Gyga,
Maybe what you really want is Flash based sites, or Silverlight. These offer all the same advantages and all the same drawbacks. And even the solution is the same: disable them.
If you're willing to put a proprietary wrapper around your fonts (because after all, someone might steal them!) why limit yourself with just that?
This makes no sense as anything but a potential sales model. And even that only works until they realize that the rasterized image displayed on screen is just a few short clicks from being vectorized.
All DRM based politics aside this is plain stupid.
What if I want a fancy title without using an image that screws over scalability (fluid layouts FTW) and screen reading software? Sane font usage could be good for design purposes.
And who's the market here? Doesn't anyone else think it's weird to try to protect/shapes/? Did they also propose a standard for blocking screen captures? Or vision? How ridiculous some peoples fantasies about data protection are.
Some people don't upgrade because they don't have the time and then forget about it. Some people don't understand the importance (or know the benefits). And then a select few don't upgrade because they choose not to.
I'm sure for the small number of people who simply don't want to upgrade (or be reminded about it) will we able to disable this warning (via addon, greasemonkey, about:config, etc).
My wife was a great example of someone who knew about the upgrade but didn't bother. When I finally pushed in and did it myself the first thing she noticed was how much better it ran and then the awesome bar.
don't invite people you don't know. It's that simple. If you don't know someone well enough to trust them not to walk off with your stuff, you shouldn't be inviting them into your house.
You are SO not getting laid! And finding out what's gone horribly wrong is half the fun (and sometimes directly correlated)!
They play blissfully ignorant right up to enraged when they realize that their datas inaccessible and their isn't a damn good reason for it. Just because the lunatic fringe happens to be more versed in the issue doesn't mean the average person doesn't know right from wrong.
The same people that teeter on that poisonous-user edge couldn't take a balanced view if it bit them.
I was expecting it to be some kind of proper rant; but all he really says is some users are assholes. News flash, it's true. None the less, as some manner of representative what you say can and will be misconstrued by the little people; hence, generally it's still a good idea to keep your public mouth shut.
I think enough people prefer new that the ebay argument won't actually hold much merit for the intended market.
Not that I don't agree that the features seem lacking, but I really see the market companies are aiming these things at as a latent market that will continue to wait for the right combination of both features and price. It'll happen, it just might not happen today.
Light mockery works. Get heavy and you've simply traded shoes (if you're not laughing you're angry). But honestly, if it's your site it's not a democracy; lock the thread or delete the account. In the larger scheme it's a win for you and a win for the rest of your guests.
I'd bet there are probably a lot of people (like me) that didn't catch the news in April when EC2 added persistent storage and static ip addresses as options. Another thing I like is the size of the user community and available information and related projects (like scalr).
Ha ha. Instantaction.com's Legions is apparently some kind of (SWF?) re-release or GarageGames Legions project (tech demo).
I was kind of confused looking at the screenshots of the "browser-based" game, because I've played it (and it wasn't in a browser).
Maybe someone's signed up (really, why make me create an account just to see your silly game?) can comment if the screens are from the in-browser game or just captures of the original stand-alone?
Anyone else miss Tribes before Sierra turned it into another version of Quake?
Haha. You mean we use DRM to protect our friends from our dirty possible malware laden music stash?
The part I don't see in TFA is how the.mp3 file comes to be handled as an ASF container in the first place and I'm assuming since it manages a call to download this is Windows Media Player feature? Anyone?
many products have huge problems that are solved by MySQL that don't cost anything near what enterprise Oracle costs.
Anyway: MySQL (et al). You miss the implied others and seem to jump directly into providing consultation (there are some things that only a product like oracle can do) and explicit (there are many open and closed solutions) purchase advice.
Flavor trolls. The subject (and my personal current interest) being MySQL I figured you kids would be smart enough to read the et al as an indication that MySQL is one of a number but I guess that wouldn't get you modded informative.
And anyone who likes to bitch about MySQL deserves an Oracle bill. MySQL (et al) might not be perfect but they are open (improve it) and free (yay I can afford to pay for support *and* still pay for hardware and development!).
The thing here isn't if you think "we" need it; it's that someone thought we might and created it.
I mean are we really so desperate to complain about something that if someone gives us something for free (and open) we still feel entitled to moan? Maybe the project will pick up more interest and start doing some other interesting things, like integrating with the open bios project. But either way, this is gravy. Applaud it or ignore it, but for fucks sakes enough with the complaining already.
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Gyga,
Maybe what you really want is Flash based sites, or Silverlight. These offer all the same advantages and all the same drawbacks. And even the solution is the same: disable them.
If you're willing to put a proprietary wrapper around your fonts (because after all, someone might steal them!) why limit yourself with just that?
