Gamma is more brightness than colour definition... And Macs aren't fully automatic, they just have a better balancer than PCs (1.8 vs 2.2???).
The other thing is, if they had saved those pictures with Gamma information (cough PNG cough) they would look the same on everything. As it is, those images were designed to look right on a Mac. PC images tend to look washed out on Macs...
Creative soundcards are good. I have one in both my machines and I have no problems with either. Both were extremely cheap and work perfectly. I don't have any problems with monopolies so long as what they provide is good.
Think about it. Would you rather NVidia went bust and there wasn't anything good at all availale?
Oh, look at Intel. They were fairly close to getting the desktop market a while ago. Now AMD are (IMHO) ahead...
You know what the solution to that is? Turn up the contrast and brightness on your monitor. I find games like counterstrike are far easier when you do that (like you can see what you're shooting...).
It would be interesting to see a graphics card which could do that automatically... Sort of keeping the colours always within a certain range when you tell it to...
Since when was the manual right about bringing up children? My parents followed it too well, and look what I've become -- cynical, dangerous, not particularly sane... What are you trying to create? A world of people who all have good manners and brush their teeth, or a universe of intelligent people capable of thinking for themselves?
Do you really think that children should be shielded from the real world? It doesn't work -- even if it could be done you'd just be creating a load of zombies. Do you think that ignoring things will make them go away? Do you think that shielding children from the real world will make them happy? Because I'm a perfect example of what happens when two idiots decide that children not able to accept the truth. You know what I told the person who suggested that I was an objectivist because my parents didn't want me to be?
Look around, this is the real world here, not some little fairlytale dreamland where the bunnies skip in the grass and everyone is happy and loves their neighbour.
The simple solution would be to stop the superbug from reproducing / splitting / whatever. IANA biologist, so I don't know if this is possible, but it would probably be a solution to your question...
Drugs are a forbidden topic in UK schools. Simple as that. The government doesn't want them to exist, so we can't talk about them. We can only talk about politically correct social issues that they approve of, so we can bash porn, go on about animal rights, say how marvellous vegetarianism is but any mention of drugs gets you kicked off to the office.
And with the UK drugs policy failing, I wonder why?
So at what age do you suddenly gain rights? 16? 18? 21? I've seen some extremely smart 10 year olds with a far better grasp on reality than many adults. How do you decide who to protect? I for one would rather know about things than be protected from them, yet I don't qualify as an adult yet.
Would you rather have children growing up unaware that racial inequality exists? Would you rather have children not know about domestic violence? Would you rather have children not know about sex until they are old enough to have it? Or would you rather that they knew about such things, and were more prepared to accept 'bad' things when they happen?
Oh yeah, we'd better not tell children about death, it might upset them. Come on, you can't hide everything. It's safer for people to know that the world isn't perfect...
Well if 15 people and 30 children isn't enough, maybe they should let her try it on more. But no, they don't want to know about it so they throw it out instead...
Does anyone actually think that schools are teaching independent thought? In the past week I've been told by three separate teachers that I'm (this is a quote) "thinking too much" when I make a sensible suggestion that isn't in their textbooks. Anyone with different views is just an annoying pest in their views. OK, I admit, I've had two teachers so far who didn't have that attitude. That out of maybe thirty...
The biggest thing that people aren't allowed to have views on is politics; science is a close second. I don't think GM crops are evil; do I get to write a dicsursive essay on that? Nope. Too radical. Although flaming GM is fine. Do I get to suggest that the school stops using iGear? Nope. Although one group got to explain to senior management why closer supervision of internet access is good.
Of course, all thic could be because in the UK teachers are employed by the government, who don't want them to produce a bunch of people who might not vote for them. No, of course not. They're just concerned for our wellbeing -- after all, dangerous ideas might damage our fragile little brains.
It would be nice if this was possible, but for me at least it isn't. You know the amount of trouble there would be for everyone if it went wrong?
I dread to think what the High Up Authorities would say if they heard "yeah, some student just trashed all our network". It wouldn't happen, but our sysadmin won't risk his job on it anyway.
1. Can't see it. Could still be there. The landing feet and the dust would be a similar colour as well...
2. Erm, bad film?
3. The entire surface isn't dust. It's rock. Quite solid rock. Gravity has nothing to do with it -- look at some asteroids. The other thing being, they don't try to slow down when they're a couple of metres above the moon, they slow down earlier on.
4. No sound because there's no air for it to travel through. It's near enough a vacuum on the moon so all you hear is stuff from the microphone which is inside a suit.
It'll probably work for about two days, until our net admin catches up with it. Then he'll try to kill me, so I'll have to take it to the UN Court of Human Rights where I'll sue him for billions.
How many people know what MD5 is? Not many, I'd guess... I doubt that would work, simply because the majority of people don't have the technical knowledge to use it. Unless there's an MD5 checkbox which is selected by default it'll never work.
