Posts by Tom 7 8318 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
"And how should a website owner get statistics of his traffic then?"
Its quite easy to do - you dont need to go to a 2nd party for this information - its only the williterate that need to pay others for web basics.
As for google analytices etc - NoScript them - you'd be amazed how much faster sites work!
if its anything like the Iphone it will improve the MEP's productivity to the point of not doing anything at all and all those lobbyists sidestepping democracy will be on the receiving end of how great the Ipad is until they have go and get one and be so unproductive that lobbying will die out and we might just be able to get on with out lives.
I don't think I've been so unimpressed for a long time. Well not since I last looked at an e-reader. I can get a much better (screenwise higher res -smaller but then half a page is enough) netbook from argos clearance and with 160G hard drive and longer battery life for less. And its so much more useful - try reading an e-reader in bed - you really want something that folds in half...
Oh and it works as a computer as well...
in IT classes. So do physics departments argue over which knitting patterns to use?
Teaching office skills is all well and good - but in IT classes?
Its no wonder kids coming out of college think debugging involves staring long and hard at the screen and praying. A 2.1 in looking thing up in MSN is really helpful when the coffee machines knackered.
"H.264 is highly encumbered with patents, but at least you know what they are and how much they cost"
Until 2015 !! Then, only then will MPEG-LA tell you how much its REALLY going to cost!
Google is not choosing to fight this battle - its those companies who use the drug pusher model to try and make money out of other peoples work and hope that by threatening very costly legal action you will buy their 'service'. Their service being to charge you to use your computer to watch video downloaded using the internet connection you've already payed for. A bit like me putting a coin meter in your telly and charging you to watch the BBC.
Google should do for languages what they've just done for video.
If they, and Mozilla could perhaps make JavaScript2* so we could work in the same language for web pages as on the server - and sidestep MS and Adobes attempts to help develop javascript by joining the standards body** then we might get somewhere.
OK MS and Apple might not implement it for a while but once FF et all have implementations that make your browser run like a proper GUI*** they'd soon follow.
* this had most (if not all) the bits required for 'proper' programming
** business speak for cutting its head off and pooing down its neck so their own bastard proprietary stuff gets a look-in where it wouldnt otherwise.
*** its been possible for 15 years or so - but for proprietary implementations of web specs.
chucked out my £75 Dab radio - I gave it to someone who has put it in his garden shed. It was just awful - fm just hisses a bit when the signal drops or is interrupted - dab either sounds like shit gurgling down a drain or cracks and pops and attempt to blow up my very expensive HiFi. The man in the shop lent me a top of the range one to try - that was even worse.
I have a problem with people trying to generate a revenue stream with a piece of new technology but when its worse than the thing its replacing that's just called theft.
I'm really looking forward to a good clean open source codec being hampered by memory leaks and infinite loops from dreamdamper produced 'flash'.
For a moment there it looked as if I'd get to use the CPU on my computer but Adobe has graciously offered to remove that onerous responsibility from me.
But the money they make in the states is being used to ensure that the bleeding obvious will be patentable over here.
I would bet my annual salary that MS spend more on 'influencing' the law makers in the EU and UK than they do on actually writing video-codec support code.
And judging from UK bottom licking of the US if you actually made an H.264 encoded video you'd get a free one way trip to the US just in case someone there felt you were infringing.
This is modern business. Just because you pay lots of money for something doesn't mean you own it!
BB - you can only use the bits your ISP lets you
Music industry is working on pay as you listen so you will have to pay everytime you listen to your favourite track or youre a freetard.
Windows - on license
Your PC - see above - you have to upgrade when MS need a cash injection.
These are all apparently modern innovative business practices. I'm just waiting for Monsanto to demand your gut is separated from your stomach so you have to eat twenty times as much of their products to live.
If you dont like it go buy a government or two - they did.
@Bugs R Us - they are ten a penny as that's what they're generally worth. However every upgrade seems to require a lot of very expensive training courses to find out where the icon/menu item has moved to so the company they work for can continue hiding its data in more and more complicated 'documents'.
"Of course, a better one would be that it's in the businesses' best interests to live in the real world,"
But they do - they know full well that an internet owned by its users and a music industry controlled by those that create the music leads to their rapid destruction. Their only business model is to buy protection law from an ignorant (corrupt?) government.
For every illegal download there are 20 lost sales to the musician due to the music industries 'value added' costs.
I've found that if you use computer shaped documents - HTML works pretty well - and construct your documents in screen sized chunks rather than paper sized chunks then there is no need to print them - and they are so much more manageable that way too! A lot less virus ridden than Pointless Document Format too!
The only thing I've printed lately was some check-in documents for a holiday in Portugal. They didnt work either!
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