It could happen, but it needs to be *actually better*. To even have a chance of succeeding I'd say a new image format needs:
1. Alpha channel support. 2. Lossless *and* lossy compression. 3. Should be suitable for photos (JPEG), diagrams (PNG), and mixtures (e.g. screenshots of web pages). Don't tell me this is impossible - it's not. 4. Support decoding of subsets of the image (i.e. tiling). 5. EXIF. 6. Good support for multiple colour spaces. 7. Progressive decoding. 8. Better compression than JPEG.
WebP fails on at least 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and maybe 7. An image format that satisfied all of those would certainly be worthwhile.
It's not untraceable, at least not easily. As I understand it, every user has a copy of the the complete history of every bitcoin. Every coin is explicitly traceable - much more so than cash. The only way in which it is untraceable is that you don't know which bitcoin identities correspond to which real-life identities. Unless you happen to run an exchange, or carry out transactions with known people.
The way around it is by using the http://bitcoinlaundry.com/ which jumbles up the coins, but then you have to trust that they aren't actually run by the FBI/whatever.
I think the banning prediction is right though (although maybe not 18 months). If this becomes popular there's no way it will stay legal. The government will be able to stop it fairly effectively by shutting down exchanges.
True, but would you really expect Apple to explicitly say "you are not allow to make any profit selling books on our platform"? From TFA:
* You must sell books from major publishers at the same price as Apple does. * Those publishers must give you exactly 30% commission. * iOS booksellers have to give 30% of their revenue to Apple.
Hence enforced 0% profit margin. I don't think you can blame them for thinking that Apple would never go quite *that* far. Of course they should have diversified to Android *anyway*...
This isn't really like a one-way mirror. With a one-way mirror light travels through it and reflects from it the same in both directions. It's just that the amount of light reflecting from the bright side is much much greater than the 'signal' which comes through from the dark side.
I've tried it. It's still about as far from usable as Kdenlive, Cinellera, and the others.
In fact the only video editor I've used on linux that remotely works is blender. It still has a few issues but it is *much* closer to a proper solution than any of the others.
Slightly off-topic, but Android development for me has been marred by the steaming pile of dung that is Eclipse. Netbeans is ok but it's android support isn't great.
I finally got around to trying IntelliJ IDEA, and hooray! Android development is now possible on my lowly 2009 PC. It is so much better than Eclipse. You should download it now and forget about Eclipse this instant. Let's see:
Cons compared to Eclipse: * Not the official android IDE. * Doesn't have some android tools built in (ddms). * No GUI editor for the manifest. * No GUI layout editor (although the Eclipse one is unusable anyway). * Logcat always autoscrolls. It's slightly annoying.
Pros compared to Eclipse: * The main UI is way faster and more responsive. * The 'smart' features (code completion, refactoring etc), are even more clever than in Eclipse -- they practically read my mind. * No retarded 'workspace' paradigm. * The code editor is way more responsive. * The UI is a lot more sane, and much less cluttered, even though it still has a ton of features. * Built-in git support. Maybe this is in Eclipse, but I'm sure it is way more complicated. * No retarded 'perspectives'. * The UI is cleaner IMO, although it is a little win95-ish. * I have no idea why, but it manages to detect my phone even though adb doesn't. (I know right?) * It's just way better. There are tons of features that make you think "Wow, they really spent time implementing that (in a good way)?", random example: if you create a new class, edit and press undo, it will ask you if you want to undo creating the class!
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All this ultra-fast javascript stuff is cool.... I just wish javascript didn't suck quite so much. It's seems like writing CAD software using bash...
Yeah and it mostly has value because in the US the government says "You *WILL* accept this currency.". Bitcoin doesn't have that.
I'm pretty sure they aren't planning on removing standard light switches. Only an idiot would think that.
> They are run by low budget companies who often just cant afford to secure their sites.
I'm pretty sure porn.com isn't a low budget company.
Woah...
Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password
So it was legal before...
was pushed by recording industry officials to try to stop the loss of billions of dollars to illegal music sharing
...?
Every time you use the word "cyber" your credibility drops by 20%.
No they stopped doing the even-odd thing ages ago. There are no major changes from 2.6.39 to 3.0.
A much better approach is MockDroid, which just fakes the results of operations for which you have been denied permission.
It works with existing apps and doesn't crash them.
It could happen, but it needs to be *actually better*. To even have a chance of succeeding I'd say a new image format needs:
1. Alpha channel support.
2. Lossless *and* lossy compression.
3. Should be suitable for photos (JPEG), diagrams (PNG), and mixtures (e.g. screenshots of web pages). Don't tell me this is impossible - it's not.
