You can solve the issue from the software manual by rewriting the sentence in imperative: "Press the button to make the printer proceed." Find more tips on how to avoid passive voice and other unnecessary uses of "to be" at E-Prime.
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Chinese is ideographic, and Japanese combines Chinese ideograms ("kanji") mixed with phonetic syllable signs ("kana"). Korean has an actual alphabet ("hangul"), except that instead of the letters coming in a row as in Latin, Cyrillic, or Hebrew, each syllable is packed into a box. Korean used to be written with borrowed Chinese ideograms, but nowadays the alphabet dominates writing.
You can Read more about Hangul, but you may have to have Korean support installed on your OS to display the Hangul characters.
Do you sincerely believe in the ability of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to research prior art for an invention named in a patent? Do you believe in the USPTO's judgment of what constitutes an invention that is not obvious to anyone with a B.S. in computer science?
it would have been a better solution to use em rather than px to set the width, or even %
I understand your point about setting text column widths in ems, but images on web sites can't easily be set to sizes in ems because the nearest-neighbor image resizing algorithm used on the most popular browser engines (MSHTML and Gecko) turns images into pixelated crud. Vote for bug 98971 at bugzilla.mozilla.org if you want this to change.
(the following applies to the United States of America)
Is my car being trusted by the interstate when I take it for a spin?
Yes. There should be a rectangular placard on the back of your car, called a "license plate." This is issued by the state governments that fund highway construction.
Look at current implementations of DRM, e.g. iTunes. They do not show any sign of being as draconian as you describe.
Look at iTunes's competitors. Their policies are, in general, more draconian than iTunes'. And no, we can't count on the continuing availability of iTunes because the Beatles can shut down iTunes and all your iTunes downloads.
It has to become analog sometime, as the human brain cannot readily perceive an encrypted digital signal. TEMPEST attacks work on CRT or LCD signals after they have been converted internally to analog for display use. How does Pd or TCPA prevent TEMPEST (on the display end) or looking over the user's shoulder (on either end)?
But the difference is that in the Palladium and TCPA models, the owner of the machine cannot decrypt the data stored on the machine. A security model useful for user-friendly privacy but not for user-hostile copyright enforcement would allow the machine's owner to access all keys used to decrypt data stored on the machine.
Are there any websites that offer... high quality MP3s?
You mean other than eMusic, now that it has upgraded its MP3 encodings from 128 CBR to 192 nominal VBR?
Anything at all the publishers are offering "legally" in a format of higher quality than I have been getting (for years) absolutely free via USENET?
Server operating systems are available as free software, and they're typically less susceptible to the most common sploits than the Microsoft Windows Server OS that you may be able to find on Usenet.
So it's proprietary. But perhaps the Skype team is willing to cooperate more than, for example, AOL and Microsoft have:
We believe that if you want to make something happen, you should not use whatever standards the telecom industry has defined. You need to innovate something that truly solves real-world problems. Having said that,
we're very much for interoperability and will be happy to work with Jeff to make FWD and SIP interoperate with Skype.
The initial clients for Gnutella and eDonkey were proprietary, but because of published[1] specifications, Free clients that could interoperate emerged. Now the Free clients for those networks (Limewire and Gnucleus for Gnutella, and eMule for eDonkey) are the most popular.
[1] Here, "published" does not necessarily imply published by the author of the protocol's initial implementation.
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Until all computers use the exact same spec for both hardware and software (never happen) then they ALL are proprietary in design in some way.
Your reasoning leads to a flawed conclusion: "Not everybody uses the GNU system; therefore, the GNU system is proprietary software." WTF?
A system is "open" to the extent that any manufacturer can produce devices that interoperate with it.
Sony invented the MiniDisc format and the UMD format. Nintendo uses neither of those formats. Nintendo did invent the application of a DVD-derived optical disc format with 80mm radius to storage of program and audiovisual data for a video game console. So though Sony invented MiniDisc(tm), Nintendo did invent a mini-disc.
Technologically, [Game Park's GP32 handheld] still even lacks hardware support for quite a few graphics effects that GBA/GBASP possesses natively.
True, the GP32 (like the N-Gage) draws to a dumb frame buffer compared to the GBA's more consoleish video architecture, but remember that the GP32's processor can do just about anything that a Pentium 100 could do. What were the requirements for Descent and the original Quake again? GBA video is very Super NES-like, and Super NES emulators almost ran at full speed on the P100. A similar video model could probably be easily implemented in software by somebody who knows ARM assembly language (for the GP32) or whatever the N-Gage uses.
To quote common American idiot mentality, "Sony = quality"
Was the Neo-Geo Pocket Color more powerful graphics-wise than the Game Boy Color? I seem to remember that the NGPC's format for graphics tiles had 2 bits per pixel, which limits each tile and each sprite to 3 colors (plus transparency). The GBC and the NES had the same limitation.
The GBA, on the other hand, has a graphics model similar to that of the Super NES.
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You can solve the issue from the software manual by rewriting the sentence in imperative: "Press the button to make the printer proceed." Find more tips on how to avoid passive voice and other unnecessary uses of "to be" at E-Prime.
Chinese is ideographic, and Japanese combines Chinese ideograms ("kanji") mixed with phonetic syllable signs ("kana"). Korean has an actual alphabet ("hangul"), except that instead of the letters coming in a row as in Latin, Cyrillic, or Hebrew, each syllable is packed into a box. Korean used to be written with borrowed Chinese ideograms, but nowadays the alphabet dominates writing.
