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Two Senators Call For ACTA Transparency
angry tapir writes "Two US senators have asked President Barack Obama's administration to allow the public to review and comment on a controversial international copyright treaty being negotiated largely in secret. The public has a right to know what's being negotiated in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Senators Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, and Bernard Sanders, a Vermont Independent, argue in the letter."
[insert current speaker here]
Are you are referring to the Madam of the House or the Pimp of the Senate?
Back before memory was cheap and RAM speeds were fast, we couldn't use a full 32 bits to represent a pixel on the screen. If you did that, even at VGA resolution, you'd end up with approximately 1.2MB of memory reserved just to render to the screen. Double that if you want to have an off-screen buffer to prepare the next frame. On systems that had 8MB of RAM in total you can probably sympathize with the graphics guys when they had to skimp on bpp.
Even until very recently, many image formats only used 24bpp. Seeing as there's no real need to go above and beyond 8 bits per color, you can save a full fourth of the total memory just cutting out the unnecessary byte. Of course, you lose something very important: the Alpha channel. Suddenly, the great cost savings you get with that extra saved byte mean little since your image now can't blend nicely with anything else.
Our government is a 2bpp system in a 32bpp world.
You mean he's secretly Australian?
Reading political discourse among most slashdotters is like watching old people fuck.
It's messy, clumsy, and a little bit revolting.
You are welcome on my lawn.
The *secret* judges, the ones in the *secret* supreme court. I've probably said too much already...
given what they want to do, that's a good thing.
No it's not. Car analogy: You are running at full speed, about to hit a tree; the two people in the front seat now start squabbling whether to turn the steering wheel left or right while still pumping the throttle...
What type of car is this? If it's a laden VW bus in need of a tune-up going up hill I don't think there's much to worry about. Also, can you please explain what the tree represents in your analogy?
If I read the analogy correctly, the tree represents a coconut and the bridgekeeper just went over the edge.
"All these years believing you're the signified monkey, only to find out you're just a big hunk of nobody cares."