Some crap about needing X to support alpha, so that when an image changed, and there was an image over the top of the changing one, it would all be redrawn correctly, without the need for Mozilla to handle it all.
I guess they gave up waiting and decided to do it themselves.
Add a bit of alpha transparency ronud the edge of the text...the text starts to fade into the background at it's extremities, and it looks slightly smoother.
Not true antialiasing, but better than nothing at all.
Do what Dalnet (IRC network) does for when people try to send others.VBS files. The network blocks transmission, and messages the receipient saying "User such and such tried to send you a file "whatever.vbs". A VBS file is quite often a virus, however if you really want this file, please see the file allowance help file...blah blah" (or a close approximation to that). The user can then set permissions to allow certain users to send them.vbs files. Obviously for email just send a mail back to the original person saying "As.vbs files are often viruses, we have changed the file extension. Please inform the receiptent that they have to change the name back if this was a valid VBS file". I wouldn't get annoyed if that happened to me.
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I think they only ran major adverts in "mens magazines" (no, not pornos). The adverts were really annoying things showing how geeks can look cool cos they wear boo clothes or something pointless like that. I really hated them.
Split them up into multiple companies. Say 3 OS companies and 5 applications, and then let them compete against one another. Redhat/Mandrake/SuSE/etc/ manage to do it...
Outlook warns you when you open any attachment,no matter what the extension is, which means that after a while you ignore the warning.
I'll admit that I wuld have got burned, because I would have looked, seen a.txt file and clicked "OK" because I wouldn't have read the warning, cos I'd have seen it many times before. The warning should be given only when something nasty is being run, otherwise it gets to be an automatic response "Click attachment, click ok on warning box"
My point was, that even if you wanted to Elm and Pine cannot execute this code. And even then it would show the full filename and not chop off the final extension.
Don't split M$ into an OS company and an Apps company, split it into Multiple OS companies and multiple Apps companies.
Each on competing with the other, selling different versions of Windows etc, lots of different Word Processors, and they're not allowed to talk to each other.
Maybe this will be the future, the Us corporations make the Us government pass laws stating that having the DNS information for "illegal" servers in your DNS illegal...
I would think that the right to make money from something you own is a constitutionally protected right too. However, as has seen in the past, things in the consititution are quite easily ignored.
No, it didn't fit perfectly (it wasn't supposed to), but why is your right to use naptser as you feel like it more important than a music companies right to make money from their artists? Why is the music companies right only a "so called" right. It not. Your right to something, is no more important, and when 2 rights clash there has to be a trade off.
The "Do not sue napster, sue the users, and the MP3 makers" argument is just so incredibly stupid (even if it is the right answer in the long run.) It is impossible to sue everyone, but as I have NEVER seen naptser used for anything other than trading illegal mp3s I feel the artists have the right to sue napster as opposed to the users. It may not be right, but it is the only possible thing they can do.
The Tv analogy wasn't a direct one, however, I might not be going to buy a TV, so there's no money to be made from me either...
A luxury: Something that is not essential to living.
A commodity: Something that is essential to living.
I would argue that a begger stealing a loaf of bread could be a justifiable crime, bread is a commodity. However, a begger stealing a CD to hear the latest "Toonz" is however not a justifiable crime.
Plus, the last bit in caps just makes me sick. DO NOT FUCKING TELL ME WHAT I CAN OR CANNOT DO WITH MY GUN BECAUSE IT INTERFERES WITH YOUR SO-CALLED RIGHT TO LIVE.
In fact, if you had posted this comment a week ago, I could have used you as an example of why Anarchy would not work. You are a perfect example of my dispair for the human race. Yes, you have the freedom to do what you want, but with this freedom comes responsibility to use it correctly, otherwise, the next time, your freedom will be curtailed, and you won't like that.
"The vibe I got was that he wasn't going to pay money for the music either way. The difference that Napster made was that he got to listen to it, he appreciates the music"
I may not be going to pay for a TV, but that doesn't mean I'm allowed to go and steal one. Music is a luxury. If you want to hear the music and you have to pay to hear it, then that is how you have to hear the music, otherwise it is stealing. No matter how you try to justify it.
People need to realise the differences between luxury and comodities.
I was complaining more about the US-centricity of the post (and or/.).
So if I posted something about "Spaced" (possibly one of the best surreal comedies with a Sci fi link) being repeated on UK Play on Sundays at 11pm, would it get posted?
Nooooo. It's not a US station. Yes/. is based in the US, but it is not only for US things.
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Bonobo is heavily influenced by COM/OLE etc. But why is this bad?
It's not a KDE hacker I don't think. It's someone at SuSE, if it's the same person I'm thinking of: Keith Packard, possibly.
Some crap about needing X to support alpha, so that when an image changed, and there was an image over the top of the changing one, it would all be redrawn correctly, without the need for Mozilla to handle it all.
I guess they gave up waiting and decided to do it themselves.
Add a bit of alpha transparency ronud the edge of the text...the text starts to fade into the background at it's extremities, and it looks slightly smoother.
Not true antialiasing, but better than nothing at all.
"If I'm not mistaken, GTK has anti-aliased font-writing to it's canvases, yes?"
If you're talking about the GNOME canvas then no.
The gnome-canvas-text item is majorly screwed in antialiased mode.
