Actually, smiling at people on the street is subject to a cease and desist letter under US law. In fact, ANYTHING is subject to a cease and desist letter... it's just a letter! The letter has no legal significance EXCEPT for one small thing: after having received such a letter, the recipient cannot claim "I didn't know about it" as a defense. So they're used only in cases of IP infringement, where "I didn't know about it" is sometimes a valid defense. If you think that you have a RIGHT to use the image/text/soundbite/idea/whatever, then you can go ahead and use it despite having received the letter... however, if you consult a lawyer, then the odds are VERY good that they will advise you to play it safe and stop "infringing". But the letter itself has NO legal significance
there was once something called JPIG which was essencially jpeg with an alpha channel. as far as i've seen (never heard of it since) it hasn't taken off. it required a plug in i think - which is a bad start.
it's something we could do with.
and maybe animated pngs to replace anim gifs. not that i like them - by they're ok when used properly.
they take a fresh look at the market. they see their customers switching over to linux, so they've realized they need to take linux seriously and work out how to about making money from it. the problem is this: they still haven't understood that you don't want to switch from with an open source project unless you're better and open ended enough so there aren't any limits to the program. sco does have some advantages over linux, but they're not especially better - certainly not in a way that linux won't catch up in a matter time. sgi saw it and did the right thing: focus on what they have that other os's don't/can't do, but for the long term see linux as its dominance on the other side of the market place. i think that sco will end up having to do the same with their os, and the longer it takes them, the more money they'll loose in the process.
how about an apache mod that automatically checks the urls as they are sent and changes them. then there'd be no need for any browser modifications. infact, it wouldn't have to be an apache mod - any kind of executable that could be cron'd to check links every so often could have the same effect.
i'm not sure how this would fit in with the whole signature thing. i suppose we could just pgp sign our web pages and but the signing in comments.
but as with most of my ideas, someone's probably already coded this.
i think that, essencially, there is no middle media, rather a dual medium media which gives everyone the choice of their prefered media and also payment for it (advertising online vs the advertising and payment combo of printed media).
seeing as most media has gone through either a computer as some point - it's as easy to select 'export to html' as it is to select 'print'.
also, there is the practicallity of it. sure, if i'm going to work, i'm not going to read the news on the train on my laptop but then, if i'm at work/home, i'm not going to go out and buy a newspaper if i can read it online without getting out of my chair.
i guess the final thing is the audience. if i'm buying a computer from say dabs.co.uk, i'm not going to go through the catalogue when there's much more up-to-date information online. but also, i doubt i'd prefer an email of computer arts magazine's articles than a hi-res glossy print.
as for cinema and music - i get the feeling that people are a lot more aware of quality of the medium than previously.
and then there's the fact that the windows font renderer doesn't anti-alias fonts at the mostly used sizes.
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Actually, smiling at people on the street is subject to a cease and desist letter under US law. In fact, ANYTHING is subject to a cease and desist letter... it's just a letter! The letter has no legal significance EXCEPT for one small thing: after having received such a letter, the recipient cannot claim "I didn't know about it" as a defense. So they're used only in cases of IP infringement, where "I didn't know about it" is sometimes a valid defense. If you think that you have a RIGHT to use the image/text/soundbite/idea/whatever, then you can go ahead and use it despite having received the letter... however, if you consult a lawyer, then the odds are VERY good that they will advise you to play it safe and stop "infringing". But the letter itself has NO legal significance
there was once something called JPIG which was essencially jpeg with an alpha channel. as far as i've seen (never heard of it since) it hasn't taken off. it required a plug in i think - which is a bad start.
it's something we could do with.
and maybe animated pngs to replace anim gifs. not that i like them - by they're ok when used properly.
i'd say that you're both.
ps - you need a sig that says 'hot grits down my pants with natalie portman's beowulf cluster, naked and petrified'
got any triple sod?
i meant to reply to 'North' actually. sorry.
ps - grits
yeah, but how many cds of mine have you got copies of on minidisk, or mp3'd?
ps - thanks for the bloodhound mp3s
they take a fresh look at the market. they see their customers switching over to linux, so they've realized they need to take linux seriously and work out how to about making money from it. the problem is this: they still haven't understood that you don't want to switch from with an open source project unless you're better and open ended enough so there aren't any limits to the program. sco does have some advantages over linux, but they're not especially better - certainly not in a way that linux won't catch up in a matter time. sgi saw it and did the right thing: focus on what they have that other os's don't/can't do, but for the long term see linux as its dominance on the other side of the market place. i think that sco will end up having to do the same with their os, and the longer it takes them, the more money they'll loose in the process.
how about an apache mod that automatically checks the urls as they are sent and changes them. then there'd be no need for any browser modifications.
infact, it wouldn't have to be an apache mod - any kind of executable that could be cron'd to check links every so often could have the same effect.
i'm not sure how this would fit in with the whole signature thing. i suppose we could just pgp sign our web pages and but the signing in comments.
but as with most of my ideas, someone's probably already coded this.
i think that, essencially, there is no middle media, rather a dual medium media which gives everyone the choice of their prefered media and also payment for it (advertising online vs the advertising and payment combo of printed media).
seeing as most media has gone through either a computer as some point - it's as easy to select 'export to html' as it is to select 'print'.
also, there is the practicallity of it. sure, if i'm going to work, i'm not going to read the news on the train on my laptop but then, if i'm at work/home, i'm not going to go out and buy a newspaper if i can read it online without getting out of my chair.
i guess the final thing is the audience. if i'm buying a computer from say dabs.co.uk, i'm not going to go through the catalogue when there's much more up-to-date information online. but also, i doubt i'd prefer an email of computer arts magazine's articles than a hi-res glossy print.
as for cinema and music - i get the feeling that people are a lot more aware of quality of the medium than previously.
and then there's the fact that the windows font renderer doesn't anti-alias fonts at the mostly used sizes.
this is just my situation.