Will my flying car be powered by batteries or capacitors? From the blurb (RTFA? WTF?) the caps are twice the size of nicads, does that me I get a bigger flying car?
I don't mind (too much) when they add features. Some new features I actually find handy, although there's little I can do with today's tools that I couldn't do ten years ago.
But deprecating features? Why should I have to go back and rewrite a ten year old page because they're deprecating <font size="+1"> or <font color="000000">?
It seems they could both radically improve javascript and add in support for additional scripting languages. It would come at the price of increasing the size of the browsers, but that seems a small price to pay for the increased flexibility for developers.
Yeah, that sounds fair. Penalize ME, the web surfer, by making my browser bigger and slower so YOU don't have to work so hard.
Yep, you get the benefits, I get to pay. Nice. You know, there's damned little you can't do now on a website with today's available tools. I don't WANT a more bloated browser and I don't WANT any more whiz-bang features. To quote #2 from The Prisoner: "Information. We want information. And by hook or by crook, we'll get it".
We're here for the content. In case you haven't noticed, most of any website's useful parts are plain old HTML (often with embedded audio/video). The flash and javascript are almost always used for nothing but advertising. Screw that!
I of course didn't RTFA (eye muss knot bee knew hear, looser) so I have to ask: was one of them Ted Turner?
Note that if you don't click the link this coment may seem flamebait or offtopic, and the joke will be on you. Hey, wait a minute, IN SOVIET Ru OW OW stop hitting me!
#1, if you don't vote, you are casting your vote as "whatever..." which seems to be the younger generation's motto.
#2 true, but I'm a US citizen living in the US YOU tell ME about your generation (or your kid's or dad's) in YOUR country. How would I know what kids are like in Tierra Del Fuego? And unless you are a Tierra Del Fuegan, how would you know?
The trouble is, you can't own a domain. If I owned my domain I wouldn't have to pay registration fees to a registrar; I would register it once and it would be mine, to pass to my heirs forever, like the aformentioned house. But the reality is I forgot to renew it one year and paid hell getting it back!
That is my domain (not the only one I posess, either), why can't I have the right to privacy? I'm no business or corporation, just some average schmuck with a website. Personally, I don't believe corporations or businesses should be able to own property. IMO only people should be able to own property.
Only if they want to. Say, for instance you want to open a porn site (NSFW!!!!). That can cause problems with a certain demographic, e.g., radical Christians.
Or say you wanted to open an online King James Bible with no advertising. That can cause problems with a certain demographic, e.g., slashdotters. Whois isn't going to tell you who owns the Bible site; the tome itself says to do your alms in secret. You are going to unmask the fellow who's paying to put the Bible online?
Oh right, this is slashdot. Holy shit, I just realized how this post is going to be modded...
PS- there's nothing in the bible that says you can't get drunk and gamble with dope smoking hookers. I looked it up, trust me. OTOH it does say collecting interest on a debt, eating a ham sandwich, and shaving (among other things) are sins. Pat Robertson will burn in hell!!!;)
Who would have thought that Napster execs would have mod points? I mean, "flamebait"??? We're not talking about Apple here; nobody at slashdot is going to be upset with the opinion "Napster sucks".
In this case, making backups so you can listen once you terminate your service is really abusing the system
You mean like time shifting a TV show with your VCR is abusing the system, Mr. Clueless Anonymous Record Company Executive? Do you have any idea how many episodes of Star Trek I taped that are on my shelf right now? And how little I care about what a thief and liar like a record or music executive thinks?
"Napster has concluded that PC-based music subscriptions aren't a growth business... because it's retreating from its core business.
Damn, I just made the comment in the other RIAA story
Their third mistake was seeing MP3s as "product" rather than "advertising". They have always been known as "record companies", and they sold records. Now they're trying to sell music, and music is a non-tangible item. Note that the indies actually do this, giving away MP3s and selling CDs at their shows.
If brains were dynamite, a record company executive wouldn't have enough to blow his nose.
