The scroll bar serves a dual purpose. I think the movement functionality of the vertical scroll bar has been superceded by the mouse wheel for many people, it certainly has been for me. It's still extremely important as a visual guide to the viewport position and relative size, though, and you'll have to come up with an alternative to displaying this information (e.g. even smaller bars) if you want to get rid of the bars totally.
I agree with some of your comments on the mouse wheel, incidently, especially on the middle click functionality, less so on the continous scrolling (I don't really care), and less still about the focus issues: I understand they're non-intuitive, but I'm used to the freak-focus now, it's really useful in some cases, ie. I can scroll the browser window right now without having to care about the mouse position.
The problem with all of Wikipedia's critics is that they view it as potentially replacing traditional reference material, when really it mainly just replaces a bunch of even less reliable material. As an additional benefit, its open model even leads most people to be more careful and skeptical of what they read there, which they might not be with other sources. Wikipedia is a net win for propagation of accurate information.
Hilarious! Thanks for the link. My favorite after a minute of skimming:
Potato chips Should potato chips be flavored or flavoured? What is the provenance of the potato chip, America or Ireland? Four-user revert war on these important issues results in the page getting protected and listed on RfC. As a compromise, the chips become seasoned.
You're going to run OS X on a 400 Mhz CPU with 128 megs of RAM? And 256 Megs of storage? How?! Maybe Apple should have offered OS 9... Hey, spatial Finder!
Just to see if the honor system you describe works, I googled (I'm sorry I used Google to search for) dansguardian mirror and the first result contains the source code without any restrictions. It's a bit outdated, though.
That's not how dual licensing works. Trolltech Qt is an example of dual licensing: it's open sourced, but you can also pay them for a commercial license which permits you to use it in non open source software, ie you can create derived works that don't have their source code released.
I don't think you can release something under the GPL and then say it's not for commercial use, like another poster said, anybody can just download the code and redistribute (that's the right the GPL grants!) without strings attached. Of course, they're free to release it under a license that permits redistribution only to non-commercial users, but that license isn't the GPL and it's not GPL compatible, either, so you can't incorporate derived works into the software.
I'm sorry, did you just use the pathetic resolution of the last generation of consoles as a point why overall graphics quality is - good? But I get your point. Still, for what it's worth, the lower fill rate requirements never did lead to a comparable image quality even at a reduced resolution, at least not a few months after release. And today's consoles are supposed to run at (much) higher resolutions, so the fill rate requirements are the same or similar to PCs.
Not by my reading. Where does it say that redistributions of it must require users to agree to the licenses to use the software?
I'm not saying you're wrong, but the license says: This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the software.
and
(C) If you distribute the software in source code form you may do so only under this license (i.e., you must include a complete copy of this license with your distribution), and if you distribute the software solely in compiled or object code form you may only do so under a license that complies with this license.
Yes, turning the quality slider to medium, that would be terrible as opposed to steadily playing on the low setting as you would with most of the consoles most of the time.
Also for those who LOVE hydrogen as a fuel, remember, water vapor is a greenhouse gas.
True. And it's released by normal combustion, too. That's what happens to the hydro in hydrocarbon... Water vapor release is mostly a problem when it's done at high altitudes, ie. by airplanes.
I was talking exclusively about the video codec. Of course they likely attach DRM to whatever they'll sell or they won't be able to sell it - unless they move their base of operations to Russia.;) For what it's worth, there has been pirated content in H.264 already, I doubt that came with DRM.
Chances are the downloadable copies are gonna be of better quality than the freebies (..)
Why would that be? I mean, in theory, yes, without the hassle of the transfer being illegal you can more easily transmit large amounts of data. On the other hand, while on P2P networks, the transmission cost is shared among all peers, a single distributor has to pay for all (or rather half) of the costs. Are the songs from the ITMS of higher bitrate than the typical scene releases? The TV episodes you can currently buy certainly aren't of better quality than the pirated versions, which are typically 350 or 700 MB per episode.
Because there is another person with a different opinion whose opinion is just as valid (until one of you is proven correct).
Erm. It's not exactly an opinion in the case you describe. He could swear under oath that he did not give you permission to take anything. The RIAA on the other hand could not swear anything relevant under oath, so unless they have any other substanstive evidence, they got nothing, just like the OP says.
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I feel similar, but to be honest I think it might just be looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses. Remember Error -1?
Hmmm... I'd expect dd to throw a read-error when it encounters the first damaged block, and go no further.
Yeah. So you add a conv=noerror to the command line. Won't help with crashing kernels, but really the kernel shouldn't crash because of bad sectors on the HD.
Not sure if you're trolling, but he isn't referring to interfacing. He's just saying that DirectX offers a lot of functionality that goes beyond a 3D API such as Direct3D and OpenGL. Although Direct3D is certainly the most prominent component.
I assume you'll need to replace certain parts which are used by the customers frequently: mouse and keyboard in particular, headphones, too. Maybe even the display, although a regular cleaning might do. People tend to treat stuff badly when it's not their own. Fortunately none of these is particularly expensive.
Thunderbird is an above-average email client. So is Opera, which also keeps an index with instant searches. And while I'm writing, I don't think I've ever consciously deleted an email that wasn't spam. I think I can spare the kilobyte per mail.
Much of central and, I think, southern Europe is similar in this regard, too.;) I don't know why, we don't usually get that much snow here; I know I was always a bit puzzled by pictures of American cities with their jungle of overhead wiring.
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The scroll bar serves a dual purpose. I think the movement functionality of the vertical scroll bar has been superceded by the mouse wheel for many people, it certainly has been for me. It's still extremely important as a visual guide to the viewport position and relative size, though, and you'll have to come up with an alternative to displaying this information (e.g. even smaller bars) if you want to get rid of the bars totally.
