...owing to our tax structure, having children pretty much guarantees poverty (50% of families in London with children live below the poverty line - and this often does mean going without meals, not just going without designer clothes).
Damn right. If you look at the statistics you'll see that minivans have more cargo space than SUVs, as well as being safer and more fuel efficient.
The in-laws have a minivan; the sister-in-law has a Ford Expedition. When we're visiting and we need to haul six people plus luggage, we sure as hell don't try to do it in the SUV.
Sheesh, the level of denial of SUV drivers is amazing.
Right, but OpenGL does nothing to prevent it either. It simply isn't a sensible issue, it's like complaining that sendmail doesn't support file attachments. It's not supposed to, that's a higher-level feature.
And I still don't see that variation in font rendering algorithms is a big deal. Plenty of people make graphic design packages for the Mac, and font rendering there depends on user settings.
Sorry, but who the hell cares if subpixel aliasing is exactly the same across different OpenGL drivers or not?
And if there is a really good reason why it needs to be, all you need is for the driver implementors or font rasterizer implementors to agree on what algorithm they're going to use. Again, the fact that OpenGL doesn't demand a specific algorithm doesn't mean that OpenGL doesn't support subpixel antialiasing, which was the original complaint.
So, to refute his claim that the recession started during the Clinton administration, you show unemployment statistics? You do know what a recession is, right? Two consecutive quarters of decreasing GDP?
Bush installed by Supreme Court January 2001. Business cycle peaks in March 2001.
"The NBER does not define a recession in terms of two consecutive quarters of decline in real GDP. Rather, a recession is a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales."
However, if you want to use the dumb "decline of GDP = recession" definition, the recession began in 1Q2001 according to the official figures linked above. Either way, the economy definitely tanked after the 2000 elections.
No, I think you're still wrong. See, OpenGL doesn't have any kind of scalable font support, subpixel-rendered or not. You draw fonts via OpenGL by rendering the fonts to either a bitmap, or to OpenGL primitives.
OpenGL does have subpixel antialiasing on its primitives. It doesn't do the "cooltype" thing, because the precise details of the pixel coverage algorithm are driver-dependent. However, there's nothing stopping your font renderer from turning your typeface into OpenGL geometry, and having your OpenGL driver render the geometry with cooltype anti-aliasing, so it's not a limitation of OpenGL.
So OpenGL supports subpixel rendering of fonts just fine, via bitmaps or via geometry. It doesn't render your TrueType fonts to a subpixel optimized LCD-ready bitmap, but that's not its job. OpenGL doesn't pretend to be a font renderer or hardware driver.
GPL is not about selfishness. GPL is a way of saying "I agree not to be selfish, but only if you agree not to be selfish too". It's about getting past the dilemma posed by companies such as Microsoft.
GPL does not prevent making money from the code either. I've made money from GPL code, as have many other people.
And nobody is forced to use GPLed code, so nobody is forced to release anything they write under the GPL. The only time you have to release anything under the GPL is if you choose to use GPL code someone else wrote.
The advantage of Ruby is that it's extremely consistent, without a lot of the special cases of (say) Java or Python.
Specifically, there are two scoping rules, all variables are references, everything is an object, it's true OO, it has lambdas, all the loops and other structural elements end with "end", there's no problem with tabs vs spaces.
I'm fairly new to Ruby (few thousand lines written), but I find it has an effortlessness about it that I've never experienced in a programming language before.
I'd also throw in some Scheme, just to get people used to the ideas of functional programming, program as data, and recursion. However, Ruby is better at doing useful things that might interest people (e.g. CGI, graphical toys, handy command-line utilities, etc.) sad to say.
2D is NOT 3D. Good 2D displays need subpixel rendering, predictable pixel-alignment ability yet support for natural units taking the DPI of the display into account, color correction, etc.
I have to wonder if you've ever done any OpenGL programming. OpenGL has sub-pixel rendering, its pixel-alignment algorithms are documented, and it has support for whatever natural units you like. (In my most recent screensaver, I set it up to work in cm.) It doesn't have color matching, but then again neither does X.
(Yes, that's my web site. The citations to the official federal data are there. It's just easier to link to my own site than copy and paste, plus you get the pretty graphs.)
However, whether you can actually demonstrate evidence of the attempt is very important, which was the whole point of my posting.
Because attempted murder is a serious charge, it needs solid evidence. In the past, police would have been able to prosecute the driver for possession of a firearm in a moving vehicle, or for discharging it; lesser offenses with lesser evidence requirements.
The problem with making it legal for everyone to carry and use guns, is that you make it harder for police to gather enough evidence to get criminals off the streets.
I also like the comment "so long as America keeps passing dumb laws like that" - as if Washington D.C.'s Draconian gun laws have made the first bit of difference there.
