The way I interpreted it was that they decrease the quality so they can get more basic shapes, from which they can infer the outline of the shape they want to remove and go back to the original quality stream to remove it.
And how is that logic false? The students haven't done *anything* here other than been wronged - why shouldn't those doing the work get paid? The fact that the lawyer didn't take the piss and actually got them some settlement money isn't something that can be ignored.
You honestly think that the lawyer in this case deserves to get over double the payout that the students received? Oh wait never mind, your a troll. No sane person would think that.
Without his work the students wouldn't have gotten anything, because they never hired anyone - he worked for nothing in order to get a payout, why shouldn't he get the bulk. If the students wanted the bulk, they could have actually hired someone and paid upfront for their work.
Swindon scrapped *fixed* speed cameras because all revenue from them go to central government while the local government has to pay for their up keep (although there is a discretionary fund available for councils to apply for) - that is why it was a cost savings measure, because Swindon was paying all the costs and getting none of the revenue.
However, Swindon still operates mobile speed cameras, because those fines go to local government and not central government.
Norwich is doing the same now that the new government has reduced the discretionary funding.
Bullshit. Seriously, bullshit. The browser provides the interface through which the plugin can work - just because currently plugins have near free reign on most browsers does not mean that that is acceptable.
Javascript is blocked from writing to disk, and indeed doing a lot of things in certain circumstances (IE blocks a lot of JS when the page is opened locally and not through a remote server).
So again, to say its not the browsers fault is falsely excusing it from blame - the browser can certainly lay down a strict set of rules by which the plugins can and cannot work, and that certainly includes local file access.
Microsoft got shat on for this a long time ago about ActiveX, so the other browser makers now need to get an equal shitting on for anything else that they allow access to the internet via their browser without setting up suitable security restrictions.
browsers should (or probably will if they don't already) clear out most of those locations (except Flash, but you can't blame the browsers for that really) when you clear your private data
This is the only part of your post that I disagree with - if a browser allows a plugin to write to a location on disk in any form, then the browser should be responsible for further access to that location, and the maintenance of that location, not the plugin. Saying its Flashes fault that these things don't get removed is simply excusing the browser from its responsibilities.
Its funny how everyone latches on to the 'six days' and uses that as a demonstration of how the Bible is wrong. What everyone glosses over is the 'and God said "let there be light" and there was light' part - seriously, if we are going to diss the use of the term 'day', why is the total lack of physics in the description of the actual making never dissed?
Simply put, if you accept that God really did just say "let there be light" and that was that, then the concept of doing it in a day really isnt going to be a problem to accept.
On the other hand, if the concept of doing it in a day is difficult to grasp, then equally God shouldn't have been able to bring about whole universes just by speech alone (no matter how good an orator he is), so its obviously not what was actually going on and instead glosses over a few things.
Whether the information is encrypted or not only matters if you are intending to target a specific aircraft in the sky - if the goal is just to hit an aircraft, any aircraft, then just home in on whatevers broadcasting, encrypted or not.
No, you didn't fix it for me, don't presume to know what I intended. The standard Slashdot meme is against the author, musician and actor, with the distribution company being a separate target for fun.
So authors, musicians and actors should not be allowed a living on the merit of their past works, but these guys should be? What have these guys done for us today? What programs are they involved with now? Why should they be spared this time round?
I find it amusing that *no-one* has cottoned onto the fact that you say "Congratulations, you've reinvented the wheel. The rest of us will just keep using bash, thanks." and *not* felt the need to point out that Bash was just such a reinvention of the wheel, it wasn't the first shell, it was an improvement on a shell that existed prior.
I will also point out that Bash was an improvement that was necessary for the environment it was to operate it - it brought added benefits to UNIX beyond that of the shells it replaced. Powershell does precisely that for cmd.exe and Windows and you deem it necessary to demean it.
here they are admitting that "... it can’t compete with the established blogging platforms...". How many Man-Hours and money have they invested in Spaces?
Out of all of your posts, I think that *this* sentence is the nearest to the mark, but not for the reason you think it is - the key word you have included is 'established', which means a lot in this discussion. Its always difficult to compete against established competition, especially when you are not providing anything really different to their offering.
