Package management is concise and consistent. The whole OS and all its packages can be found in one place.
Are you saying that all third-party software that I may want for my BSD system is all in one place? Wow.
No sifting through rpmfind.net (we have RH machines at work), sourceforge or freshmeat, or any other craziness.
To be fair: The existence of rpmfind.net, et al, and the inconsistencies in rpm-packaged software at those sites is not RedHat's fault for the same reason that the existence of incompatible Linux distros is not Torvold's fault.
I mean, it would be embarassing to have a Presidential election where the results were inconclusive and suspect.
While I realize that you were attempting to be funny here, I am regardless compelled to point out that there was nothing inconclusive nor suspect about the previous presidential election. Nothing, that is, except that a lot of very vocal individuals who didn't like the results kept screaming that those results were inconclusive and suspect.
To answer your first question I might counter with an opposite question: What's the point of G? If Luminosity (Y) and Red (Cr) and Blue (Cb) is sufficient to describe the color, then what do we need green for?
Now to deal with the *reason* you ask the question. RGB is no more or less valid a representation of color than is YCbCr. They are merely different models of color space. (Think of each of the elements -- [R,G,B]:[Y,Cb,Cr] -- as an axis in 3D space.) Both models represent hue, but each places a particular color at a different place. So your real question is why we would ever want to deal in YCbCr when our eyes work on RGB principles.
For one thing, it's much easier to compress YCbCr color space than RGB color space. Because the eye is much more sensitive to changes in Y than in Chrome, we can actually throw away every other row and column of Chrome data and interpolate it when uncompressing.
To illustrate:
Imagine a 100x100 pixel image. This is 10000 pixels and, assuming 1 byte per RGB color channel, 30000 bytes of image data -- 10000 bytes per color.
Now, if we transform the RGB color space into YCbCr, we end up with 10000 bytes of Luminosity, and 10000 bytes each of Red and Blue color data.
So what's the advantage? As I said, the eye is very sensitive to changes is Y and much less sensitive to changes in color. We can take advantage of this by simply discarding some (or most) of the color data in the first stage of compression. If we only throw away 50% (say, every other row or every other column) of the color then we effectively cut two thirds of our data in half!
In practice, it doesn't hurt much to be very aggressive and remove 75% of the color (for example, remove every other row AND column), turning the 20000 bytes of color data into 5000 bytes. The resulting YCbCr data is now 15000 bytes, or half of the original, before any other compression methods have been applied.
To reconstitute the image, we merely interpolate missing color pixels and apply the "fuzzy" color data over the crisp luminosity data. Transform back to RGB color space and, for most natural images, our eyes can't perceive the difference.
This is, I believe, roughly how JPEG works. And now you understand why JPEG is called "Lossy."
Remember when IE was accepted as better than Netscape?
No. But I do recall when it was accepted as the winner even though it wasn't yet better.
Never underestimate the power of an existing monopoly to prop up a fledgeling monopoly-wannabe. Just like the Windows monopoly made the Internet Expolorer monopoly possible, the now Internet Explorer monopoly could well make MSN Search a monopoly.
RMS doesn't go in public and call other people fanatics
And Marilyn Manson doesn't go around calling other people scary freaks.
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BSD maximizes individual liberty at the potential expense of society as a whole.
You lost me here.
If I write some software and provide it to society under a BSD-style license, and then some e-e-e-vil corporation uses my software into their commercial product, how is this a cost to society as a whole?
One may argue that the BSD license allows Evil, Inc. to use the software in question without the attendant benefit of reciprocated development. The false assumption here is that the benefit would be realized if the BSD license were replaced with a GPL license.
But I doubt that this would be the case. Without the BSD license, the commercial software developer would license code from somewhere else or develop needed software in-house, avoiding the GPL in any case.
So "society as a whole" doesn't really lose anything in the BSD case. The original BSD-licensed software is still there and still BSD-licensed. So society hasn't lost that. Evil, Inc. is perhaps filling a niche that people may be willing to pay for, so society has gained that as well. Maybe not, depending on your point of view, but it's not a loss in any case.
