2) As you've noticed, hardly any phones come with a normal jack, so it's hardly a reason for not using this one.
I think it's actually a perfectly good reason to to use a proper smart phone. And it doesn't really limit you nearly as much as you might think; it's a standard feature on the two most interesting current offerings: iPhone and Blackberry.
HTC's designs have always seemed like a mix of innovation and sloppiness and using a non-standard jack is just silly. Android is exciting, but wait for someone to put it into a platform that does the hardware portion right, or you might really regret it.
If there was a way to disable it like sigs or anything else here, it would be one thing.
Generally it could be argued that/. is about choice and provides a pretty decent set of tools to achieve this (user submitted stories/firehose/tagging/comments/comment rating and filtering/etc).
So aside from the fact that disagree mail is stupid and mostly insulting to those of us who do this work (I do technical work; posting and commenting on help-desk emails seems unoriginal and asinine) this seems like a rather sharp and somewhat unexpected shift away from what it is that makes Slashdot unique.
Aside from being possibly one of the most annoying layouts I know of when I do navigate to a answer I generally do find a higher quality of responses then a lot of the average googled answers (yahoo answers, random forum, spam, etc).
I hated them for a long time, but it wasn't until after I was out of school that I even realized that they actually had the answers (but ever since I've I've ignored the minor annoyance and generally appreciated the slightly higher quality of response).
Anyway, it's pretty useful having resources like this and as I get older (and my job gets more serious) I find from time to time that I simply want to ask a grown up question and get a grown up response and for whatever reason I don't always seem to have a peer I can ask.
'Government' makes it sound like you're talking about something somehow different or greater then yourself.
I mean, the people did the research, which was funded by...the people and now a small group of people want to sell it to private interests. Sometimes people need to remind people who and what their government is for. Sometimes we even need to remind ourselves.
How longs it been since you installed a windows package of a GPL'ed project on sourceforge? Many of them do flash to GPL as their EULA, that's the license...for the end-user.
Am I the only one who finds it refreshing clicking an agreement that gives me more rights then it takes away? I think with the amount of proprietary creep-ware out there clicking on the occasional open source license and copyright notice is the least of my worries.
On one hand I respect NewYorkCountryLawyer because he's smart and regularly submits interesting news stories. But now jlarocco has made a RTFA reference *and* bemoaned the quality of a/. news submission!
Isn't Firefox (particularly after 3) one of the more efficient of today's applications? They improve the memory footprint, begin to seriously improve dom/javascript performance all without sacrificing today's best features; only to be called bloated and inefficient.
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I'll stick with Fry's and Amazon. If something doesn't work or doesn't work the way I'd like I'll return it and I'll happily accept an RMA'd product myself.
I know Newegg is popular, but I've always felt their restocking fees were basically insulting.
Which makes me wonder how competitive a shopping list you could get using another company which has a much better return policy (something I find I appreciate a bit more for my components).
Would somebody please tell me
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what exactly it is that they like about Chrome?
Because to me it really sounds like marketing hype combined with some new technology buzz surrounding a solution looking for a problem.
I've actually been quite pleased that while everyone else seems to be trying to improve my life by throwing as much unnecessary bloat as possible someones had the sense to focus on features and performance. I like updating a product and noticing it's actually better then the previous version.
But now this and I feel suddenly like I've been missing something.
What has gone on for the last eight years is nothing compared to what happened in the past.
If we don't respect our own rights who should be expect to respect them for us?
Part of the brilliance of the American experiment is the enumeration of inalienable rights and if we don't uphold those rights the American experiment fails.
This is a press release after all. A sales tool which provides none of the security questions, nothing about the sample group or methodology and none of the responses for you the reader to review.
I'd guess that they probably used a lot of leading or misleading questions in a poorly defined sample group simply to release some press kit.
Which makes them sales people and that's a much lower rung in the IT world.
Right, but the topic is Microsofts new push to enable DRM'ed fonts using a proprietary layer.
The OP's point that:
If you are more worried over presentation, HTML may not be the media for you
is predictable, myopic and irrelevant. Even without new standards for truly embedded fonts we already support calling non-standard fonts and provide a mechanism to globally override and replace them with standard fonts.
So the only limitation here is the possible breakage by trying to inject a proprietary layer of drm into the standards. Fonts will still be converted and redistributed by those who are inclined to do that, leaving the largest possible effected audience the intended viewers.
You've made more a case for SVG then against. But I don't see why fonts can't be embedded and called within websites without trying to force broken (in practice and in spirit) DRM layers over everything.
I'm suggesting that wrapping a proprietary drm layer around the TrueType/Opentype container makes about as much sense as using as using Flash or Silverlight.
But in this case you compromise accessibility and gain a proprietary drm layer in order to...use an existing container format on the web.
Why don't we skip the extra layer and support embedded fonts on the web?
I mean it's not like Microsofts DRM pixie-dust can actually stop the fonts from being displayed. Once it's one your screen how many clicks before you can have it vectorized? Opps.
Happily, it looks to me as though this is going to happen, regardless of whether everyone likes it or not. I'm sure they'll give you a configuration setting to turn off web fonts, though, so you can go on reading Times New Roman and Arial until the end of your days if you'd like.
You mean because the W3C was too stupid or lazy to provide a solution without the ridiculous layer of DRM?
I mean, I get that designers shouldn't be limited to an arbitrary set of 'approved' fonts. But what's the point of adding the proprietary layer on top of the TrueType/Opentype container? Why bring complexity when it clearly can't protect anything?
