With 10's of thousands of these being ordered and shipped to third world countries, has anyone actually thought about how they are going to be distributed?
My God! Call Negroponte immediately. How could they have spent years planning this and missed that? Lucky you noticed, or they'd just have dumped them all in a landfill.
Say what you will about Microsoft but these fonts looks better than anything on Linux and Mac.
So the question is are these fonts available for other OSs? The original MS core fonts were, though MS tried to claw them back they couldn't undo the fact they'd permitted legal redistribution. But after looking at them, they're nice enough but not a great advance. Mostly they seem a bit narrower than the last generation.
I'd love to see how you're going to implement full-blown, resource-heavy photo editing in a browser.
What it would be in practice is you'd have Photoshop (for example) installed, taking up a few tens of MB (or maybe hundreds by then). But small key components would have to be downloaded every time you started it, acting as keys. Basically, it's a DRM scheme to force you to pay every time you use an application. And it would be churning away all the time downloading updates (and media-intensive ads).
. I'm not sure on what basis you escalated "didn't reply in a short period of time" to "ignored me".
Never answered == ignore, in my book. Someone sent me a mesasge calling me a vandal, and reverted my edit, all automatically. And that was the eedn of it as far as he was concerend, if he ever knew it had happened at all.
Does the author make the source code of the bot available? Did you check out the release history for the bot? Is it actively maintained? How many other people have complained?
It's not my job to debug his fucking bot. If someone's brakes fail and they crash their car into me, it's not my problem to find out why the brakes failed.
hit the "liar accusation" button on the people here with enough experience not to take your story at face value.
If someone says they don't believe me (you, for instance) you ARE CALLING ME A LIAR. And you casual assumption that your "experience" justifies this. I don't care what others said. I only speak for myself. And I'm not about to spend an hour digging through ancient log files to prove this to you.
I don't have an agenda. I don't troll forums pissing on Wikipedia. I've never mentioned this before. And now you and your buddy both have accused me of lying about it, of beiong an excitable fool. It makes it very easy to generalise about "Wikipedians", not just the original twat but you two who have confirmed the image. And very alienating for anyone who innocently and with good will contributed and got pissed on by arrogant wankers like yourself.
And yes, I am angry now. Not about the original edit, but being patronised and called a liar does that to some people.
I said I'm not inclined to believe you, but that does not equate me calling you a liar.
Yes it does. Weasel words.
these claims always come up in wikipedia discussions on slashdot, and I've yet to see evidence for them
I don't "always make these claims". I'm talking, for the first time, about something that happened to me, personally. So if you don't believe me, you are calling me, personally, a liar. Your smug response is exactly what exacerbates these situations.
If these "claims" are not true, why do so many people make them? A vast conspiracy?
I'm not saying it didn't happen, but I'm not inclined to believe it
You realise that you are calling me a liar?
had his mother raped. Guy Number Three had his ancestors' graves desecrated,
I told you exactly what happened. I didn't exaggerate or claim malice, just careless arrogance. Some twat sent a bot to delete stuff without bothering to check what it was, and ignored my attempts to discuss it with him. Fuck you if you don't believe me.
Yes, I did try to communicate with him, and no I wasn't abusive. He ignored me.
I'm not "way too angry". I only mentioned it at all in answer to a direct question. At the time I was pissed because I'd spent time and thought "giving back" to the community only to have it deleted and be insulted for my trouble. I got over it a few minutes later and haven't mentioned it to anyone till now. Now I know Wikipedia is infested with self-important twats who like to play power games, so I don't waste my effort on it.
Well, did you provide a reason why you deleted the content?
Yes. That's why I was pissed off, as well as insulted at being labelled a "vandal" when I was actually correcting errors. This happened within minutes of my edit, so I guess it was totally automated. Which is even more annoying, being reverted by a bot set loose by some smarmy teenager (I looked up his profile).
Well, did you provide a reason why you deleted the content?P
Yes. That's why I was pissed off, as well as insulted at being labelled a "vandal" when I was actually correcting errors. This happened within minutes of my edit, so I guess it was totally automated. Which is even more annoying, being reverted by a bot set loose by some smarmy teenager (I looked up his profile).
But I have yet to see a single edit being wrongly reverted by a bot.
Happened to me once. I noticed a list of "movies about the Mafia" was full of titles just about crime, so I deleted those I knew were not Mafia related. Then later I see they've been reverted by some asshole (later I worked out it was a bot) that had decided I was a vandal (as stated in the comment).
