The facts are public domain, but a particular presentation is not. While you're perfectly within your rights to produce a copy of, say, "A Midsummer's Night Dream," you cannot record a theatre's version and publish it freely.
Bad example. The Lisa concept was extremely successful once it was further refined and released as the Macintosh. Most of the Lisa's problems were more that it was pretty revolutionary; Apple needed customer feedback to refine it into something that was actually saleable. And trust me, an Apple smartphone could be a cool idea if implemented right. The only big issue is being able to throw away a generation of fail if need be.
So you're going for the old, "the other side also does bad things argument". One can be against both things, you know. Why is it that Europeans feel that democracy is something that's so fragile that certain ideas can be considered illegal? Is European democracy so fragile that even the mention of those ideas, no matter how abhorrent they may be, will cause mass panic and a rise of nazis again? Are you Europeans so afraid of Nazis that you will give up your freedoms to keep that bad N word out of your houses? Or do you just not want to come to terms that you've fallen prey to those same very ideas, that They are responsible for all evils, and if They were eliminated forever, then We will succeed? In short, is the enemy you?
Some of us like using our bandwidth for more important things. Like pr0n for example. BT cuts into my highly needed pr0nstream. Better to have the tivo gather the shows for me.
While cloning is more expensive than the good ol' in out, in out, it's cheaper than waiting for another one in a million cow to come along that you raise to rent out for stud services. By cloning prized bulls and cows, you can better ensure that your farm has a better chance to raise another generation of high quality cattle.
Who said anything about prosumer? Prepress work, which is where CMYK is used, is pro-grade. Yes A) I have done prepress work, and B) I have been bitten by GIMP's faux CMYK. I probably would have saved time and money by renting a machine at Kinkos for a few hours to do the work with photoshop. Besides, converting to CMYK at acquisition time makes the corrections a lot easier than after you've already done the color correction and calibration to handle the variations of the CCD.
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Not quite the same, because you're going to blow through pages getting things looking good. Native CMYK from start to finish means you don't have to do the inevitable tweaks to the document when converting between colorspaces.
One of the things the GEGL does is allow for 48-bit graphics. It was one of the things that was supposed to originally go into GIMP 2 before things got sidetracked, unfortunately. Additionally, it seems that color management and colorspaces are also going to be implemented with this new system. Hopefully it actually gets done this time.
Actually, the grandparent wasn't too far off from how ATi and nVidia both used to spec certain chips. They'd try to spec all their graphics chips to the high-end spec, and if one of the pipelines was bad or marginal, or they just didn't have enough of the lower end product, they'd disable those features and call it the lower grade product. A quick google search should show hacked bioses and drivers to try to re-enable these pipelines, but searching for them will be an exercise left to the reader. IIRC, last time it was really an issue, though, was around the ATi 9500 range.
Hooray for bad car analogies. The big difference here is that I can pull out the transmission of a car and drop in something more to my preference. Unlike the computer world, there's no law stopping me from pulling out the stock transmission (driver), looking at the mounting bolts (omg, reverse engineering the interface specs), and fabricating or purchasing a new transmission (writing a new driver). US law unfortunately discourages any sort of modifications of this sort for pretty spurious reasons.
The difference is is that with airline travel, there's a definite answer where the money is going. You take off at point A and you land in point B. The airline merely acts as a collections agent for the various fees; they just distribute the tax moneys for you. Email makes it difficult, if not impossible to handle this situation, and in fact, the fact that email is multinational could make the spamming problem worse. Were some country, say Russia, to not allow the taxes to be collected, then suddenly, the entire system breaks down. Companies now only have to telnet to Russia to send mail without impunity, while legitimate users have to spend what could be significant amounts of money in order to send mail.
Or move everyone to a tax free system for messaging. Additionally, who would collect these taxes? How would an email message sent from England to Hungary be taxed? How about a webmail message where the webmail user is in the US accessing a French webmail server communicating with a German mail server ultimately read by a user in russia? Taxing email is just unworkable.
Or is the press generated by such an issue more important for spamhaus than their user's mailbox?
Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner. Give the ${Gender} a cigar. The whole case smells of legalistic trolling, to be honest. By requesting the venue be changed to federal court, Spamhaus pretty much said through actions that they were accepting that they were under US law. Then, by not showing up for the court case at all, they accepted whatever punishment came down the pipes. Sounds to me like a planned move for some reasoning.
The more cynical side of me is wondering if they are playing this for political and/or economical reasons. They seemed to immediately tell people to blame ICANN for any possible shutdown when ICANN has said themselves that they aren't involved in this case at all; they can't shut down the domain, they have no legal bearing to stand either way on this case. Another part of me is thinking that perhaps this is all a money ploy. By playing themselves the victim, they stand to get a decent amount of sympathy money. Anyone in the UK know the laws on nonprofit financial disclosure? Can donations be charted by month, or is yearly the only level you can look at?
The big issue, that Debian doesn't want to talk about, is branch management. Yes, security fixes are important, but when bugs for version 1.5.05 are fixed in 1.5.06, the Mozilla team wants to make it absolutely clear that Debian is running an obsolete, unsupported version of the code. It helps isolate true bugs from issues fixed with a later version of the code, something that's not easily done with how Debian handles patches. Debian's patch system makes it harder for application vendors to truly manage problems because it becomes Yet Another Variable they have to deal with in fixing and managing problems.
