Arrogance and backwardness, eh? Whats the advantage of switching to metric, where you have to convert everything to an arbitrary standard, as opposed to a measurement system based on characteristics of the person doing the measuring? I don't care that a HD is so many millions of Cesium wavelengths across, I care that its about 2.5 x the distance of 1 knuckle on my thumb. I can directly perceive and measure THAT distance, all the metric system does is swap one arbitrary measure for another.
As the world turns against them, and their looming food and environmental disaster grows larger, time is running out for China. It's only a matter of time before they implode.
I've heard that reducing your background to a light grey, without sacrificing too much contrast delta with your text, is best. Or, use lightly colored background with a visually opposite color to achieve the same level of contrast. The key is that you're not staring at a lightbulb all day.
Analog TV users are not REQUIRED to purchase a converter box. A converter box is needed if you wish to continue to view over-the-air TV after the transition. Big difference. It's not like Europa.
And sitting there smugly, you win ? Or were you part of the problem ? Do you educate any of your non-technical friends, or do you just vent on/. ?
Or were you one of the people that confused the power of the dollar with the power of the gun, and elected people who gave these groups defacto or dejure monopolies ?
ISPs have always been notorious for secretly compressing your images, caching your traffic, proxying stuff, slipping their own content into your web pages, etc. They look at the contents of your mail, since you can't spoof from anyone to anyone via their servers. How is this different, other than some joker gave it an ominous sounding name like 'Deep Packet Inspection' ?
Go to Newegg and try to buy a flat panel that actually has 8 bit color. Even ones advertised as the full 16.7M colors don't - there are a number of websites out that either have or show you how to make a proper test pattern in PS - a non-dithered screen will produce smooth gradients, while a dithered screen will show 'steps' of color. Final test - watch a cutscene in a 3D game like NWN2 on a flat screen - dithering GALORE.
Doesn't this just highlight the censorship that they DO perform? Since Auntie Beeb is considered by many to be respectable and balanced, aren't they the worst to censor? Its not like you're blocking FOX News. China is screwed - they've farked people over for decades, and now the chickens are coming home to roost.
So based on poor or no research, they banked on greed for a product whose marginal utility is low, whose costs are excessive, and then are shocked when real businesses (who have to do this for a living) saw through it and backed away? Another example of how the government is bad at business.
So you buy a weirdly-licensed 'electronic' book, and then somehow later, when you go to sell it, its either electronically or legally crippled? Hello, cash is king, its either a book or it ain't. Don't be too proud of the technological terror you've spawned.
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No trees get hurt, but some unregulated ebook reader factory in China dumps plastic and heavy metal waste into a river.
Paper pulp is a crop, you're not deforesting the Amazon to read a book.
Whats wrong with ... wait for it ... a REAL book? One you can read in 20 years, doesn't need batteries, and you can share with anyone else?
Seems like this is a solution looking for a problem.
s/security/freedom/g
All I know is that upgrading to Hoary bricked my PC, I can't even boot into XP anymore due to GRUB errors.
Negroponte: Hey, look at me, I'm an attention whore!
The Market: *yawn*
FOSS: *yawn*
MS: $$$ !
Slashdot: -1, Troll
Negroponte: Hey, look at me, I'm an attention whore!
Don't people just rip a copy off and install it ?
What is this CDDB you speak of? Some crufty, proprietary version of freedb? I'm sorry, how is this relevant again?
Arrogance and backwardness, eh? Whats the advantage of switching to metric, where you have to convert everything to an arbitrary standard, as opposed to a measurement system based on characteristics of the person doing the measuring? I don't care that a HD is so many millions of Cesium wavelengths across, I care that its about 2.5 x the distance of 1 knuckle on my thumb. I can directly perceive and measure THAT distance, all the metric system does is swap one arbitrary measure for another.
As the world turns against them, and their looming food and environmental disaster grows larger, time is running out for China. It's only a matter of time before they implode.
http://.google-analytics.com/*
I heard of Google Analytics in the first few seconds after I installed Adblock, and then never worried about it again.
But, since emo suicides are really just Darwin's way of culling the weak, sick, and stupid, 93% of Internet users agree that this is a non-issue.
Do you have oil? If you do, then this corruption is a worldwide tragedy which must be stopped, we'll send troops^Wobservers right away.
I've heard that reducing your background to a light grey, without sacrificing too much contrast delta with your text, is best. Or, use lightly colored background with a visually opposite color to achieve the same level of contrast. The key is that you're not staring at a lightbulb all day.
Analog TV users are not REQUIRED to purchase a converter box. A converter box is needed if you wish to continue to view over-the-air TV after the transition. Big difference. It's not like Europa.
They can just make it up through overclocking !
And sitting there smugly, you win ? Or were you part of the problem ? Do you educate any of your non-technical friends, or do you just vent on /. ?
Or were you one of the people that confused the power of the dollar with the power of the gun, and elected people who gave these groups defacto or dejure monopolies ?
Don't worry, they won't read it.
If you don't think that they were doing it before, then I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.
ISPs have always been notorious for secretly compressing your images, caching your traffic, proxying stuff, slipping their own content into your web pages, etc. They look at the contents of your mail, since you can't spoof from anyone to anyone via their servers. How is this different, other than some joker gave it an ominous sounding name like 'Deep Packet Inspection' ?
6th good reason:
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Go to Newegg and try to buy a flat panel that actually has 8 bit color. Even ones advertised as the full 16.7M colors don't - there are a number of websites out that either have or show you how to make a proper test pattern in PS - a non-dithered screen will produce smooth gradients, while a dithered screen will show 'steps' of color. Final test - watch a cutscene in a 3D game like NWN2 on a flat screen - dithering GALORE.
Doesn't this just highlight the censorship that they DO perform? Since Auntie Beeb is considered by many to be respectable and balanced, aren't they the worst to censor? Its not like you're blocking FOX News. China is screwed - they've farked people over for decades, and now the chickens are coming home to roost.
So based on poor or no research, they banked on greed for a product whose marginal utility is low, whose costs are excessive, and then are shocked when real businesses (who have to do this for a living) saw through it and backed away? Another example of how the government is bad at business.
So you buy a weirdly-licensed 'electronic' book, and then somehow later, when you go to sell it, its either electronically or legally crippled? Hello, cash is king, its either a book or it ain't. Don't be too proud of the technological terror you've spawned.
1 TB = 3 hogsheads per furlong