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I think it's actually a perfectly good reason to to use a proper smart phone. And it doesn't really limit you nearly as much as you might think; it's a standard feature on the two most interesting current offerings: iPhone and Blackberry.
HTC's designs have always seemed like a mix of innovation and sloppiness and using a non-standard jack is just silly. Android is exciting, but wait for someone to put it into a platform that does the hardware portion right, or you might really regret it.
Can't we just go back to pickin on Windows users? :-)
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If there was a way to disable it like sigs or anything else here, it would be one thing.
/. is about choice and provides a pretty decent set of tools to achieve this (user submitted stories/firehose/tagging/comments/comment rating and filtering/etc).
Generally it could be argued that
So aside from the fact that disagree mail is stupid and mostly insulting to those of us who do this work (I do technical work; posting and commenting on help-desk emails seems unoriginal and asinine) this seems like a rather sharp and somewhat unexpected shift away from what it is that makes Slashdot unique.
Aside from being possibly one of the most annoying layouts I know of when I do navigate to a answer I generally do find a higher quality of responses then a lot of the average googled answers (yahoo answers, random forum, spam, etc).
I hated them for a long time, but it wasn't until after I was out of school that I even realized that they actually had the answers (but ever since I've I've ignored the minor annoyance and generally appreciated the slightly higher quality of response).
Anyway, it's pretty useful having resources like this and as I get older (and my job gets more serious) I find from time to time that I simply want to ask a grown up question and get a grown up response and for whatever reason I don't always seem to have a peer I can ask.
'Government' makes it sound like you're talking about something somehow different or greater then yourself.
I mean, the people did the research, which was funded by...the people and now a small group of people want to sell it to private interests. Sometimes people need to remind people who and what their government is for. Sometimes we even need to remind ourselves.
How longs it been since you installed a windows package of a GPL'ed project on sourceforge? Many of them do flash to GPL as their EULA, that's the license...for the end-user.
Am I the only one who finds it refreshing clicking an agreement that gives me more rights then it takes away? I think with the amount of proprietary creep-ware out there clicking on the occasional open source license and copyright notice is the least of my worries.
See, nothing.
:)
On one hand I respect NewYorkCountryLawyer because he's smart and regularly submits interesting news stories. But now jlarocco has made a RTFA reference *and* bemoaned the quality of a /. news submission!
*unplugs com
Isn't Firefox (particularly after 3) one of the more efficient of today's applications? They improve the memory footprint, begin to seriously improve dom/javascript performance all without sacrificing today's best features; only to be called bloated and inefficient.
It's the 90's all over again isn't it? All those poor megabytes and cycles just going to waste. Why it's practically unAmerican!
I think you're mixing your metaphors.
Fry's and Amazon manage to make money without charging the same restocking fee. Newegg penalizes you for any return.
I didn't realize there were some many fucking STORE fanbois.
I'll stick with Fry's and Amazon. If something doesn't work or doesn't work the way I'd like I'll return it and I'll happily accept an RMA'd product myself.
To me that's good business.
And try not to be such a little cock.
I know Newegg is popular, but I've always felt their restocking fees were basically insulting.
Which makes me wonder how competitive a shopping list you could get using another company which has a much better return policy (something I find I appreciate a bit more for my components).
what exactly it is that they like about Chrome?
Because to me it really sounds like marketing hype combined with some new technology buzz surrounding a solution looking for a problem.
I've actually been quite pleased that while everyone else seems to be trying to improve my life by throwing as much unnecessary bloat as possible someones had the sense to focus on features and performance. I like updating a product and noticing it's actually better then the previous version.
But now this and I feel suddenly like I've been missing something.
If we don't respect our own rights who should be expect to respect them for us?
Part of the brilliance of the American experiment is the enumeration of inalienable rights and if we don't uphold those rights the American experiment fails.
Jefferson called it eternal vigilance.
This is a press release after all. A sales tool which provides none of the security questions, nothing about the sample group or methodology and none of the responses for you the reader to review.
I'd guess that they probably used a lot of leading or misleading questions in a poorly defined sample group simply to release some press kit.
Which makes them sales people and that's a much lower rung in the IT world.
The OP's point that:
is predictable, myopic and irrelevant. Even without new standards for truly embedded fonts we already support calling non-standard fonts and provide a mechanism to globally override and replace them with standard fonts.
So the only limitation here is the possible breakage by trying to inject a proprietary layer of drm into the standards. Fonts will still be converted and redistributed by those who are inclined to do that, leaving the largest possible effected audience the intended viewers.
You've made more a case for SVG then against. But I don't see why fonts can't be embedded and called within websites without trying to force broken (in practice and in spirit) DRM layers over everything.
I'm suggesting that wrapping a proprietary drm layer around the TrueType/Opentype container makes about as much sense as using as using Flash or Silverlight.
But in this case you compromise accessibility and gain a proprietary drm layer in order to...use an existing container format on the web.
Why don't we skip the extra layer and support embedded fonts on the web?
I mean it's not like Microsofts DRM pixie-dust can actually stop the fonts from being displayed. Once it's one your screen how many clicks before you can have it vectorized? Opps.
You mean because the W3C was too stupid or lazy to provide a solution without the ridiculous layer of DRM?
I mean, I get that designers shouldn't be limited to an arbitrary set of 'approved' fonts. But what's the point of adding the proprietary layer on top of the TrueType/Opentype container? Why bring complexity when it clearly can't protect anything?