In short, yes. No Firefox for the base Debian. Perhaps this is my jadedness from trying to run Debian for a year and a half, but I always found that in order to maintain a usable, stable, desktop system, I always had to look outside the project anyways. The RPM-based systems always seemed to do a better job of either providing frequent enough updates to the base system and/or providing a generally better desktop experience. I think more projects could do a wealth of good by ignoring OSS trolls like RMS and Alan Cox and saying, "we're out to provide the best experience for our users. Fuck you, you fucking no good zealot fucks." It would honestly do the Linux cause a lot more good than a lot of the present leaders.
Y'know, wine runs most games, and even runs photoshop quite well. In fact, Disney has thousands of boxes running photoshop under wine, and I don't think they'd be running something half-assed.
or do 3) Distribute FireFox in nonfree, which is an ever important category for getting debian to as useful state as it is. Sensible end users get a usable system, zealots can suck it.
Perhaps it's just a different philosophy of life, but I'd rather die young due to a technological advance gone awry than live until I'm 80 in some stagnant cesspool because people are too risk-adverse to allow change.
That's pretty much never been the rule. NT 4 SP 3 introduced certain new features, such as DirectX to the operating system. While they don't usually do massive changes, Service Packs have never been precluded from having new features added.
No, the problem is that everyone plays the UN to try to further their own goals, and the entire system is designed to essentially prevent any sort of intermediary action. The veto power is perhaps the greatest example of this; Security Council actions are near impossible due to the fact that the UN makes it impossible for countries to rise above petty nationalism -- any of the big 5 that disagrees with a policy automatically shoots it down, which only leads to escalation and frustration.
Ah, so you're firmly in the "UN is only valid as a debate club" camp. The whole shitstorm in Iraq could very well have been avoided had both the pacifist dickwads and hawkish asswipes been more interested in true debate. Both sides showed a lack of willingness to negotiate regarding a proper course of action in dealing with Sadam -- less than full invasion, more than letting him go on his merry way killing Kurds and other groups that disagree with him. Of course, this is being reasonable, and we can't have that in a world full of extremes, now can we?
There are other groups working on cracking HDCP. Pretty easy to crack, check out the wikipedia article on HDCP for more info. You were too lazy to research, I'm too lazy to link;P.
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The facts are public domain, but a particular presentation is not. While you're perfectly within your rights to produce a copy of, say, "A Midsummer's Night Dream," you cannot record a theatre's version and publish it freely.
Bad example. The Lisa concept was extremely successful once it was further refined and released as the Macintosh. Most of the Lisa's problems were more that it was pretty revolutionary; Apple needed customer feedback to refine it into something that was actually saleable. And trust me, an Apple smartphone could be a cool idea if implemented right. The only big issue is being able to throw away a generation of fail if need be.
So you're going for the old, "the other side also does bad things argument". One can be against both things, you know. Why is it that Europeans feel that democracy is something that's so fragile that certain ideas can be considered illegal? Is European democracy so fragile that even the mention of those ideas, no matter how abhorrent they may be, will cause mass panic and a rise of nazis again? Are you Europeans so afraid of Nazis that you will give up your freedoms to keep that bad N word out of your houses? Or do you just not want to come to terms that you've fallen prey to those same very ideas, that They are responsible for all evils, and if They were eliminated forever, then We will succeed? In short, is the enemy you?
Some of us like using our bandwidth for more important things. Like pr0n for example. BT cuts into my highly needed pr0nstream. Better to have the tivo gather the shows for me.
While cloning is more expensive than the good ol' in out, in out, it's cheaper than waiting for another one in a million cow to come along that you raise to rent out for stud services. By cloning prized bulls and cows, you can better ensure that your farm has a better chance to raise another generation of high quality cattle.
Who said anything about prosumer? Prepress work, which is where CMYK is used, is pro-grade. Yes A) I have done prepress work, and B) I have been bitten by GIMP's faux CMYK. I probably would have saved time and money by renting a machine at Kinkos for a few hours to do the work with photoshop. Besides, converting to CMYK at acquisition time makes the corrections a lot easier than after you've already done the color correction and calibration to handle the variations of the CCD.
Not quite the same, because you're going to blow through pages getting things looking good. Native CMYK from start to finish means you don't have to do the inevitable tweaks to the document when converting between colorspaces.
One of the things the GEGL does is allow for 48-bit graphics. It was one of the things that was supposed to originally go into GIMP 2 before things got sidetracked, unfortunately. Additionally, it seems that color management and colorspaces are also going to be implemented with this new system. Hopefully it actually gets done this time.
Actually, the grandparent wasn't too far off from how ATi and nVidia both used to spec certain chips. They'd try to spec all their graphics chips to the high-end spec, and if one of the pipelines was bad or marginal, or they just didn't have enough of the lower end product, they'd disable those features and call it the lower grade product. A quick google search should show hacked bioses and drivers to try to re-enable these pipelines, but searching for them will be an exercise left to the reader. IIRC, last time it was really an issue, though, was around the ATi 9500 range.