Alternative browsers such as Mozilla or Netscape may not protect users, the agency warned, if those browsers invoke ActiveX control or HTML rendering engines. (emphasis added)
I'm pretty sure *most* browsers invoke some kind of HTML rendering engine. Yes, even Mozilla.
I suppose I shouldn't feed the trolls, but sometimes I just can't stand it.
Removing IE from Windows ("removing the bloat" in the parlance of the current line of argument) is rather like removing the roll-cage from a Hummer.
By contrast, removing Mozilla, Konquerer, Galeon, or Lynx from a Linux distro is relatively easy -- usually not much more trouble than using the distro's package manager. So "removing the bloat" is a comparatively simple task.
I guess what I'm saying is that proper bloat is the excessive stuff that you can't get rid of. (Kind of like wearing poofy clothing doesn't make you fat.) Otherwise, it's just not very bloaty.
(My argument may fall apart here in the Konquerer case, as I don't use Konquerer and don't know how tightly it is integrated into KDE. Whatever. My argument may also fall apart in as much as it may be easy to remove the roll-cage from a Hummer. I don't know.)
But your name is not on the ballot, so there can be no confirmation of who anyone voted for. So there's no, "Bring me your receipt, and I'll give you $10 if you voted for me!"
You've got to be kidding. Plenty of hosts on Clear Channel criticize Bush regularly. Removing the Dixie Chicks from playlists was done in response to listener demand, not some partisan decision from management.
Just because Natalie Maines says that she's being censored, it doesn't mean that she is. In her case, she said something that many didn't like and they decided not to listen to her anymore. That's not censorship.
I wouldn't want a falling bullet to hit me in the eye, or to hit a small child.
But a large child would be OK?
While I agree that a falling bullet is not moving as fast as one exiting the barrel of a gun, I disagree with the idea that you would be alright if it hit some body part other than your eye.
If everybody had to double-check every word to make sure they're not potentially offending any sensitive people out there, the world would really suck.
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I can't believe you're calling Britney Spears, "Good Religion."
Are you saying that all third-party software that I may want for my BSD system is all in one place? Wow.
No sifting through rpmfind.net (we have RH machines at work), sourceforge or freshmeat, or any other craziness.
To be fair: The existence of rpmfind.net, et al, and the inconsistencies in rpm-packaged software at those sites is not RedHat's fault for the same reason that the existence of incompatible Linux distros is not Torvold's fault.
You mistake lack of proof for having no evidence at all. Do you think that everything that you believe is proven?
If you think that the basic tenet of Christianity is faith in the face of zero evidence then you don't know much about Christian faith.
Not much of a visionary, is he?
While I realize that you were attempting to be funny here, I am regardless compelled to point out that there was nothing inconclusive nor suspect about the previous presidential election. Nothing, that is, except that a lot of very vocal individuals who didn't like the results kept screaming that those results were inconclusive and suspect.
Now to deal with the *reason* you ask the question. RGB is no more or less valid a representation of color than is YCbCr. They are merely different models of color space. (Think of each of the elements -- [R,G,B]:[Y,Cb,Cr] -- as an axis in 3D space.) Both models represent hue, but each places a particular color at a different place. So your real question is why we would ever want to deal in YCbCr when our eyes work on RGB principles.
For one thing, it's much easier to compress YCbCr color space than RGB color space. Because the eye is much more sensitive to changes in Y than in Chrome, we can actually throw away every other row and column of Chrome data and interpolate it when uncompressing.
To illustrate:
Imagine a 100x100 pixel image. This is 10000 pixels and, assuming 1 byte per RGB color channel, 30000 bytes of image data -- 10000 bytes per color.
Now, if we transform the RGB color space into YCbCr, we end up with 10000 bytes of Luminosity, and 10000 bytes each of Red and Blue color data.
