It wouldn't be particularly hard to implement something like "USE-flags" either, just have a convention for the macro name that all spec files look keywords from, and you could pass flags to rpmbuild with --define.
It is Firefox's fault. They're invoking a Windows API directly without doing any sanity checking on the input. They are doing sanity checking. Microsoft just changed the API, without warning, and what used to be sane is no more.
If I create a URL that manages to get Firefox to tell Windows to run a command, how is that Windows' fault? Firefox is the one that told Windows to execute the command, Windows just did what Firefox told it to do. It's not, but that's not what happens here. You created a URL that tells Windows to run registered URL handler with given argument, and it did exactly that - until one night, Windows Update installed IE7, and now the same URL executes the argument instead of the url handler.
Firefox is calling the operating system with user-supplied data without checking if it's safe. That's stupid. They DID check it was safe. It WAS safe. Microsoft then changed the behavior and now it's now longer safe. Firefox is calling the operating system with user-supplied data without checking if it's safe. That's stupid. And this is Firefox's fault?
Area primarily lit by a strobe is rather different from a place with abundant ambient light with a strobe thrown in. It would have to contribute a significant part of the overall lightning for the strobe effect to be very significant, and considering we're talking about a glorified flashlight here, I doubt it can be that bright.
Indoors, or at night, perhaps. Outside during full daylight? Snowballs have a better chance in hell.
Sorry, but as you say, they ARE used interchangeably, it doesn't matter what the acronym originally meant, or that it's too generic, today IDE and ATA are synonyms. It is also a fact that IDE was the original name for the interface and ATA was adopted later to avoid the very ambiguity we're talking about, but by then, it was too late, since the name was everywhere.
You're really begging for it if you start to refer to SCSI drives as IDE because they have integrated electronics.
And I thought only Car Analogies were bad! To respond anyway, Genetic Modification and Closed Source propriatary software have things in common - they create scarcity where there is none, hinder progress and innovation, benefit fewer people, promote distrust and secrecy, cause headaches and crash often. None of these are desirable traits for all but a very smnall fraction of humanity. Car analogies are bad. but this crap takes the worst of the worst award easily enough. GM is a tool, it's only analogue on IT is programming. As with any tool, some of the users may utilize it for bad behavior with traits you list, as with closed source or monsanto. That does not mean they are inherent to the tool, or even have anything whatsoever to do with it.
OMG! We should ban programming because microsoft is evil!!!1!111!11
Given that a generation for crop plants, with the exception of fruit trees, is typically around a year (and significantly less in many cases), that's exactly what it does equal.
What a pile of ill-informed drivel.
We evolved in the same biosphere as insects, so changes to a plant to prevent the insect from being able to eat them may also have effects on us. NEWSFLASH: so did the organism the resistance genes were transferred from!
These are not properly tested. They should require many years of observation on animals feed these foods for a long time before they should be allowed on Sigh. The bacteria in question and effects of the toxins it produces on insects was discovered over a hundred years ago and has been extensively used and studied since then. First GM plant with it was done over twenty years ago. IT HAS BEEN OBSERVED FOR MANY YEARS.
You might be onto something if this were something new, and something done exclusively by Monsanto. It's not, it's very old, very generic, very well known and you're either willfully ignorant or just a luddite.
There's no reason why they would be required even in converted documents, if $MUSEUMAPP V0.000000000001 uses 1.23125634754432px line spacing, then you specify 1.23125634754432px in the new document when converting, not DoLikeMuseumAppV0000000000001, to do otherwise is not conversion, it's wrapping.
Having those closed definitions, whatever the excuse, means OOXML is not an open standard.
Uh, no, I'm extrapolating from a personal experience. As are you.
If you are using a PAN which includes a 3g handset then you are bringing the network with you. But I'm not. Most of the world doesn't have 3G coverage, go anywhere outside a major urban area and there goes your 3G (yeah, who wants to shoot nature anyway, concrete hell should be enough for everyone!). Huge swatches of areas that do can have relatively expensive data transfer rates, given a typical 3-4MB JPEG it would cost about 5 EUR for me to transfer just one picture, now this is obviously not a data contract, it's no-frills talk-is-cheap one, and there would be insanely cheaper alternatives if data transfer were the primary purpose.
But let's just assume the coverage is 100% and free, so we can move on.
So unless you shoot in contnuous mode and hold down the shutter button to intentionally fill the 2gb of storage you wouldn't be waiting "9 hours" to transfer your photos, the photos could instead be transferred seamlessly in the background. Now look who's building the straw men. Given the 3.5MB pic, it would take almost exactly a minute to transfer one. That's JPEG, RAW's are maybe 2-3x larger. Taking a shot more than once a minute (much less three minutes) is hardly "holding down the shutter button in continuous mode for no purpose other than to waste space". And of course there are quite a few times when you actually DO need a burst, for real reasons.
and I'd also say it is unlikely that most people would be shooting over 2GB of pictures in any given 9 hours stretch. The bottle neck in nearly all cases will be the photographer, not the transfer speed. Then you don't have very much experience about enthusiastic hobbyists or professional photographers. I can easily fill a 2GB card in three hours, and that's an amateur with a point&shoot, DSLR would be a lot faster (people often do take dozens of shots in few seconds with them) and make much larger files.
