It supports open, industry standards like OGG Vorbis.
As much as I support OGG Vorbis, and have nearly all my music on my iRiver, I think calling it "industry standard" is way off the mark. MP3 is by far the most widely supported format, and therefore closest to being a de facto standard. The only other competitor is WAV.
Speaking as someone who has worked on retail software, in the automotive industry no less, I can categorically say that having non-cummulative taxes would be a pain in the arse. As it is, you just have to have a linear list of percentages (markup, commission, tax, another tax, etc.) and apply them in that order. Having to have some taxes that are applied in parallel would be an order of magnitude more complex - mainly for the user, not quite so bad for the programmer but still annoying.
Even better VRT is assessed on the cost of the car after sales tax (VAT), so you're being taxed partially on the cost of a tax.
That's a flawed arguement. Non-cummulative taxes are much more complex to implement, and the government doesn't approach these issues from the POV of "Lets make up a % and see what we get", they judge how much they want to rake off and then calculate the % based on that. If the tax were non-cummulative with VAT, it would simply be a higher % number, and would be more expensive to administrate. Same with fuel tax.
There is nothing factually inaccurate in the article, and the finer points that you list are listed in the article itself. So what are you ranting about? I know, no-one reads the article, so mod me down for not repeating the/.-basher's mantra.
When we were developing, we didn't have developed nations trying to exploit us by bribing our politicians and imposing trade treaties on us, and dumping their produce on us, and polluting the atmosphere and changing our climate. Oh, and selling us guns too.
I used to say "PDF combines all the disadvantages of an electronic document and a printed book into one". When they add Flash support to Acrobat, I will have to say "...of an electronic document, a printed book, and a web page..."
So how do you propose persuading T-Mobile to spend their money on improving the train service instead of offering communications services?
It's like the people who complained about The Gimp being "skinnable" when there is still some Photoshop functionality missing. Programmers who specialise in UI design aren't going to drop it and learn all about image composition techniques. We don't have a centralised command economy in the UK, or in the open source community.
I disagree. Reverse engineering can be done with the use of a disassembler or debugger, so long as the disassembled code is not just copied. Clean-room RE often makes use of one team that uses disassemblers and debuggers, they then write the functional specfications for the programmers who write the code without access to the disassembled original. They can run the original to see what it does on-screen and to create and test files. How blurred this line is depends on the ethical framework, during the war this line did not exist at all.
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Is Linux generating revenue for the copyright holders? If not then maybe their copyright should be revoked, or else taxed.
Who says it's going to be x86?
As much as I support OGG Vorbis, and have nearly all my music on my iRiver, I think calling it "industry standard" is way off the mark. MP3 is by far the most widely supported format, and therefore closest to being a de facto standard. The only other competitor is WAV.
Speaking as someone who has worked on retail software, in the automotive industry no less, I can categorically say that having non-cummulative taxes would be a pain in the arse. As it is, you just have to have a linear list of percentages (markup, commission, tax, another tax, etc.) and apply them in that order. Having to have some taxes that are applied in parallel would be an order of magnitude more complex - mainly for the user, not quite so bad for the programmer but still annoying.
Yes, that would be like installing Windows NT on a 286.
That's a flawed arguement. Non-cummulative taxes are much more complex to implement, and the government doesn't approach these issues from the POV of "Lets make up a % and see what we get", they judge how much they want to rake off and then calculate the % based on that. If the tax were non-cummulative with VAT, it would simply be a higher % number, and would be more expensive to administrate. Same with fuel tax.
OK I may have over-stated the case :-)
And if that leads to a browser that cannot adequately render 99% of the web, is that acceptable?
At last! We've got something that's bigger than the Americans have got!
There is nothing factually inaccurate in the article, and the finer points that you list are listed in the article itself. So what are you ranting about? I know, no-one reads the article, so mod me down for not repeating the /.-basher's mantra.
Ah yes, of course. The best thing about Germany is that the German word for "kebab house" is "kebaphaus", and it's pronounced almost identically.
I'm going to Bacharach in two weeks for a long week-end.
When we were developing, we didn't have developed nations trying to exploit us by bribing our politicians and imposing trade treaties on us, and dumping their produce on us, and polluting the atmosphere and changing our climate. Oh, and selling us guns too.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to come down on the side of the Belgians and Dutch, mayonnaise on fries is awesome.
I used to say "PDF combines all the disadvantages of an electronic document and a printed book into one". When they add Flash support to Acrobat, I will have to say "...of an electronic document, a printed book, and a web page..."
I said "specialist", not "professional" or "competent"!
So how do you propose persuading T-Mobile to spend their money on improving the train service instead of offering communications services?
It's like the people who complained about The Gimp being "skinnable" when there is still some Photoshop functionality missing. Programmers who specialise in UI design aren't going to drop it and learn all about image composition techniques. We don't have a centralised command economy in the UK, or in the open source community.
I disagree. Reverse engineering can be done with the use of a disassembler or debugger, so long as the disassembled code is not just copied. Clean-room RE often makes use of one team that uses disassemblers and debuggers, they then write the functional specfications for the programmers who write the code without access to the disassembled original. They can run the original to see what it does on-screen and to create and test files. How blurred this line is depends on the ethical framework, during the war this line did not exist at all.
Where did you see that? It just says that it is donated under licence on that page.
Is it a trademark? According to http://www.gnu.org/graphics/heckert_gnu.html the copyright isn't even owned by gnu.org, it's released under the Free Art Licence
Probably a fake, though, considering this says copyright 2003
http://www.physorg.com/news3581.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=worm, usage 2.
I particularly like the apparent angles of the buildings in this shot:9 1&spn=0.006427,0.009291&t=k&hl=en
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.892235,-77.0182
Zoom in to see it more betterer.
They're the only entry, using 1K. Deleted!
Penny Arcade have got a pretty funny April Fools issue.