Wordpress is a big fish in this pond, they have an established infrastructure and revenue model - Live Spaces was not paying for itself, the revenue model had failed, so MS had three choices: do nothing and continue to eat costs, reduce costs or eliminate the service. Luckily they decided to combine choices two and three and shift the costs to another service.
For what its worth, I worked with PHP in a professional capacity from 2001 until early 2009, on large sites delivering significant functionality. I utilised Apache 1 and 2, Linux, OpenBSD and MySQL heavily to do this.
Early in 2009 I had a chance to take a look at the.Net platform, specifically ASP.Net and SharePoint - while I rapidly came to hate SharePoint for development (and consider it top heavy for far too much of the market its aimed at), I fell in love with ASP.Net.
Let me say that again - under my own free will, with no pushing from any direction, I came to prefer ASP.Net, MSSQL and IIS over PHP, MySQL and Apache. I find it to be an easier stack to work with, I find that it provides a better integrated solution, I find it faster to deliver with, and generally I find it a vast improvement over PHP and MySQL.
No doubt you will spin that as the word of a shill or whatever, but the fact remains that developers can and will use the MS stack out of choice and preference while still knowing all about PHP.
How many Man-Hours and money have they invested in Spaces?
The fallacy of the sunk cost - it doesn't matter how much time or money they had invested in it, if there is no foreseeable opportunity for recouping those costs then a decision has to be made on the basis of future costs, not past costs. Sunk costs are equivalent to the gamblers fallacy of 'just one more game, this will be the one' - if you always base your forward planning on recouping past costs, you will always lose money.
It simply boils down to "was LiveSpaces paying for itself?". And the answer would be no, so now MS gets to have a PR day while dumping a cost centre onto someone else. Double win for MS - doesn't say anything about IIS, Asp.net or MSSql one way or the other tho.
Really? Because the only thing a blackmailer is going to do is threaten to tell your employer about your sexual history...
JPL not caring about who you slept with 20 years ago isn't going to change the threat of telling your wife that you slept with your secretary 20 year ago and have an illegitimate child. JPL still doesn't care, but you still have a huge problem that can be exploited by the blackmailer.
Both you and The Pope need to grow up and get over it.
And that part of your post gives a lot of people a very legitimate reason to dismiss you.
The modern day Bible, with all of its interpretations, are translations of translations of stories passed down by word of mouth for generations. You really think that the very first time the story was told, thousands of years ago, it started off with 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.' and ended with 'And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.'?
Those people that take the Bible literally need to be challenged and dismissed - there are far too many things in there that do not make sense, or are outright wrong to live your life by.
But equally, those that dismiss the Bible by its literal reading also need to be challenged and dismissed for much the same reason.
God, if there is one, didn't make the world in seven days, but note how no one takes issue with the descriptions of *how* he made the various things in the first few verses of Genesis - 'And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.' 'And God said....' 'And God said...'.
Why is the use of the term 'days' so discussed but the complete lack of information on how the creation happened isn't? The Bible never goes into detail on the hows and wherefores, it uses abstractions - no one laments the lack of physics surrounding the how, but everyone takes issue with the use of 'days'. Funny eh?
I don't think hes saying anything about closed source here - I think hes saying that there is a difference between the oft touted open source community approach, and the Red Hat-style sponsored project with paid developers approach.
Really? Not accepting anything other than complete access to source code (which I disagree with), complete freedom to redistribute (which I disagree with) and complete freedom to modify (which you could say I disagree with because it requires both prior freedoms) isn't an extreme view? What would be the extreme view here then?
I don't think anyone has any issues with Stallman sharing his own work voluntarily - I think some people draw the line at stunts like this where he calls for universal adherence to his third and fourth 'freedoms' (to distribute the software; and to modify and distribute modified copies of the code).
Your post assumes that only the black and white extremes exist - nothing could be further from the truth, luckily. There is a whole world in between the two.
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The way I interpreted it was that they decrease the quality so they can get more basic shapes, from which they can infer the outline of the shape they want to remove and go back to the original quality stream to remove it.
Networks won't be allowed to do that as per their sports contracts...
