Interesting that you brought that up. While I'm very much against the "justice" system in Saudi Arabia, the case of that guy was blown out of proportion. According to this site he is/was a drug addict (I wonder what inspired him to do drugs), and he never was a scholar.
In any case, if he is found guilty he should receive the death sentence in an Islamic criminal justice system. As for this case, I'm not familiar with it, but what I do know is that prison sentences are rather rare in Islamic criminal justice. And FWIW, I don't see any justification for such a punishment at all.
JPEG and GIF both have licensing issues; They are not free.
Are you kidding me? The patents for GIF expired long ago. As for JPEG, that's as much a "living standard" as HTML5 is. It's worth researching further, but I'd think the older parts of JPEG aren't too problematic.
The intended replacement for these, PNG, hasn't seen widespread adoption, can't do animations, but has no licensing issues.
PNG has never been and never will be an intended replacement for JPEG, as PNG is lossless and JPEG is (mostly) lossy. And in what way hasn't PNG seen widespread adoption? It is the dominant lossless image format and is used absolutely everywhere. PNG can do animations too (though it's not supported anywhere meaningful), but WebM makes more sense for that. Don't like it? Use good ol' GIF then. A replacement for JPEG would be WEBP.
At this point, I wonder if the actual texting while driving (stationarily) is actually an incentive for issuing tickets. It seems that it's merely an excuse and that the actual incentives are ticket quotas, publicity etc.
I see what you did there, but some IT guys / nerds work for companies that have managers that force IE down their departments' throats. Then when something goes wrong they blame it on the IT folks. News like this just gives us some plausible deniability for such cases.
Mind if I ask why parent was modded down? It's actually a legitimate question. How could you possibly guarantee that the fingerprint doesn't ever leave the iPhone, Apple being the walled garden that it is? Or with all the stuff NSA has apparently been doing, how would you be able to guarantee that they won't use a backdoor to retrieve user data?
I maxed out my '93 Renault 19 on the autobahn. 200-210 on the tach (125-130 mph). I couldn't count the number of times I was overtaken by someone driving faster than I.
Wow. I live in Western Europe and I was detained for about 5 hours for trying to start a car with a broken head gasket (to take it to a deconstruction company). Should I now support the overthrow of my government as well?
FYI, the West doesn't have the best track record in free speech either. That said, that I supported Mursi while he was in power doesn't mean that I agree with everything that he said or did - or was said or done by others under his leadership.
That's the exact same reason why a murderer should be sure to always safely dispose of the victim's body, clean up traces and never speak to anyone about the crime. Confessing it will never do him any good...
A negative for Git is your obligation to clone the entire repository; however, a positive for Git is your obligation to clone the entire repository so they are treated as a full repository backup. So, it's bad... but let's try to do some PR spin to make it appear good... in the same bloody list.
Well waddayaknow! Who could have thought that different approaches to the same problem can have both advantages and disadvantages? I've always thought there was a holy grail for everything!
Git is much faster than Subversion
Really? What a baseless statement.
Presumably GIT will be faster when the repositories it produces are 30 times smaller than their SVN equivalent. Even when leaving networking out of the equation. I do agree a benchmark would be beneficial to the comparison, but implying that GIT is not faster than SVN, simply because a cute chart is missing, is stretching it.
I would go on,
Please, do go on enlightening us.
but the list is such garbage that nobody should make reference to it ever again.
First off, right there at the top of that page it says it's a work in progress, so naturally there will be issues with it. But it's a stretch to say that the list is garbage. I'd be most interested to see a better alternative if you know one though.
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Interesting that you brought that up. While I'm very much against the "justice" system in Saudi Arabia, the case of that guy was blown out of proportion. According to this site he is/was a drug addict (I wonder what inspired him to do drugs), and he never was a scholar.
In any case, if he is found guilty he should receive the death sentence in an Islamic criminal justice system. As for this case, I'm not familiar with it, but what I do know is that prison sentences are rather rare in Islamic criminal justice. And FWIW, I don't see any justification for such a punishment at all.
JPEG and GIF both have licensing issues; They are not free.
Are you kidding me? The patents for GIF expired long ago. As for JPEG, that's as much a "living standard" as HTML5 is. It's worth researching further, but I'd think the older parts of JPEG aren't too problematic.