It is possible to do it by creating a custom widget that draws what freetype creates though.
Do what Dalnet (IRC network) does for when people try to send others .VBS files. The network blocks transmission, and messages the receipient saying "User such and such tried to send you a file "whatever.vbs". A VBS file is quite often a virus, however if you really want this file, please see the file allowance help file...blah blah" (or a close approximation to that). The user can then set permissions to allow certain users to send them .vbs files. Obviously for email just send a mail back to the original person saying "As .vbs files are often viruses, we have changed the file extension. Please inform the receiptent that they have to change the name back if this was a valid VBS file". I wouldn't get annoyed if that happened to me.
I think they only ran major adverts in "mens magazines" (no, not pornos). The adverts were really annoying things showing how geeks can look cool cos they wear boo clothes or something pointless like that. I really hated them.
Split them up into multiple companies. Say 3 OS companies and 5 applications, and then let them compete against one another. Redhat/Mandrake/SuSE/etc/ manage to do it...
how the hell was this redundant?
It answered a question that was asked.
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There was an article there? Hmm, must have missed that one.
(And yet again we have big boobs equating to beauty....)
Not all that nice,
but huge tits.
Outlook warns you when you open any attachment,no matter what the extension is, which means that after a while you ignore the warning.
.txt file and clicked "OK" because I wouldn't have read the warning, cos I'd have seen it many times before. The warning should be given only when something nasty is being run, otherwise it gets to be an automatic response "Click attachment, click ok on warning box"
I'll admit that I wuld have got burned, because I would have looked, seen a
My point was, that even if you wanted to Elm and Pine cannot execute this code. And even then it would show the full filename and not chop off the final extension.
"Linux viruses don't spread, because" Pine and Elm don't execute random code.
Don't split M$ into an OS company and an Apps company, split it into Multiple OS companies and multiple Apps companies.
Each on competing with the other, selling different versions of Windows etc, lots of different Word Processors, and they're not allowed to talk to each other.
"If ingested seek medical attention and induce vomiting"
Damn, why oh why did I waste my last moderation point on something trival....
This needs to go way up high, but it won't, all the karma whoring "Yeah, metalica are bad" posts will go up and this will stay at 0.
Thats life I guess.
Address: 195.7.186.68
Server: leopard.webtribe.net
Address: 194.164.194.2
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: lyrics.mguk.ru
Address: 195.7.186.68
Works fine for me.
Maybe this will be the future, the Us corporations make the Us government pass laws stating that having the DNS information for "illegal" servers in your DNS illegal...
I would think that the right to make money from something you own is a constitutionally protected right too.
However, as has seen in the past, things in the consititution are quite easily ignored.
No, it didn't fit perfectly (it wasn't supposed to), but why is your right to use naptser as you feel like it more important than a music companies right to make money from their artists? Why is the music companies right only a "so called" right.
It not. Your right to something, is no more important, and when 2 rights clash there has to be a trade off.
The "Do not sue napster, sue the users, and the MP3 makers" argument is just so incredibly stupid (even if it is the right answer in the long run.) It is impossible to sue everyone, but as I have NEVER seen naptser used for anything other than trading illegal mp3s I feel the artists have the right to sue napster as opposed to the users.
It may not be right, but it is the only possible thing they can do.
The Tv analogy wasn't a direct one, however, I might not be going to buy a TV, so there's no money to be made from me either...
A luxury: Something that is not essential to living.
A commodity: Something that is essential to living.
I would argue that a begger stealing a loaf of bread could be a justifiable crime, bread is a commodity. However, a begger stealing a CD to hear the latest "Toonz" is however not a justifiable crime.
Plus, the last bit in caps just makes me sick.
DO NOT FUCKING TELL ME WHAT I CAN OR CANNOT DO WITH MY GUN BECAUSE IT INTERFERES WITH YOUR SO-CALLED RIGHT TO LIVE.
In fact, if you had posted this comment a week ago, I could have used you as an example of why Anarchy would not work. You are a perfect example of my dispair for the human race. Yes, you have the freedom to do what you want, but with this freedom comes responsibility to use it correctly, otherwise, the next time, your freedom will be curtailed, and you won't like that.
Finally someone with some sense...(although you work for M$, but I guess we all make mistakes).
Music is a luxury, like a ferrai is a luxury. Even if they are traded like commodities, they are still luxuries.
Likewise, I would argue that stealing a loaf of bread to feed a starving family really depends on the circumstances, because bread is a commodity.
This really had no point, but there's so many people complaining that stealing music is fine, that I was glad to see someone thinking straight.
"The vibe I got was that he wasn't going to pay money for the music either way. The difference that Napster made was that he got to listen to it, he appreciates the music"
I may not be going to pay for a TV, but that doesn't mean I'm allowed to go and steal one. Music is a luxury. If you want to hear the music and you have to pay to hear it, then that is how you have to hear the music, otherwise it is stealing. No matter how you try to justify it.
People need to realise the differences between luxury and comodities.
I was complaining more about the US-centricity of the post (and or /.).
/. is based in the US, but it is not only for US things.
So if I posted something about "Spaced" (possibly one of the best surreal comedies with a Sci fi link) being repeated on UK Play on Sundays at 11pm, would it get posted?
Nooooo. It's not a US station.
Yes