Whatever the reason the US decided not to use FOSS voting, it had nothing to do with any difficulty in opting for an open solution, and it certainly has nothing to do with the cost.
Now if I can just remember how to crop it... select, crop, no that didn't work.
Yeah, that one's a bit of a trap if you're coming from Photoshop. Actually, the crop tool works fine, but by default it's set to crop a single layer, not the whole image. Unselect the "Current Layer Only" checkbox and it'll work like Photoshop from then on.
Rephrasing the answer to better adapt for humourless Norwgians:
Silicon is an element with similar chemical attributes to carbon. It is frequently used for electronics. Google for Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce to learn more about the development of semiconductors.
Silicone is the generic description for an entirely synthetic polymer containing silicon and oxygen. Its percieved biological inertness and textural similarity to flesh led it to be used as breast implants. Google for breast implants. You won't learn much, but there's likely to be lots of interesting pictures.
Adobe has been doing it for years with the PDF format, and most people are ok with it.
We're not OK with it. We've just never had a choice. Now that choice is looking possible, the companies that've been screwing us over all these years are scrambling to head it off at the pass.
If we're lucky, the open formats will have enough momentum to get us out of the trap and into the opportunities truly open documents will create, otherwise it'll be another decade or so of stagnation.
Or maybe you're just fishing for excuses, and are a little too attached to the idea of you being an unappreciated genius?
Nah, I don't think so. The way it worked for me was that I'd get the point of the topic early, get bored with the rest of the exposition, slack off and pissfart around. After a while, I'd realise there was something new to learn, pay attention until I got it, then back to the pranking. Passing exams was never too hard, but I'd always fail coursework, because I dodn't see the point.
At university, for the first year it was the same, until I got a part-time job that fascinated me, and I worked out how to manage my time and efforts properly. Once I had that extra source of interest, and didn't have to rely on the course, I was fine. The problem is, school, university, etc are pitched as your sole source of interests while you're there, and when they don't provide the challenges, its easy to become disillusioned.
Outside interests and self-paced learning are the holy grail here. If you make the structures and content available and encourage students to find their way through it at their own pace, they'll all learn better, including but not exclusively, the gifted ones. Trouble is, that's expensive in planning and skilled teachers, so it'll likely never happen.
On the other, Sony is being made a scapegoat for the relative complexity of maintaining a secure and clean system.
You're right that computers are poorly designed when it comes to maintainability, but Sony deserve all the bad karma they are getting. They have a long history of abusing the trust of their customers, including installing spyware as standard on their Vaio computers. http://www.winpatrol.com/db/freesample/tgcmd.html
I'm glad that slashdot is prepared to make the leap from pieces of grass found in a pile of dung to active grazing by that animal.
So what you're saying is that the grass might have climbed onto the poo pile and settled itself in there?
Not a bad survival strategy, when you think about it.
Dino pinches out a log, turns around for a ritual sneaky peek and sniff. Furrows brow, "Hmmm, I don't remember eating that". Shrugs shoulders, ambles off in search of less clever prey.
In fact this situation is possible and not funny at all.
It was the night before Christmas and a creature was stirring. It was a mouse, a grey mouse, a lean and hungry grey mouse.
A slight breeze shuffled discarded newspapers in the grimy alley as the mouse crept a little closer to its prey. The tip of its scaly tail twitched in anticipation as it tensed its muscles for the leap.
With saliva dripping from its fangs, the mouse covered the intervening centimetres in a huge bound, jaws fastening viciously onto its prey, a high-pitched growl issuing from deep from within its belly. Snarling, the ferocious rodent tore at the flesh of its enemy, and the rottweiler leapt to its feet with a surprised yelp.
The mouse, every muscle shaking with anger and bloodlust, bit deeper through the rottweiler's fur, amost drawing blood, until the startled dog nipped its head off and swallowed it.
You got your tenses wrong. Some of the worst excesses in government in the past half century are happening now and they are sitting on their arses doing nothing.
The entire boogeyman of some company destroying Linux via a patent suit never really threatened most of us in the first place.
The goal of those companies is not to destroy Linux, it is to make money. Linux is a threat to their income producing activities, so they will attack it to reduce the threat and maximise their income.
A head-on attack using patents is counterproductive because it would result in the patent process being tested in court. Whatever the outcome, that bullet would have been fired. This way, whenever Linux (or any other FOSS competitor) starts gaining traction, the FUD can be rolled out for as long as it takes to slow down adoption.
They'll lose in the end, but it doesn't matter because every day they delay is millions more dollars in the bank. Actual litigation consumes resources (money, influence) that are valuable to the company. FUD just requires a compliant media and plenty of cheap shills.
Slashdot Mirror
Congress is replaced by the RIAA
No change there then.
Why doesnt the open source community make our own
m l c e_voting_software/
Most other countries have gone down the FOSS path, and that software and experience is available to the US if it chooses.
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,61045,00.ht
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/23/open_sour
Whatever the reason the US decided not to use FOSS voting, it had nothing to do with any difficulty in opting for an open solution, and it certainly has nothing to do with the cost.
How does insulting god make his logic circular?
It makes Him so pissed off he can't think straight.
Now if I can just remember how to crop it... select, crop, no that didn't work.
