Actually, SP2 was a pretty danged intuitive package. I'm a PHP developer, and am very unimpressed with most asp.net web things I see, but SP2 blew me away. Its main virtue was ease of use. Along comes SP3, and MS finally realized that they had created a usable interface and needed to fix it immediately. All versions of SP after 2 have gotten heavier, kludgier, slower, and more confusing to use. In short, they show the same innovative thinking that the Office ribbon does. If you like the ribbon, you're probably impressed with what SP has become and will scold me.
"CNET's policy is that Download.com is not in any position to determine whether a piece of software is legal or not, or whether it can be used for illegal activity. As I understand it, plenty of the software at issue has significant non-infringing uses. As for removing illegal software, CNET has a record of doing that. When the RIAA made a request to pull LimeWire, the once popular file-sharing software, CNET managers declined until a federal district judge ruled in 2010 that the service indeed violated copyright law. "
Good for you, CNET. Please, also add that they may kiss your collective ass for asking.
The funny thing is that for years the RIAA was that cool organization that presented artists with those gold and platinum records. I bought quite a few records back in those days, but felt a twinge of guilt when I would record them onto cassettes to spare wear and tear on the record. The guilt increased a bit if I recorded friends' albums, although I tended to eventually spring for my own copy of the good ones, just so i could get a more pristine cassette recording.
That was before they destroyed Napster, and proceeded on to suing folks of all shapes, sizes, colors, and ages for, basically, copying albums to cassettes.
Now, I buy my music from Russian websites. The RIAA gets zilch. I get mp3's which are of a high enough quality that I highly prize them, and keep them redundantly backed up.
I also share with friends, via sneakernet.
If an artist blows me away (e.g. Bonnie Bramlett, of Delaney and Bonnie), and are clearly not already fabulously wealthy (e.g. Mick Jagger), I actually will track down their agent and send them a modest check from my S corporation. It's a tax-deductable contribution to someone who has earned their pay.
Otherwise, i might visit an artist's website and score some bling.
You see, money passes from my hands to a music seller. It passes from my hands directly to the artist. Or it passes from my hands to an enterprise connected with the artist that pays nothing to the RIAA.
You can say downloaders are destroying the traditional business model for music, RIAA, but the reals criminal here is staring back at you in the mirror. You have managed to anger me (and how many millions of others) enough to work out a fair and square way to purchase guilt-free music.
Tell him to get his resume at every temp agency he can find.
Most IT jobs, at least in my area, are work-to-hire via the temps. In fact, my current job (intranet sysadmin) was obtained by accepting a work-for-hire assignment as a network admin!
I was set up by a lokel yokel business with my first box back in 1993. His patient training got me past the point of playing games and into actually developing a new career in IT. I'll always be grateful to him for that.
From the MSDN post: "Then please, DON'T make ALL CAPS the default... If a developer wants it, he or she can opt-in."
I believe that's the point of this/. discussion, Yet-Another-Ribbon-Type-Piece-of-Shit-Forced-Upon-Our-Paying-Customers. For additional references, see Vista, Server 2008, IIS 7, etc.
I was informed of a class action lawsuit regarding Ocwen Mortgage Company. I opted in. I have received some very nice settlement checks for interest overcharge. So clearly, "class action lawsuits never deliver anything of real value to the people who actually suffered from whatever prompted the class action suit" is not a valid statement.
What can be done to avoid political bias and how do we do it consistently?
About the only way I can think of is to avoid politics altogether. Too bad we can't determine a man's heroics or douchebaggery without first determining if he's a liberal or a conservative. By the time we figure that out, most of the time, we've already decided his (or her) worth. Sad.
Thanks. Like the reader below stated, I've never had time to pore through the standards, I just know that Firefox seems to ignore the alt tag. OK, not IGNORE it, but it doesn't present its content as a balloon.
...that Facebook is already past its prime? I'm getting a serious AOL flashback every time I read something like this, that it's teenyboppers and grandmas who are affected, most other demographics have already moved on to Google+ and the like.
Some say that the mass extinction which was allegedly caused by the meteorite that hit Central America was in fact the result of a global conflagration caused by a group of teenaged stegosaurs on a camping trip who thought it would be funny to light one off...
And fergodsakes get the price down to a album for a dollar or two. I've bought hundreds of dollars' worth of music from Russian sites under those price ranges. Ten bucks for an album is too much. I, the consumer, has spoken.
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They probably also had "data" proving that the public wanted the Ribbon abortion in Office. God, if I *pay* for it, I should get what I WANT.