We're talking about a country that doesn't like people who stretch in public, so they execute them and then harvest their organs
The reason I said this was an exaggeration:
The Chinese government is NOT persecuting them because they "stretch in public", but because they are a cult, like Scientology, with millions of members with a secretive Messianic leader. And they remember the Boxer Rebellion. It really is a threat to the Communist Party.
You imply that many Falun Gong have been executed and had their organs harvested. How many?
Who wrote the cited Wikipedia entry? Executed prisoners have had their organs harvested, but that's a separate issue. I don't think anyone is arrested in order to harvest their organs, even in China, it's not necessary, there are plenty of condemned criminals, it's as bad as Texas.
I don't mind the Falun Gong myself, I live in Hong Kong and see many here, but they are not normal people by any standard.
Yahoo may have known what the Chinese government would do, but that doesn't make Yahoo responsible for the government's actions. If a woman knows that a rapist is hanging out in a dark alley,...
Consider that the reporter knew that a Chinese company would hand him over on a platter, so he thought he could trust an American company to protect his privacy (and his liberty, in this case). But like many people who have trusted America to live up to its ideals, he was screwed.
They are rich enough to pay the bills, so they don't really care about those.
Surely after two or three times they would lose their licences.
In Hong Kong a few years ago there was a scandal when a pop singer was busted for speeding. He got an asssitant to say he was driving and bribed the cop who caught him to go along with it; but it came out and they were all prosecuted, the cop lost his job.
If this was their equipment, then why should they not be able to use it in Brazil?
Cisco is not an ISP. They SELL equipment. Or how were they going to use 500 million dollars worth of gear in their office? And in any case, if you import goods to just about any country, you have to pay tax, regardless whether you're going to use it yourself or sell it. Try bringing a few expensive bottles of spirits or across any border to see how this works in microcosm.
arresting a a large portion of their workforce, for what could be an oversight, is a very silly move.
FTFA: "Goods were shipped from tax havens like Panama, the Bahamas and the British Virgin islands to Brazilian clients to avoid local taxes, and the value of the products was underestimated."
Yeah, a mistake anyone could make. Who hasn't accidentally shipped their goods via the BVI?
2) Damages for torts should be divided by the probability of being caught.
A very strange principle, basically choosing a scapegoat who takes blame for collective evil. The RIAA could choose to prosecute one case per year, the lucky person chosen for the show trial would be assessed damages equivalent to the total ten million (imaginary figure, but right ball park) people who get away with it. Might as well just execute one file sharer per year.
The chance of being caught is totally in the hands of the prosecutor/plaintiff. Most filesharers expose their IPs, if anyone could be bothered to collect and correlate the data they could be charged.
Some guys were talking about racism and Australia.
Right. So because the Australian government had racist policies a century ago, it's all right to abuse their great-great grandchildren. It's only fair.
And in America at that time, the Ku Klux Klan was in full flight.
As for Australia not signing a race equality clause in 1919; it's not nice, but at least they weren't being hypocrites. It was proposed by Japan, one of the most racist countries in the world then and now, because they wanted to be considered "white". They went on to enslave half of Asia and treat them like animals. Ask resident Koreans about racial equality in Japan. As for the treaty, the US would have felt obliged to sign it, but would still have excluded most blacks from the right to vote for 50 years. The US seems to think international treaties are useful to make foreigners fall into line, but presumptuous for other nations to enforce on the US.
you could think about electric powered transport to replace things like Hummers, power all the command and control electronics, and probably also do electromagnetic artillery rather than conventional artillery
I really think that powering transport by space microwaves is a long way off. The receivers I think require acres of antennas for a start. I don't think a satellite station is going to be able to simultaneously focus on dozens, or hundreds, of moving vehicles.
I think the idea is to supply fixed, remote bases. If battery technology improved enough, perhaps they would charge up batteries for vehicles instead of liquid fuel.
Of course, powering weapons systems from space would make the satellites into a high-priority target. The Taleban aren't likely to be able to do much in that line, but mid-size power (like N Korea or Iran) could. A huge solar satellite in a fixed orbit is a lot easier to hit than a ballistic missile falling at 5 miles per second. And they would probbaly be vulnerable to laser or other beam weapons.
