Ladies and gentlemen, take a look. It's not every day you find one, but here in Conanymous Award, we have an example of the true-to-form Environmentalist. He's the guy who thinks there's one, and only one straightforward solution to all the world's problems -- kill off all the humans. Good job, your self-loathing is transcendent.
You're kidding about KDE, right? KDE will run comfortably on some fairly old systems (about the same as the ones that would run Win2k, although it could cope with a little less RAM) -- and KDE has gotten consistently faster, and smaller in terms of minimum footprint, over the past 5 years. From what I hear, Qt4 is supposed to have some tricks that will reduce overhead even more for KDE4.
If you create a table, it's yours. Absolutely. If you then sell me that table, you do not have the right to tell me that I can't sell that table to someone else, or that I can't make more tables and sell them. It's yours, yes, until you give it away. As a creator of music, books, or other "recorded creative works", you have something that the table-maker doesn't, which is a "created right"[1] that says that you can maintain a monopoly on your work after giving it away, which creates a situation that is exceptionally strange under natural law.
[1] Despite the common usage of terms like "copyright", or the UN and EU's "declarations of rights", you can't just "create" or "declare" rights. What rights there are, simply are, and anything else that you set aside for yourself or someone else isn't a right, it's a privilege. Thus "copyright", which claims to extend your "right to property", can't operate without impairing my right to make use of my own property. It's the same as if the courts declared that you have the right to a free sandwich. Sure, you can say that, but it's contrary to what the universe says, which is that you can't have a free sandwich without taking away my lunch.
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I didn't really think it was humanly possible to be so stupid that you would think that "hard to read, hard to write, hard to understand" is a subjective claim. It's not, those are perfectly testable metrics, and perfectly relevant in the real world because they affect how much work it takes to use the product.
Apparently the "experimental threading" stuff includes javascript moderation too, but it bugged out and put in a mod that I didn't want. So here's my unmoderate;)
The expert says "there are some good ideas behind this really shitty writing", and the non-expert says "wow, this is some really shitty writing." So the expert comes away with a higher opinion.
because the "higher orders" are completely dependent on the finer details. There's nowhere to put any more information that doesn't destroy some of what you already wrote. If you know every detail at the finest resolution, then you also know exactly what it looks like at the next level up, so there's no uncertainty to fill with more information.
What's more important than having the right number of choices, is having the right choices. Base your configuration on a model that serves 99% of everybody's needs without a hundred "advanced options". But that said, there's a simple explanation for the way things are, and that's that you catch a whole lot more flak for lacking the one option that Important Customer X deems important (spellcheck!) than for having a dozen options that they don't need at all. Even if they get in the way.
Several of them do, and one of the most popular programs (at the time) had that feature nearly 10 years ago. BBS messaging systems would also automatically fallback from OLMs to email. And things may well go back further, though I can't say first-hand. So it's really not such a hypothetical.
If tell me that it's perfectly okay to say that a game is uninnovative, boring, and all-around sucky, but that it's not okay for me to say that you must be an unimaginative, boring, sucky person to play such a game, then you're the one being intolerant. The idea that people are exempt from the kind of value judgements that get you through every other part of life is dangerous bullshit.
That said, you have to be a really stupid person to take slashdot seriously;)
Whoops, gonna correct one thing before someone calls me on it. There is a case where you can reconstruct "perfect" 1080p from 1080i, and that's when you have knowledge that the original source material was 1080p24, which was turned into 1080i60 by 3:2 pulldown. In this case, 100% of the original source material is there, and you can convert it to 1080p60, or if the display is flexible enough, back to the original 1080p24 for perfect timing. But it's clear to see that the only reason this is possible is because the original "perfect picture" at 1080p24 requires less bandwidth than 1080i60, so it's possible to recover that from a 1080i60 input.
First off, you don't have my eyes. Interlacing is noticeable, and unpleasant, at any resolution, on any TV. A digital framebuffer helps, but it's still imperfect.
Second, you're wrong on that last point. If you could "rebuild a perfect 1080p frame from 1080i" then 1080i would never have existed. Yes, 1080i60 has more data to it than 720p60, but carries half as much information as 1080p60. So you can (if you have a good old fashioned electron gun) display 60 fields per second of 540 lines each, in a slightly flickery manner, or if you have a progressive-scanning tube or a discrete-pixel display, you can use digital processing to display 60 slightly blurry frames of 1080 lines each. Interlacing is a tradeoff that gives up some of both vertical and temporal resolution. It's a lousy compromise and it only ever comes into play due to technical limitations. And, sometimes, marketing forces.:)
Where's the fault in 720p? That's the best resolution for pretty much any sort of video game, at least until 1080p is common. I like new TVs, even at 480p, because they let me get away from painful interlacing. 1080i defeats the whole purpose. It's a lousy compromise that only exists because of bandwidth concerns.