As you no longer need millions of dollars to build a studio, or millions of dollars to make a record, they should be in the promotion business. Trouble is they've never been very good at it, because they didn't have to. They say themselves that the high price of a Beatles CD is to pay for twenty five bands like [insert twenty five unknown bands who record for MCA].
No, nowhere near the beginning. The RIAA labels' suicide started years ago and is still ongoing. Now, if you're scratching your heads and are wondering WTF I mean by "suicide", the established industry is dying from its own actions.
The year the old "pirate" Napster was being sued, CD sales (IIRC) were at their peak and have been dwindling since. The RIAA boycott (that you have never even once heard about in the mainstream media - hmmm....) must have had some slight effect on the industry.
Their first mistake was to think CD burning technology wouldn't, like all computer technology before it, be affordable for the serfs.
Their second mistake was to try to kill their competetion, the indies, by killing P2P.
Their third mistake was seeing MP3s as "product" rather than "advertising". They have always been known as "record companies", and they sold records. Now they're trying to sell music, and music is a non-tangible item. Note that the indies actually do this, giving away MP3s and selling CDs at their shows.
There were other mistakes - overpricing their wares (an indie CD is usually $5-$10), only having one good song on the CD (my generatiuon was damned lucky, have you ever heard a Led Zepplin song that sucked? There aren't any!), suing their paying customers (DUH!!!!!!) etc.
All their woes are self-inflicted. Now by "suicide" I'm assuming that you'll agree that if a mosquito lands on your foot and you try to kill the mosquito by firing five shots from a sixteen guage shotgun at it and you bleed to death, it's suicide.
Its neither funny or a troll, and the mods did indeed fix it; it's now a "5, insightful". The only way a rich powerful man goes to jail in America is if a richer, more powerful man wants him in jail.
Look how long Illinois' last Governor, George Ryan has stayed out of prison for the "professional drivers' licence bribery" scandal, where whole families died horrible burning deaths because Ryan (as Secretary of State at eth time) was selling CDL's (professional drivers licenses; what you need to drive a semi) to people who couldn't even speak or read English, let alone pass a CDL exam.
Or look at OJ Simpson (I wonder if Springfield's alderman is related to OJ or Homer? Does Bart call Ward 2 alderman Simpson "Aunt Gail?")
Geezer song explained: In the '70s, the word "straight" meant not "heterosexual", but "drug-free". A homosexual was straight if he was sober, and heterosexual wasn't straight if he was stoned. As to "late", well, you're all nerds and have all met Slartibartfast.
The song is about tripping on acid, which often made one think he was dead or dying. The LSD experience is such that you can no more explain it to someone who has never dropped acid than you can explain the color red to a man blind at birth. I Talk To The Wind (on the album referenced by the parent poster) is an attempot to explain the color red to a man blind from birth.
; Said the straight man to the late man Where have you been Ive been here and Ive been there And Ive been in between.
I talk to the wind My words are all carried away I talk to the wind The wind does not hear The wind cannot hear.
Im on the outside looking inside What do I see Much confusion, disillusion All around me.
You dont possess me Dont impress me Just upset my mind Cant instruct me or conduct me Just use up my time
I talk to the wind My words are all carried away I talk to the wind The wind does not hear The wind cannot hear.
When you are born, you are more inteolligent than you ever will be for the rest of your life. Your capacity to learn is at its peak. You only get stupider afterwards.
However, you are also completely, 100% ignorant, more ignorant than you will ever be for the rest of your life. Your ignorance is at its peak, you know NOTHING. You only get more experienced afterwards.
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Will my flying car be powered by batteries or capacitors? From the blurb (RTFA? WTF?) the caps are twice the size of nicads, does that me I get a bigger flying car?
Keep the original code that works well
I don't mind (too much) when they add features. Some new features I actually find handy, although there's little I can do with today's tools that I couldn't do ten years ago.
But deprecating features? Why should I have to go back and rewrite a ten year old page because they're deprecating <font size="+1"> or <font color="000000">?
-mcgrew
As a shopkeeper, I really couldn't care less which way it goes.
