I think it was meant to be read thus.

Let me know when your favorite MS Office alternative can open and flawlessly display every Office file that I have, or may receive from somebody else. I also need a guarantee that files I create with it can be sent to people using MS Office, and they'll be able to use them without incident.

In all reality, MS Office doesn't offer that kind of guarantee.

The blazon (the heraldic technical description) of the arms is what officially defines them, and it doesn't include the particular sequence of digits; it just says "in base a bar wavy Sable inscribed with zeros and ones Or."

So even if it means something, that particular sequence is just the artist's interpretation; somebody else who redrew the arms would be entitled to change it. Most likely, it's just what the artist liked visually.

Interestingly, IE 9 seems to be following the rules for CSS and ES5, perhaps better than the other browsers. I'm cautiously optimistic.

In other non-TV media there is a balance for both sides, but of course most Americans only watch TV News.

Well, newspapers often reflect the preconceptions of their reporters, which are substantially liberal (in the American sense of the word). But mainstream US newspapers at least try for balance, even if they don't always succeed, which is far more than can be said for the TV networks.

WHEN THE FUCK ARE WE GOING TO STOP TREATING SEX AS SPECIAL?

Maybe when it works the same way as the other human appetites? Which is to say, presumably never. I mean, nobody puts up videos of someone else eating a really good plate of fettuccini alfredo.

Try the Pirate dialect for setting up privacy options:

"Make ye parchment of ye mateys visible to arrrrvreyone?"

Let's see... um... "Arrrrr!" or "Walk the plank!"...

Sounds like they suck. Cablevision doesnt dump a ton of extra taxes on our bill (which is one of the things they point out in their comparisons to Verizon's extra $25-30 of taxes and fees) - nor do they charge termination fees or have contracts (unlike Verizon's 2 year contract and almost $400 termination fee), and various of my TVs do not have set-top boxes (which doesnt lose me many of the channels I actually watch). For the ones I do have set top boxes, it's only costing me an extra $5 a month (which, with a few can be talked down to as little as $2 each) and for "DVR like purposes" I have a combo DVD/VHS deck which I can auto-program to record what I want straight from either the non-cable-box signal or from the cable box (which it will tune to the correct channel and record to either DVD or VHS).

I've known people who have done that... maybe that is also part of the reason some cable companies are no longer selling (or making people jump through hoops to get) cable internet only (ie: with no cable TV package attached).

That's the sad problem. It doesnt cost more to do so. But yes, ad revenue from showing the ads that you and others may or may not watch, does increase the revenue base - the advertisers do pay for the ads shown to x number of viewers whether the viewers actually watch them or go make a cup of coffee while the ads are showing. In this respect, them and the various channels are also getting smarter in running commercials at the same time and/or even running the same ads on channels they think may have competing shows on (I've seen more and more that if I am watching "Some SciFi show #1" on one channel and switch to "Some SciFi show #2" on another channel, that the major ad spot is the same on both channels, at the exact same time). That mentality doesnt help either, when it comes to more shows moving to Internet delivery - which then of course doesnt help us who want to get cheap Internet without the cost of (or need to get) cable tacked on.

I suspect one day advertisers and content producers will all be on board with having a good method of maintaining those revenues via Internet delivery. Some big advertisers have already jumped onto that bandwagon (for instance Reebok and Legend of the Seeker online).

Therein lies the problem. The studios and advertisers are (as always) behind the times when it comes to figuring out how to monetize their products online.

Sad huh? And thusly, for people like you and me, a combined package becomes our only alternative to get cheap-yet-fast Internet.

This definition is probably looser than most, but here's a quick and dirty view:

The Web is a huge collection of interlinked documents addressable by URLs and served with HTTP. The Internet is the world-wide TCP/IP network over which the Web and many other services operate.

It depends on the terms, I doubt Adobe would want to give Apple a 30% cut.

What do retailers make on it now?

A government agency, they do have some kind of fourth amendment obligations regarding their students; the precedent doesn't seem to make it really clear just how far those obligations go, however.

(This is my non-lawyerly memory, so maybe the rules look coherent to lawyers, but I doubt it.)

But who would want to move away from Windows?

Do your really need to ask this on Slashdot?

More seriously, they're limited to only versions of Windows on which IE6 runs. As XP gets rather long in the tooth and 7 isn't looking so bad, their hands are tied until they deal with the IE6 app.

On the script writers deal in absolutes!