CMYK persists because at the end of the day the printers are still printing with cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink. So at some point the image has to be converted to CMYK. (Of course in theory you could use different colours too, but it would still be fundamentally different from RGB).
And since all printers, papers and inks are different, you can't just use device independent formats. Like I said in my previous post, you can't leave the conversion solely to the printer if you want predictable results.
You can't leave the conversion from sRGB to the printer's CMKY profile to the printer. Your sRGB image might contain colours that are impossible to print on CMKY. If you don't know the limitations of the printer you might have nasty surprise when you see the final result. You need to know at least the RGB profile of the printer and leave the conversion from that to CMKY to the printer, but you can't just submit sRGB and expect good results.
But the point is that in some of these cases, at least, no laws were being broken - not in the country of operation no, most likely in the US (although it's getting pretty tough not to break any laws there these days).
The MPAA et al are getting foreign law enforcement agencies to arrest people will little or no evidence that they've actually committed a crime in the coutry that they're being arrested.
Do you have any specific instances where this has happened? The sites that have been shut down of course claim thay are breaking no laws, and the law experts on various message board claim pretty much everything. But in reality the sites operate at best in a gray area, and I don't think the legality of those sites has really been tested agains any local laws. Obviously MPAA (or whoever) has managed to convince the police that there is at least pretty strong suspicion of illegality.
the main reason for Finnish police acting was donate button on their page
That's only speculation - Finnish police has made no such statements. The fact that some money changed hands might make prosecution easier, but propably the main reason Finnish police acted was that there was huge amount of copyrighted material very openly available on the website.
I don't speak Danish, but from the rough translation it looks to me that he is saying that they use a player software that they have created themselves. Then he tries to clarify what the player does by comparing it to Real Player and Windows Media Player. And finally he says that the player software is a very important part of their device, because it allows the device to play many different formats.
That's why I use Mozilla, which is able to display pages without storing them in RAM at all.
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Complete customization requires an understanding of the system you are about to customize. Many people don't need or want such customization - they just want to get things done. For them (and I count myself part of this group, even though I have studied computer sciences for the past 6 years) it's much better to have one universal interface and a way to get things done than an completely customizable interface.
If we all have personally created desktops, CLI's, whatever the way we want them, there will be no need for computer classes - they will interact with us as we want them.
That's pure idiocy. It is easier to learn to use a well thought out desktop or even CLI than it is to learn to design a desktop - even for just your own use and even if you think you know what you need from the interface. Computers are complex, and are not going to get any simpler in future. Customizability just makes them more complex and difficult to use for a user that is not a geek.
Oh, and people care about the environment here in the US also. But we also care about freedom, and we would like our environmental sacrifices to be meaninful and likely to produce success.
And you oh so much like to hear those reassuring lies from the big polluters' astroturfers.
Windows? Wthelse are these things to be called? That's generic. And Microsoft has lost any unique attributes to the mark.
"Windows" is not a generic term for a operating system. "Window" is of course a generic term for a user interface element, but that doesn't invalidate Microsoft's claim to the trademark for its operating systems.
You don't hear people saying "Linux is a very good windows," using word "windows" interchangeably with the word "operating system". Windows has not became a generic term.
Reading the links in the article, it seems that OpenOSX did everything correctly and didn't try to hide anything from its customers. But that was not enough for Christoph Pfisterer, he wanted OpenOSX to give more credit to himself on the website.
With macosx.forked.net there seemed to be some real problems with GPL, but they at least seem to want to fix those problems.
After reading all the material directly linked from the story, it seems to me that Christoph is the asshole here.
All there debates about "Is X art?" are missing the point. Art is not in the medium. I do not have a good definition for the word art. But what I can say is that art is about a message, it's about intent, it's about interpretation. Trying to find a good one-size-fits-all definition for art is difficult, because there are so many different kinds of art for so many different audiences.
Video games can be art, computer graphics can be art, even code can be art, although it rarely is.
Words have popular meaning and words have logical meaning which can be inducted from their popular meanings.
