Hah! I took pretty much those same calls working for another internet provider. Countless!

Ugh! Windows indoctrination at such a young age!

"use to be an anti MS zealot many moons ago but changed."

I think the real question is WHO changed, us or Microsoft.

"The post is a wonderfully pedantic argument about dating (things, not people,"

Of course! I don't think any of them are likely to have any experience dating people!

You could always design the building in the first place to minimize those nooks and crannys that a robot couldn't reach. That is way too practical of a solution though and would never catch on so long as the people inside need a way to show off all their money.

Sure, of course. You will notice though that I actually copied in the specific sentence I was replying to. It's not that unusual to know someone who lived at the turn of the last century. That's the only point I was trying to make. I wasn' t making any claims about how long copyrights should last.

What an insulting thing to say about the astronaut!

" I sure as hell don't know anyone who lived at the turn of the last century."

She is gone now of course but I remember my Great Grandmother who was born in 1901 quite well. My mother and her mother and siblings are still alive. They remember her even better and knew her at a more active part of her life than I did.

You're right. Nothing is anyone's fault. If you want to eat that whole cake you should do so because you deserve it! Don't let anyone tell you it is unhealthy to swallow that lard. They are just being big meanies.

I know this is sacrilege these days but you could always upload the video to your own website and host it yourself. Then you can actually have it in whatever format that you want!

I don't get it. Why do the programmers working on browsers even write video support at all? No, I'm not saying browsers shouldn't support embedded video. But why does every browser have to reinvent that wheel? Isn't HTML, CSS and Javascript enough to have to support? I would think they would just link in libraries from a project which IS a video player like mplayer of xine or vlc or something. Then they should support whatever formats and framerates that player supports for free!

I'm not sure that indicates they are supporing Flash so much as that they realize that there is still a lot fo Flash content out there and if they don't mine it someone else will.

If I can't see it by telnetting to port 80 it isn't there!

These days there seems to be a lot of people out there that think a computer isn't useful unless it can play all the latest 3d games and somehow these people have gotten into deciding what is and isn't good for Linux.

If China 2014 - USA 1960 then China from 2026 and on until who knows when will be grounded, pathetic and useless.
Good for them that they will get to shine for the early 2020s though!