I think that software "contamination" is largely a myth. Movie directors watch each other's stuff all the time even if the subject matter is the same as something they are working on. If it isn't a myth it is an injustice.
Wrong. Microsoft has different keys for burnable and non-burnable media. So you don't get to just "rip out the needed bytes," you have to "solve an NP complete problem"-- that is unless some exploit is found. You are assuming the binaries are unsigned and there is just a little chunk of header information that lets it be run--this certainly isn't the case.
Precedent only gets set if the judge renders a published opinion. If he can tell that she won just because of a sympathetic jury, etc. he can limit his opinion in ways that won't likely change the outcomes of the majority of similar cases.
$24,000 added to a lawyers salary is not the same as adding the value of a nice car to his estate. After taxes it is the same as adding a $12,000 car to his estate.
"IMO, anything that protects the quality of Wiki is in the best interest of us users."
If that were the case it would still be called Nupedia. This policy may be necessary on the heavily vandalised articles, but they must be careful. If they cover too many articles with this, people passing by and reading will have to jump through hoops to make a simple correction--when they run in to difficulty with that, they might not bother to join the editing community whereas in the past there was nothing holding back their curiosity.
This is my own fuzzy definition, only applicable to consoles that launch shortly before Christmas: if your game isn't out before Christmas, it isn't in the launch window.
Lets say my kid doesn't have any console. Do I buy him a PS2 now for $200 when I know the 360 is $300? Probably not. If MS priced to meet demand and went up to $700, perhaps I would see that and just buy the damn PS2, thinking the 360 was forever out of reach. As it stands Microsoft is holding back a lot of last gen purchases by having a reasonable price, even though the console isn't available. In short, they are making people wait.
Ok, so what does this have to do with Gnome? Gnome's resolution switcher just switches between the resolutions available to X. I'm not going to even start on your mp3 complaint as that format is restricted by patents.
Exactly. I think the only thing the "federation" should be used for is for buddy list "join" requests, so that those don't get spammed. Make it so that the person on the federated network must make the request. And even this solution should be temporary until something better can be found (I like computational challenge/requests personally: if you know me and can't get in touch with me another way to get me to add you to my list, compute on this thing for an hour (user adjustable) and get back to me).
Unfortunately it was a little late and only just arrived. Voice supported wasn't scheduled for this beta, but it is being worked on I believe by several people including the lead gaim developer who was recently hired by Google.
Yeah, because some guys who make contraptions to shoot frozen chickens into airplane windows have all the authority in the world to bust social science based myths.
Hmm, I don't know if it is as simple as "use" my code. Plenty of people "use" GCC and don't have to distribute their code. "Include" my code, yes, "Use" my code, ambiguous.
But that even leads to a better argument for wide screen. Humans sweep side to side all day with their eyes, not up and down, because most stuff in nature occurs along a lateral plane. Look even at the bones around your eyes, to the sides they give way, but up and down they project out and obscure vision
Since 2000, a new Zelda has been released at least every year. Nintendo has really given up on keeping the series a centerpeice where they can really show off their creative talent.
Good point, but even then it was for technical reasons. Lenses are round. You had to use a larger lense to get the same clarity on a 16:9 bit of film as you would on a 4:3. Even then a better fit could be had with 1:1, but that was so terrible looking that 4:3 was adopted largely as a compromise between the two extremes. In the near future we will have no excuses in any aspect of media for not going with 16:9; the exception may be computer screens as vertical space is quite important in western style, horizontally written languages.
Humans see the world in widescreen. It is the aspect ratio of our vision. Going with the 4:3 standard was only done because CRTs were much easier to manufacture when their shape approximated that of a sphere.
The swap problem is pretty common in most operating systems. If you run any programs which will access a lot disk and only need it once (tar/zip extraction, updatedb, etc.) it is good in Linux to set/proc/.../swapiness to 0 as they run, and then boost it back up after they complete. The good thing is you can automate this for many of the tasks which unnecessarily swap in a lot of disk cache. I'm not sure but I am just assuming that OSX has a similer tunable parameter.
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Studios actually make more than you think--they get to sell everything twice to a large, though admittedly not majority, subset of customers.
I think that software "contamination" is largely a myth. Movie directors watch each other's stuff all the time even if the subject matter is the same as something they are working on. If it isn't a myth it is an injustice.
Wrong. Microsoft has different keys for burnable and non-burnable media. So you don't get to just "rip out the needed bytes," you have to "solve an NP complete problem"-- that is unless some exploit is found. You are assuming the binaries are unsigned and there is just a little chunk of header information that lets it be run--this certainly isn't the case.