Sooo..... would this mean that the Pentagon could *bogart* all of the power when needed
RTFA. The proposal is for the military to build pilot plants. It would be their energy, to use on the battlefield. Too expensive for civilian use. Later, larger plants would be for civil use. There isn't a great analogy with GPS, there are plenty of cheaper ways to supply electricity now, there is no substitute (yet) for GPS.
I think I remember hearing that Australia was the one who blocked the racial equality clause in the League of Nations document.
And this is relevant how? Are you just looking for things to attack Australia with? If so, please advise your nationality and I'll look up some things your country did a century ago that it should be ashamed of.
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My God! Call Negroponte immediately. How could they have spent years planning this and missed that? Lucky you noticed, or they'd just have dumped them all in a landfill.
So the question is are these fonts available for other OSs? The original MS core fonts were, though MS tried to claw them back they couldn't undo the fact they'd permitted legal redistribution. But after looking at them, they're nice enough but not a great advance. Mostly they seem a bit narrower than the last generation.
What it would be in practice is you'd have Photoshop (for example) installed, taking up a few tens of MB (or maybe hundreds by then). But small key components would have to be downloaded every time you started it, acting as keys. Basically, it's a DRM scheme to force you to pay every time you use an application. And it would be churning away all the time downloading updates (and media-intensive ads).
Never answered == ignore, in my book. Someone sent me a mesasge calling me a vandal, and reverted my edit, all automatically. And that was the eedn of it as far as he was concerend, if he ever knew it had happened at all.
Does the author make the source code of the bot available? Did you check out the release history for the bot? Is it actively maintained? How many other people have complained?
It's not my job to debug his fucking bot. If someone's brakes fail and they crash their car into me, it's not my problem to find out why the brakes failed.
hit the "liar accusation" button on the people here with enough experience not to take your story at face value.
If someone says they don't believe me (you, for instance) you ARE CALLING ME A LIAR. And you casual assumption that your "experience" justifies this. I don't care what others said. I only speak for myself. And I'm not about to spend an hour digging through ancient log files to prove this to you.
I don't have an agenda. I don't troll forums pissing on Wikipedia. I've never mentioned this before. And now you and your buddy both have accused me of lying about it, of beiong an excitable fool. It makes it very easy to generalise about "Wikipedians", not just the original twat but you two who have confirmed the image. And very alienating for anyone who innocently and with good will contributed and got pissed on by arrogant wankers like yourself.
And yes, I am angry now. Not about the original edit, but being patronised and called a liar does that to some people.
Yes it does. Weasel words.
these claims always come up in wikipedia discussions on slashdot, and I've yet to see evidence for them
I don't "always make these claims". I'm talking, for the first time, about something that happened to me, personally. So if you don't believe me, you are calling me, personally, a liar. Your smug response is exactly what exacerbates these situations.
If these "claims" are not true, why do so many people make them? A vast conspiracy?
You realise that you are calling me a liar?
had his mother raped. Guy Number Three had his ancestors' graves desecrated,
I told you exactly what happened. I didn't exaggerate or claim malice, just careless arrogance. Some twat sent a bot to delete stuff without bothering to check what it was, and ignored my attempts to discuss it with him. Fuck you if you don't believe me.
wouldn't say that makes it ok by any stretch....P Log in if you want a reply.
Yes, I did try to communicate with him, and no I wasn't abusive. He ignored me.
I'm not "way too angry". I only mentioned it at all in answer to a direct question. At the time I was pissed because I'd spent time and thought "giving back" to the community only to have it deleted and be insulted for my trouble. I got over it a few minutes later and haven't mentioned it to anyone till now. Now I know Wikipedia is infested with self-important twats who like to play power games, so I don't waste my effort on it.
Well, did you provide a reason why you deleted the content?
Yes. That's why I was pissed off, as well as insulted at being labelled a "vandal" when I was actually correcting errors. This happened within minutes of my edit, so I guess it was totally automated. Which is even more annoying, being reverted by a bot set loose by some smarmy teenager (I looked up his profile).
Well, did you provide a reason why you deleted the content?P Yes. That's why I was pissed off, as well as insulted at being labelled a "vandal" when I was actually correcting errors. This happened within minutes of my edit, so I guess it was totally automated. Which is even more annoying, being reverted by a bot set loose by some smarmy teenager (I looked up his profile).
Happened to me once. I noticed a list of "movies about the Mafia" was full of titles just about crime, so I deleted those I knew were not Mafia related. Then later I see they've been reverted by some asshole (later I worked out it was a bot) that had decided I was a vandal (as stated in the comment).