Yeah, that one's a bit of a trap if you're coming from Photoshop. Actually, the crop tool works fine, but by default it's set to crop a single layer, not the whole image. Unselect the "Current Layer Only" checkbox and it'll work like Photoshop from then on.
The drawing tools are from the USSR?
In Soviet Russia, the drawing tool is you!
Not really what you want to have going on, having urges that some hypnotist installed in your mind, for the rest of your life.
Sorta like playing a Sony CD then?
How do you know the Sony rootkit is not PRE-INSTALLED on your Vaio when you receive it?
Some people believe spyware IS installed on every Vaio. Google for tgcmd.exe, if you're interested.
Damn, I guess PostScript doesn't really exist then.
You mean Adobe Postscript?
When wil iu Inglish piip'l lörn thät ph'netiks is tha wei tuu gou? ;)
Cuando más de nosotros aprenden una segunda lengua sensible
Rephrasing the answer to better adapt for humourless Norwgians:
Silicon is an element with similar chemical attributes to carbon. It is frequently used for electronics. Google for Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce to learn more about the development of semiconductors.
Silicone is the generic description for an entirely synthetic polymer containing silicon and oxygen. Its percieved biological inertness and textural similarity to flesh led it to be used as breast implants. Google for breast implants. You won't learn much, but there's likely to be lots of interesting pictures.
but is there actually a difference?
Well, since you're posting on Slashdot, you probably know what a silicon chip feels like, and yes there is a difference...
Adobe has been doing it for years with the PDF format, and most people are ok with it.
We're not OK with it. We've just never had a choice. Now that choice is looking possible, the companies that've been screwing us over all these years are scrambling to head it off at the pass.
If we're lucky, the open formats will have enough momentum to get us out of the trap and into the opportunities truly open documents will create, otherwise it'll be another decade or so of stagnation.
Or maybe you're just fishing for excuses, and are a little too attached to the idea of you being an unappreciated genius?
Nah, I don't think so. The way it worked for me was that I'd get the point of the topic early, get bored with the rest of the exposition, slack off and pissfart around. After a while, I'd realise there was something new to learn, pay attention until I got it, then back to the pranking. Passing exams was never too hard, but I'd always fail coursework, because I dodn't see the point.
At university, for the first year it was the same, until I got a part-time job that fascinated me, and I worked out how to manage my time and efforts properly. Once I had that extra source of interest, and didn't have to rely on the course, I was fine. The problem is, school, university, etc are pitched as your sole source of interests while you're there, and when they don't provide the challenges, its easy to become disillusioned.
Outside interests and self-paced learning are the holy grail here. If you make the structures and content available and encourage students to find their way through it at their own pace, they'll all learn better, including but not exclusively, the gifted ones. Trouble is, that's expensive in planning and skilled teachers, so it'll likely never happen.
ACs don't bother. You're filtered. I don't even know you're there.
So who are you replying to?
On the other, Sony is being made a scapegoat for the relative complexity of maintaining a secure and clean system.
You're right that computers are poorly designed when it comes to maintainability, but Sony deserve all the bad karma they are getting. They have a long history of abusing the trust of their customers, including installing spyware as standard on their Vaio computers. http://www.winpatrol.com/db/freesample/tgcmd.html
So what you're saying is that the grass might have climbed onto the poo pile and settled itself in there?
Not a bad survival strategy, when you think about it. Smart, that grass.
What I'm saying is, please stay on your side.
I bet you say that to all the boys.
*Rolls over, farts, grunts, starts snoring loudly*
They'll still be around in another 100 years.
Yeah, but if you ever do lose or damage the wax cylinder, the EULA means you'll have to delete your MP3s as well...
No its "In Soviet Russia, You install rootkits on Sony's PCs!"
I have a Vaio, you insensitive clod!
They would sit on their asses and do nothing.
You got your tenses wrong. Some of the worst excesses in government in the past half century are happening now and they are sitting on their arses doing nothing.
The entire boogeyman of some company destroying Linux via a patent suit never really threatened most of us in the first place.
The goal of those companies is not to destroy Linux, it is to make money. Linux is a threat to their income producing activities, so they will attack it to reduce the threat and maximise their income.
A head-on attack using patents is counterproductive because it would result in the patent process being tested in court. Whatever the outcome, that bullet would have been fired. This way, whenever Linux (or any other FOSS competitor) starts gaining traction, the FUD can be rolled out for as long as it takes to slow down adoption.
They'll lose in the end, but it doesn't matter because every day they delay is millions more dollars in the bank. Actual litigation consumes resources (money, influence) that are valuable to the company. FUD just requires a compliant media and plenty of cheap shills.
You missed the most important connection: Bubbles.
The context of this discussion is blowing bubbles. Most of us didn't want to make that sort of mental connection.
what are you all doing to make the world a better place?
Well, last night I experimented with applied pharmacology and was able to make my part of the world into a much better place.
It was looking fairly seedy again this morning though, so I might have to repeat the dose. It's for the good of humanity, after all.
Doesn't that make it more of a puddle?
Actually, I had visions of an extremely loyal, self-aware M1A1 Abrams with a crucified penguin strapped to its turret. I think I need a brainwash.