Yes, I'm sure you're right in that there are many people for whom it would be enough, I'm certain it wouldn't be anywhere near enough for me, and I'm quite confident I'm not the only one.
Thanks, I'm quite aware of that. It takes nine hours that little fact included.
It'd still be hour and half at 3Mbps, not including the overhead, which is, needless to say, too long. So yes, it would take 3.0 to become reality, but we'll see about that when or if it happens.
Now could you please crawl back to your cave, or under the bridge, or wherever bad trolls that are so stupid that they're even shunned by the other trolls live.
But it would be completely useless in a stand-alone camera. 64KB/s + 2GB card == NINE HOURS.
I don't know about you, but that is not exactly something I call convenient. Even if it weren't a full card, we're talking about a minute per picture here, and that's just too slow.
So, in other words, the idiots they suckered into paying a lot of money to be able to develop visual studio extensions are pretty pissed to find out that they could've done so for free? Yes, I can see how that would hurt MS. But they made their own mess, trying to shift the blame is ridiculous.
It's not that they're any less worthy, it's that they want to have their cake and eat it too. They want the status? Ok, fine, but only if they accept the limitations that go with them.
No more handouts, try to finance your own little kingdom with taxes and trade like anyone else, and forget trying to control radio transmissions originating from outside your borders, let them build a faraday cage around their playground if they want the air free of EM.
Alternatively, if you're installing only for one computer or otherwise don't want to run a server, you can just save the iso file somewhere on local hard disk and tell the installer the location.
Don't mice's teeth already regrow... uh, like, naturally and constantly? No. Rodent incisors grow length constantly as long as they're there, but their molars are perfectly normal, and even the incisors don't grow back once they're completely lost, just like the rest of us.
Your argument below this - that it's not the same image but merely a grid averaging the pixels of the original image - is somewhat compelling, but ultimately I would disagree with you here. If you stand by your argument, then surely it should also be legal to publish full-length MP3s of every song sold by the U.S. recording industry, as long as they're downsampled to 32 kbps?
And if you stand by your argument, then surely it should not be legal to publish a synopsis of a book.
Besides, 32kbps mp3 would have only 4-8 times less information than the original. If you were to compare it to typical thumbnail with size reduction of tens of times, you would need a bitrate of maybe 5kbps, and I would say that publishing such obviously useless piece of noise is perfectly okay.
Did you just compare P4 to Core 2 Duo? And make it sound as if it's only faster because it's "dual core"?
Core architecture has much higher IPC than P4 could ever dream of, sorry, that's just not a valid comparison. Try P4 vs Pentium-D or Core Solo vs. Core Duo if you want to have anything even remotely relevant. And you'd seen it's basically never more than double, and usually much less than that.
Huh? Magazines, photographs,... are quite vivid with reflective lightning, and even most newspapers are orders of magnitude better than what's shown in the picture.
"supercomputers, webservers, special effects production, scientific computing" != "consumer grade" Quite so. Consumers will put up with any crap you bother to feed them
Supercomputers, webservers, special effects production, scientific computing, etc. on the other hand require something whole lot better.
Do you really think they would still be selling physical locks it each of a given model had the same key and they could all be opened in ten seconds if just one person spent the initial long time with it?
Trying to make DRM that is not orders of magnitude worse than the most crude real lock is futile.
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It wouldn't be particularly hard to implement something like "USE-flags" either, just have a convention for the macro name that all spec files look keywords from, and you could pass flags to rpmbuild with --define.
Firefox is calling the operating system with user-supplied data without checking if it's safe. That's stupid.
And this is Firefox's fault?
Area primarily lit by a strobe is rather different from a place with abundant ambient light with a strobe thrown in. It would have to contribute a significant part of the overall lightning for the strobe effect to be very significant, and considering we're talking about a glorified flashlight here, I doubt it can be that bright.
Indoors, or at night, perhaps. Outside during full daylight? Snowballs have a better chance in hell.
Ordinary sunglasses will probably be enough to render this thing useless, and they're rather less, um, conspicuous than welder's goggles.
Sorry, but as you say, they ARE used interchangeably, it doesn't matter what the acronym originally meant, or that it's too generic, today IDE and ATA are synonyms. It is also a fact that IDE was the original name for the interface and ATA was adopted later to avoid the very ambiguity we're talking about, but by then, it was too late, since the name was everywhere.
You're really begging for it if you start to refer to SCSI drives as IDE because they have integrated electronics.
OMG! We should ban programming because microsoft is evil!!!1!111!11
Given that a generation for crop plants, with the exception of fruit trees, is typically around a year (and significantly less in many cases), that's exactly what it does equal.
