"How many bits" is WHICH PART of the console, you mean? Do you mean the CPU word size? Or the width of the memory address bus? Or the color depth of the GPU? Sample depth of the audio DSP?
Or, as seems to have been the tradition in the industry since the TurboGrafx-16, do you just add them all together so you can call it a 768-bit computer?
Are the "thought police" going to divine what's in someone's brain when they commit these crimes? It's that way today.
And it's ALWAYS been that way. Punishment has varied with motive throughout the history of the criminal system. It's why the sentences are different for accidentally killing someone, for killing someone in a moment of passion, and for designing and carrying out a plan to kill someone.
Hate Crimes are nothing more than an extension of this same idea. Society finds it more abhorrent for someone to get beaten up because of their skin color than because they were fooling around with the assailant's wife, therefore the punishment is greater. And unless there's substantial evidence that suggests the assailant's actions were racially motivated, the DA doesn't press hate crime charges. The system isn't perfect, but for the most part it's fair, and it works.
Having to "not offend" someone by not using the politically correct term for something they might say is another example of this. I'm not talking about using derogatory terms against someone...that IS offensive.
I'm not sure how much ground there really is separating "politically incorrect" from "derogatory". What would be an example of a term that is neither PC nor derogatory? Saying "Afro-American" instead of "African American" perhaps?
I'm also not sure what, if anything, your complaints about political correctness have to do with the government. It's not The State that freaks out if you say something un-PC, it's your fellow private citizens. Who have as much of a right to say how much your speech offends them as you have a right to your speech.
With laws like this there will be far more of this sort of miscarriage of justice.
Or perhaps, since the police would have access to a greater amount of data about the Birmingham Six and their activities, they would be able to definitively rule them out as participants in the bombing.
if a company's marketing managers say, "We want all the headlines to be in our corporate face, 'Sabon' and not be images because we want better SEO, it has to be plain web text."
Then developers say, "No problem, we can do that!" and come up with this.
And then the search engine comes along, and sees that the site designers are hiding content behind Flash panels, concludes that they're probably doing something underhanded, and drop their ranking to somewhere in the low 400's.
I don't agree that a website has no business specifying a font.
Neither do I, provided that we are using the same definition of "specifying".
Site designers can and should SUGGEST that viewers use a certain font when viewing their site. They should not, however, REQUIRE that viewers use a particular font.
Thirdly, sometimes part of a design should be in a different font from the rest, to help set it off, or just to help the asthetic.
Yes, and we call that kind of design "BAD design".
Go pick up any book in which there are notes about the typeface(s) used. Even in the rare cases where there isn't just one typeface used for the entire book, the secondary faces are almost always close relatives of the primary.
Kerning is SO simple to implement in software, and SO effective in improving the text readability, and it is still barely used on computer displays as of now.
OS X's font renderer does kerning. So does Windows' TrueType. This is a case where it's really just Unix/Linux that's trailing behind.
And yet the death penalty has pretty much universal support [in the United States]!
If you believe this to be true, I recommend you seek out other media sources for your news about American affairs, as we are FAR from unified in our views about the death penalty.
I remember reading somewhere that the NSA uses wiping software that blasts a sector with random 0's and 1's something like 7 times before it's considered secure.
And doing that for an entire movie file's worth of sectors is going to take quite a while to get through. So if this guy did wipe his drive at some point, it wasn't that he waited until the men in uniform were pounding on his front door.
That's why I keep all my sensitive data on CD-Rs. Five seconds in the microwave and it's unreadable.
it teaches us that there are some real morons at the university level wasting money that could be going to a WORTHY project.
If only they had remembered that Slashdot user "drsmack1" was the sole arbiter of worthwhileness BEFORE they started their research! A lot of time and money could have been saved.
Java byte code is fairly specific to java. It's possible to create non-Java languages that target the byte code, but it's not particularly practical. The CLR, on the other hand, was designed from the start with the idea of multiple language support.
Or to put it another way, a JRE's bytecode language is sub-optimal for code not written in Java, whereas a.Net CLR's bytecode is sub-optimal for code written in all languages.