I agree with some of your comments on the mouse wheel, incidently, especially on the middle click functionality, less so on the continous scrolling (I don't really care), and less still about the focus issues: I understand they're non-intuitive, but I'm used to the freak-focus now, it's really useful in some cases, ie. I can scroll the browser window right now without having to care about the mouse position.
The problem with all of Wikipedia's critics is that they view it as potentially replacing traditional reference material, when really it mainly just replaces a bunch of even less reliable material. As an additional benefit, its open model even leads most people to be more careful and skeptical of what they read there, which they might not be with other sources. Wikipedia is a net win for propagation of accurate information.
Repeated for merit. You rock!
Hilarious! Thanks for the link. My favorite after a minute of skimming:
Potato chips
Should potato chips be flavored or flavoured? What is the provenance of the potato chip, America or Ireland? Four-user revert war on these important issues results in the page getting protected and listed on RfC. As a compromise, the chips become seasoned.
You're going to run OS X on a 400 Mhz CPU with 128 megs of RAM? And 256 Megs of storage? How?! Maybe Apple should have offered OS 9... Hey, spatial Finder!
Are you insane? How are you gonna heat a whole house with nothing but heated toilet seats?!
Just to see if the honor system you describe works, I googled (I'm sorry I used Google to search for) dansguardian mirror and the first result contains the source code without any restrictions. It's a bit outdated, though.
That's not how dual licensing works. Trolltech Qt is an example of dual licensing: it's open sourced, but you can also pay them for a commercial license which permits you to use it in non open source software, ie you can create derived works that don't have their source code released.
I don't think you can release something under the GPL and then say it's not for commercial use, like another poster said, anybody can just download the code and redistribute (that's the right the GPL grants!) without strings attached. Of course, they're free to release it under a license that permits redistribution only to non-commercial users, but that license isn't the GPL and it's not GPL compatible, either, so you can't incorporate derived works into the software.
I'm sorry, did you just use the pathetic resolution of the last generation of consoles as a point why overall graphics quality is - good? But I get your point. Still, for what it's worth, the lower fill rate requirements never did lead to a comparable image quality even at a reduced resolution, at least not a few months after release. And today's consoles are supposed to run at (much) higher resolutions, so the fill rate requirements are the same or similar to PCs.
Not by my reading. Where does it say that redistributions of it must require users to agree to the licenses to use the software?
I'm not saying you're wrong, but the license says: This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the software.
and
(C) If you distribute the software in source code form you may do so only under this license (i.e., you must include a complete copy of this license with your distribution), and if you distribute the software solely in compiled or object code form you may only do so under a license that complies with this license.
Yes, turning the quality slider to medium, that would be terrible as opposed to steadily playing on the low setting as you would with most of the consoles most of the time.
Also for those who LOVE hydrogen as a fuel, remember, water vapor is a greenhouse gas.
True. And it's released by normal combustion, too. That's what happens to the hydro in hydrocarbon... Water vapor release is mostly a problem when it's done at high altitudes, ie. by airplanes.
There is a reason, and that's wanting to call other Skype users for free. Lock-in's a bitch.
I was talking exclusively about the video codec. Of course they likely attach DRM to whatever they'll sell or they won't be able to sell it - unless they move their base of operations to Russia. ;) For what it's worth, there has been pirated content in H.264 already, I doubt that came with DRM.
It's already supported in all the important media players, including open-source implementations. There is no DRM in H.264.
Chances are the downloadable copies are gonna be of better quality than the freebies (..)
Why would that be? I mean, in theory, yes, without the hassle of the transfer being illegal you can more easily transmit large amounts of data. On the other hand, while on P2P networks, the transmission cost is shared among all peers, a single distributor has to pay for all (or rather half) of the costs. Are the songs from the ITMS of higher bitrate than the typical scene releases? The TV episodes you can currently buy certainly aren't of better quality than the pirated versions, which are typically 350 or 700 MB per episode.
Because there is another person with a different opinion whose opinion is just as valid (until one of you is proven correct).
Erm. It's not exactly an opinion in the case you describe. He could swear under oath that he did not give you permission to take anything. The RIAA on the other hand could not swear anything relevant under oath, so unless they have any other substanstive evidence, they got nothing, just like the OP says.
I feel similar, but to be honest I think it might just be looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses. Remember Error -1?
There isn't a lot left on Slashdot that will make me wince, but this did. ;)
Hmmm... I'd expect dd to throw a read-error when it encounters the first damaged block, and go no further.
Yeah. So you add a conv=noerror to the command line. Won't help with crashing kernels, but really the kernel shouldn't crash because of bad sectors on the HD.
Not sure if you're trolling, but he isn't referring to interfacing. He's just saying that DirectX offers a lot of functionality that goes beyond a 3D API such as Direct3D and OpenGL. Although Direct3D is certainly the most prominent component.
I assume you'll need to replace certain parts which are used by the customers frequently: mouse and keyboard in particular, headphones, too. Maybe even the display, although a regular cleaning might do. People tend to treat stuff badly when it's not their own. Fortunately none of these is particularly expensive.
Thunderbird is an above-average email client. So is Opera, which also keeps an index with instant searches. And while I'm writing, I don't think I've ever consciously deleted an email that wasn't spam. I think I can spare the kilobyte per mail.
Yes, I'm not sure how one could miss that. Middle clicking works, too, I think.
Interesting idea. Or maybe it's the other way round, that many European cities had to be rebuilt after WW2.
Much of central and, I think, southern Europe is similar in this regard, too. ;) I don't know why, we don't usually get that much snow here; I know I was always a bit puzzled by pictures of American cities with their jungle of overhead wiring.