You might be onto something if this were something new, and something done exclusively by Monsanto. It's not, it's very old, very generic, very well known and you're either willfully ignorant or just a luddite.
On Linux, how does the user cause the GUI to inform the user that a driver update is available?
By turning on his computer. Why on Earth would he actively need to do something for something as trivial as software updates?
That is subterfuge.
There's no reason why they would be required even in converted documents, if $MUSEUMAPP V0.000000000001 uses 1.23125634754432px line spacing, then you specify 1.23125634754432px in the new document when converting, not DoLikeMuseumAppV0000000000001, to do otherwise is not conversion, it's wrapping.
Having those closed definitions, whatever the excuse, means OOXML is not an open standard.
But let's just assume the coverage is 100% and free, so we can move on. So unless you shoot in contnuous mode and hold down the shutter button to intentionally fill the 2gb of storage you wouldn't be waiting "9 hours" to transfer your photos, the photos could instead be transferred seamlessly in the background. Now look who's building the straw men. Given the 3.5MB pic, it would take almost exactly a minute to transfer one. That's JPEG, RAW's are maybe 2-3x larger. Taking a shot more than once a minute (much less three minutes) is hardly "holding down the shutter button in continuous mode for no purpose other than to waste space". And of course there are quite a few times when you actually DO need a burst, for real reasons. and I'd also say it is unlikely that most people would be shooting over 2GB of pictures in any given 9 hours stretch. The bottle neck in nearly all cases will be the photographer, not the transfer speed. Then you don't have very much experience about enthusiastic hobbyists or professional photographers. I can easily fill a 2GB card in three hours, and that's an amateur with a point&shoot, DSLR would be a lot faster (people often do take dozens of shots in few seconds with them) and make much larger files.
Yes, I'm sure you're right in that there are many people for whom it would be enough, I'm certain it wouldn't be anywhere near enough for me, and I'm quite confident I'm not the only one.
That's kiloBytes per second, not bits.
Thanks, I'm quite aware of that. It takes nine hours that little fact included.
It'd still be hour and half at 3Mbps, not including the overhead, which is, needless to say, too long. So yes, it would take 3.0 to become reality, but we'll see about that when or if it happens.
Pray tell, what exactly are you trying to tell? That you're an idiot? Yes, thanks, we got that already.
Now could you please crawl back to your cave, or under the bridge, or wherever bad trolls that are so stupid that they're even shunned by the other trolls live.
But it would be completely useless in a stand-alone camera. 64KB/s + 2GB card == NINE HOURS.
I don't know about you, but that is not exactly something I call convenient. Even if it weren't a full card, we're talking about a minute per picture here, and that's just too slow.
So, in other words, the idiots they suckered into paying a lot of money to be able to develop visual studio extensions are pretty pissed to find out that they could've done so for free? Yes, I can see how that would hurt MS. But they made their own mess, trying to shift the blame is ridiculous.
It's not that they're any less worthy, it's that they want to have their cake and eat it too. They want the status? Ok, fine, but only if they accept the limitations that go with them.
No more handouts, try to finance your own little kingdom with taxes and trade like anyone else, and forget trying to control radio transmissions originating from outside your borders, let them build a faraday cage around their playground if they want the air free of EM.
Alternatively, if you're installing only for one computer or otherwise don't want to run a server, you can just save the iso file somewhere on local hard disk and tell the installer the location.
Your argument below this - that it's not the same image but merely a grid averaging the pixels of the original image - is somewhat compelling, but ultimately I would disagree with you here. If you stand by your argument, then surely it should also be legal to publish full-length MP3s of every song sold by the U.S. recording industry, as long as they're downsampled to 32 kbps?
And if you stand by your argument, then surely it should not be legal to publish a synopsis of a book.
Besides, 32kbps mp3 would have only 4-8 times less information than the original. If you were to compare it to typical thumbnail with size reduction of tens of times, you would need a bitrate of maybe 5kbps, and I would say that publishing such obviously useless piece of noise is perfectly okay.
Did you just compare P4 to Core 2 Duo? And make it sound as if it's only faster because it's "dual core"?
Core architecture has much higher IPC than P4 could ever dream of, sorry, that's just not a valid comparison.
Try P4 vs Pentium-D or Core Solo vs. Core Duo if you want to have anything even remotely relevant. And you'd seen it's basically never more than double, and usually much less than that.
Huh? Magazines, photographs, ... are quite vivid with reflective lightning, and even most newspapers are orders of magnitude better than what's shown in the picture.
Maybe you should move out of the third world.
Supercomputers, webservers, special effects production, scientific computing, etc. on the other hand require something whole lot better.
It only takes one.
Do you really think they would still be selling physical locks it each of a given model had the same key and they could all be opened in ten seconds if just one person spent the initial long time with it?
Trying to make DRM that is not orders of magnitude worse than the most crude real lock is futile.