This makes no sense as anything but a potential sales model. And even that only works until they realize that the rasterized image displayed on screen is just a few short clicks from being vectorized.
All DRM based politics aside this is plain stupid.
But Scalable Vector Graphics already do that, sans the shitty and unnecessary DRM.
/shapes/? Did they also propose a standard for blocking screen captures? Or vision? How ridiculous some peoples fantasies about data protection are.
And who's the market here? Doesn't anyone else think it's weird to try to protect
Some people don't upgrade because they don't have the time and then forget about it. Some people don't understand the importance (or know the benefits). And then a select few don't upgrade because they choose not to.
I'm sure for the small number of people who simply don't want to upgrade (or be reminded about it) will we able to disable this warning (via addon, greasemonkey, about:config, etc).
My wife was a great example of someone who knew about the upgrade but didn't bother. When I finally pushed in and did it myself the first thing she noticed was how much better it ran and then the awesome bar.
How to Host a LAN Party
TWICE as fun...
You are SO not getting laid! And finding out what's gone horribly wrong is half the fun (and sometimes directly correlated)!
As long as you follow it through with ample threats and occasional knee-cap breaking.
Oh, and look up your local Hells Angel chapter. I hear they provide excellent security.
People get raped and murdered but your faith in humanity hinged on a fender-bender?
Up until recently I'd had a similar opinion. Then I started work on a new project and began noticing all these interesting technologies.
Some exciting technology is being developed using Java. Check the trove.
Erm, ya? Taxidermy often is creepy, especially creative taxidermy.
They play blissfully ignorant right up to enraged when they realize that their datas inaccessible and their isn't a damn good reason for it. Just because the lunatic fringe happens to be more versed in the issue doesn't mean the average person doesn't know right from wrong.
The same people that teeter on that poisonous-user edge couldn't take a balanced view if it bit them.
I was expecting it to be some kind of proper rant; but all he really says is some users are assholes. News flash, it's true. None the less, as some manner of representative what you say can and will be misconstrued by the little people; hence, generally it's still a good idea to keep your public mouth shut.
I think enough people prefer new that the ebay argument won't actually hold much merit for the intended market.
Not that I don't agree that the features seem lacking, but I really see the market companies are aiming these things at as a latent market that will continue to wait for the right combination of both features and price. It'll happen, it just might not happen today.
The war on drugs is a war on people. The drugs rarely actually get hurt.
Some of them are just assholes.
Light mockery works. Get heavy and you've simply traded shoes (if you're not laughing you're angry). But honestly, if it's your site it's not a democracy; lock the thread or delete the account. In the larger scheme it's a win for you and a win for the rest of your guests.
I'd bet there are probably a lot of people (like me) that didn't catch the news in April when EC2 added persistent storage and static ip addresses as options. Another thing I like is the size of the user community and available information and related projects (like scalr).
Ha ha. Instantaction.com's Legions is apparently some kind of (SWF?) re-release or GarageGames Legions project (tech demo).
I was kind of confused looking at the screenshots of the "browser-based" game, because I've played it (and it wasn't in a browser).
Maybe someone's signed up (really, why make me create an account just to see your silly game?) can comment if the screens are from the in-browser game or just captures of the original stand-alone?
Anyone else miss Tribes before Sierra turned it into another version of Quake?
Spy-whores? Stupid? You should get out more.
Haha. You mean we use DRM to protect our friends from our dirty possible malware laden music stash?
.mp3 file comes to be handled as an ASF container in the first place and I'm assuming since it manages a call to download this is Windows Media Player feature? Anyone?
The part I don't see in TFA is how the
many products have huge problems that are solved by MySQL that don't cost anything near what enterprise Oracle costs. Anyway: MySQL (et al). You miss the implied others and seem to jump directly into providing consultation (there are some things that only a product like oracle can do) and explicit (there are many open and closed solutions) purchase advice.
Bravo.
Read better.
Or they could bitch about Postgres...
There, fixed that context for you.
Flavor trolls. The subject (and my personal current interest) being MySQL I figured you kids would be smart enough to read the et al as an indication that MySQL is one of a number but I guess that wouldn't get you modded informative.
And anyone who likes to bitch about MySQL deserves an Oracle bill. MySQL (et al) might not be perfect but they are open (improve it) and free (yay I can afford to pay for support *and* still pay for hardware and development!).
Then don't code for the project.
The thing here isn't if you think "we" need it; it's that someone thought we might and created it.
I mean are we really so desperate to complain about something that if someone gives us something for free (and open) we still feel entitled to moan? Maybe the project will pick up more interest and start doing some other interesting things, like integrating with the open bios project. But either way, this is gravy. Applaud it or ignore it, but for fucks sakes enough with the complaining already.