In pretty much every case a Windows license will be a lot cheaper than the license for the J2EE app server... especially Web Sphere.
How often does a web app really require the full power of a J2EE servlet container like WebSphere? Or would something more open and lightweight (like Tomcat or Resin) often be sufficient... and FREE?
10 years from now it will be rare to see an unmanaged application on Windows
10 years from now it will be rare to give a damn what platform an application runs on, because they'll all live on the other end of the network from our workstations. I thought Microsoft understood that.
neither BluRay nor HDDVD will suport full HD resolution via component video, instead consumers will have to use HDMI
These are physical media formats we're talking about here. What business do they have telling us what types of I/O connections a device capable of reading such media may or may not have?
Just because the Blu-Ray spec allows discs to be DRM'ed out the ass doesn't mean that every disc released is going to use those features.
I doubt that the content industry has forgotten about the failure of DIVX already -- they lost money on that, right along with Circuit City, for every movie on DIVX disc that sold for $2 on clearance after the product bombed.
Expect the full set of restrictions to be enabled only for Oscar screeners and things of that nature.
Talk about false analogies. Denying suffrage based on skin color was indeed "a corrupt rule of law"; copyright protections for creators, not so much.
You disappoint me by failing to see there's a substantiative difference, and the guy who's hovering his pointer over the "-1, Troll" button for this comment I'm writing right now disappoints me too.
Because refusing to negotiate politely with a force which has demonstrated itself as larger is always seen as proactive.
There's no need for negotiations here, because the law is very clear: you may not reproduce song lyrics without permission of the copyright holder, except as permitted under fair use provisions.
If a mob of people walked into your house and started pocketing all your possessions, would you "negotiate politely" with them because there's more of them than of you? Or would you call for law enforcement?
Some of you still don't get it, even though it was pointed out repeatedly in the pearLyrics story comments.
MPA != RIAA. One is a music publishing organization, the other represents the recording industry. They both work to preserve their members' copyright protections, but they're not even the same kind of copyright.
here in the UK we have the PAL system which does a nice 625 lines per picture
50 of those are non-visible, though. Still sharper than our 480-line-visible NTSC signals (and you have better color definition), but definitely still far short of even 780-line High Definition.
Sure, HDTV would be better, but $3000 worth better? I'm not convinced and neither is my wallet.
Nor am I. Here in the New York City market, all of the VHF-band stations are now broadcasting in HD also, and through my cable company there's a handful more I could receive. However, I almost never watch any of these stations. All the content I'm interested in viewing is still on cable, coming across the wires at standard resolution.
Maybe once Comedy Central and the Cartoon Network are generating HD content, I'll find it worthwhile to make the switch. (By then HDTVs should be half the price they are now, and government-subsidized ATSC tuners easy to obtain.)
there's also the fact that the float model is much harder to implement than what preceded it - tables.
It's also a much more powerful model. There's a lot of things that can be accomplished with the CSS box model that simply can't be done with a rigid HTML table structure.
But hey, if you prefer table-based layouts, keep using them. No one's going to put you in W3C Jail for it, and browsers will continue rendering them reliably until the end of time.
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A child, you'll find, can also do CSS. It takes a small bit of tutorial, and a lot of looking things up or asking around or copying and pasting when they need to do something, but they do it, and it works.
By that logic, a child can also write an opera.
and it's not draconian--one mistake only kills the rule you're working with.
Unless for some reason your Cascading Style Sheets actually CASCADE.
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Yeah... how many bits is the 360 anyway?
"How many bits" is WHICH PART of the console, you mean? Do you mean the CPU word size? Or the width of the memory address bus? Or the color depth of the GPU? Sample depth of the audio DSP?
Or, as seems to have been the tradition in the industry since the TurboGrafx-16, do you just add them all together so you can call it a 768-bit computer?
Are the "thought police" going to divine what's in someone's brain when they commit these crimes? It's that way today.