If you thought you were submitting your data to the public then you weren't thinking very hard. It should have been more than obvious that you were submitting your data to a private party and permitting them to do whatever they felt like with it. If you weren't happy with those terms you should have demanded different, or not made your submission at all. Since you didn't do either, your actions gave Gracenote full permission to take your submission and sell it. Don't like it? Act differently next time.
Well... suppose for a moment that we lived in a world of halfway sensible people... then yes, that would work perfectly. If you were drunk, you wouldn't drive, because you wouldn't want to take the chance of being ruined by killing that family. If you couldn't trust yourself not to drive once you were drunk, you would take some precaution against that, or you wouldn't get drunk. If you couldn't trust yourself to do that then you would just have to avoid drinking. Responsibility for one's own actions is the order of the day.:)
But Sourceforge also isn't nearly as special as they used to be. There are a number of alternatives, making them less necessary, and some of the alternatives also have more features and fewer hassles. Besides which, I think the "do it yourself" alternative is becoming more and more of an option for medium-sized projects, with the advent of improved wiki / release management / ticket management / etc. software. This isn't a "netcraft confirms it" moment, but seriously... you're not Dancing with the Stars, you're Hollywood Squares. That's why you're not getting the superstars.;)
You're missing the point a little bit. Sure, you should feel free to go outside the system to install a video driver if you feel like it. But if something breaks because the system didn't know about the change, this is now your fault. And if you need to upgrade something to keep it in sync with the rest of the system, you're responsible for doing the legwork. Although since in this case it should have been possible to install the drivers in a way that wouldn't break without warning, an equal share of the blame goes to Easyubuntu (for doing things the wrong way) and you (for using it anyway):)
So what you're saying is "I installed some important drivers through an unsupported tool that works in a stupid way so that it can be called 'easy', and then when the official tool failed to upgrade this manually-installed software of which it was unaware, causing problems, I was pissed" ?
they'll find out what everyone else already knows -- wikipedia is prejudiced against people who actually know what they're talking about. The best information will be removed on the grounds that the submitter is biased and unreliable (never mind the tenet of criticizing the message, not the messenger). Not only is Wikipedia not interested in finding the truth, you're not even allowed to suggest that it exists.
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Ladies and gentlemen, take a look. It's not every day you find one, but here in Conanymous Award, we have an example of the true-to-form Environmentalist. He's the guy who thinks there's one, and only one straightforward solution to all the world's problems -- kill off all the humans. Good job, your self-loathing is transcendent.
You're kidding about KDE, right? KDE will run comfortably on some fairly old systems (about the same as the ones that would run Win2k, although it could cope with a little less RAM) -- and KDE has gotten consistently faster, and smaller in terms of minimum footprint, over the past 5 years. From what I hear, Qt4 is supposed to have some tricks that will reduce overhead even more for KDE4.
There's no need for Shenmue 2 compatibility on the 360 when you can play it on a real console... Dreamcast :)
GP didn't say anything about WGA, only WPA -- which is, for the most part, wrapped up into a nice little "click click done" UI in Windows ;)
Well first off... what's wrong with that?
Second... you haven't shopped for hosting anytime in the past year, have you?
If you create a table, it's yours. Absolutely. If you then sell me that table, you do not have the right to tell me that I can't sell that table to someone else, or that I can't make more tables and sell them. It's yours, yes, until you give it away. As a creator of music, books, or other "recorded creative works", you have something that the table-maker doesn't, which is a "created right"[1] that says that you can maintain a monopoly on your work after giving it away, which creates a situation that is exceptionally strange under natural law.
[1] Despite the common usage of terms like "copyright", or the UN and EU's "declarations of rights", you can't just "create" or "declare" rights. What rights there are, simply are, and anything else that you set aside for yourself or someone else isn't a right, it's a privilege. Thus "copyright", which claims to extend your "right to property", can't operate without impairing my right to make use of my own property. It's the same as if the courts declared that you have the right to a free sandwich. Sure, you can say that, but it's contrary to what the universe says, which is that you can't have a free sandwich without taking away my lunch.
If Sun likes a license, it must be terrible :)
I didn't really think it was humanly possible to be so stupid that you would think that "hard to read, hard to write, hard to understand" is a subjective claim. It's not, those are perfectly testable metrics, and perfectly relevant in the real world because they affect how much work it takes to use the product.
Apparently the "experimental threading" stuff includes javascript moderation too, but it bugged out and put in a mod that I didn't want. So here's my unmoderate ;)
The expert says "there are some good ideas behind this really shitty writing", and the non-expert says "wow, this is some really shitty writing." So the expert comes away with a higher opinion.
because the "higher orders" are completely dependent on the finer details. There's nowhere to put any more information that doesn't destroy some of what you already wrote. If you know every detail at the finest resolution, then you also know exactly what it looks like at the next level up, so there's no uncertainty to fill with more information.