Hooray for bad car analogies. The big difference here is that I can pull out the transmission of a car and drop in something more to my preference. Unlike the computer world, there's no law stopping me from pulling out the stock transmission (driver), looking at the mounting bolts (omg, reverse engineering the interface specs), and fabricating or purchasing a new transmission (writing a new driver). US law unfortunately discourages any sort of modifications of this sort for pretty spurious reasons.
The difference is is that with airline travel, there's a definite answer where the money is going. You take off at point A and you land in point B. The airline merely acts as a collections agent for the various fees; they just distribute the tax moneys for you. Email makes it difficult, if not impossible to handle this situation, and in fact, the fact that email is multinational could make the spamming problem worse. Were some country, say Russia, to not allow the taxes to be collected, then suddenly, the entire system breaks down. Companies now only have to telnet to Russia to send mail without impunity, while legitimate users have to spend what could be significant amounts of money in order to send mail.
Or move everyone to a tax free system for messaging. Additionally, who would collect these taxes? How would an email message sent from England to Hungary be taxed? How about a webmail message where the webmail user is in the US accessing a French webmail server communicating with a German mail server ultimately read by a user in russia? Taxing email is just unworkable.
Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner. Give the ${Gender} a cigar. The whole case smells of legalistic trolling, to be honest. By requesting the venue be changed to federal court, Spamhaus pretty much said through actions that they were accepting that they were under US law. Then, by not showing up for the court case at all, they accepted whatever punishment came down the pipes. Sounds to me like a planned move for some reasoning.
The more cynical side of me is wondering if they are playing this for political and/or economical reasons. They seemed to immediately tell people to blame ICANN for any possible shutdown when ICANN has said themselves that they aren't involved in this case at all; they can't shut down the domain, they have no legal bearing to stand either way on this case. Another part of me is thinking that perhaps this is all a money ploy. By playing themselves the victim, they stand to get a decent amount of sympathy money. Anyone in the UK know the laws on nonprofit financial disclosure? Can donations be charted by month, or is yearly the only level you can look at?
The big issue, that Debian doesn't want to talk about, is branch management. Yes, security fixes are important, but when bugs for version 1.5.05 are fixed in 1.5.06, the Mozilla team wants to make it absolutely clear that Debian is running an obsolete, unsupported version of the code. It helps isolate true bugs from issues fixed with a later version of the code, something that's not easily done with how Debian handles patches. Debian's patch system makes it harder for application vendors to truly manage problems because it becomes Yet Another Variable they have to deal with in fixing and managing problems.
In short, yes. No Firefox for the base Debian. Perhaps this is my jadedness from trying to run Debian for a year and a half, but I always found that in order to maintain a usable, stable, desktop system, I always had to look outside the project anyways. The RPM-based systems always seemed to do a better job of either providing frequent enough updates to the base system and/or providing a generally better desktop experience. I think more projects could do a wealth of good by ignoring OSS trolls like RMS and Alan Cox and saying, "we're out to provide the best experience for our users. Fuck you, you fucking no good zealot fucks." It would honestly do the Linux cause a lot more good than a lot of the present leaders.
Or maybe some scattershot? I don't know which.
Y'know, wine runs most games, and even runs photoshop quite well. In fact, Disney has thousands of boxes running photoshop under wine, and I don't think they'd be running something half-assed.
or do 3) Distribute FireFox in nonfree, which is an ever important category for getting debian to as useful state as it is. Sensible end users get a usable system, zealots can suck it.
Perhaps it's just a different philosophy of life, but I'd rather die young due to a technological advance gone awry than live until I'm 80 in some stagnant cesspool because people are too risk-adverse to allow change.
That's pretty much never been the rule. NT 4 SP 3 introduced certain new features, such as DirectX to the operating system. While they don't usually do massive changes, Service Packs have never been precluded from having new features added.
No, the problem is that everyone plays the UN to try to further their own goals, and the entire system is designed to essentially prevent any sort of intermediary action. The veto power is perhaps the greatest example of this; Security Council actions are near impossible due to the fact that the UN makes it impossible for countries to rise above petty nationalism -- any of the big 5 that disagrees with a policy automatically shoots it down, which only leads to escalation and frustration.
Ah, so you're firmly in the "UN is only valid as a debate club" camp. The whole shitstorm in Iraq could very well have been avoided had both the pacifist dickwads and hawkish asswipes been more interested in true debate. Both sides showed a lack of willingness to negotiate regarding a proper course of action in dealing with Sadam -- less than full invasion, more than letting him go on his merry way killing Kurds and other groups that disagree with him. Of course, this is being reasonable, and we can't have that in a world full of extremes, now can we?
This is assuming that one voted for the traitors in question. I didn't. Next false assumption?
On the same note, why are germans so uppity about the Nazi party nowadays. It's not like they could reasonably expect a return to power, now is it?
There are other groups working on cracking HDCP. Pretty easy to crack, check out the wikipedia article on HDCP for more info. You were too lazy to research, I'm too lazy to link ;P.