Just get that bull out of my china shop!
-mcgrew
It seems they could both radically improve javascript and add in support for additional scripting languages. It would come at the price of increasing the size of the browsers, but that seems a small price to pay for the increased flexibility for developers.
Yeah, that sounds fair. Penalize ME, the web surfer, by making my browser bigger and slower so YOU don't have to work so hard.
Yep, you get the benefits, I get to pay. Nice. You know, there's damned little you can't do now on a website with today's available tools. I don't WANT a more bloated browser and I don't WANT any more whiz-bang features. To quote #2 from The Prisoner: "Information. We want information. And by hook or by crook, we'll get it".
We're here for the content. In case you haven't noticed, most of any website's useful parts are plain old HTML (often with embedded audio/video). The flash and javascript are almost always used for nothing but advertising. Screw that!
-mcgrew
They weren't suing for defamation, they were suing for invasion of privacy.
I of course didn't RTFA (eye muss knot bee knew hear, looser) so I have to ask: was one of them Ted Turner?
Note that if you don't click the link this coment may seem flamebait or offtopic, and the joke will be on you. Hey, wait a minute, IN SOVIET Ru OW OW stop hitting me!
-mcgrew
#1, if you don't vote, you are casting your vote as "whatever..." which seems to be the younger generation's motto.
#2 true, but I'm a US citizen living in the US YOU tell ME about your generation (or your kid's or dad's) in YOUR country. How would I know what kids are like in Tierra Del Fuego? And unless you are a Tierra Del Fuegan, how would you know?
I've been the target of not only marketing garbage, but also some threatening letters. That isn't fun at all.
Heh, you should have been me back when I regularly posted at K5. Of course, since I'm a moron I probably brought it all on myself...;)
-mcgrew
Well, now we know who's paying for that bible site, Mr. Anonymous Coward! You can expect the slashdot jihad to take down your site any time now!
-mcgrew
PS- NOBODY expects... oh buggers
I like how you accented the point you were making by posting AC. Well done sir, I salute you.
The trouble is, you can't own a domain. If I owned my domain I wouldn't have to pay registration fees to a registrar; I would register it once and it would be mine, to pass to my heirs forever, like the aformentioned house. But the reality is I forgot to renew it one year and paid hell getting it back!
That is my domain (not the only one I posess, either), why can't I have the right to privacy? I'm no business or corporation, just some average schmuck with a website. Personally, I don't believe corporations or businesses should be able to own property. IMO only people should be able to own property.
-mcgrew
Only if they want to. Say, for instance you want to open a porn site (NSFW!!!!). That can cause problems with a certain demographic, e.g., radical Christians.
;)
Or say you wanted to open an online King James Bible with no advertising. That can cause problems with a certain demographic, e.g., slashdotters. Whois isn't going to tell you who owns the Bible site; the tome itself says to do your alms in secret. You are going to unmask the fellow who's paying to put the Bible online?
Oh right, this is slashdot. Holy shit, I just realized how this post is going to be modded...
-mcgrew
PS- there's nothing in the bible that says you can't get drunk and gamble with dope smoking hookers. I looked it up, trust me. OTOH it does say collecting interest on a debt, eating a ham sandwich, and shaving (among other things) are sins. Pat Robertson will burn in hell!!!
It makes sense - why download music, when it's so easy to sample a better quality file off the radio for free?
There, fixed that for you.
-mcgrew
Who would have thought that Napster execs would have mod points? I mean, "flamebait"??? We're not talking about Apple here; nobody at slashdot is going to be upset with the opinion "Napster sucks".
I should paste the entire Birth of a label-sanctioned pirate radio station here, that would cause a few of the RIAA trollsuits to have strokes!
-mcgrew
PS- I have excellent karma, do your worst you MAFIAA sleazeballs.
In this case, making backups so you can listen once you terminate your service is really abusing the system
You mean like time shifting a TV show with your VCR is abusing the system, Mr. Clueless Anonymous Record Company Executive? Do you have any idea how many episodes of Star Trek I taped that are on my shelf right now? And how little I care about what a thief and liar like a record or music executive thinks?