What's more important than having the right number of choices, is having the right choices. Base your configuration on a model that serves 99% of everybody's needs without a hundred "advanced options". But that said, there's a simple explanation for the way things are, and that's that you catch a whole lot more flak for lacking the one option that Important Customer X deems important (spellcheck!) than for having a dozen options that they don't need at all. Even if they get in the way.
Several of them do, and one of the most popular programs (at the time) had that feature nearly 10 years ago. BBS messaging systems would also automatically fallback from OLMs to email. And things may well go back further, though I can't say first-hand. So it's really not such a hypothetical.
Agreed. It likely will at some point, though.
If tell me that it's perfectly okay to say that a game is uninnovative, boring, and all-around sucky, but that it's not okay for me to say that you must be an unimaginative, boring, sucky person to play such a game, then you're the one being intolerant. The idea that people are exempt from the kind of value judgements that get you through every other part of life is dangerous bullshit.
;)
That said, you have to be a really stupid person to take slashdot seriously
Whoops, gonna correct one thing before someone calls me on it. There is a case where you can reconstruct "perfect" 1080p from 1080i, and that's when you have knowledge that the original source material was 1080p24, which was turned into 1080i60 by 3:2 pulldown. In this case, 100% of the original source material is there, and you can convert it to 1080p60, or if the display is flexible enough, back to the original 1080p24 for perfect timing. But it's clear to see that the only reason this is possible is because the original "perfect picture" at 1080p24 requires less bandwidth than 1080i60, so it's possible to recover that from a 1080i60 input.
First off, you don't have my eyes. Interlacing is noticeable, and unpleasant, at any resolution, on any TV. A digital framebuffer helps, but it's still imperfect.
:)
Second, you're wrong on that last point. If you could "rebuild a perfect 1080p frame from 1080i" then 1080i would never have existed. Yes, 1080i60 has more data to it than 720p60, but carries half as much information as 1080p60. So you can (if you have a good old fashioned electron gun) display 60 fields per second of 540 lines each, in a slightly flickery manner, or if you have a progressive-scanning tube or a discrete-pixel display, you can use digital processing to display 60 slightly blurry frames of 1080 lines each. Interlacing is a tradeoff that gives up some of both vertical and temporal resolution. It's a lousy compromise and it only ever comes into play due to technical limitations. And, sometimes, marketing forces.
Where's the fault in 720p? That's the best resolution for pretty much any sort of video game, at least until 1080p is common. I like new TVs, even at 480p, because they let me get away from painful interlacing. 1080i defeats the whole purpose. It's a lousy compromise that only exists because of bandwidth concerns.
If you thought you were submitting your data to the public then you weren't thinking very hard. It should have been more than obvious that you were submitting your data to a private party and permitting them to do whatever they felt like with it. If you weren't happy with those terms you should have demanded different, or not made your submission at all. Since you didn't do either, your actions gave Gracenote full permission to take your submission and sell it. Don't like it? Act differently next time.
Well... suppose for a moment that we lived in a world of halfway sensible people... then yes, that would work perfectly. If you were drunk, you wouldn't drive, because you wouldn't want to take the chance of being ruined by killing that family. If you couldn't trust yourself not to drive once you were drunk, you would take some precaution against that, or you wouldn't get drunk. If you couldn't trust yourself to do that then you would just have to avoid drinking. Responsibility for one's own actions is the order of the day. :)
But Sourceforge also isn't nearly as special as they used to be. There are a number of alternatives, making them less necessary, and some of the alternatives also have more features and fewer hassles. Besides which, I think the "do it yourself" alternative is becoming more and more of an option for medium-sized projects, with the advent of improved wiki / release management / ticket management / etc. software. This isn't a "netcraft confirms it" moment, but seriously... you're not Dancing with the Stars, you're Hollywood Squares. That's why you're not getting the superstars. ;)
You're missing the point a little bit. Sure, you should feel free to go outside the system to install a video driver if you feel like it. But if something breaks because the system didn't know about the change, this is now your fault. And if you need to upgrade something to keep it in sync with the rest of the system, you're responsible for doing the legwork. Although since in this case it should have been possible to install the drivers in a way that wouldn't break without warning, an equal share of the blame goes to Easyubuntu (for doing things the wrong way) and you (for using it anyway) :)
So what you're saying is "I installed some important drivers through an unsupported tool that works in a stupid way so that it can be called 'easy', and then when the official tool failed to upgrade this manually-installed software of which it was unaware, causing problems, I was pissed" ?
they'll find out what everyone else already knows -- wikipedia is prejudiced against people who actually know what they're talking about. The best information will be removed on the grounds that the submitter is biased and unreliable (never mind the tenet of criticizing the message, not the messenger). Not only is Wikipedia not interested in finding the truth, you're not even allowed to suggest that it exists.
I don't follow any "parties". Call it the "student of history line". And stop committing analogy-crime :)