So what's the advantage? As I said, the eye is very sensitive to changes is Y and much less sensitive to changes in color. We can take advantage of this by simply discarding some (or most) of the color data in the first stage of compression. If we only throw away 50% (say, every other row or every other column) of the color then we effectively cut two thirds of our data in half!
In practice, it doesn't hurt much to be very aggressive and remove 75% of the color (for example, remove every other row AND column), turning the 20000 bytes of color data into 5000 bytes. The resulting YCbCr data is now 15000 bytes, or half of the original, before any other compression methods have been applied.
To reconstitute the image, we merely interpolate missing color pixels and apply the "fuzzy" color data over the crisp luminosity data. Transform back to RGB color space and, for most natural images, our eyes can't perceive the difference.
This is, I believe, roughly how JPEG works. And now you understand why JPEG is called "Lossy."
Isn't that, like, a security feature or something?
No, I don't believe NS4 was better than IE4. But that's not relevant since I wasn't talking about version 4.
No. But I do recall when it was accepted as the winner even though it wasn't yet better.
Never underestimate the power of an existing monopoly to prop up a fledgeling monopoly-wannabe. Just like the Windows monopoly made the Internet Expolorer monopoly possible, the now Internet Explorer monopoly could well make MSN Search a monopoly.
And Marilyn Manson doesn't go around calling other people scary freaks.
You lost me here.
If I write some software and provide it to society under a BSD-style license, and then some e-e-e-vil corporation uses my software into their commercial product, how is this a cost to society as a whole?
One may argue that the BSD license allows Evil, Inc. to use the software in question without the attendant benefit of reciprocated development. The false assumption here is that the benefit would be realized if the BSD license were replaced with a GPL license.
But I doubt that this would be the case. Without the BSD license, the commercial software developer would license code from somewhere else or develop needed software in-house, avoiding the GPL in any case.
So "society as a whole" doesn't really lose anything in the BSD case. The original BSD-licensed software is still there and still BSD-licensed. So society hasn't lost that. Evil, Inc. is perhaps filling a niche that people may be willing to pay for, so society has gained that as well. Maybe not, depending on your point of view, but it's not a loss in any case.
"If you would kindly ignore the incentive that I'm telling you about right now, then there's no real incentive to be a better laser tag player."
I'm pretty sure *most* browsers invoke some kind of HTML rendering engine. Yes, even Mozilla.
Removing IE from Windows ("removing the bloat" in the parlance of the current line of argument) is rather like removing the roll-cage from a Hummer.
By contrast, removing Mozilla, Konquerer, Galeon, or Lynx from a Linux distro is relatively easy -- usually not much more trouble than using the distro's package manager. So "removing the bloat" is a comparatively simple task.
I guess what I'm saying is that proper bloat is the excessive stuff that you can't get rid of. (Kind of like wearing poofy clothing doesn't make you fat.) Otherwise, it's just not very bloaty.
(My argument may fall apart here in the Konquerer case, as I don't use Konquerer and don't know how tightly it is integrated into KDE. Whatever. My argument may also fall apart in as much as it may be easy to remove the roll-cage from a Hummer. I don't know.)
But your name is not on the ballot, so there can be no confirmation of who anyone voted for. So there's no, "Bring me your receipt, and I'll give you $10 if you voted for me!"
And I don't understand how someone could see the New York Times as anything but a part of the Democratic Party.
So there.
Bull. Clear Channel does not own all country music stations. Just pick a different one. Or else go get their albums and listen all you like.
Just because Natalie Maines says that she's being censored, it doesn't mean that she is. In her case, she said something that many didn't like and they decided not to listen to her anymore. That's not censorship.
Hibernate?
But a large child would be OK?
While I agree that a falling bullet is not moving as fast as one exiting the barrel of a gun, I disagree with the idea that you would be alright if it hit some body part other than your eye.
Apparently, the founding fathers thought that this was our responsibility.
I see. So they would only turn it on when they plan to be unconscious at the bottom of a ravine. It all makes sense to me now.
Users only need switch on devices when they want.
Doesn't do much good when the user is unconscious at the bottom of a ravine.
If?!?