My people? Who the **** are YOU?
...the same press that roasted Bush over Katrina won't have a thing to say about Obama now?
Actually, SP2 was a pretty danged intuitive package. I'm a PHP developer, and am very unimpressed with most asp.net web things I see, but SP2 blew me away. Its main virtue was ease of use. Along comes SP3, and MS finally realized that they had created a usable interface and needed to fix it immediately. All versions of SP after 2 have gotten heavier, kludgier, slower, and more confusing to use. In short, they show the same innovative thinking that the Office ribbon does. If you like the ribbon, you're probably impressed with what SP has become and will scold me.
"Yammer"
Good for you, CNET. Please, also add that they may kiss your collective ass for asking.
Executing repeat child molesters????? Why, the liberals would EXECUTE you for coming up with such a notion!
That was before they destroyed Napster, and proceeded on to suing folks of all shapes, sizes, colors, and ages for, basically, copying albums to cassettes.
Now, I buy my music from Russian websites. The RIAA gets zilch. I get mp3's which are of a high enough quality that I highly prize them, and keep them redundantly backed up.
I also share with friends, via sneakernet.
If an artist blows me away (e.g. Bonnie Bramlett, of Delaney and Bonnie), and are clearly not already fabulously wealthy (e.g. Mick Jagger), I actually will track down their agent and send them a modest check from my S corporation. It's a tax-deductable contribution to someone who has earned their pay.
Otherwise, i might visit an artist's website and score some bling.
You see, money passes from my hands to a music seller. It passes from my hands directly to the artist. Or it passes from my hands to an enterprise connected with the artist that pays nothing to the RIAA.
You can say downloaders are destroying the traditional business model for music, RIAA, but the reals criminal here is staring back at you in the mirror. You have managed to anger me (and how many millions of others) enough to work out a fair and square way to purchase guilt-free music.
Tell him to get his resume at every temp agency he can find. Most IT jobs, at least in my area, are work-to-hire via the temps. In fact, my current job (intranet sysadmin) was obtained by accepting a work-for-hire assignment as a network admin!
I was set up by a lokel yokel business with my first box back in 1993. His patient training got me past the point of playing games and into actually developing a new career in IT. I'll always be grateful to him for that.
From the MSDN post: "Then please, DON'T make ALL CAPS the default... If a developer wants it, he or she can opt-in." I believe that's the point of this /. discussion, Yet-Another-Ribbon-Type-Piece-of-Shit-Forced-Upon-Our-Paying-Customers. For additional references, see Vista, Server 2008, IIS 7, etc.
I'd like to change that to "Warning! This truck is being driven by an inbred asshole with no regard for your safety! Stay clear!"
I was informed of a class action lawsuit regarding Ocwen Mortgage Company. I opted in. I have received some very nice settlement checks for interest overcharge. So clearly, "class action lawsuits never deliver anything of real value to the people who actually suffered from whatever prompted the class action suit" is not a valid statement.
About the only way I can think of is to avoid politics altogether. Too bad we can't determine a man's heroics or douchebaggery without first determining if he's a liberal or a conservative. By the time we figure that out, most of the time, we've already decided his (or her) worth. Sad.
Thanks. Like the reader below stated, I've never had time to pore through the standards, I just know that Firefox seems to ignore the alt tag. OK, not IGNORE it, but it doesn't present its content as a balloon.
I couldn't find a link to the site anywhere, did they abandon the alt tag for images and go with title? AFAIK, "alt" is strictly an IE thing.
LOL, name one MS innovation in the last three years that hasn't turned out to be a joke. A BAD joke.
...that Internet Explorer will be required to participate. @_o
I noticed TPB timing out last evening in the US.
Part of me wants to see this succeed. Then let's see what excuse the AA-holes come up with for people bypassing buying crap.
Goldilocks didn't have any dwarfs! Geez...
...that Facebook is already past its prime? I'm getting a serious AOL flashback every time I read something like this, that it's teenyboppers and grandmas who are affected, most other demographics have already moved on to Google+ and the like.
Some say that the mass extinction which was allegedly caused by the meteorite that hit Central America was in fact the result of a global conflagration caused by a group of teenaged stegosaurs on a camping trip who thought it would be funny to light one off...
Yes, shut up. Dammit, we have a chance to rant about Bush here, and you're ruining it for everybody!
And fergodsakes get the price down to a album for a dollar or two. I've bought hundreds of dollars' worth of music from Russian sites under those price ranges. Ten bucks for an album is too much. I, the consumer, has spoken.