Your induction of the logical meaning of the word goes so far that it renders the whole word meaningless. You seem to be saying that the word authoritarian means "people who have a desire to change the world", and in some level that includes every living person on the earth. That kind of definition of the word simply is of no use for anyone.
Furthermore, I think that your whole rationale for that definition is bullshit. Other people have already ripped your logic apart, so I won't repeat that.
Of course, all philosophers are activists/authoritarians
Even using your logic, I really don't see how you can make such a statement. Are you saying that even a desire to observe and understand the world makes a person authoritarian?
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CMYK persists because at the end of the day the printers are still printing with cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink. So at some point the image has to be converted to CMYK. (Of course in theory you could use different colours too, but it would still be fundamentally different from RGB).
And since all printers, papers and inks are different, you can't just use device independent formats. Like I said in my previous post, you can't leave the conversion solely to the printer if you want predictable results.
You can't leave the conversion from sRGB to the printer's CMKY profile to the printer. Your sRGB image might contain colours that are impossible to print on CMKY. If you don't know the limitations of the printer you might have nasty surprise when you see the final result. You need to know at least the RGB profile of the printer and leave the conversion from that to CMKY to the printer, but you can't just submit sRGB and expect good results.
So this corn has been eaten in all these places and no one has gotten sick yet?
I can assure you that people have gotten sick in all of those places during the time this corn have been in market. Lots of people have even died.
The television news and sports broadcasts in Austria must be pretty boring, then.
Yeah, and if you want to keep your feet warm, socks are hugely superior to the iPod.
Don't you mean up to 99%?
I you'd RTFA, you would have found a link to the official line of Intuit.
You make Americans' grasp of history and geography look good.
Name one Symbian phone that costs less than 200$ without operator subsidies.
I don't speak Danish, but from the rough translation it looks to me that he is saying that they use a player software that they have created themselves. Then he tries to clarify what the player does by comparing it to Real Player and Windows Media Player. And finally he says that the player software is a very important part of their device, because it allows the device to play many different formats.
Congratulations on completely missing the point.
People like what? People who listen to radio in the morning? People who talk about what they've heard on radio in slashdot?
And I really doubt that anyone was even speculating the possibility that the Israeli astronaut blew the shuttle up.
I found this link in some blog somewhere:
Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity In Words of Four Letters or Less
Even I was able to understand most of that explanation!
That's why I use Mozilla, which is able to display pages without storing them in RAM at all.
Talking to a Slashdot reader about UI design is like talking to an American about global warming.
But I thought that region 1 was America?
...oh, I see.
"Windows" is not a generic term for a operating system. "Window" is of course a generic term for a user interface element, but that doesn't invalidate Microsoft's claim to the trademark for its operating systems.
You don't hear people saying "Linux is a very good windows," using word "windows" interchangeably with the word "operating system". Windows has not became a generic term.
But that doesn't prove much, does it? I have Win98 (and dual boot to RedHat 7.2 that I almost never use), and the Windows Update works perfectly.
Reading the links in the article, it seems that OpenOSX did everything correctly and didn't try to hide anything from its customers. But that was not enough for Christoph Pfisterer, he wanted OpenOSX to give more credit to himself on the website.
With macosx.forked.net there seemed to be some real problems with GPL, but they at least seem to want to fix those problems.
After reading all the material directly linked from the story, it seems to me that Christoph is the asshole here.
All there debates about "Is X art?" are missing the point. Art is not in the medium. I do not have a good definition for the word art. But what I can say is that art is about a message, it's about intent, it's about interpretation. Trying to find a good one-size-fits-all definition for art is difficult, because there are so many different kinds of art for so many different audiences.
Video games can be art, computer graphics can be art, even code can be art, although it rarely is.
Furthermore, I think that your whole rationale for that definition is bullshit. Other people have already ripped your logic apart, so I won't repeat that.
Even using your logic, I really don't see how you can make such a statement. Are you saying that even a desire to observe and understand the world makes a person authoritarian?