Oh wait, you were making a genuine display of distaste concerning The Matrix.
My mistake, well while I'm here let me just ask one question:
You're on a Sentinel equipped with a bomb. Once the Sentinel's speed exceeds sixty miles-per-hour the bomb is armed. If the Sentinels speed drops below sixty miles-per-hour it explodes and you all die. Now Mr. Anderson, what do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO?!
This explains why my girlfriend's eyes lit up when I showed it to her. She's not usually one afraid of getting raped in a dark alley, but is inclined to body slam a girl that looks at me the wrong way. I've been telling her we need to get out more, this is probably the solution to her dilemma...
Not that I'm protesting, I mean, it WOULD be pretty funny to see...
Which reminds me of a fark photoshop contest where farkers were challenged to create a new source of revenue for the government. The winner (okay my personal favorite): "Buy one U.S. Congressional Vote - $1000.00!"
Or three times smaller. You're correct none the less. You should check out Universal Display Corporations SOLED (Stacked Light Emitting Diode) technology. www.universaldisplay.com
Sure, I suppose. Are we talking IRC, or AOL though?
I mean, go to debian's IRC server, idle in the debian chat for an hour so everyone who could have possibly cared that you joined has now forgotten, then ask some linux question.
And despite the current debate, fanboy-raving, intellectual discussion, or A/S/L exchange (okay I haven't seen that there), you'll get an immediate and helpful answer, or a request for clarification.
As a linux newbie I've come to rely heavily on the helpful people in the debian IRC channel. Hell, half the reason I haven't even tried another distribution is because I've never experienced technical support of such calibur.
It's strange to hear that, and believe me it's strange to say it, that an IRC channel could be your best tech support experience ever, but it's true.
pla, the best advice I can give to you is to go out and search for good room/channel/group. "Normal" human beings might be outnumbered by the A/S/L transgendered males (so to speak), but there's bound to be a gathering of your liking out there somewhere.
Or even better! Get your poorly lit portrait poorly aligned onto a three-dimensional mesh so that on the rare occasion your character walks up to a mirror you'll see a horribly distorted YOU!
Simple Solution: Those strips, on the bills, why not make them increase in distance from the side of the bill as the denomination increased. 1$ - Quarter of an inch from the left side of the bill if you're looking at the face. 2$ - half an inch, 5$ three quarters, so on and so forth.
It's my understanding that the blind have a pretty good ability to detect spaces between prominant physical features (or at least that's the impression braille gives me). So why not just adjust the distance that the strip is from the side of the bill? Should be quick and easy for the blind person, and they would even be able to tell you if the bill is facing forward or backward!
You noticed that too? By no means am I a christian, or even moral person but I do find that, well not offensive, but unprofessional. I realize the obscenities are the quickest route to display above-average enthusiasm, but it does more harm than good. Especially if you have an audience as demographically wide-spread as slashdot.
Oh, so suddenly we're going to pretend that, given my example, only the hate mongers could be denied. Never should we fathom that the hate mongers might want to deny the artist preaching equality that same "right."
What's wrong with this generation and asking permission? If these artists are so fantastic, why can't they recreate the sound sample with their own instruments and digital manipulation? What is so hard about going that extra mile for the sake of honesty? I'm not above anyone. I've done my share of copying. But at least I recognize the fact that I am liable for my own actions.
...let's talk licensing. I won't accept any money, but if you'll merely sign a contract promising to achieve a certain level of standards compliance within your products......no, no, nevermind, no quote for you.
Wow, that could sound really cool if it were sampled. Just be sure to ask my permission if you try to go and make money off of it, else you have an expensive liability on your hands.
(note: Supporter of Open Source, asking permission will likely yield favorable results)
That was really funny until I finally found out that Gore never said he created the internet, but rather suggested that many topics he tackled in politics directly benefitted the widespread adoption of the internet during its earlier stages of growth.
Does it disgust you to consider obtaining permission before the use of said sample? Let's face it, the original artist did create that sound sample. Thus the copyright does belong to them. And you should probably acquire permission to use it before you, yourself, go try to make money on it.
The GPL, for instance, is a copyright license explicitely granting permission to use and modify the copyrighted work. The absence of such an agreement implies that this work is not up for grabs.
Just because you think its artistic does not make these actions legal. Spraypainting on public property isn't legal either. Now whether the city will prosecute is a different matter. That's the city's decision to make. But the tagger shouldn't assume that since they've made a beautiful mural they will have any sort of protection from the law.