I know for a fact that they will throw your ass in jail for even brandishing a firearm in a public place towards a person or persons, regardless of the situation. Same thing if you shoot anyone, attempted murderer, burglar, anyone.
So the concealed carry laws are in fact totally pointless? Thanks for clarifying.
[...] it annoys the hell out of me that a Pakistani friend of mine was shot at on the highway shortly after 9/11, with bullets passing within inches of his 4-year old daughter and causing a fair bit of damage to his car, but the Orange County Sheriff's Office (FL) could not/would not bring the assailant to justice
Well, duh. It's Florida, you're supposed to enforce justice yourself by shooting back. Quote:
It is not necessary to have a license or permit to carry a loaded firearm in a private vehicle, so long as the gun is "securely encased". Florida law defines a weapon as being securely encased if the firearm is in a glove compartment, whether or not locked.
So long as America keeps passing dumb laws like that, what do you expect the police to do? They won't be able to prosecute the guy for having the gun, or even for firing it. Analysing ballistics information to try to get a match is expensive, and nobody was even injured, so it's not worth spending the money.
Often it's not the speed that's the problem, it's people leaving inadequate distance between their car and other people's cars. This especially applies to vehicles which are less maneuverable, like SUVs.
Texas is full of people who think it's OK to tailgate at 65mph in an SUV. I've even seen people tailgate 18 wheeler trucks at that speed.
You also see a lot of abandoned vehicles at the side of the road, and a lot of accidents. Go figure.
True, RAW mode helps... however, consumer 35mm film often has up to 6 stops of exposure latitude, so digital still has a way to go before it will surpass film.
Also, to get RAW mode (and auto bracketing, which can also help compensate), you have to go up to prosumer level, in which case the budgetary advantage of film becomes much stronger.
[Still, nice to see an actual informed comment on Slashdot... *sigh*]
1. Very wide exposure latitude. You can mis-expose a shot and it will almost always be salvageable later. With digital, if the shot is even slightly mis-exposed you lose highlights or shadow detail permanently.
2. Cheap media. If you're going to Tibet for the trip of a lifetime and plan on taking a few hundred shots, it's much cheaper to take 'em on film.
3. Automatic backups. Once you get your prints, you still have the negatives.
4. Cheaper cameras. A 35mm SLR that'll give better quality than any one hour photo lab can make use of, can be had for under $200. For digital, you're looking at $400+ for a comparable quality of image, $800+ if you want an SLR.
That said, I'm almost entirely digital now... Just waiting for an affordable SLR with a full-frame sensor...
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There's nothing unique to the UK about that. http://www.usccb.org/cchd/povertyusa/povfact8.htm shows that it's about the same in most major US cities.
Prius batteries have a 100,000 mile warranty, and are recyclable nickel metal hydride.
Believe it or not, silver spoon boy, we hate you for the SUV, not the money. I have a nice house and enough money, thanks.
Oh, we also hate you 'cause you're a fucking prick, but we wouldn't have known that if you hadn't posted.
Nice, but Prius uses the Atkinson cycle. How does that affect the figures?
Damn right. If you look at the statistics you'll see that minivans have more cargo space than SUVs, as well as being safer and more fuel efficient.
The in-laws have a minivan; the sister-in-law has a Ford Expedition. When we're visiting and we need to haul six people plus luggage, we sure as hell don't try to do it in the SUV.
Sheesh, the level of denial of SUV drivers is amazing.
Right, but OpenGL does nothing to prevent it either. It simply isn't a sensible issue, it's like complaining that sendmail doesn't support file attachments. It's not supposed to, that's a higher-level feature.
And I still don't see that variation in font rendering algorithms is a big deal. Plenty of people make graphic design packages for the Mac, and font rendering there depends on user settings.
Sorry, but who the hell cares if subpixel aliasing is exactly the same across different OpenGL drivers or not?
And if there is a really good reason why it needs to be, all you need is for the driver implementors or font rasterizer implementors to agree on what algorithm they're going to use. Again, the fact that OpenGL doesn't demand a specific algorithm doesn't mean that OpenGL doesn't support subpixel antialiasing, which was the original complaint.
If you want:
http://www.nber.org/cycles.htmlBush installed by Supreme Court January 2001. Business cycle peaks in March 2001.
However, if you want to use the dumb "decline of GDP = recession" definition, the recession began in 1Q2001 according to the official figures linked above. Either way, the economy definitely tanked after the 2000 elections.
No, I think you're still wrong. See, OpenGL doesn't have any kind of scalable font support, subpixel-rendered or not. You draw fonts via OpenGL by rendering the fonts to either a bitmap, or to OpenGL primitives.
OpenGL does have subpixel antialiasing on its primitives. It doesn't do the "cooltype" thing, because the precise details of the pixel coverage algorithm are driver-dependent. However, there's nothing stopping your font renderer from turning your typeface into OpenGL geometry, and having your OpenGL driver render the geometry with cooltype anti-aliasing, so it's not a limitation of OpenGL.