And it's ALWAYS been that way. Punishment has varied with motive throughout the history of the criminal system. It's why the sentences are different for accidentally killing someone, for killing someone in a moment of passion, and for designing and carrying out a plan to kill someone.
Hate Crimes are nothing more than an extension of this same idea. Society finds it more abhorrent for someone to get beaten up because of their skin color than because they were fooling around with the assailant's wife, therefore the punishment is greater. And unless there's substantial evidence that suggests the assailant's actions were racially motivated, the DA doesn't press hate crime charges. The system isn't perfect, but for the most part it's fair, and it works.
Having to "not offend" someone by not using the politically correct term for something they might say is another example of this. I'm not talking about using derogatory terms against someone...that IS offensive.
I'm not sure how much ground there really is separating "politically incorrect" from "derogatory". What would be an example of a term that is neither PC nor derogatory? Saying "Afro-American" instead of "African American" perhaps?
I'm also not sure what, if anything, your complaints about political correctness have to do with the government. It's not The State that freaks out if you say something un-PC, it's your fellow private citizens. Who have as much of a right to say how much your speech offends them as you have a right to your speech.
With laws like this there will be far more of this sort of miscarriage of justice.
Or perhaps, since the police would have access to a greater amount of data about the Birmingham Six and their activities, they would be able to definitively rule them out as participants in the bombing.
Just playing Devil's advocate.
if a company's marketing managers say, "We want all the headlines to be in our corporate face, 'Sabon' and not be images because we want better SEO, it has to be plain web text."
Then developers say, "No problem, we can do that!" and come up with this.
And then the search engine comes along, and sees that the site designers are hiding content behind Flash panels, concludes that they're probably doing something underhanded, and drop their ranking to somewhere in the low 400's.
I don't agree that a website has no business specifying a font.
Neither do I, provided that we are using the same definition of "specifying".
Site designers can and should SUGGEST that viewers use a certain font when viewing their site. They should not, however, REQUIRE that viewers use a particular font.
Thirdly, sometimes part of a design should be in a different font from the rest, to help set it off, or just to help the asthetic.
Yes, and we call that kind of design "BAD design".
Go pick up any book in which there are notes about the typeface(s) used. Even in the rare cases where there isn't just one typeface used for the entire book, the secondary faces are almost always close relatives of the primary.
I love the argument "the page still works fine if this feature is turned off".
If it still works fine... then what's the benefit of having it turned on?
Kerning is SO simple to implement in software, and SO effective in improving the text readability, and it is still barely used on computer displays as of now.
OS X's font renderer does kerning. So does Windows' TrueType. This is a case where it's really just Unix/Linux that's trailing behind.
And yet the death penalty has pretty much universal support [in the United States]!
If you believe this to be true, I recommend you seek out other media sources for your news about American affairs, as we are FAR from unified in our views about the death penalty.
I remember reading somewhere that the NSA uses wiping software that blasts a sector with random 0's and 1's something like 7 times before it's considered secure.
And doing that for an entire movie file's worth of sectors is going to take quite a while to get through. So if this guy did wipe his drive at some point, it wasn't that he waited until the men in uniform were pounding on his front door.
That's why I keep all my sensitive data on CD-Rs. Five seconds in the microwave and it's unreadable.
it teaches us that there are some real morons at the university level wasting money that could be going to a WORTHY project.
If only they had remembered that Slashdot user "drsmack1" was the sole arbiter of worthwhileness BEFORE they started their research! A lot of time and money could have been saved.
Java byte code is fairly specific to java. It's possible to create non-Java languages that target the byte code, but it's not particularly practical. The CLR, on the other hand, was designed from the start with the idea of multiple language support.
.Net CLR's bytecode is sub-optimal for code written in all languages.
Or to put it another way, a JRE's bytecode language is sub-optimal for code not written in Java, whereas a
In pretty much every case a Windows license will be a lot cheaper than the license for the J2EE app server... especially Web Sphere.
How often does a web app really require the full power of a J2EE servlet container like WebSphere? Or would something more open and lightweight (like Tomcat or Resin) often be sufficient... and FREE?