The intended replacement for these, PNG, hasn't seen widespread adoption, can't do animations, but has no licensing issues.
PNG has never been and never will be an intended replacement for JPEG, as PNG is lossless and JPEG is (mostly) lossy. And in what way hasn't PNG seen widespread adoption? It is the dominant lossless image format and is used absolutely everywhere. PNG can do animations too (though it's not supported anywhere meaningful), but WebM makes more sense for that. Don't like it? Use good ol' GIF then.
A replacement for JPEG would be WEBP.
At this point, I wonder if the actual texting while driving (stationarily) is actually an incentive for issuing tickets. It seems that it's merely an excuse and that the actual incentives are ticket quotas, publicity etc.
I see what you did there, but some IT guys / nerds work for companies that have managers that force IE down their departments' throats. Then when something goes wrong they blame it on the IT folks. News like this just gives us some plausible deniability for such cases.
Mind if I ask why parent was modded down? It's actually a legitimate question. How could you possibly guarantee that the fingerprint doesn't ever leave the iPhone, Apple being the walled garden that it is? Or with all the stuff NSA has apparently been doing, how would you be able to guarantee that they won't use a backdoor to retrieve user data?
Meh
I maxed out my '93 Renault 19 on the autobahn. 200-210 on the tach (125-130 mph). I couldn't count the number of times I was overtaken by someone driving faster than I.
Maybe you failed to read his opening sentence.
I'm biased
Osmand isn't proprietary. It does contain DRM however, which I agree is quite annoying.
That's exactly what I said here: http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4154431&cid=44737191
Mod trolls are at it though...
How about "I already brought another car and a tow rope but I was hoping I could avoid towing it".
And the 2 statements have nothing to do with each other, which is why they are separate paragraphs...
Why am I replying to a troll?
Wow. I live in Western Europe and I was detained for about 5 hours for trying to start a car with a broken head gasket (to take it to a deconstruction company). Should I now support the overthrow of my government as well?
FYI, the West doesn't have the best track record in free speech either. That said, that I supported Mursi while he was in power doesn't mean that I agree with everything that he said or did - or was said or done by others under his leadership.
I think this is indicative of the intelligence of the people that supported the overthrow of Mursi.
FTFA
the state-run daily newspaper Al-Ahram quoted Kamal as saying the incident showed the patriotism of the man who captured the bird in the first place.
A separate box behind a level 1 switch with wireshark does the trick.
And it works about 900 times better than any app I tried before CM10.2 for that purpose.
In fact, if it was the other way around, the US might have retaliated with "military force".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kVQrp_D0kY
AFAIK HFCS is just as bad a sucrose, as both are digested into their glucose and fructose components. HFCS is just a bit sweeter in taste.
(acronyms, wee!)
What do you do when the majority want to take away your freedoms?
Storm peaceful protesters, killing dozens, if not hundreds. Right?
There's an interesting article over at LWN about /dev/random and /dev/urandom
http://lwn.net/Articles/489734/
That's the exact same reason why a murderer should be sure to always safely dispose of the victim's body, clean up traces and never speak to anyone about the crime. Confessing it will never do him any good...
Probably another case of "they cannot do X because it's in the customer support rules".
But, but, she was really angry!
A negative for Git is your obligation to clone the entire repository; however, a positive for Git is your obligation to clone the entire repository so they are treated as a full repository backup. So, it's bad... but let's try to do some PR spin to make it appear good... in the same bloody list.
Well waddayaknow! Who could have thought that different approaches to the same problem can have both advantages and disadvantages? I've always thought there was a holy grail for everything!
Git is much faster than Subversion
Really? What a baseless statement.
Presumably GIT will be faster when the repositories it produces are 30 times smaller than their SVN equivalent. Even when leaving networking out of the equation. I do agree a benchmark would be beneficial to the comparison, but implying that GIT is not faster than SVN, simply because a cute chart is missing, is stretching it.
I would go on,
Please, do go on enlightening us.
but the list is such garbage that nobody should make reference to it ever again.
First off, right there at the top of that page it says it's a work in progress, so naturally there will be issues with it. But it's a stretch to say that the list is garbage. I'd be most interested to see a better alternative if you know one though.
I'll just leave this here so people get to see a comparison that's actually useful.
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSvnComparison
TortoiseGit?
In this case it is the submitter's pet project.