I can just imagine the Scalia response to this: "No amount of legal fuckery-duckery entitles the MPAA to forcibly deputize ISPs, at their own expense, into a copyright law enforcement agency with powers well beyond what the actual police exercise under the Constitution."
His Majesty, the King, hath ordained that all School-boys should be versed in the arcane Art of Algorism; and should hence be capable of figuring Sums, Differences, and Products of multiple Digits, without aid of a Person who specialises in this Art. Prithee, sirrah, how would such an Ordinance be satisfactorily implemented?
Back before TPM came out, my college (I know, I'm old) had a special showing of the original trilogy.
What I couldn't get over was how hokey it all was. What had seemed to me as a kid to be the very pinnacle of epicness (next to Robotech) came across as cheesy, with lame dialogue and a simplistic plot. Yes, even Empire: all its vaunted "darkness" was quite clearly a way of setting up a cliffhanger to make damned sure you were at the theater when Jedi came out.
But it was the best kind of hokey: it was labor-of-love hokey, it wasn't trying to be anything else. It was entertainment in the fullest sense of the word, and it's clear that the people who made these movies, cared passionately about entertaining the audience. So I discovered a new kind of fun and appreciation in watching Star Wars.
RFID tags and subdermal magnets are mere parlor tricks, not worth the risk and pain of opening up my skin. Now, once those perfect-vision-forever implantable lenses get approved, I'll be all about that.
I'm already using the phrase "Joint Strike Fighter" to describe anything that's a massive overwrought boondoggle. Fir example: "Atom, the Joint Strike Fighter of text editors."
Compared to DirectX, OpenGL is a terribad API to work with.
If you are using an engine such as Unreal or Unity with multiple back ends, then OpenGL becomes somewhat feasible. Otherwise developers are better off choosing DirectX and going Windows only, targeting 95% of the gaming PC market.
... so you're all set. Although, no braces on your arms, though, so you're going to have to rely on the old human strength to keep a grip on the device and, by extension, me. So do make sure to keep a grip on me.
Also a note: no braces on your spine, either, so don't land on that. Or your head, no braces there. That could--that could split like a melon from this height. [nervous laugh] So do definitely focus on landing with your legs.
I thought "Correct Horse Battery Staple" was already blown up by advanced rainbow table and hashing techniques, and that's why we have to TWO-FACTOR ALL THE THINGS.
Attempting to turn yourself into an internet meme won't cozy you up to us, not when your administration's policy is that all private communications online should be subject to government snooping.
I keep hybrid tablet-laptop around as an art PC. It used to be an old Toshiba Satellite; now it's a Sony VAIO Duo 11. I run Slackware on it, like I do nearly all my machines. Slackware will run fine if the digitizer part is supported by the kernel (since new Wacom and N-Trig parts come out from time to time, sometimes kernel support may be missing or naff if the laptop is too new). Otherwise you will see reduced functionality, but that is true of any distro.
Using a stylus you can drive most aspects of a WM or DE. It gets tricky using your finger.
The Amiga: the Lamborghini Countach of computer hardware. Sexy, innovative, considered pure awesomeness in its day... but stuck forever in the 1980s in terms of design and engineering.
I don't think you'd find any proponents of EBCDIC who didn't wear a blue suit and have a six-figure salary riding on the continued use of IBM mainframes.
Systemd is open source software, which Lennart has made available more or less out of the goodness of his heart. You may hate it -- God knows I fucking hate it -- but the world really is a better place for it having been written. Why? Diversity. Systemd is yet another set of ideas in the ongoing discussion that is open source development. Software gets written, then it gets patched or replaced by someone who thinks they can make it better, and alternatives for every use case flourish. It's a conversation, a debate. So while there may be vehement disagreement with the ideas that systemd represents, we are all better off for at least having heard and considered those ideas.
Just don't make the entire user-space stack depend on systemd. Please.
Didn't IBM intimidate a would-be litigant out of suing by threatening to sue them on the same claims once before? IBM is like the big brother asterisk from the Pink Panther cartoon "Pink Punch"...
In the novel Jurassic Park, Dennis Nedry disabled the park's security by disguising a backdoor function call as an object constructor in what was pretty clearly a C++-like language, in an attempt to pull a fast one on anyone who might audit his code. (The novel had screenshots of his IDE and everything; wonderfully geeky.) That C++ enables this sort of behavior makes it complicated and risky to use in certain scenarios. I can imagine kerbnel developers blanching at its use, or keeping it to a restricted subset.
An OS needn't, and shouldn't, be more complex than is necessary to get the job done. By keeping Windows at a constant level of resource-intensiveness, Microsoft has made more room on modern hardware for even more advanced high-end applications -- and has made it feasible to refresh old PCs with the latest Windows. (Really important; the typical corporate drone's PC is profoundly rinky-dink.) This is stuff we used to cheer Linux for doing while Microsoft operating systems inflated with each generation. Now we bemoan Microsoft for keeping the size of Windows down while Linux bloats up the way we made fun of Windows for doing. (Have you seen GNOME 3?)
Microsoft deserves full credit for keeping their system size and complexity down over the past few revs.
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Quid is slang for a British pound, much like "buck" is slang for a US dollar.
So it's casual, but proper, English -- Englisher than your English at that.
I can just imagine the Scalia response to this: "No amount of legal fuckery-duckery entitles the MPAA to forcibly deputize ISPs, at their own expense, into a copyright law enforcement agency with powers well beyond what the actual police exercise under the Constitution."
X is pretty much deprecated at this point. No one wants to maintain drivers for that shit.