We're talking about a country that doesn't like people who stretch in public, so they execute them and then harvest their organs
The reason I said this was an exaggeration:
The Chinese government is NOT persecuting them because they "stretch in public", but because they are a cult, like Scientology, with millions of members with a secretive Messianic leader. And they remember the Boxer Rebellion. It really is a threat to the Communist Party.
You imply that many Falun Gong have been executed and had their organs harvested. How many?
Who wrote the cited Wikipedia entry? Executed prisoners have had their organs harvested, but that's a separate issue. I don't think anyone is arrested in order to harvest their organs, even in China, it's not necessary, there are plenty of condemned criminals, it's as bad as Texas.
I don't mind the Falun Gong myself, I live in Hong Kong and see many here, but they are not normal people by any standard.
Consider that the reporter knew that a Chinese company would hand him over on a platter, so he thought he could trust an American company to protect his privacy (and his liberty, in this case). But like many people who have trusted America to live up to its ideals, he was screwed.
Mods, this is not "insightful". It's insanely exaggerated.
Surely after two or three times they would lose their licences.
In Hong Kong a few years ago there was a scandal when a pop singer was busted for speeding. He got an asssitant to say he was driving and bribed the cop who caught him to go along with it; but it came out and they were all prosecuted, the cop lost his job.
Huawei expands operations in Brazil, hundreds of jobs created. (Well, not hundreds, but probably as many as Cisco had.)
Cisco is not an ISP. They SELL equipment. Or how were they going to use 500 million dollars worth of gear in their office? And in any case, if you import goods to just about any country, you have to pay tax, regardless whether you're going to use it yourself or sell it. Try bringing a few expensive bottles of spirits or across any border to see how this works in microcosm.
FTFA: "Goods were shipped from tax havens like Panama, the Bahamas and the British Virgin islands to Brazilian clients to avoid local taxes, and the value of the products was underestimated."
Yeah, a mistake anyone could make. Who hasn't accidentally shipped their goods via the BVI?
And how will you get a quorum to pass this motion?
A very strange principle, basically choosing a scapegoat who takes blame for collective evil. The RIAA could choose to prosecute one case per year, the lucky person chosen for the show trial would be assessed damages equivalent to the total ten million (imaginary figure, but right ball park) people who get away with it. Might as well just execute one file sharer per year.
The chance of being caught is totally in the hands of the prosecutor/plaintiff. Most filesharers expose their IPs, if anyone could be bothered to collect and correlate the data they could be charged.
Right. So because the Australian government had racist policies a century ago, it's all right to abuse their great-great grandchildren. It's only fair.
And in America at that time, the Ku Klux Klan was in full flight.
As for Australia not signing a race equality clause in 1919; it's not nice, but at least they weren't being hypocrites. It was proposed by Japan, one of the most racist countries in the world then and now, because they wanted to be considered "white". They went on to enslave half of Asia and treat them like animals. Ask resident Koreans about racial equality in Japan. As for the treaty, the US would have felt obliged to sign it, but would still have excluded most blacks from the right to vote for 50 years. The US seems to think international treaties are useful to make foreigners fall into line, but presumptuous for other nations to enforce on the US.
That "joke" is at least 50 years old. But some asshole posts it every time Australia is mentioned in a Slashdot story.
I really think that powering transport by space microwaves is a long way off. The receivers I think require acres of antennas for a start. I don't think a satellite station is going to be able to simultaneously focus on dozens, or hundreds, of moving vehicles.
I think the idea is to supply fixed, remote bases. If battery technology improved enough, perhaps they would charge up batteries for vehicles instead of liquid fuel.
Of course, powering weapons systems from space would make the satellites into a high-priority target. The Taleban aren't likely to be able to do much in that line, but mid-size power (like N Korea or Iran) could. A huge solar satellite in a fixed orbit is a lot easier to hit than a ballistic missile falling at 5 miles per second. And they would probbaly be vulnerable to laser or other beam weapons.
RTFA. The proposal is for the military to build pilot plants. It would be their energy, to use on the battlefield. Too expensive for civilian use. Later, larger plants would be for civil use. There isn't a great analogy with GPS, there are plenty of cheaper ways to supply electricity now, there is no substitute (yet) for GPS.
And this is relevant how? Are you just looking for things to attack Australia with? If so, please advise your nationality and I'll look up some things your country did a century ago that it should be ashamed of.