Agreed. I personally was put-off the show while it was on the air because I was convinced it was about 20 minutes of "What is the deal with THAT?" jokes, which I've never cared for.
However, once watching the show for a while, and noting in different episodes that everyone makes fun of Seinfeld's comedy style hooked me.
Plus, I think George Costanza has a big draw to the types of minds on a site like this.
To be honest, the DRM on fonts is a bit overblown. To create an EOT, you must supply the *beginning* part of the URL to which the font is bound. This is, unfortunately, done with DNS.
That said, if you created "MyDomain1.com", "MyDomainCool.com", "MyDomainIsBest.com", etc., you would need only to generate an EOT bound to "http://mydomain" and it works on all those domains I listed.
Now, though I've said these things, I will also say that EOT is terrible, having worked with it off and on for several years. I'm *dying* for true web fonts in CSS to finally take hold.
One thing many people posting here forget is all the foreign character sets that are not necessarily represented with fonts on an end-user's system. Good luck displaying all of Pashto on an English Win2k machine without (1) fonts installed directly on the machine or (2) web fonts.
Not only reasonable, sometimes it's the law. Any place where there is a lot of snow will typically have a few people pulled over for not clearing the snow from their bumpers to reveal their plate(s).
Agreed, but you seem to discount any and all other opinions. Is it necessarily true that those not involved in a given situation would not have something positive to add?
GP says: We are all free to express our desires to anyone.
You then say: No, you are not free to tell me how I should conduct my business.
At what point did GP say he would tell you how you should conduct your business? Don't look too hard, because he didn't -- he said free to express our desires, not free to tell others what their desires should be.
Though I agree with the bulk of your response, that item at the top really jumped out at me.
Will this book have a single iota of information in it that I can't get from the w3c?
Info that you can't get from w3c, no. Some people (myself included) prefer the tactile feel of a book; being able to flip around, etc. Flipping around in a PDF makes me insane.
It seems these shots are more knee-jerk reaction from die-hard Diablo II fans than anything else. In each shot they've basically done whatever is necessary to make it look like "Diablo II+". I agree with the designers -- they *could* make it look like that, but they choose not to.
I think the biggest thing to remember is Diablo II was 2-D, and Diablo III is 3-D. You're never going to have 1:1 art translation like that.
So then skip the subsidy. Just like carrier-unlocked cell phones. If you want the PS3 with GPU available in Linux, you pay a $300 premium on top of original console cost. This allows Sony to recoup costs in terms of more expensive hardware, and mostly prevents the devs skipping over to PS3/Linux since they'll want to target the everyday console.
Ahem... anyone who has heavily browsed content on Usenet in the past 5 years has probably encountered this plenty of times. I haven't searched for a WMV file in years because of that!
That behavior seems to be from the past, fortunately. What you say is (was) indeed true of G3 and even G4 machines, particularly laptops. Anyone who has replaced the harddrive in a G3 iBook will know the pain I mean.
The notebook situation is much nicer than it was; my MacBook is just a couple screws and a latch for RAM; hard drive comes out in a tray just like Thinkpads.
Unfortunately, the modern iMac still suffers from "non-user-replaceable hard drive" and generally, you will be avoided if you appear to have opened the machine at all. In the case of the iMac, this seems because the drive is behind the LCD, and requires lifting that -- while that may be easy for you or me, it's daunting to Joe Consumer, so Apple disallows it.
All in all though, I don't think the same resistance to user components is there as it was.
I think the Lego company would have a very difficult time trying to align a more "mature" set of metal pieces and keep them separate from their standard product line.
Signed kernel modules would [...] stop some of the hacked (and custom written) kernel modules being used to get OSX to run on non apple machines (or being used to make the experience of using OSX on those machines better)
Opinions on whether or not this is a good thing are varied.
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Anything running 8000-series, or even the 9600GT. It seems the cards that are "safe" are the supposed GeForce10 models, whatever they're calling them.
Agreed. I personally was put-off the show while it was on the air because I was convinced it was about 20 minutes of "What is the deal with THAT?" jokes, which I've never cared for.
However, once watching the show for a while, and noting in different episodes that everyone makes fun of Seinfeld's comedy style hooked me.
Plus, I think George Costanza has a big draw to the types of minds on a site like this.
To be honest, the DRM on fonts is a bit overblown. To create an EOT, you must supply the *beginning* part of the URL to which the font is bound. This is, unfortunately, done with DNS.
