The only other alternative is the "check this box" kind, which requires human counting (again subject to rigging) and takes ages to count.
Properly done human counting is very hard to rig, allow whoever wants to to watch the process to do so. It also scales very well, we get quite accurate results sometime at night and the final results don't take so long either, should be the same if you don't mess with the voter to counter ratio.
We have no details (as usual) but make leaps to conclusions (as usual) regarding the circumstances. Perhaps the assignment was "Use IE to find information on X".
Yes we do, we have the school letter explaining the circumstances, they didn't mention any "use IE" assigment. Now there might have been one, but then I'd be forced to conclude that they suck at explaining things...
RTFLetter no school policiy of using IE or even unauthorized software are mentioned as grounds for detention. In fact as far as I can tell the student was put on detention for not resuming work. What facts have been omited again?
2. De facto standard of the Web is Flash video and H.264 encapsulated in either FLV or MPEG 4 file formats. This one valid and reversing the trend seems difficult to imagine.
What Flash uses is completely besides the point, this isn't intented to be played by Flash but directly by the browser, or a media plugin of the browser.
No, actually it means: "The W3C should continue to support royalty free technologies and if people don't want their ball to be used to play on the standards web they can take their work and stuff it (or sell it to those who want to pay for such things)."
What would actually happen is that browsers would implement both "mandatory" Theora and "optional" MPEG-4 and people would go on using MPEG-4 like they do today.
That would actually be a good thing, just like those of us who know and care can transparently use PNG images on the web we would be able to use Vorbis and Theora without having to worry about people lacking codecs. It would probably take till IE10 or so for that, but I'm patient.
My argument was that he doesn't respect the right of others to do what they will with what he has supposedly freely given them. And that more then an expressed opinion he uses the power of his influence and his freedom of association to try to force others to act in accordance with that opinion.
So because someone has influence his freedom of association becomes an act of force. Sure... Calling the system whatever you want might be considered a right, having RMS talk with you is most certainly not.
Logical fallacy being? I'm not the one who was implying that freedom doesn't matter to RMS just because he chooses not to associate with people he disagrees with.
Why would this not be as "scalable" for use with "multi-gigabyte flash cards" as any other wireless PC connection? 56MB+ wifi, bluetooth, wireless USB,...
I meant the interface, not the connection. When you place a camera on the desk and a few photos pop up it's neat, when a few hundred pop up you have a mess.
And why would a "stray finger" matter? The one that has "a hold of" the thing you're dragging is still there. Why would the software necessarily be confused by another touch somewhere else?
I wasn't thinking of it beeing confused as such, more about unintentionaly grabbing other things as you move something, in the real wold you have tactile feedback to tell you what you are moving, here all you have is the visual and if you look at what ou want to grab with your thumb you may not notice that your pinky has grabbed onto something as well.
I apologize if I'm interfering with your contrived effort to hate this thing.
No you're not, the thing is neat and should be useful for some limited applications where multitouch brings real advantages, I just don't see it as a revolution that will bring down WIMP.
Did you notice that it can manage 56 simultaneous touches and works with many users at the same time?
Sure it looks nice when you put a camera on top of it and the picture pops out, but I don't think it's very scalable in the age of multi-gigabyte flash cards, or more then one flash card for that matter. You also have to be careful not to put a stray finger down while dragging things. Seems to be one of the things that looks better when someone else is using it.
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RTFLetter no school policiy of using IE or even unauthorized software are mentioned as grounds for detention. In fact as far as I can tell the student was put on detention for not resuming work. What facts have been omited again?
Would you say the same if the teacher had ordered to use a fountain pen instead of a ball point?
No, actually it means: "The W3C should continue to support royalty free technologies and if people don't want their ball to be used to play on the standards web they can take their work and stuff it (or sell it to those who want to pay for such things)."
Pybackpack would be a GUI for rdiff-backup.
Shouldn't it, you know, just work?
It's so intuitive!
Logical fallacy being? I'm not the one who was implying that freedom doesn't matter to RMS just because he chooses not to associate with people he disagrees with.
How dare he make use of his freedom of association!
Sure it looks nice when you put a camera on top of it and the picture pops out, but I don't think it's very scalable in the age of multi-gigabyte flash cards, or more then one flash card for that matter. You also have to be careful not to put a stray finger down while dragging things. Seems to be one of the things that looks better when someone else is using it.
Weak, name obscuring DRM is still DRM.