That's not entirely true. Granted, big names still make up the majority of the stuff in UK shops, but there's more and more 'unknown' stuff coming on sale. Virgin are still pretty bad, but the other big stores are getting far better.
The main way that stuff gets sold seems to be as a result of these compilation CDs -- anyone remember the Cuban Boys getting top ten? That was after they were on some compilation...
How did one unknown hacker get his operating system onto the walls of computer shops? I know there's a big difference between music and Linux, but the same basic principles could still apply.
If one newsgroup message was enough to start off Linux, maybe something similar could start off the next generation of music...
That might work... Thing is, what's to stop someone trying random numbers until they manage to get money off someone at random? The basic idea sounds good, but it would have to be implemented extremely carefully to work.
It might be easier to only allow banks / credit card companies to use credit card details. Maybe you could do your shopping on whatever e-commerce site, then be redirected to a credit card company to do the payment. Some domain name registrars (Gandi, for example) already do this successfully. This way the company never gets your credit card details.
Yeah, but there will be ten years of court battles before anything ever gets paid out. I'm not an expert on the american legal system, but from what I hear any large corporation will just cover everyone in paperwork and never actually pay up.
Security through obscurity? That isn't security at all... If one person stumbles accross it by accident then everything is lost. Also, if only a select few know how something is secured the chances are that they'll have missed something.
Plus, all it takes is one ex-employee to reveal all and the whole thing is made public. And what about these external body employees? Do you trust them?
Yes, but unless you stick a pretty icon on every user's desktop by default on install they won't know it's there. Maybe I'm being cynical, but I've just seen several thousand quid spent on Photoshop for people who are doing stuff Paint could easily handle. And now that Photoshop's been bought people found out about Paint and are using it exclusively...
I've used Aisleriot and it does win, but the thing is for many users you really have to point things out to them.
Once people (as in the unwashed masses, not the computer-knowledgable bunch) start using Linux there will be more stuff written natively... Besides, in my experience WINE isn't any slower than Win32 for most things.
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Gamma is more brightness than colour definition... And Macs aren't fully automatic, they just have a better balancer than PCs (1.8 vs 2.2???).
The other thing is, if they had saved those pictures with Gamma information (cough PNG cough) they would look the same on everything. As it is, those images were designed to look right on a Mac. PC images tend to look washed out on Macs...
Creative soundcards are good. I have one in both my machines and I have no problems with either. Both were extremely cheap and work perfectly. I don't have any problems with monopolies so long as what they provide is good.
Think about it. Would you rather NVidia went bust and there wasn't anything good at all availale?
Oh, look at Intel. They were fairly close to getting the desktop market a while ago. Now AMD are (IMHO) ahead...
You know what the solution to that is? Turn up the contrast and brightness on your monitor. I find games like counterstrike are far easier when you do that (like you can see what you're shooting...).
It would be interesting to see a graphics card which could do that automatically... Sort of keeping the colours always within a certain range when you tell it to...
Since when was the manual right about bringing up children? My parents followed it too well, and look what I've become -- cynical, dangerous, not particularly sane... What are you trying to create? A world of people who all have good manners and brush their teeth, or a universe of intelligent people capable of thinking for themselves?
Do you really think that children should be shielded from the real world? It doesn't work -- even if it could be done you'd just be creating a load of zombies. Do you think that ignoring things will make them go away? Do you think that shielding children from the real world will make them happy? Because I'm a perfect example of what happens when two idiots decide that children not able to accept the truth. You know what I told the person who suggested that I was an objectivist because my parents didn't want me to be?
Look around, this is the real world here, not some little fairlytale dreamland where the bunnies skip in the grass and everyone is happy and loves their neighbour.
The simple solution would be to stop the superbug from reproducing / splitting / whatever. IANA biologist, so I don't know if this is possible, but it would probably be a solution to your question...
Drugs are a forbidden topic in UK schools. Simple as that. The government doesn't want them to exist, so we can't talk about them. We can only talk about politically correct social issues that they approve of, so we can bash porn, go on about animal rights, say how marvellous vegetarianism is but any mention of drugs gets you kicked off to the office.
And with the UK drugs policy failing, I wonder why?
Do you prefer women with dark or light hair? Short or tall women? Serious or funny? Surely you're being hairist / heightist / personalityist....
Having preferences is always the same thing as discrimination? Ouch...
So at what age do you suddenly gain rights? 16? 18? 21? I've seen some extremely smart 10 year olds with a far better grasp on reality than many adults. How do you decide who to protect? I for one would rather know about things than be protected from them, yet I don't qualify as an adult yet.
Would you rather have children growing up unaware that racial inequality exists? Would you rather have children not know about domestic violence? Would you rather have children not know about sex until they are old enough to have it? Or would you rather that they knew about such things, and were more prepared to accept 'bad' things when they happen?