So OpenGL supports subpixel rendering of fonts just fine, via bitmaps or via geometry. It doesn't render your TrueType fonts to a subpixel optimized LCD-ready bitmap, but that's not its job. OpenGL doesn't pretend to be a font renderer or hardware driver.
GPL is not about selfishness. GPL is a way of saying "I agree not to be selfish, but only if you agree not to be selfish too". It's about getting past the dilemma posed by companies such as Microsoft.
GPL does not prevent making money from the code either. I've made money from GPL code, as have many other people.
And nobody is forced to use GPLed code, so nobody is forced to release anything they write under the GPL. The only time you have to release anything under the GPL is if you choose to use GPL code someone else wrote.
Yeah, my dream system would be a ThinkPad X41 tablet running OS X.
I might even be willing to hack OS X to achieve my dream...
The advantage of Ruby is that it's extremely consistent, without a lot of the special cases of (say) Java or Python.
Specifically, there are two scoping rules, all variables are references, everything is an object, it's true OO, it has lambdas, all the loops and other structural elements end with "end", there's no problem with tabs vs spaces.
I'm fairly new to Ruby (few thousand lines written), but I find it has an effortlessness about it that I've never experienced in a programming language before.
I'd also throw in some Scheme, just to get people used to the ideas of functional programming, program as data, and recursion. However, Ruby is better at doing useful things that might interest people (e.g. CGI, graphical toys, handy command-line utilities, etc.) sad to say.
I have to wonder if you've ever done any OpenGL programming. OpenGL has sub-pixel rendering, its pixel-alignment algorithms are documented, and it has support for whatever natural units you like. (In my most recent screensaver, I set it up to work in cm.) It doesn't have color matching, but then again neither does X.
The trouble is, when you post something like that which is easily and objectively verifiable to be an outright lie, you kinda detract from your position, you know?
(Yes, that's my web site. The citations to the official federal data are there. It's just easier to link to my own site than copy and paste, plus you get the pretty graphs.)
However, whether you can actually demonstrate evidence of the attempt is very important, which was the whole point of my posting.
Because attempted murder is a serious charge, it needs solid evidence. In the past, police would have been able to prosecute the driver for possession of a firearm in a moving vehicle, or for discharging it; lesser offenses with lesser evidence requirements.
The problem with making it legal for everyone to carry and use guns, is that you make it harder for police to gather enough evidence to get criminals off the streets.
False dichotomy alert!
So the concealed carry laws are in fact totally pointless? Thanks for clarifying.
Well, duh. It's Florida, you're supposed to enforce justice yourself by shooting back. Quote:
So long as America keeps passing dumb laws like that, what do you expect the police to do? They won't be able to prosecute the guy for having the gun, or even for firing it. Analysing ballistics information to try to get a match is expensive, and nobody was even injured, so it's not worth spending the money.
Often it's not the speed that's the problem, it's people leaving inadequate distance between their car and other people's cars. This especially applies to vehicles which are less maneuverable, like SUVs.
Texas is full of people who think it's OK to tailgate at 65mph in an SUV. I've even seen people tailgate 18 wheeler trucks at that speed.
You also see a lot of abandoned vehicles at the side of the road, and a lot of accidents. Go figure.
Perhaps by "nazi-ish firewall" they mean one that burns down your computer and blames it on Communists.
Could you be less specific?
Why don't you actually set out some of your requirements? Then you might actually get some useful answers.
Music bought on iTMS can be burned to a normal audio CD and played anywhere you like.
Please, quit with the iTMS disinformation.
True, RAW mode helps... however, consumer 35mm film often has up to 6 stops of exposure latitude, so digital still has a way to go before it will surpass film.
Also, to get RAW mode (and auto bracketing, which can also help compensate), you have to go up to prosumer level, in which case the budgetary advantage of film becomes much stronger.
[Still, nice to see an actual informed comment on Slashdot... *sigh*]
Dixons is like Ritz Camera, if it sold all the stuff that Best Buy sells.
Oh, film cameras have more advantages than that.
1. Very wide exposure latitude. You can mis-expose a shot and it will almost always be salvageable later. With digital, if the shot is even slightly mis-exposed you lose highlights or shadow detail permanently.
2. Cheap media. If you're going to Tibet for the trip of a lifetime and plan on taking a few hundred shots, it's much cheaper to take 'em on film.
3. Automatic backups. Once you get your prints, you still have the negatives.
4. Cheaper cameras. A 35mm SLR that'll give better quality than any one hour photo lab can make use of, can be had for under $200. For digital, you're looking at $400+ for a comparable quality of image, $800+ if you want an SLR.
That said, I'm almost entirely digital now... Just waiting for an affordable SLR with a full-frame sensor...