And there's plenty of reason for an artist not to let another artist use their work. Suppose an artist which uses their music to distribute the message of white power wants to use a sound sample from an artist who preaches equality. Shouldn't that artist have the option to tell this white-power advocate that they don't want their work going to a cause they wish to fight?
You, sir, are making arbitrary judgements.
It's art because I say it's art, and it should thus be protected.
So where's the protection for the original work of art on which that new work is based?
Documentation? You don't need it really do you? Do I need a manual for C#? SQL Server? Notepad? IE?
Call it nitpicking, but, yes! I need the ****ing manual! Maybe not for C#, SQL Server, and Notepad, but definately for IE. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to be truly w3c compliant and not have a website look like crap? I mean sure, it's simple when you're doing simple things. But if I want my website to compete with some of the media-enriched sites, while still being accessible to everyone, I'm between a rock and a hard place.
Take the instance of CSS support. Mozilla provides this! It's the exact same document as W3C's document, but annotated to show me what doesn't work as the standard calls for, and what doesn't work at all.
Collecting bugs and documenting them is difficult, I'll give you that. But this is something Microsoft is supposed to be doing anyways, and once you have the bugs, it's not difficult to make a little annotation on an existing document.
A mere manual would help out some of us immensely.
To summarize, a ****ing manual would really help me, and other webdesigners that wish to build the web the way it was meant to be built, accessible to everyone.
Yes, even if mozilla is as easy to crash as IE, we don't risk as much doing so since our browser isn't integrated into our operating system......so even if the exploit is exactly the same as IE's, we're still hurt less in the end.
I'm pretty certain that these office halogen lights are killing me, so why should I be concerned about this product which promises me precious, precious bandwidth?
You got me, I just wanted an excuse to say "Ogg Vorbis."
All the Ogg Vorbis naysayers just don't get why us pro-vorbis types keep mentioning it. The simple fact of the matter is that, not only are we attempting to get support for what we feel is the best lossy audio compression format out there, but it's also just fun to say.
Go on, try it. "Ogg Vorbis." That's right. There is no better named audio codec, you have to give us that much.
If I recall, AAC came up second to Ogg Vorbis in quality tests (based on listener selection, not wave form analysis, in which case I know vorbis still won but I don't know who came second). So in the absence of vorbis playing hardware (unless you're going to wait for a Neuros) the AAC does make itself an attractive selling point.
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I was under the impression that the bad one went this way:
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And the good one went this way:
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Speed.
Oh wait, you were making a genuine display of distaste concerning The Matrix.
My mistake, well while I'm here let me just ask one question:
You're on a Sentinel equipped with a bomb. Once the Sentinel's speed exceeds sixty miles-per-hour the bomb is armed. If the Sentinels speed drops below sixty miles-per-hour it explodes and you all die. Now Mr. Anderson, what do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO?!
This explains why my girlfriend's eyes lit up when I showed it to her. She's not usually one afraid of getting raped in a dark alley, but is inclined to body slam a girl that looks at me the wrong way. I've been telling her we need to get out more, this is probably the solution to her dilemma...
Not that I'm protesting, I mean, it WOULD be pretty funny to see...
Which reminds me of a fark photoshop contest where farkers were challenged to create a new source of revenue for the government. The winner (okay my personal favorite): "Buy one U.S. Congressional Vote - $1000.00!"
Or three times smaller. You're correct none the less. You should check out Universal Display Corporations SOLED (Stacked Light Emitting Diode) technology. www.universaldisplay.com
Indeed, here it's "you get what you pay for," and I'm afraid certain monopolies have deeper pockets than I...
Sure, I suppose. Are we talking IRC, or AOL though?
I mean, go to debian's IRC server, idle in the debian chat for an hour so everyone who could have possibly cared that you joined has now forgotten, then ask some linux question.
And despite the current debate, fanboy-raving, intellectual discussion, or A/S/L exchange (okay I haven't seen that there), you'll get an immediate and helpful answer, or a request for clarification.
As a linux newbie I've come to rely heavily on the helpful people in the debian IRC channel. Hell, half the reason I haven't even tried another distribution is because I've never experienced technical support of such calibur.
It's strange to hear that, and believe me it's strange to say it, that an IRC channel could be your best tech support experience ever, but it's true.
pla, the best advice I can give to you is to go out and search for good room/channel/group. "Normal" human beings might be outnumbered by the A/S/L transgendered males (so to speak), but there's bound to be a gathering of your liking out there somewhere.
I, sir, would like to work for you.