Precedent only gets set if the judge renders a published opinion. If he can tell that she won just because of a sympathetic jury, etc. he can limit his opinion in ways that won't likely change the outcomes of the majority of similar cases.
$24,000 added to a lawyers salary is not the same as adding the value of a nice car to his estate. After taxes it is the same as adding a $12,000 car to his estate.
"IMO, anything that protects the quality of Wiki is in the best interest of us users."
If that were the case it would still be called Nupedia. This policy may be necessary on the heavily vandalised articles, but they must be careful. If they cover too many articles with this, people passing by and reading will have to jump through hoops to make a simple correction--when they run in to difficulty with that, they might not bother to join the editing community whereas in the past there was nothing holding back their curiosity.
I think AOL users account for something like 20% of Google's revenue. Losing that wouldn't kill Google; it would hurt, but it wouldn't kill.
This is my own fuzzy definition, only applicable to consoles that launch shortly before Christmas: if your game isn't out before Christmas, it isn't in the launch window.
Small tip for linux and windows users alike:
"my-narrow-tree"
{
GtkTreeView::expander_size = 0
}
# And apply the style to the buddy list:
widget "*gaim_gtkblist_treeview" style "my-narrow-tree"
Lets say my kid doesn't have any console. Do I buy him a PS2 now for $200 when I know the 360 is $300? Probably not. If MS priced to meet demand and went up to $700, perhaps I would see that and just buy the damn PS2, thinking the 360 was forever out of reach. As it stands Microsoft is holding back a lot of last gen purchases by having a reasonable price, even though the console isn't available. In short, they are making people wait.
Ok, so what does this have to do with Gnome? Gnome's resolution switcher just switches between the resolutions available to X. I'm not going to even start on your mp3 complaint as that format is restricted by patents.
Exactly. I think the only thing the "federation" should be used for is for buddy list "join" requests, so that those don't get spammed. Make it so that the person on the federated network must make the request. And even this solution should be temporary until something better can be found (I like computational challenge/requests personally: if you know me and can't get in touch with me another way to get me to add you to my list, compute on this thing for an hour (user adjustable) and get back to me).
Unfortunately it was a little late and only just arrived. Voice supported wasn't scheduled for this beta, but it is being worked on I believe by several people including the lead gaim developer who was recently hired by Google.
Yeah, because some guys who make contraptions to shoot frozen chickens into airplane windows have all the authority in the world to bust social science based myths.
What did the bug end up being?
Hmm, I don't know if it is as simple as "use" my code. Plenty of people "use" GCC and don't have to distribute their code. "Include" my code, yes, "Use" my code, ambiguous.
Hmm, that looks more like Debian's problem. kdebase for me on Gentoo doesn't have any of that crap.
That is one thing worth pointing out. Another is that if you drink this in your car you risk getting an open container charge--it looks like a beer.
But that even leads to a better argument for wide screen. Humans sweep side to side all day with their eyes, not up and down, because most stuff in nature occurs along a lateral plane. Look even at the bones around your eyes, to the sides they give way, but up and down they project out and obscure vision
Since 2000, a new Zelda has been released at least every year. Nintendo has really given up on keeping the series a centerpeice where they can really show off their creative talent.
Good point, but even then it was for technical reasons. Lenses are round. You had to use a larger lense to get the same clarity on a 16:9 bit of film as you would on a 4:3. Even then a better fit could be had with 1:1, but that was so terrible looking that 4:3 was adopted largely as a compromise between the two extremes. In the near future we will have no excuses in any aspect of media for not going with 16:9; the exception may be computer screens as vertical space is quite important in western style, horizontally written languages.
Humans see the world in widescreen. It is the aspect ratio of our vision. Going with the 4:3 standard was only done because CRTs were much easier to manufacture when their shape approximated that of a sphere.
Wow, that is some interesting bad grammar; it is particularly interesting coming from someone who is so concerned with spelling.
A CRT is much easier the closer it gets to approximating a sphere. 4:3 is a lot better in this regard than 16:9
The swap problem is pretty common in most operating systems. If you run any programs which will access a lot disk and only need it once (tar/zip extraction, updatedb, etc.) it is good in Linux to set /proc/.../swapiness to 0 as they run, and then boost it back up after they complete. The good thing is you can automate this for many of the tasks which unnecessarily swap in a lot of disk cache. I'm not sure but I am just assuming that OSX has a similer tunable parameter.