10 years from now it will be rare to see an unmanaged application on Windows
10 years from now it will be rare to give a damn what platform an application runs on, because they'll all live on the other end of the network from our workstations. I thought Microsoft understood that.
neither BluRay nor HDDVD will suport full HD resolution via component video, instead consumers will have to use HDMI
These are physical media formats we're talking about here. What business do they have telling us what types of I/O connections a device capable of reading such media may or may not have?
Just because the Blu-Ray spec allows discs to be DRM'ed out the ass doesn't mean that every disc released is going to use those features.
I doubt that the content industry has forgotten about the failure of DIVX already -- they lost money on that, right along with Circuit City, for every movie on DIVX disc that sold for $2 on clearance after the product bombed.
Expect the full set of restrictions to be enabled only for Oscar screeners and things of that nature.
Besides which, you should be using browser-agnostic encapsulation functions for managing your DHTML objects. It's future-proofing.
Talk about false analogies. Denying suffrage based on skin color was indeed "a corrupt rule of law"; copyright protections for creators, not so much.
You disappoint me by failing to see there's a substantiative difference, and the guy who's hovering his pointer over the "-1, Troll" button for this comment I'm writing right now disappoints me too.
Slowly but surely MS is learning a few good tricks from the Linux crowd.
Who, in turn, proudly got most of their best ideas from the UNIX crowd.
I thought no one could own the facts?
Lyrics aren't facts. They are creative works.
If you listen to the song and type in the lyrics, is that legal? If you listen to the song, figure out the notes, and write some sheet, is that legal?
Yes, unless you offer the product of your research to the public without the songwriter/lyricist's permission.
Copyright infringement is a wholly separate thing. You are stupid. Thank you.
No, thank YOU for the lovely ad hominem attack, you shit-eating motherfucker.
Because refusing to negotiate politely with a force which has demonstrated itself as larger is always seen as proactive.
There's no need for negotiations here, because the law is very clear: you may not reproduce song lyrics without permission of the copyright holder, except as permitted under fair use provisions.
If a mob of people walked into your house and started pocketing all your possessions, would you "negotiate politely" with them because there's more of them than of you? Or would you call for law enforcement?
Some of you still don't get it, even though it was pointed out repeatedly in the pearLyrics story comments.
MPA != RIAA. One is a music publishing organization, the other represents the recording industry. They both work to preserve their members' copyright protections, but they're not even the same kind of copyright.
here in the UK we have the PAL system which does
a nice 625 lines per picture
50 of those are non-visible, though. Still sharper than our 480-line-visible NTSC signals (and you have better color definition), but definitely still far short of even 780-line High Definition.
Sure, HDTV would be better, but $3000 worth better?
I'm not convinced and neither is my wallet.
Nor am I. Here in the New York City market, all of the VHF-band stations are now broadcasting in HD also, and through my cable company there's a handful more I could receive. However, I almost never watch any of these stations. All the content I'm interested in viewing is still on cable, coming across the wires at standard resolution.
Maybe once Comedy Central and the Cartoon Network are generating HD content, I'll find it worthwhile to make the switch. (By then HDTVs should be half the price they are now, and government-subsidized ATSC tuners easy to obtain.)
You could begin by pointing out the similarity between the company name, Cox, and the plural form of a slang term for penis.
there's also the fact that the float model is much harder to implement than what preceded it - tables.
It's also a much more powerful model. There's a lot of things that can be accomplished with the CSS box model that simply can't be done with a rigid HTML table structure.
But hey, if you prefer table-based layouts, keep using them. No one's going to put you in W3C Jail for it, and browsers will continue rendering them reliably until the end of time.
A child, you'll find, can also do CSS. It takes a small bit of tutorial, and a lot of looking things up or asking around or copying and pasting when they need to do something, but they do it, and it works.
By that logic, a child can also write an opera.
and it's not draconian--one mistake only kills the rule you're working with.
Unless for some reason your Cascading Style Sheets actually CASCADE.