His Majesty, the King, hath ordained that all School-boys should be versed in the arcane Art of Algorism; and should hence be capable of figuring Sums, Differences, and Products of multiple Digits, without aid of a Person who specialises in this Art. Prithee, sirrah, how would such an Ordinance be satisfactorily implemented?
"I'm sorry, Mr. Vader. Your financial history just doesn't support us extending you a line of credit."
"I find your lack of faith... disturbing."
Giant windmills constantly turning just makes scenery more awesome.
Back before TPM came out, my college (I know, I'm old) had a special showing of the original trilogy.
What I couldn't get over was how hokey it all was. What had seemed to me as a kid to be the very pinnacle of epicness (next to Robotech) came across as cheesy, with lame dialogue and a simplistic plot. Yes, even Empire: all its vaunted "darkness" was quite clearly a way of setting up a cliffhanger to make damned sure you were at the theater when Jedi came out.
But it was the best kind of hokey: it was labor-of-love hokey, it wasn't trying to be anything else. It was entertainment in the fullest sense of the word, and it's clear that the people who made these movies, cared passionately about entertaining the audience. So I discovered a new kind of fun and appreciation in watching Star Wars.
RFID tags and subdermal magnets are mere parlor tricks, not worth the risk and pain of opening up my skin. Now, once those perfect-vision-forever implantable lenses get approved, I'll be all about that.
I'm already using the phrase "Joint Strike Fighter" to describe anything that's a massive overwrought boondoggle. Fir example: "Atom, the Joint Strike Fighter of text editors."
http://christfollower.me/misc/glasstty/
https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
There, your coding-font problems are solved. You're welcome.
For bitmap fonts also see:
http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~uwe/misc/uw-ttyp0/
Compared to DirectX, OpenGL is a terribad API to work with.
If you are using an engine such as Unreal or Unity with multiple back ends, then OpenGL becomes somewhat feasible. Otherwise developers are better off choosing DirectX and going Windows only, targeting 95% of the gaming PC market.
... so you're all set. Although, no braces on your arms, though, so you're going to have to rely on the old human strength to keep a grip on the device and, by extension, me. So do make sure to keep a grip on me.
Also a note: no braces on your spine, either, so don't land on that. Or your head, no braces there. That could--that could split like a melon from this height. [nervous laugh] So do definitely focus on landing with your legs.
I thought "Correct Horse Battery Staple" was already blown up by advanced rainbow table and hashing techniques, and that's why we have to TWO-FACTOR ALL THE THINGS.
... they want to get rid of the fookin' pr0ns?
Attempting to turn yourself into an internet meme won't cozy you up to us, not when your administration's policy is that all private communications online should be subject to government snooping.
I keep hybrid tablet-laptop around as an art PC. It used to be an old Toshiba Satellite; now it's a Sony VAIO Duo 11. I run Slackware on it, like I do nearly all my machines. Slackware will run fine if the digitizer part is supported by the kernel (since new Wacom and N-Trig parts come out from time to time, sometimes kernel support may be missing or naff if the laptop is too new). Otherwise you will see reduced functionality, but that is true of any distro.
Using a stylus you can drive most aspects of a WM or DE. It gets tricky using your finger.
When NASA is as accountable as a mind control cult, you know shit's really hit the fan.
One of my favorites is "Hands to Heaven" by Breathe -- which is mostly a mawkish 1980s power ballad, until the chorus swells and...
"Tonight I may just tweak your ass..."
Whoa! Getting a little raunchy there aren't we?
The Amiga: the Lamborghini Countach of computer hardware. Sexy, innovative, considered pure awesomeness in its day... but stuck forever in the 1980s in terms of design and engineering.
I don't think you'd find any proponents of EBCDIC who didn't wear a blue suit and have a six-figure salary riding on the continued use of IBM mainframes.
Systemd is open source software, which Lennart has made available more or less out of the goodness of his heart. You may hate it -- God knows I fucking hate it -- but the world really is a better place for it having been written. Why? Diversity. Systemd is yet another set of ideas in the ongoing discussion that is open source development. Software gets written, then it gets patched or replaced by someone who thinks they can make it better, and alternatives for every use case flourish. It's a conversation, a debate. So while there may be vehement disagreement with the ideas that systemd represents, we are all better off for at least having heard and considered those ideas.
Just don't make the entire user-space stack depend on systemd. Please.
Didn't IBM intimidate a would-be litigant out of suing by threatening to sue them on the same claims once before? IBM is like the big brother asterisk from the Pink Panther cartoon "Pink Punch"...
In the novel Jurassic Park, Dennis Nedry disabled the park's security by disguising a backdoor function call as an object constructor in what was pretty clearly a C++-like language, in an attempt to pull a fast one on anyone who might audit his code. (The novel had screenshots of his IDE and everything; wonderfully geeky.) That C++ enables this sort of behavior makes it complicated and risky to use in certain scenarios. I can imagine kerbnel developers blanching at its use, or keeping it to a restricted subset.
Ah, but think how much bigger Windows *could* have been, if it had followed its historical growth curve!
An OS needn't, and shouldn't, be more complex than is necessary to get the job done. By keeping Windows at a constant level of resource-intensiveness, Microsoft has made more room on modern hardware for even more advanced high-end applications -- and has made it feasible to refresh old PCs with the latest Windows. (Really important; the typical corporate drone's PC is profoundly rinky-dink.) This is stuff we used to cheer Linux for doing while Microsoft operating systems inflated with each generation. Now we bemoan Microsoft for keeping the size of Windows down while Linux bloats up the way we made fun of Windows for doing. (Have you seen GNOME 3?)
Microsoft deserves full credit for keeping their system size and complexity down over the past few revs.