And how is that logic false? The students haven't done *anything* here other than been wronged - why shouldn't those doing the work get paid? The fact that the lawyer didn't take the piss and actually got them some settlement money isn't something that can be ignored.
The main component of 'orbit' is speed, not height.
Thats because the class doesn't lose anything if the case doesn't go their way - the lawyer representing the class is the one bearing the risk.
You honestly think that the lawyer in this case deserves to get over double the payout that the students received? Oh wait never mind, your a troll. No sane person would think that.
Without his work the students wouldn't have gotten anything, because they never hired anyone - he worked for nothing in order to get a payout, why shouldn't he get the bulk. If the students wanted the bulk, they could have actually hired someone and paid upfront for their work.
Swindon scrapped *fixed* speed cameras because all revenue from them go to central government while the local government has to pay for their up keep (although there is a discretionary fund available for councils to apply for) - that is why it was a cost savings measure, because Swindon was paying all the costs and getting none of the revenue.
However, Swindon still operates mobile speed cameras, because those fines go to local government and not central government.
Norwich is doing the same now that the new government has reduced the discretionary funding.
Bullshit. Seriously, bullshit. The browser provides the interface through which the plugin can work - just because currently plugins have near free reign on most browsers does not mean that that is acceptable.
Javascript is blocked from writing to disk, and indeed doing a lot of things in certain circumstances (IE blocks a lot of JS when the page is opened locally and not through a remote server).
So again, to say its not the browsers fault is falsely excusing it from blame - the browser can certainly lay down a strict set of rules by which the plugins can and cannot work, and that certainly includes local file access.
Microsoft got shat on for this a long time ago about ActiveX, so the other browser makers now need to get an equal shitting on for anything else that they allow access to the internet via their browser without setting up suitable security restrictions.
This is most certainly a browser issue.
browsers should (or probably will if they don't already) clear out most of those locations (except Flash, but you can't blame the browsers for that really) when you clear your private data
This is the only part of your post that I disagree with - if a browser allows a plugin to write to a location on disk in any form, then the browser should be responsible for further access to that location, and the maintenance of that location, not the plugin. Saying its Flashes fault that these things don't get removed is simply excusing the browser from its responsibilities.
Its funny how everyone latches on to the 'six days' and uses that as a demonstration of how the Bible is wrong. What everyone glosses over is the 'and God said "let there be light" and there was light' part - seriously, if we are going to diss the use of the term 'day', why is the total lack of physics in the description of the actual making never dissed?
Simply put, if you accept that God really did just say "let there be light" and that was that, then the concept of doing it in a day really isnt going to be a problem to accept.
On the other hand, if the concept of doing it in a day is difficult to grasp, then equally God shouldn't have been able to bring about whole universes just by speech alone (no matter how good an orator he is), so its obviously not what was actually going on and instead glosses over a few things.
Whether the information is encrypted or not only matters if you are intending to target a specific aircraft in the sky - if the goal is just to hit an aircraft, any aircraft, then just home in on whatevers broadcasting, encrypted or not.
No, you didn't fix it for me, don't presume to know what I intended. The standard Slashdot meme is against the author, musician and actor, with the distribution company being a separate target for fun.
So authors, musicians and actors should not be allowed a living on the merit of their past works, but these guys should be? What have these guys done for us today? What programs are they involved with now? Why should they be spared this time round?
People need to stop thinking that 'loving Open Source' *always* has to equate with 'take whatever you need, whats mine is yours'.
Good for you. For those of us that know what we are doing, we can admin a Windows Server system without ever seeing its desktop.
I find it amusing that *no-one* has cottoned onto the fact that you say "Congratulations, you've reinvented the wheel. The rest of us will just keep using bash, thanks." and *not* felt the need to point out that Bash was just such a reinvention of the wheel, it wasn't the first shell, it was an improvement on a shell that existed prior.
I will also point out that Bash was an improvement that was necessary for the environment it was to operate it - it brought added benefits to UNIX beyond that of the shells it replaced. Powershell does precisely that for cmd.exe and Windows and you deem it necessary to demean it.
But of course, troll away, its in your nature.
That's the power of hatred and idolisation - neither have a requirement for rationalism.
here they are admitting that "... it can’t compete with the established blogging platforms ...". How many Man-Hours and money have they invested in Spaces?