You can Read more about Hangul, but you may have to have Korean support installed on your OS to display the Hangul characters.
I before E, except on the Internet.
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I don't see any patent granted last week.
Do you sincerely believe in the ability of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to research prior art for an invention named in a patent? Do you believe in the USPTO's judgment of what constitutes an invention that is not obvious to anyone with a B.S. in computer science?
The DVD-ROM physical layer is standardized by ECMA and is patented.
MPEG-4 is standardized by Iso and is patented.
it would have been a better solution to use em rather than px to set the width, or even %
I understand your point about setting text column widths in ems, but images on web sites can't easily be set to sizes in ems because the nearest-neighbor image resizing algorithm used on the most popular browser engines (MSHTML and Gecko) turns images into pixelated crud. Vote for bug 98971 at bugzilla.mozilla.org if you want this to change.
Seven years and they're still making sites that have a fixed width
Your eyes have a fixed width. It's more comfortable for most people to read 60-column text than 120-column text. See the responses to this comment.
(the following applies to the United States of America)
Is my car being trusted by the interstate when I take it for a spin?
Yes. There should be a rectangular placard on the back of your car, called a "license plate." This is issued by the state governments that fund highway construction.
but there's a DRM shop operating in the US. It's called iTunes.
When[1] iTunes Music Store stops operating, do downloaded phonorecords[2] remain playable?
[1] I say "when" not "if" because the Beatles' record label has the power to go to court and make this a "when".
[2] "phonorecords" are to sound recordings as "copies" are to every other kind of copyrighted work.
Look at current implementations of DRM, e.g. iTunes. They do not show any sign of being as draconian as you describe.
Look at iTunes's competitors. Their policies are, in general, more draconian than iTunes'. And no, we can't count on the continuing availability of iTunes because the Beatles can shut down iTunes and all your iTunes downloads.
If TCPA designers didn't have digital restrictions management firmly in mind, then please explain non-migrable storage.
It has to become analog sometime, as the human brain cannot readily perceive an encrypted digital signal. TEMPEST attacks work on CRT or LCD signals after they have been converted internally to analog for display use. How does Pd or TCPA prevent TEMPEST (on the display end) or looking over the user's shoulder (on either end)?
But the difference is that in the Palladium and TCPA models, the owner of the machine cannot decrypt the data stored on the machine. A security model useful for user-friendly privacy but not for user-hostile copyright enforcement would allow the machine's owner to access all keys used to decrypt data stored on the machine.
Are there any websites that offer ... high quality MP3s?
You mean other than eMusic, now that it has upgraded its MP3 encodings from 128 CBR to 192 nominal VBR?
Anything at all the publishers are offering "legally" in a format of higher quality than I have been getting (for years) absolutely free via USENET?
Server operating systems are available as free software, and they're typically less susceptible to the most common sploits than the Microsoft Windows Server OS that you may be able to find on Usenet.
I've always imagined that audible explosions in space opera somehow relate to interference picked up on the pilots' radios.
I covered this issue in another comment.
So it's proprietary. But perhaps the Skype team is willing to cooperate more than, for example, AOL and Microsoft have:
The initial clients for Gnutella and eDonkey were proprietary, but because of published[1] specifications, Free clients that could interoperate emerged. Now the Free clients for those networks (Limewire and Gnucleus for Gnutella, and eMule for eDonkey) are the most popular.
[1] Here, "published" does not necessarily imply published by the author of the protocol's initial implementation.
Until all computers use the exact same spec for both hardware and software (never happen) then they ALL are proprietary in design in some way.
Your reasoning leads to a flawed conclusion: "Not everybody uses the GNU system; therefore, the GNU system is proprietary software." WTF?
A system is "open" to the extent that any manufacturer can produce devices that interoperate with it.
This thing has PS1 level graphics.
So does the GBA. Point?
English, a dialect of SQL, was created by the authors of the Pick operating system.
On Slashdot, we speak Bjelamerican.
Sony invented the MiniDisc format and the UMD format. Nintendo uses neither of those formats. Nintendo did invent the application of a DVD-derived optical disc format with 80mm radius to storage of program and audiovisual data for a video game console. So though Sony invented MiniDisc(tm), Nintendo did invent a mini-disc.
Technologically, [Game Park's GP32 handheld] still even lacks hardware support for quite a few graphics effects that GBA/GBASP possesses natively.
True, the GP32 (like the N-Gage) draws to a dumb frame buffer compared to the GBA's more consoleish video architecture, but remember that the GP32's processor can do just about anything that a Pentium 100 could do. What were the requirements for Descent and the original Quake again? GBA video is very Super NES-like, and Super NES emulators almost ran at full speed on the P100. A similar video model could probably be easily implemented in software by somebody who knows ARM assembly language (for the GP32) or whatever the N-Gage uses.
To quote common American idiot mentality, "Sony = quality"
But in Japan, Sony seems to equal "piece of poo". Besides, does the Clie or the PSP come with a phone?
Was the Neo-Geo Pocket Color more powerful graphics-wise than the Game Boy Color? I seem to remember that the NGPC's format for graphics tiles had 2 bits per pixel, which limits each tile and each sprite to 3 colors (plus transparency). The GBC and the NES had the same limitation.
The GBA, on the other hand, has a graphics model similar to that of the Super NES.
There's an urban legend like this about a cookie recipe.
And this is the recipe in question.