Which finger am I holding up right now?
-mcgrew
Damn, I just made the comment in the other RIAA storyIf brains were dynamite, a record company executive wouldn't have enough to blow his nose.
As you no longer need millions of dollars to build a studio, or millions of dollars to make a record, they should be in the promotion business. Trouble is they've never been very good at it, because they didn't have to. They say themselves that the high price of a Beatles CD is to pay for twenty five bands like [insert twenty five unknown bands who record for MCA].
-mcgrew
Maybe all the students in the dorm could each claim they were the guilty party?
"Is thewe anyone hewe named... Bwian?"
No, nowhere near the beginning. The RIAA labels' suicide started years ago and is still ongoing. Now, if you're scratching your heads and are wondering WTF I mean by "suicide", the established industry is dying from its own actions.
The year the old "pirate" Napster was being sued, CD sales (IIRC) were at their peak and have been dwindling since. The RIAA boycott (that you have never even once heard about in the mainstream media - hmmm....) must have had some slight effect on the industry.
Their first mistake was to think CD burning technology wouldn't, like all computer technology before it, be affordable for the serfs.
Their second mistake was to try to kill their competetion, the indies, by killing P2P.
Their third mistake was seeing MP3s as "product" rather than "advertising". They have always been known as "record companies", and they sold records. Now they're trying to sell music, and music is a non-tangible item. Note that the indies actually do this, giving away MP3s and selling CDs at their shows.
There were other mistakes - overpricing their wares (an indie CD is usually $5-$10), only having one good song on the CD (my generatiuon was damned lucky, have you ever heard a Led Zepplin song that sucked? There aren't any!), suing their paying customers (DUH!!!!!!) etc.
All their woes are self-inflicted. Now by "suicide" I'm assuming that you'll agree that if a mosquito lands on your foot and you try to kill the mosquito by firing five shots from a sixteen guage shotgun at it and you bleed to death, it's suicide.
-mcgrew
Its neither funny or a troll, and the mods did indeed fix it; it's now a "5, insightful". The only way a rich powerful man goes to jail in America is if a richer, more powerful man wants him in jail.
Look how long Illinois' last Governor, George Ryan has stayed out of prison for the "professional drivers' licence bribery" scandal, where whole families died horrible burning deaths because Ryan (as Secretary of State at eth time) was selling CDL's (professional drivers licenses; what you need to drive a semi) to people who couldn't even speak or read English, let alone pass a CDL exam.
Or look at OJ Simpson (I wonder if Springfield's alderman is related to OJ or Homer? Does Bart call Ward 2 alderman Simpson "Aunt Gail?")
-mcgrew
In the '70s, the word "straight" meant not "heterosexual", but "drug-free". A homosexual was straight if he was sober, and heterosexual wasn't straight if he was stoned. As to "late", well, you're all nerds and have all met Slartibartfast.
The song is about tripping on acid, which often made one think he was dead or dying. The LSD experience is such that you can no more explain it to someone who has never dropped acid than you can explain the color red to a man blind at birth. I Talk To The Wind (on the album referenced by the parent poster) is an attempot to explain the color red to a man blind from birth.
-mcgrew
I have to say, FP author, you've managed to write a summary that insults pretty much everybody! Kudos!
Damn, a trolling flamebait that makes slashdot's front page. He should become a professional troll, like that sweet Ms. Coulter!
-mcgrew (55)
Don't know the difference between a flame and a troll.
Pathos. Full of pathos.
-mcgrew (55)
When you are born, you are more inteolligent than you ever will be for the rest of your life. Your capacity to learn is at its peak. You only get stupider afterwards.
However, you are also completely, 100% ignorant, more ignorant than you will ever be for the rest of your life. Your ignorance is at its peak, you know NOTHING. You only get more experienced afterwards.
-mcgrew
LOL, you young illiterates can pray for us all you want, while us geezers will prey on you illiterate young fools.
mcgrew (55)
How old is she? Is she single?