I don't think this is about web designers hand coding all these details - I mean, who manually writes HTML these days? The HTML is going to be written by the CMS running the site, and the CMS will usually know this kind of information already - currently, this information gets lost and then has to be guessed by search engines. Why not let the software that runs websites communicate more directly with the software that searches them?
If I rip my CD with lame --v2 (or whatever other options the scene releasers are using), wouldn't my perfectly legal rip have exactly the same fingerprint as the widely-distributed illegal rip? I don't see how labels could use this to identify illegally copied music.
11.04 has Unity in the desktop release (indeed, there's no longer a separate netbook edition), but it's a significant rewrite and, IMO, significantly better (certainly faster and more stable) than the 10.10 version of Unity.
The Netbook Edition of 10.10 does use Unity. The 11.04 version of Unity is a pretty big change over the earlier version (for example, they changed from using Mutter in 10.10 to using Compiz in 11.04), and, IME, is much more stable.
I don't think that follows, actually. If you want something to run in the background on Android, you register a handler for some event (which might be a timeout), and when that event occurs, the app will be woken up, or started up, as necessary to call the handler. So it's Android which is restarting the apps, not the apps restarting themselves, and its doing so, not because the apps were expected to crash, but just the opposite - they were expected to run indefinitely, and Android is restarting them to approximate that.
It's Apple's restrictions that make them register a background function that is metered out.
Android has exactly the same restriction. Apps can register services, which is run when required or on a timer, and they can create GUI activities, which only run when they're in the foreground. In neither case does the app run continuously from the time it's started up to the the time it is quite, unlike a PC application.
Android has top. Admittedly, it doesn't have a terminal emulator installed by default, but if you use the debugging shell (over USB) or a third-party terminal emulator app, you'll find top is already there.
something counts as libel if it's considered damaging whether it's true or not
That's not exactly true. The problem is that it's up to the person accused of libel to prove that what they said was true, rather than the person making the accusation of libel to prove that what was said is false.
Truth is an absolute defense in libel cases; whether there was malicious intent is only relevant in cases of qualified privilege (for instance, reporting on proceedings in parliament, or attempting to claim that a defamatory statement was made in the course of reasonable journalistic practice). English libel law requires that the person making a defense prove that what they are saying is true (rather than requiring the person making the complaint to prove that the supposed defamatory statement is false), but, if they can prove that what they were saying is true, they haven't committed libel. Giggs, AFAIK, has never maintained that the claims about this affair were false, and so hasn't attempted to bring a suit for libel. So this case is, as the parent said, quite different from the one concerning privacy injunctions.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure everyone who reads Slashdot knows what yaoi is. "News for Nerds" pretty much implies "News for people who know a little bit too much about Japanese kink."
None of that mentions error correction. If you look further down that Wikipedia page you'll see:
Both HDMI and DVI use TMDS to send 10-bit characters that are encoded using 8b/10b encoding for the Video Data Period and 2b/10b encoding for the Control Period. HDMI adds the ability to send audio and auxiliary data using 4b/10b encoding for the Data Island Period.[75] Each Data Island Period is 32 pixels in size and contains a 32-bit Packet Header, which includes 8 bits of BCH ECC parity data for error correction.
It explicitly mentions error correction for the Data Island Period (which, among other things transfers audio), but not for the Video Data Period. If you check the actual spec, you'll see that there is indeed no error correction for the video data.
What does "reducing the size and scope of the Federal Government" have to do with making the government work for us? If anything, a small government is less able to work for us - it either does nothing, or is more easily captured by the rich and powerful.
I've heard this before about visual languages, in a couple of different field, but it never pans out.
We could see these visual programming systems as versions of the "visual languages" that preceded full writing systems. Very early scripts used ideograms, symbols directly representing ideas. These were replaced fairly early by more abstract systems, where the symbols represented words or sounds, which allow for much more sophisticated communication. These visual programming systems seem to want to take us back about 6000 years.
metric shit-ton of Linux apps that can sync individual MP3s or playlists to iTunes and Apple cannot give a shit.
Except that Apple keep changing the way iPods sync in ways that break these apps. It's not entirely clear that Apple are making these changes in order to break the third-party apps, but some of the changes don't seem to have any other purpose.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think this is about web designers hand coding all these details - I mean, who manually writes HTML these days? The HTML is going to be written by the CMS running the site, and the CMS will usually know this kind of information already - currently, this information gets lost and then has to be guessed by search engines. Why not let the software that runs websites communicate more directly with the software that searches them?
If I rip my CD with lame --v2 (or whatever other options the scene releasers are using), wouldn't my perfectly legal rip have exactly the same fingerprint as the widely-distributed illegal rip? I don't see how labels could use this to identify illegally copied music.
