one on-line bookseller; books.com or Amazon? What is an ebay anyway? What does a river in Brazil have to do with books? Nothing, it doesn't matter, most people are going to find your website through Google anyway rather than typing in a URL.
There are lots of examples where backwards compatibility eased the transition to a new format:
B&W TV to Color TV
Mono TV to Stereo TV
78 RPM records to 33 1/3 RPM records
DOS to Windows 3.1 to Windows9X to WinXP etc.
Considering MS is already talking about Vista's replacement next year with Windows 7, is anyone else shocked that they are continuing to put development resources into XP?
Encourage it how? By giving the creator a limited time to make exclusive commercial gain from it.
Why is more time needed today? Are content creators encouraged to develop new works after they're dead, because that's how long copyright lasts.
Unfortunately they were suppressed by corporations with huge lobbying budgets.
The OP is a coward who uses anonymous posts to hide his identity. But the fact that he consistently manages to get the first or second post means he's also a subscriber. Why not make it so subscribers can't post anonymously until the topic is opened up to everyone? That would limit the visibility of this kind of post without limiting anyone else's freedom.
If this were the "old days" and your translation work was done on a typewriter would you be looking for self-destructing paper? Why are people always looking for technical solutions for business problems? Have your clients sign a contract before beginning the work and if they don't pay when you deliver then hire a collections agency (or take them to small-claims court, or demand payment up-front for first-time customers, or write it off as a business loss, or hire the mob to shake them down). Business people have been facing the problem of dead-beat customers for millenniums, the solutions are already out there.
US companies funding US lobby groups to pressure the Canadian government into passing US-style DCMA laws? I think it's very relevant.
There's a demand for atheists? I knew there had to be jobs for philosophy majors somewhere.
Are you sure those aren't chairs?
An interesting idea, but I don't know how well having each ISP host a copy of the entire internet would work. In the early 90's some ISPs experimented with keeping a cache of the most frequently visited sites (CNN, etc) to try to minimize bandwidth but the web quickly grew too large and diverse for this to be practical. How to do you keep a local copy of Google?
5) Struggling businesses looking to save any costs they can might actually consider switching from MS Office to OpenOffice and perhaps even making the big switch from Windows to Linux. At the very least, it will certainly slow the adoption of Vista (as if it wasn't slow enough already) which can only help Open Source.
No, they give mod points when comments are well written and/or entertaining (at least I do). Your comment was misdirected (it was really a comment on the original article and not on the book sharing comment you replied to), unoriginal and needlessly accusatory. If you had worded it differently (politely advising people to check their ISP's usage agreement to be sure they weren't in violation) you might have got a +1 informative mod. Whining about your lack of mod points (or the mod points someone else got) doesn't usually work either. If I were you, I would count myself lucky I didn't get a -1 troll mod.
You mean the same ISP that agreed to give me unlimited downloads but cancels my service if I pass their secret limit? The same ISP that sold me unlimited high-speed but throttles it back for certain applications? Who is that needs the integrity?
Because until there is a clear winner, no studio can afford to be dismissive of the other format (or the customers who support that format) since they may have backed the loser and will end up switching. The only studios that can be 100% supporters of their current format are the ones who have a serious vested interest in it (i.e. Sony Pictures); the rest are understandably wishy-washy.
The only way Bill wouldn't know Vista is a total mess is if he's still using XP.
I thought the prevailing theory was that it was a comet rather than an asteroid since it left no crater.
I found a relevant article in the second result with this search (dropping 'fired' which probably isn't helpful and narrows the search too much and using 'track' instead of 'tracking' which allows for more variations in wording). BTW, while tracking inventory electronically is probably a good thing, I can't for the life of me understand why IP addresses would be used instead of DOD inventory numbers.