If I was doing XYZ and I was restricted because of a patent, and the owner decided to open up the patent, then I would be happy. It wouldn't matter whether they opened up everything else.
This is like Bill Gates yesterday giving away a shit load of money - people were moaning that its insignificant compared to his total worth. Its still a few magnitudes larger than what you or I could achieve.
I actually think the real reason for opening up patents isn't however to help the little man, its to say "look we aren't evil, we are letting free software grow and develop, and we will try not to stand in its way".
Well, actually if/. has a zombie network of their own they could try a little DDoS test before the posting.;-)
Slash DOES have a zombie network. It kicks into gear as soon as a story has been posted on the main page. If the site holds up, good, if not, the webmaster should take it as an "you better upgrade now" warning.
The second time the story is posted (apparantly by Michael:P ), either the webadmin will have learnt or he wont.
The formula for the day of misery reads 1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA.
Where W is weather, D is debt - minus the money (d) due on January's pay day - and T is the time since Christmas.
Q is the period since the failure to quit a bad habit, M stands for general motivational levels and NA is the need to take action and do something about it.
Its nothing to do with NTSC, but could possibly be different type of CRTs being more popular in your part of the world. The trinitron was/is the main alternative to shadow mask CRT displays, and that does display as horizontal strips (like most LCDs) theres a comparison here: http://qube.s-ses.mb.edus.si/~ppeter/zgradba/crt.h tm
Its not in english, but we are just interested in the pictures anyway.
Theres another link listing the differences in display technology.
These differences may explain why some CRT users see benefits from using cleartype, and others just see fuzzyness.
The difference between CRT and LCD is the arrangement of the pixel elements.
In a CRT monitor, an individual pixel is made up as a triangle with RGB on each corner. However, on an LCD, the individual color elements are arranged in horizontal strips
On a CRT monitor, a dot is basically a dot. On an LCD, its a strip. Cleartype works by performing antialiasing on these elements, but "borrowing" adjacent color elements.
If the text is blurry, then you have it on the wrong setting. There is a Microsoft website link that allows you to adjust which algorythm/setting of cleartype you wanted, and by choosing the right one you can get a great improvement on the look and feel without the blurry effect.
Actually, these beginner guides and technology simplified articles are handy for us geeks to have. Presenting facts and information to the layman can be a difficult task, and its good for us to see how its done.
Instead of us all saying something like "let me try try to explain it" to a family member or friend, you can direct them to an article written with them in mind, and with enough information to answer most of their queries.
My trigger finger practically has rigger mortis after playing this game for a while, my eyes are bloodshot (camera zoom/blur), and my ears have been assaulted by the awful soundtrack.
(my god, doesn't that make me sound old)
Its a nightmare, and definately not something I would have bought for myself. BUT Now, every other racing game looks so damned sedate and slow. Its like turning off the motorway and being forced to drive at normal speed.
I relaly think this isn't the kind of issue they are trying to stop. Its aiming to cut down on the relivency of bulk block comments posted onto hundreds of sites. Its a lot more difficult for even a high ranking person to feasibly post tonnes of crap on slashdot, and get it modded up.
Its even less of a problem, since the google index doesn't even include sigs, which could have been the one and only place I could see it working effectively.
I personally don't want to see all comment links globally rejected from google, most of the time, its people digging around on forums that find the real information. At the same time, I can see the problem for google.
Errrrrr deft - i hate to tell you this, but your homepage site isn't compliant. What kind of message does THAT put out to your prospective customers? It will be especially bad if you wrote it;)
Heres the link so you can see and rectify, it might be something or nothing.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/i mg_display.php?pic=h_astronaut_djn_02.jpg&cap=Futu re+space+explorers+may+apply+a+%93spray-on%94+seco nd+skin%2C+an+organic%2C+biodegradable+layer+offer ing+protection+in+extremely+dusty+planetary+enviro nments.+Incorporated+into+the+second+skin+will+be+ electrically+actuated+artificial+muscle+fibers+to+ enhance+human+strength+and+stamina.+Artwork%3A+Cam +Brensiger
Looks more like space flight will include playboy subscriptions.
These images are just asking for trouble.
They are just like the aircraft safety pictures that did the rounds a while back.
. It is custom fitted to each astronaut using a laser scanning/electrospinlacing process.
Do not look into the sun with your remaining eye.
Percentages don't matter.
If I was doing XYZ and I was restricted because of a patent, and the owner decided to open up the patent, then I would be happy.
It wouldn't matter whether they opened up everything else.
This is like Bill Gates yesterday giving away a shit load of money - people were moaning that its insignificant compared to his total worth.
Its still a few magnitudes larger than what you or I could achieve.
I actually think the real reason for opening up patents isn't however to help the little man, its to say "look we aren't evil, we are letting free software grow and develop, and we will try not to stand in its way".
I used to.