Or even better! Get your poorly lit portrait poorly aligned onto a three-dimensional mesh so that on the rare occasion your character walks up to a mirror you'll see a horribly distorted YOU!
Simple Solution: Those strips, on the bills, why not make them increase in distance from the side of the bill as the denomination increased. 1$ - Quarter of an inch from the left side of the bill if you're looking at the face. 2$ - half an inch, 5$ three quarters, so on and so forth.
It's my understanding that the blind have a pretty good ability to detect spaces between prominant physical features (or at least that's the impression braille gives me). So why not just adjust the distance that the strip is from the side of the bill? Should be quick and easy for the blind person, and they would even be able to tell you if the bill is facing forward or backward!
Someone tell me how this wouldn't work.
You noticed that too? By no means am I a christian, or even moral person but I do find that, well not offensive, but unprofessional. I realize the obscenities are the quickest route to display above-average enthusiasm, but it does more harm than good. Especially if you have an audience as demographically wide-spread as slashdot.
Oh, so suddenly we're going to pretend that, given my example, only the hate mongers could be denied. Never should we fathom that the hate mongers might want to deny the artist preaching equality that same "right."
What's wrong with this generation and asking permission? If these artists are so fantastic, why can't they recreate the sound sample with their own instruments and digital manipulation? What is so hard about going that extra mile for the sake of honesty? I'm not above anyone. I've done my share of copying. But at least I recognize the fact that I am liable for my own actions.
...let's talk licensing. I won't accept any money, but if you'll merely sign a contract promising to achieve a certain level of standards compliance within your products... ...no, no, nevermind, no quote for you.
Wow, that could sound really cool if it were sampled. Just be sure to ask my permission if you try to go and make money off of it, else you have an expensive liability on your hands.
(note: Supporter of Open Source, asking permission will likely yield favorable results)
That was really funny until I finally found out that Gore never said he created the internet, but rather suggested that many topics he tackled in politics directly benefitted the widespread adoption of the internet during its earlier stages of growth.
The GPL, for instance, is a copyright license explicitely granting permission to use and modify the copyrighted work. The absence of such an agreement implies that this work is not up for grabs.
Just because you think its artistic does not make these actions legal. Spraypainting on public property isn't legal either. Now whether the city will prosecute is a different matter. That's the city's decision to make. But the tagger shouldn't assume that since they've made a beautiful mural they will have any sort of protection from the law.
And there's plenty of reason for an artist not to let another artist use their work. Suppose an artist which uses their music to distribute the message of white power wants to use a sound sample from an artist who preaches equality. Shouldn't that artist have the option to tell this white-power advocate that they don't want their work going to a cause they wish to fight?
You, sir, are making arbitrary judgements. So where's the protection for the original work of art on which that new work is based?
Take the instance of CSS support. Mozilla provides this! It's the exact same document as W3C's document, but annotated to show me what doesn't work as the standard calls for, and what doesn't work at all.
Collecting bugs and documenting them is difficult, I'll give you that. But this is something Microsoft is supposed to be doing anyways, and once you have the bugs, it's not difficult to make a little annotation on an existing document.
A mere manual would help out some of us immensely.
To summarize, a ****ing manual would really help me, and other webdesigners that wish to build the web the way it was meant to be built, accessible to everyone.
Yes, even if mozilla is as easy to crash as IE, we don't risk as much doing so since our browser isn't integrated into our operating system... ...so even if the exploit is exactly the same as IE's, we're still hurt less in the end.
I'm pretty certain that these office halogen lights are killing me, so why should I be concerned about this product which promises me precious, precious bandwidth?
You got me, I just wanted an excuse to say "Ogg Vorbis."
All the Ogg Vorbis naysayers just don't get why us pro-vorbis types keep mentioning it. The simple fact of the matter is that, not only are we attempting to get support for what we feel is the best lossy audio compression format out there, but it's also just fun to say.
Go on, try it. "Ogg Vorbis." That's right. There is no better named audio codec, you have to give us that much.
Any and every company that said "when it's done."
Limited by my girlfriends lack of a video card I found myself breaking out the starcraft again to play with her.
I missed that game! Definately one of the best of all time.
If I recall, AAC came up second to Ogg Vorbis in quality tests (based on listener selection, not wave form analysis, in which case I know vorbis still won but I don't know who came second). So in the absence of vorbis playing hardware (unless you're going to wait for a Neuros) the AAC does make itself an attractive selling point.
Given what the parent said, it appears most of their time will be spent removing OpenGL functionality and patching any missing parts with DirectX.