Oh yeah, we'd better not tell children about death, it might upset them. Come on, you can't hide everything. It's safer for people to know that the world isn't perfect...
Rant over.
Well if 15 people and 30 children isn't enough, maybe they should let her try it on more. But no, they don't want to know about it so they throw it out instead...
Does anyone actually think that schools are teaching independent thought? In the past week I've been told by three separate teachers that I'm (this is a quote) "thinking too much" when I make a sensible suggestion that isn't in their textbooks. Anyone with different views is just an annoying pest in their views. OK, I admit, I've had two teachers so far who didn't have that attitude. That out of maybe thirty...
The biggest thing that people aren't allowed to have views on is politics; science is a close second. I don't think GM crops are evil; do I get to write a dicsursive essay on that? Nope. Too radical. Although flaming GM is fine. Do I get to suggest that the school stops using iGear? Nope. Although one group got to explain to senior management why closer supervision of internet access is good.
Of course, all thic could be because in the UK teachers are employed by the government, who don't want them to produce a bunch of people who might not vote for them. No, of course not. They're just concerned for our wellbeing -- after all, dangerous ideas might damage our fragile little brains.
It would be nice if this was possible, but for me at least it isn't. You know the amount of trouble there would be for everyone if it went wrong?
I dread to think what the High Up Authorities would say if they heard "yeah, some student just trashed all our network". It wouldn't happen, but our sysadmin won't risk his job on it anyway.
1. Can't see it. Could still be there. The landing feet and the dust would be a similar colour as well...
2. Erm, bad film?
3. The entire surface isn't dust. It's rock. Quite solid rock. Gravity has nothing to do with it -- look at some asteroids. The other thing being, they don't try to slow down when they're a couple of metres above the moon, they slow down earlier on.
4. No sound because there's no air for it to travel through. It's near enough a vacuum on the moon so all you hear is stuff from the microphone which is inside a suit.
Well, these are some explanations.
It'll probably work for about two days, until our net admin catches up with it. Then he'll try to kill me, so I'll have to take it to the UN Court of Human Rights where I'll sue him for billions.
Well, that's the idea anyway.
The problem being, peacefire is blocked by every censorship program I've ever had inflicted upon me.
Is it just me, or is blocking every site as "crime" which says bad things about iGear sort of immoral?
Which Napster would be legally required to block as soon as it becomes publically available.
Sure, it could be done automatically or in some user-friendly way, but then Napster couldn't pretend they didn't know about it.
What makes this even more amusing is that CDDB have already patented that, so they can't use it. Earlier slashdot story:
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/12/08/2254214.shtHow many people know what MD5 is? Not many, I'd guess... I doubt that would work, simply because the majority of people don't have the technical knowledge to use it. Unless there's an MD5 checkbox which is selected by default it'll never work.
That's not entirely true. Granted, big names still make up the majority of the stuff in UK shops, but there's more and more 'unknown' stuff coming on sale. Virgin are still pretty bad, but the other big stores are getting far better.
The main way that stuff gets sold seems to be as a result of these compilation CDs -- anyone remember the Cuban Boys getting top ten? That was after they were on some compilation...
How did one unknown hacker get his operating system onto the walls of computer shops? I know there's a big difference between music and Linux, but the same basic principles could still apply.
If one newsgroup message was enough to start off Linux, maybe something similar could start off the next generation of music...
Except that IBM is commiting itself to Linux. The ex-evil empire turning to open source, that isn't exactly where it started.
Hear that speech at LinuxWorld?
That might work... Thing is, what's to stop someone trying random numbers until they manage to get money off someone at random? The basic idea sounds good, but it would have to be implemented extremely carefully to work.
It might be easier to only allow banks / credit card companies to use credit card details. Maybe you could do your shopping on whatever e-commerce site, then be redirected to a credit card company to do the payment. Some domain name registrars (Gandi, for example) already do this successfully. This way the company never gets your credit card details.
Yeah, but there will be ten years of court battles before anything ever gets paid out. I'm not an expert on the american legal system, but from what I hear any large corporation will just cover everyone in paperwork and never actually pay up.
Security through obscurity? That isn't security at all... If one person stumbles accross it by accident then everything is lost. Also, if only a select few know how something is secured the chances are that they'll have missed something.
Plus, all it takes is one ex-employee to reveal all and the whole thing is made public. And what about these external body employees? Do you trust them?
Yes, but unless you stick a pretty icon on every user's desktop by default on install they won't know it's there. Maybe I'm being cynical, but I've just seen several thousand quid spent on Photoshop for people who are doing stuff Paint could easily handle. And now that Photoshop's been bought people found out about Paint and are using it exclusively...
I've used Aisleriot and it does win, but the thing is for many users you really have to point things out to them.
Once people (as in the unwashed masses, not the computer-knowledgable bunch) start using Linux there will be more stuff written natively... Besides, in my experience WINE isn't any slower than Win32 for most things.