XML, XSD, XSLT and XSLT-FO
Which of those have anything to do with semantics?
So they're breaking HTML by following the HTML5 specification?
11.04 has Unity in the desktop release (indeed, there's no longer a separate netbook edition), but it's a significant rewrite and, IMO, significantly better (certainly faster and more stable) than the 10.10 version of Unity.
The Netbook Edition of 10.10 does use Unity. The 11.04 version of Unity is a pretty big change over the earlier version (for example, they changed from using Mutter in 10.10 to using Compiz in 11.04), and, IME, is much more stable.
I don't think that follows, actually. If you want something to run in the background on Android, you register a handler for some event (which might be a timeout), and when that event occurs, the app will be woken up, or started up, as necessary to call the handler. So it's Android which is restarting the apps, not the apps restarting themselves, and its doing so, not because the apps were expected to crash, but just the opposite - they were expected to run indefinitely, and Android is restarting them to approximate that.
It's Apple's restrictions that make them register a background function that is metered out.
Android has exactly the same restriction. Apps can register services, which is run when required or on a timer, and they can create GUI activities, which only run when they're in the foreground. In neither case does the app run continuously from the time it's started up to the the time it is quite, unlike a PC application.
Android has top. Admittedly, it doesn't have a terminal emulator installed by default, but if you use the debugging shell (over USB) or a third-party terminal emulator app, you'll find top is already there.
something counts as libel if it's considered damaging whether it's true or not
That's not exactly true. The problem is that it's up to the person accused of libel to prove that what they said was true, rather than the person making the accusation of libel to prove that what was said is false.
Truth is an absolute defense in libel cases; whether there was malicious intent is only relevant in cases of qualified privilege (for instance, reporting on proceedings in parliament, or attempting to claim that a defamatory statement was made in the course of reasonable journalistic practice). English libel law requires that the person making a defense prove that what they are saying is true (rather than requiring the person making the complaint to prove that the supposed defamatory statement is false), but, if they can prove that what they were saying is true, they haven't committed libel. Giggs, AFAIK, has never maintained that the claims about this affair were false, and so hasn't attempted to bring a suit for libel. So this case is, as the parent said, quite different from the one concerning privacy injunctions.
Because KDE apps have so many settings, you need a whole menu just for them.
And then when you open up a settings dialog, it has its own settings menu.
IF you must why not just replace it with a small button or a mouse over action that shows/hides the address bar? How hard is that?
Oh, wait, that's exactly what TFA proposes.
Well of course. As you can see by reading Slashdot, all of us use torrents only for seeding Linux distributions, and nothing else.
Game developer good at developing games, not so good at understanding economics.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure everyone who reads Slashdot knows what yaoi is. "News for Nerds" pretty much implies "News for people who know a little bit too much about Japanese kink."
None of that mentions error correction. If you look further down that Wikipedia page you'll see:
Both HDMI and DVI use TMDS to send 10-bit characters that are encoded using 8b/10b encoding for the Video Data Period and 2b/10b encoding for the Control Period. HDMI adds the ability to send audio and auxiliary data using 4b/10b encoding for the Data Island Period.[75] Each Data Island Period is 32 pixels in size and contains a 32-bit Packet Header, which includes 8 bits of BCH ECC parity data for error correction.
It explicitly mentions error correction for the Data Island Period (which, among other things transfers audio), but not for the Video Data Period. If you check the actual spec, you'll see that there is indeed no error correction for the video data.
Blending the title bar of maximized windows into the top pane is DUMB. The new "overlay scrollbars" are DUMB.
Why?
How is it "adversarial"? What interest do I have in companies not having this information? What harm does it do me if they do have it?
reduce the size & scope of the Federal Government
What does "reducing the size and scope of the Federal Government" have to do with making the government work for us? If anything, a small government is less able to work for us - it either does nothing, or is more easily captured by the rich and powerful.
I've heard this before about visual languages, in a couple of different field, but it never pans out.
We could see these visual programming systems as versions of the "visual languages" that preceded full writing systems. Very early scripts used ideograms, symbols directly representing ideas. These were replaced fairly early by more abstract systems, where the symbols represented words or sounds, which allow for much more sophisticated communication. These visual programming systems seem to want to take us back about 6000 years.
I don't know if the ancient Egyptians said this, but Plato definitely did.
You can't help but think that this is the way all programmng will be done in the future.
It's true. Just like how, after the invention of the comic book, no one writes prose any more.
metric shit-ton of Linux apps that can sync individual MP3s or playlists to iTunes and Apple cannot give a shit.
Except that Apple keep changing the way iPods sync in ways that break these apps. It's not entirely clear that Apple are making these changes in order to break the third-party apps, but some of the changes don't seem to have any other purpose.
Well, yes, if they're switching from Windows 95. Otherwise, not so much.