As we know the people who signed this petition are very concerned with the rights of other to go about their lives free of harassment... oh right. You lose.
Er, it's also an ethnic group, meaning it's biological: it follows lines of descent. Race as a biological concept is a steaming pile of shit, a race is just the lumping of ethnic groups that happen to share some geographic connection.
You have yet to make this point except to backpedal. Also it's a rebellion: the government is "we, the people", and when the majority tries to impose its will on the minority to take away their rights, it's "we, the people" being tyrannical: rebelling is deserved.
High cpu use, there's better technology (SVG, for one), the slew of lazy flash "coders" who think they're proper programmers or web designers because they can whip up something in flash (I'm not a programmer, and I say this with a good understanding of how things are done and 2-3 languages on the side), the fact that it's entirely controlled by a corporation whose business is a monopolistic protection racket at this point, the fact that flash accesibility only works on some versions of one piece of software and this piece of software is windows only.
Your shitty flash tech demos can be done cheaper, lighter on the cpu, and more accessibly using a combination of proper xhtml, javascript and svg. If you're selling that crap to major corps, you'd better make sure your accessibility standards are more solid than diamond, because unless you're IBM and can call on the Nazgul that shit won't fly.
Wait, disregard that's the avi wrapper, the problem with xvid is that it's old, although its patents should expire soon, on second thought that might be a plan.
I kinda wish they did too, I guess with dirac being put out by the bbc, even if it's a different technique, they're slowing down on it (and being web ready was probably the other big priority)
I dare the troll mod to go to the adobe webstore and tell us it's a good UI; or maybe we should remind the offended flash "coder" that if they write inaccessibly for a major corporation, they're liable to pay the consequences AND to have to fix their shit if they don't fix said shit in the first place.
Easy answer: the one where the randroids get to be feudal overlords;) (and a 5th +1 to this one for anyone passing by, my last mod points expired from unuse)
College libraries are pretty much always opened weekends and early evenings; around exam time, many universities keep them opened all the way to midnight. This is a rather major difference from something that's only opened during class hours.
The Elizabethan playwrights, under modern copyright, would have been suing each other into oblivion, so drop this nonsensical canard. There's a number of compilations of well known plagiarism between great authors of similar periods in France, and i turns out that, yes, Picasso is right.
Well, that and let's face it, copyright laws that mean most of either Shakespeare, Marlow, Spenser or Jonson wouldn't have been able to write most of their stuff because they'd have been busy suing each other isn't exactly providing much means of advancement of the arts.
Mozart was a pop-cultural phenomenon in his own time, lived as a wealthy bourgeois in Vienna, and his only career slump was during the short Austro-Turkish war.
Hate crime laws have nothing to do with speech, they have to do with acts induced by speech: they're just abolishing the Nuremberg Defense for civilians.
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As we know the people who signed this petition are very concerned with the rights of other to go about their lives free of harassment... oh right.
You lose.
Er, it's also an ethnic group, meaning it's biological: it follows lines of descent. Race as a biological concept is a steaming pile of shit, a race is just the lumping of ethnic groups that happen to share some geographic connection.
To the idiots who modded flamebait: so how's the rent boy go?
You have yet to make this point except to backpedal.
Also it's a rebellion: the government is "we, the people", and when the majority tries to impose its will on the minority to take away their rights, it's "we, the people" being tyrannical: rebelling is deserved.
SVG, dumbass
High cpu use, there's better technology (SVG, for one), the slew of lazy flash "coders" who think they're proper programmers or web designers because they can whip up something in flash (I'm not a programmer, and I say this with a good understanding of how things are done and 2-3 languages on the side), the fact that it's entirely controlled by a corporation whose business is a monopolistic protection racket at this point, the fact that flash accesibility only works on some versions of one piece of software and this piece of software is windows only.
I hav the same issues with wysywig html, too.
You're so special right?
Your shitty flash tech demos can be done cheaper, lighter on the cpu, and more accessibly using a combination of proper xhtml, javascript and svg. If you're selling that crap to major corps, you'd better make sure your accessibility standards are more solid than diamond, because unless you're IBM and can call on the Nazgul that shit won't fly.
Two words: Target lawsuit
It was already that way in the 80s; IBM has never sold non-metric measured hard drives.
Wait, disregard that's the avi wrapper, the problem with xvid is that it's old, although its patents should expire soon, on second thought that might be a plan.
Xvid can't be used for online distribution because it only supports a single track of burned in subtitles and iirc a single track of audio.
Failure for foreign distribution: check
Failure for accessibility: check
So, no
Well I guess we'll have to change our granite countertops to something more exotic, they were starting to look nouveau riche
*sighs*
No, that's because incults who don't realize that the OS counts in binary and the makers in metric (which IBM already did in the 80s) sue.
Like in photography, the tools you have are better than the technically better tools you don't.
I kinda wish they did too, I guess with dirac being put out by the bbc, even if it's a different technique, they're slowing down on it (and being web ready was probably the other big priority)
It has hardware support, it's been linked a couple of times upthread.
It's html, they have to make it work in the browser, the flash plugin is something that adobe makes.
OMG... :D
Someone else who doesn't recoil in horror at the idea of SVG instead of flash
I dare the troll mod to go to the adobe webstore and tell us it's a good UI; or maybe we should remind the offended flash "coder" that if they write inaccessibly for a major corporation, they're liable to pay the consequences AND to have to fix their shit if they don't fix said shit in the first place.
Easy answer: the one where the randroids get to be feudal overlords ;) (and a 5th +1 to this one for anyone passing by, my last mod points expired from unuse)
College libraries are pretty much always opened weekends and early evenings; around exam time, many universities keep them opened all the way to midnight. This is a rather major difference from something that's only opened during class hours.
The Elizabethan playwrights, under modern copyright, would have been suing each other into oblivion, so drop this nonsensical canard. There's a number of compilations of well known plagiarism between great authors of similar periods in France, and i turns out that, yes, Picasso is right.
Well, that and let's face it, copyright laws that mean most of either Shakespeare, Marlow, Spenser or Jonson wouldn't have been able to write most of their stuff because they'd have been busy suing each other isn't exactly providing much means of advancement of the arts.
Mozart was a pop-cultural phenomenon in his own time, lived as a wealthy bourgeois in Vienna, and his only career slump was during the short Austro-Turkish war.
Hate crime laws have nothing to do with speech, they have to do with acts induced by speech: they're just abolishing the Nuremberg Defense for civilians.