That said, if you created "MyDomain1.com", "MyDomainCool.com", "MyDomainIsBest.com", etc., you would need only to generate an EOT bound to "http://mydomain" and it works on all those domains I listed.
Now, though I've said these things, I will also say that EOT is terrible, having worked with it off and on for several years. I'm *dying* for true web fonts in CSS to finally take hold.
One thing many people posting here forget is all the foreign character sets that are not necessarily represented with fonts on an end-user's system. Good luck displaying all of Pashto on an English Win2k machine without (1) fonts installed directly on the machine or (2) web fonts.
http://www.theiphonewiki.com/ :-)
As far as i know the headset is the ONLY thing that works with it.
True. The iPhone only supports HSP and HFP.
Currently nothing there for: A2DP, OBEX, AVRCP, DUN, SPP, PAN. Though, there are groups working on adding those profiles.
Not only reasonable, sometimes it's the law. Any place where there is a lot of snow will typically have a few people pulled over for not clearing the snow from their bumpers to reveal their plate(s).
Agreed, but you seem to discount any and all other opinions. Is it necessarily true that those not involved in a given situation would not have something positive to add?
Thank you for entertaining my questions.
Whoa whoa whoa...
GP says:
We are all free to express our desires to anyone.
You then say:
No, you are not free to tell me how I should conduct my business.
At what point did GP say he would tell you how you should conduct your business? Don't look too hard, because he didn't -- he said free to express our desires, not free to tell others what their desires should be.
Though I agree with the bulk of your response, that item at the top really jumped out at me.
I'm not sure whether to call this Funny or Insightful; perhaps a little of both. Kudos to pilgrim23 for the Altamont mention!
Certainly not more interesting. However, it has that certain mindless charm to it.
You sure it's not this one?
Oh, please please do yourself a favor and find an old copy somewhere. It can be a little tough, but well worth it.
Don't expect the most bug-free experience, either :-)
Small note, Abkhazia is also ethnically separate.
FWIW, last week people around here were trumpeting Theora as being much better than it was in the past. As always, YMMV, but maybe it's worth a shot.
I mean really....
you can't grep a dead tree
Will this book have a single iota of information in it that I can't get from the w3c?
Info that you can't get from w3c, no. Some people (myself included) prefer the tactile feel of a book; being able to flip around, etc. Flipping around in a PDF makes me insane.
It seems these shots are more knee-jerk reaction from die-hard Diablo II fans than anything else. In each shot they've basically done whatever is necessary to make it look like "Diablo II+". I agree with the designers -- they *could* make it look like that, but they choose not to.
I think the biggest thing to remember is Diablo II was 2-D, and Diablo III is 3-D. You're never going to have 1:1 art translation like that.
So then skip the subsidy. Just like carrier-unlocked cell phones. If you want the PS3 with GPU available in Linux, you pay a $300 premium on top of original console cost. This allows Sony to recoup costs in terms of more expensive hardware, and mostly prevents the devs skipping over to PS3/Linux since they'll want to target the everyday console.
They're too busy blowing lines and partying, silly!
Ahem... anyone who has heavily browsed content on Usenet in the past 5 years has probably encountered this plenty of times. I haven't searched for a WMV file in years because of that!
Who modded the above "Troll"? It's true. Ideas are just ideas. Product is what matters, and though I applaud OpenMoko they're a bit late to the game.
Meh...
That behavior seems to be from the past, fortunately. What you say is (was) indeed true of G3 and even G4 machines, particularly laptops. Anyone who has replaced the harddrive in a G3 iBook will know the pain I mean.
The notebook situation is much nicer than it was; my MacBook is just a couple screws and a latch for RAM; hard drive comes out in a tray just like Thinkpads.
Unfortunately, the modern iMac still suffers from "non-user-replaceable hard drive" and generally, you will be avoided if you appear to have opened the machine at all. In the case of the iMac, this seems because the drive is behind the LCD, and requires lifting that -- while that may be easy for you or me, it's daunting to Joe Consumer, so Apple disallows it.
All in all though, I don't think the same resistance to user components is there as it was.
Two words -- sharp edges.
I think the Lego company would have a very difficult time trying to align a more "mature" set of metal pieces and keep them separate from their standard product line.
Signed kernel modules would [...] stop some of the hacked (and custom written) kernel modules being used to get OSX to run on non apple machines (or being used to make the experience of using OSX on those machines better)
Opinions on whether or not this is a good thing are varied.I personally agree with you wholeheartedly, but unfortunately (at least in the US) that is the way the law is written.
We'll have to wait for a suddenoutbreakofcommonsense for this one!