4. Support decoding of subsets of the image (i.e. tiling).
5. EXIF.
6. Good support for multiple colour spaces.
7. Progressive decoding.
8. Better compression than JPEG.
WebP fails on at least 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and maybe 7. An image format that satisfied all of those would certainly be worthwhile.
Apple devices also try to fetch a file from apple.com.
It's not untraceable, at least not easily. As I understand it, every user has a copy of the the complete history of every bitcoin. Every coin is explicitly traceable - much more so than cash. The only way in which it is untraceable is that you don't know which bitcoin identities correspond to which real-life identities. Unless you happen to run an exchange, or carry out transactions with known people.
The way around it is by using the http://bitcoinlaundry.com/ which jumbles up the coins, but then you have to trust that they aren't actually run by the FBI/whatever.
I think the banning prediction is right though (although maybe not 18 months). If this becomes popular there's no way it will stay legal. The government will be able to stop it fairly effectively by shutting down exchanges.
> The only way to do it right is to use the native controls, which QT DOES NOT.
I think you have not used Qt for a long time...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(framework)#Use_of_native_UI-rendering_APIs
I've used Qt on OSX. It works fine. And Qt looks native on all platforms so I have no idea what you're talking about...
True, but would you really expect Apple to explicitly say "you are not allow to make any profit selling books on our platform"? From TFA:
* You must sell books from major publishers at the same price as Apple does.
* Those publishers must give you exactly 30% commission.
* iOS booksellers have to give 30% of their revenue to Apple.
Hence enforced 0% profit margin. I don't think you can blame them for thinking that Apple would never go quite *that* far. Of course they should have diversified to Android *anyway*...
When did it become acceptable to have the content take up only 1/4 of the page width?
C++ at least. It's one of the biggest things I miss in Java-like languages. That and RAII.
Does it still have the irremovable 'kidney bean' on the desktop?
This isn't really like a one-way mirror. With a one-way mirror light travels through it and reflects from it the same in both directions. It's just that the amount of light reflecting from the bright side is much much greater than the 'signal' which comes through from the dark side.
This is apparently a true 'one-way' material.
That's because it replaces some of the android OS, and it needs a desktop installer to unlock the phone and push the files over adb.
Tthere is also no uninstaller at the moment - you have to reflash the original ROM.
I've tried it. It's still about as far from usable as Kdenlive, Cinellera, and the others.
In fact the only video editor I've used on linux that remotely works is blender. It still has a few issues but it is *much* closer to a proper solution than any of the others.
Shouldn't it be the opposite -- autoscroll only when it is at the very bottom. And for me it autoscrolls all the time anyway.
Slightly off-topic, but Android development for me has been marred by the steaming pile of dung that is Eclipse. Netbeans is ok but it's android support isn't great.
I finally got around to trying IntelliJ IDEA, and hooray! Android development is now possible on my lowly 2009 PC. It is so much better than Eclipse. You should download it now and forget about Eclipse this instant. Let's see:
Cons compared to Eclipse:
* Not the official android IDE.
* Doesn't have some android tools built in (ddms).
* No GUI editor for the manifest.
* No GUI layout editor (although the Eclipse one is unusable anyway).
* Logcat always autoscrolls. It's slightly annoying.
Pros compared to Eclipse:
* The main UI is way faster and more responsive.
* The 'smart' features (code completion, refactoring etc), are even more clever than in Eclipse -- they practically read my mind.
* No retarded 'workspace' paradigm.
* The code editor is way more responsive.
* The UI is a lot more sane, and much less cluttered, even though it still has a ton of features.
* Built-in git support. Maybe this is in Eclipse, but I'm sure it is way more complicated.
* No retarded 'perspectives'.
* The UI is cleaner IMO, although it is a little win95-ish.
* I have no idea why, but it manages to detect my phone even though adb doesn't. (I know right?)
* It's just way better. There are tons of features that make you think "Wow, they really spent time implementing that (in a good way)?", random example: if you create a new class, edit and press undo, it will ask you if you want to undo creating the class!
In conclusion, fuck you eclipse. You suck.
> Who is this demographic that can afford a laptop and conducts vital business via the Interwebs, but can't afford a data plan?
So I'm guessing you never travel to foreign countries? Or the countryside? Just because *you* don't need something doesn't mean no-one does.
Tomato ( http://tomatousb.org/ ) can do QoS. It's kind of complicated though, and it doesn't let you set up multiple SSIDs.