Then I found out it still wouldn't run Longhorn, so I sold it.
All I got left is this damned t-shirt.
Get her a mac and stop whining.
We moaned and bitched and complained about wanting something like this, now we got it, and your STILL complaining?
JSON looks like LISP.
*shudder*
Well, actually if /. has a zombie network of their own they could try a little DDoS test before the posting. ;-)
:P ), either the webadmin will have learnt or he wont.
:)
Slash DOES have a zombie network.
It kicks into gear as soon as a story has been posted on the main page.
If the site holds up, good, if not, the webmaster should take it as an "you better upgrade now" warning.
The second time the story is posted (apparantly by Michael
thats life
more likely render aliasing errors.
after all, its a gif image with incorrect extension.
from the article:
The formula for the day of misery reads 1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA.
Where W is weather, D is debt - minus the money (d) due on January's pay day - and T is the time since Christmas.
Q is the period since the failure to quit a bad habit, M stands for general motivational levels and NA is the need to take action and do something about it.
Its nothing to do with NTSC, but could possibly be different type of CRTs being more popular in your part of the world.h tm
The trinitron was/is the main alternative to shadow mask CRT displays, and that does display as horizontal strips (like most LCDs) theres a comparison here:
http://qube.s-ses.mb.edus.si/~ppeter/zgradba/crt.
Its not in english, but we are just interested in the pictures anyway.
Theres another link listing the differences in display technology.
These differences may explain why some CRT users see benefits from using cleartype, and others just see fuzzyness.
There are always deviations from the norm, and your absolutely right, there will be *some* crt monitors that display in horizontal strips.
However, a normal CRT monitor has its pixels placed in the triangular pattern I described.
This link shows the standard CRT dot pattern nicely.
Whilst this link shows the standard LCD arrangement.
The difference between CRT and LCD is the arrangement of the pixel elements.
b rgbrgb
In a CRT monitor, an individual pixel is made up as a triangle with RGB on each corner.
However, on an LCD, the individual color elements are arranged in horizontal strips
rgbrgbrgbrgb
rgbrgbrgbrgb
rgbrgbrgbrgb
rgbrg
rgbrgbrgbrgb
On a CRT monitor, a dot is basically a dot.
On an LCD, its a strip.
Cleartype works by performing antialiasing on these elements, but "borrowing" adjacent color elements.
If the text is blurry, then you have it on the wrong setting.
. mspx
There is a Microsoft website link that allows you to adjust which algorythm/setting of cleartype you wanted, and by choosing the right one you can get a great improvement on the look and feel without the blurry effect.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypeInfo
Actually, these beginner guides and technology simplified articles are handy for us geeks to have.
Presenting facts and information to the layman can be a difficult task, and its good for us to see how its done.
Instead of us all saying something like "let me try try to explain it" to a family member or friend, you can direct them to an article written with them in mind, and with enough information to answer most of their queries.
Actually, I think:
The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.
is FAR worse.
Theres more here, and most are amusing.
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
Typical, a story about monitors comes along, and mine decides to censor it.
But I'm in England you insensitive clod.
Seriously, local suppliers fuck up as well as long distance ones.
Best advice, choose carefully, start small, and don't put all your eggs in one basket.
not every .cx is goatse.
:D
I was nervous clicking, but well done u made me laugh
Thats the sort of poster you will see in schools around the world. :)
It puts everything together.
Its a contrast to the rover missions and the gigabytes of images and data they have returned.
Sod living to 1000, just let me keep having a 25 year old all my life and I'll die with a smile on my face ;)
and use the nitro occasionally.
occasionally? OCCASIONALLY?
My trigger finger practically has rigger mortis after playing this game for a while, my eyes are bloodshot (camera zoom/blur), and my ears have been assaulted by the awful soundtrack.
(my god, doesn't that make me sound old)
Its a nightmare, and definately not something I would have bought for myself.
BUT
Now, every other racing game looks so damned sedate and slow. Its like turning off the motorway and being forced to drive at normal speed.
I relaly think this isn't the kind of issue they are trying to stop.
Its aiming to cut down on the relivency of bulk block comments posted onto hundreds of sites.
Its a lot more difficult for even a high ranking person to feasibly post tonnes of crap on slashdot, and get it modded up.
Its even less of a problem, since the google index doesn't even include sigs, which could have been the one and only place I could see it working effectively.
I personally don't want to see all comment links globally rejected from google, most of the time, its people digging around on forums that find the real information.
At the same time, I can see the problem for google.
low ranking comments aren't even indexed by google.
Its not a problem here I don't think.
Errrrrr deft - i hate to tell you this, but your homepage site isn't compliant. ;)
What kind of message does THAT put out to your prospective customers?
It will be especially bad if you wrote it
Heres the link so you can see and rectify, it might be something or nothing.
Baby steps :)
I think google is on the right path with the images, we just got to give them time to find their way with it.