Out of all of your posts, I think that *this* sentence is the nearest to the mark, but not for the reason you think it is - the key word you have included is 'established', which means a lot in this discussion. Its always difficult to compete against established competition, especially when you are not providing anything really different to their offering.
Wordpress is a big fish in this pond, they have an established infrastructure and revenue model - Live Spaces was not paying for itself, the revenue model had failed, so MS had three choices: do nothing and continue to eat costs, reduce costs or eliminate the service. Luckily they decided to combine choices two and three and shift the costs to another service.
For what its worth, I worked with PHP in a professional capacity from 2001 until early 2009, on large sites delivering significant functionality. I utilised Apache 1 and 2, Linux, OpenBSD and MySQL heavily to do this.
Early in 2009 I had a chance to take a look at the .Net platform, specifically ASP.Net and SharePoint - while I rapidly came to hate SharePoint for development (and consider it top heavy for far too much of the market its aimed at), I fell in love with ASP.Net.
Let me say that again - under my own free will, with no pushing from any direction, I came to prefer ASP.Net, MSSQL and IIS over PHP, MySQL and Apache. I find it to be an easier stack to work with, I find that it provides a better integrated solution, I find it faster to deliver with, and generally I find it a vast improvement over PHP and MySQL.
No doubt you will spin that as the word of a shill or whatever, but the fact remains that developers can and will use the MS stack out of choice and preference while still knowing all about PHP.
How many Man-Hours and money have they invested in Spaces?
The fallacy of the sunk cost - it doesn't matter how much time or money they had invested in it, if there is no foreseeable opportunity for recouping those costs then a decision has to be made on the basis of future costs, not past costs. Sunk costs are equivalent to the gamblers fallacy of 'just one more game, this will be the one' - if you always base your forward planning on recouping past costs, you will always lose money.
It simply boils down to "was LiveSpaces paying for itself?". And the answer would be no, so now MS gets to have a PR day while dumping a cost centre onto someone else. Double win for MS - doesn't say anything about IIS, Asp.net or MSSql one way or the other tho.
Good luck getting the source out of anyone for a web app...
Really? Because the only thing a blackmailer is going to do is threaten to tell your employer about your sexual history...
JPL not caring about who you slept with 20 years ago isn't going to change the threat of telling your wife that you slept with your secretary 20 year ago and have an illegitimate child. JPL still doesn't care, but you still have a huge problem that can be exploited by the blackmailer.
Both you and The Pope need to grow up and get over it.
And that part of your post gives a lot of people a very legitimate reason to dismiss you.
The modern day Bible, with all of its interpretations, are translations of translations of stories passed down by word of mouth for generations. You really think that the very first time the story was told, thousands of years ago, it started off with 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.' and ended with 'And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.'?
Those people that take the Bible literally need to be challenged and dismissed - there are far too many things in there that do not make sense, or are outright wrong to live your life by.
But equally, those that dismiss the Bible by its literal reading also need to be challenged and dismissed for much the same reason.
God, if there is one, didn't make the world in seven days, but note how no one takes issue with the descriptions of *how* he made the various things in the first few verses of Genesis - 'And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.' 'And God said....' 'And God said...'.
Why is the use of the term 'days' so discussed but the complete lack of information on how the creation happened isn't? The Bible never goes into detail on the hows and wherefores, it uses abstractions - no one laments the lack of physics surrounding the how, but everyone takes issue with the use of 'days'. Funny eh?
I don't think hes saying anything about closed source here - I think hes saying that there is a difference between the oft touted open source community approach, and the Red Hat-style sponsored project with paid developers approach.
Really? Not accepting anything other than complete access to source code (which I disagree with), complete freedom to redistribute (which I disagree with) and complete freedom to modify (which you could say I disagree with because it requires both prior freedoms) isn't an extreme view? What would be the extreme view here then?
I don't think anyone has any issues with Stallman sharing his own work voluntarily - I think some people draw the line at stunts like this where he calls for universal adherence to his third and fourth 'freedoms' (to distribute the software; and to modify and distribute modified copies of the code).
Your post assumes that only the black and white extremes exist - nothing could be further from the truth, luckily. There is a whole world in between the two.