It takes 100 times the amount of water to produce one pound of beef as to produce one pound of wheat. (Jeffrey Hollender. How to Make the World a Better Place, NY: William Morrow & Co., 1990: p. 122.)
It's terrible really, the tiny black hole that every cow has in it's stomach takes all that water and destroys it never to be seen again, if we continue eating any meat at all soon the planet will have no water left.
That's not how legal works. You wait for legal instead of violating licenses just because they're slow. No, this was probably a calculated risk on their part. Not quite sure why exactly, but this is Microsoft so...
Since you read the comment to TFA, I assume you also read TFA itself - the condition is called Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity and it appears some people do indeed suffer from it.
Oh come on, at least link to something that doesn't say:
Sufferers and their support groups are convinced of a causal relationship with electromagnetic fields, but presently the scientific literature does not support such a link.
The USSR held paper-ballot "elections" for seventy years in which the Communist candidates always got some randomly chosen but large percentage of the vote; everyone knew that had nothing to do with reality, but it wasn't like there was anything anyone could do about it.
You must mean hundred percent, that is what you get when there are only candidates from the communist party.
It's not clear from his comment at all if the developers had used other programs or not, they might just not be familiar with the feature in question. Either way it's not unreasonable for developers to ask the user why they want the feature and how they are going to use it instead of just rushing to copy from another package, in fact it can mean the difference between a checkbox feature and a truly useful addition. There is nothing wrong with leaving the beaten path, after all free software is not, common misconceptions notwithstanding, all just second rate clones of proprietary software (almost seems like OPwanted just that).
As for flash and graphics card drivers, welcome to the proprietary software, there is only so much Ubuntu developers can do to fix things without source and/or specs, especially when they are struggling to keep up with just the free software. Ubuntu is a huge projects and overall I'm happy with what they have been able to achieve, but their bug-report policies are sorely lacking.
Sounds like you did a great job of explaining what you wanted and how it would be useful to many users of their software... Was it along the lines of: "All the commercial packages have X, if you don't implement X ASAP I'm gone"?
Current situation: society as a whole does not know the vulnerability or it's scope, criminals might or might not know the vulnerability and might or might not be actively exploiting it.
Full disclosure:anyone with enough brains and guts can exploit the vulnerability, society at large can take steps to minimize the risk since it is now known what exactly the risk is.
Microsoft brought desktop computing to the home user.
No, it was Compaq and the clone makers following them. The fact that IBM chose Microsoft to make the OS for their PCs doesn't mean Microsoft really did much besides being at the right place at the right time.
but reality is that H.264 is a higher quality-per-bandwidth codec
...for high bitrates.
It's cute that sites like Wikipedia insist on using formats like Theora, but the industry players have committed to H.264, and H.264 is going to be the standard
Don't tell us about it, tell to the CEOs of the Mozilla Foundation, the Wikimedia Foundation, Redhat, Opera and so on that they are not "industry players". Also don't forget to tell W3C that the real industry players changed their standard to include a patent ridden nightmare, they will be interested to hear that.
My S60 has native raw support and Iwouldn't want to rely on CHDKfor my primary raw needs. There are no reviews to tell me stuff like shot-to-shot times and timing is important when you shoot 95%in raw.
Canon makes excellent cameras, doesn't attempt to shoot you in the leg with a battery lock-in, and their RAW format plays well with many software options (free and otherwise).
But only if you want to swap glass. The only Canon superzoom with native raw capability is completely coincidently the one where the sensor doesn't give you that much info in the first place. Canon fucks you by pushing DSLRsinstead of brand batteries.
Iwas seriously considering a Panasonic superzoom to replace my aging PowerShot S60, but now Ihave to start from scratch again.
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It's terrible really, the tiny black hole that every cow has in it's stomach takes all that water and destroys it never to be seen again, if we continue eating any meat at all soon the planet will have no water left.
But you need Leopard to use it... So $130 for those who had the nerve to not upgrade.
If nobody had kids then OP wouldn't need to balance things out by not having any.
That's not how legal works. You wait for legal instead of violating licenses just because they're slow. No, this was probably a calculated risk on their part. Not quite sure why exactly, but this is Microsoft so...
Oh come on, at least link to something that doesn't say:
Gates vision doesn't matter, it was IBM-PC clone makers who made it possible. It could have been any OS that could run games, ANY.
The monopoly lock-in void?
You must mean hundred percent, that is what you get when there are only candidates from the communist party.
You'd think the best way to do it would be to look at the games without the assumption that games pushed by big publishers are better quality...
...and pay a third party to access your own server. Welcome to the wonderful world of CAL.
AI or small utility... You never know with computers ;)
Judge. It's not perfect, but it works.
It's not clear from his comment at all if the developers had used other programs or not, they might just not be familiar with the feature in question. Either way it's not unreasonable for developers to ask the user why they want the feature and how they are going to use it instead of just rushing to copy from another package, in fact it can mean the difference between a checkbox feature and a truly useful addition. There is nothing wrong with leaving the beaten path, after all free software is not, common misconceptions notwithstanding, all just second rate clones of proprietary software (almost seems like OPwanted just that). As for flash and graphics card drivers, welcome to the proprietary software, there is only so much Ubuntu developers can do to fix things without source and/or specs, especially when they are struggling to keep up with just the free software. Ubuntu is a huge projects and overall I'm happy with what they have been able to achieve, but their bug-report policies are sorely lacking.
Sounds like you did a great job of explaining what you wanted and how it would be useful to many users of their software... Was it along the lines of: "All the commercial packages have X, if you don't implement X ASAP I'm gone"?
Whoops, that was supposed to be:
Not sure if it's me or slashcode this time, it's certainly been eating some of my spaces so I wouldn't be surprised.
Yes, that probably will change in the future, but as of now listing non=standard is somewhat dishonest.
Current situation: society as a whole does not know the vulnerability or it's scope, criminals might or might not know the vulnerability and might or might not be actively exploiting it.
Full disclosure:anyone with enough brains and guts can exploit the vulnerability, society at large can take steps to minimize the risk since it is now known what exactly the risk is.
LINQ is a .NET 3.5 feature not a C# (as in the ECMA standard) feature. There is no such thing as C# as far as any sort of standards are concerned.
No, it was Compaq and the clone makers following them. The fact that IBM chose Microsoft to make the OS for their PCs doesn't mean Microsoft really did much besides being at the right place at the right time.
...for high bitrates.
Don't tell us about it, tell to the CEOs of the Mozilla Foundation, the Wikimedia Foundation, Redhat, Opera and so on that they are not "industry players". Also don't forget to tell W3C that the real industry players changed their standard to include a patent ridden nightmare, they will be interested to hear that.
Nevermind the figure, XPwould be obsolete by now and another migration would have to be planned.
Donald Knuth doesn't use email, what could he possibly know about computers?
My S60 has native raw support and Iwouldn't want to rely on CHDKfor my primary raw needs. There are no reviews to tell me stuff like shot-to-shot times and timing is important when you shoot 95%in raw.
Sounds interesting, any definitive reference for which cameras are in danger of firmware upgrades (this might just be the first wave)?
But only if you want to swap glass. The only Canon superzoom with native raw capability is completely coincidently the one where the sensor doesn't give you that much info in the first place. Canon fucks you by pushing DSLRsinstead of brand batteries.
Iwas seriously considering a Panasonic superzoom to replace my aging PowerShot S60, but now Ihave to start from scratch again.
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