Boy you must find it difficult to make decisions in life;-)
Or they make it easy for you and offer a client to go with their service or you got options which means you can make your own choice. And even then you don't know what to do?
It seems you just accepted Skype without looking at the alternatives because as far as I can see most SIP providers offer complete packages with call in and call out etc. I'm actually "subscribed" to 3 of them with "subscribed" meaning that I've got call out credits or something similar. The reason I have more than one is because of the difference in rates, I need to be able to call to several countries in different parts of the world and there is not one provider offering the lowest price for all of them. And I can tell you Skype definitely isn't one of the cheapest.
In the end SIP is all about freedom of choice, _I_ decide which provider to use which makes it possible to find one (or in my case several) that suits my needs. I also decide which client to use. Because even though Skype might work pretty well it is far to "heavy" for my taste, I like my programs simple, cleanly designed and "light". Having an open protocol also means you might find it integrated into several of your favorite apps, in my case MythTV (a TiVo-like application for Linux).
"showing that the beta moniker is a sort of second name for the software"
But it's NOT! It's not a name, not in any way.
It's like saying that a car is dubbed "diesel" when that word is written in small letters below the brand name. Yes marketeers might put a lot of focus on it because it might sell better, who knows, but in no way could you ever say that "diesel" was somehow a nickname for the car unless your grandma is in love with her little car and has "dubbed" it "her little diesel".
In the same way you can't do that with the beta "modifier" that both Google and Yahoo are using, it just doesn't make any sense.
Now if one of them would literally name their product "beta" or if for some reason people would actually start referring to them like that, eg "I sent a message to your beta account" then you would be right and you could use the word "dubbed".
Ok, with 4-8 and doing so _every_ single day I would tend to agree with you. But you also said "People that play this game for more than 2 hours a night are just gross and need help immediately" which is an exaggeration because 2 hours are over in a wink of an eye. There are movies that last longer than that!
Now if you would have said that about people who come home, turn on the TV and just sit there watchings soaps until they go to bed, yes, they're the ones that need help. Of course that probably means that about 80% of the population is in a pretty sad state.
Hahahaha, so it's okay to spend 8 hours a day working but do anything else for more than 2 hours at a time and there's something wrong with you? Boy do you have some silly priorities.
"Where did I write "arbitrary level of distortion"?"
vs
"And even if one certain implementation is broken, just add another layer of distortion"
with the knowledge that several of these CAPTCHAs have been "broken" this definitely seems to suggest that we just should add new layers of distortion hence an "arbitrary level of distortion".
And if you would actually read the page I linked to you would see that even the latest improved CAPTCHA has a 33% success rate which is more than sufficient for most purposes.
And if you would actually look at the CAPTCHAs (even the "broken" ones as you call them) you would see that there are several which are damn hard to read for humans but the program doesn't seem to have any problems with them.
So I still say that you can call bullshit all you want but humans are not always better at these kind of things.
What we _are_ good at is cognizing all kinds of objects and even better, abstract notions, something that a computer would not easily copy, but if I see examples of this: http://gs264.sp.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/esp-pix it's even damn hard for human beings!
Well yes, that might surprise you but my mother can easily stand upright for half an hour but would be dead tired after walking for the same time.
Although I have no idea what kind of energy managing a segway takes so it might very well be possible that she wouldn't be able to use one of those either.
The best would be if you could actually rent these kind of things http://www.city-butler.nl/scootmob.html , called "scootmobiel" in Dutch, I have no idea what they're called in english. My mother has one but it's not something you take with you on the plane if you want to go on holiday or something.
Those definitions would make all freedom fighters in history terrorists, in fact it would make the entire US a terrorist state for the unlawful uprising against England, France etc.
Declaring war might make it "lawful" but that would mean the US attack on Irak is a terrorist act as well (they can't seem to agree anyway if that is a "police action" or a full-blown "war") because it sure as hell is political and pretty coercive.
I tend to agree with the GP that anytime you're willingly and knowingly attacking civilians you are committing an act of terrorism. So yes, that would include the WW2 bombings of German cities and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And it is good that people ask themselves at times if all of that was necessary.
"We need a life plus nothing term for all copyright"
Why life? The US founding fathers obviously thought that was a ridiculously long time. That way if you struck the proverbial gold-mine you could live off it the rest of your life and I have the feeling that somehow didn't fit well with the values that the US was founded on. Copyright was set just so that you had some time to make money but not too much that you didn't have any incentive anymore to create more work.
Imagine how quiet it would be around dinner time! No phones ringing. Or at least no need to check caller id because you know it can only be a friend or family member who wants to know how you are.
Of course nothing matched! Seeing that he didn't enter anything...
Even so I noticed it's best to always put singular and plural versions of most things, you see "trees" he writes "tree", you see "mountain" he writes "mountains" etc.
Don't know what Windows you have been using but my Windows 95 drivers never worked in WinNT whose drivers were useless for Win2K whose drivers brought XP to it's knees.
The worst problems I've had with Windows in the past were always due to its drivers. Using Microsoft's own drivers (if they existed) normally worked better but of course didn't have all the features of the "real" driver.
"Last time I checked, it's still legal to run linux"
Of course it is, we were talking about what _could_ happen in the future and looking at the writing on the wall that future might not be too far off.
Just looking at the kinds of security features they are builing into the next-gen DVDs where even your display hardware will check if you actually have the rights to display the contents of the disc! For this your display needs to support DRM and it will check if it gets it information from trusted source, yes your Gfx card will need to support DRM which of course needs a driver that supports DRM as well. But that driver can only be trusted if it runs on an OS that supports DRM. Even simulation of an OS won't be possible with the Trusted Platform being implemented.
So hacking around all those limitations will be a difficult job if only because you will have to do it on several levels instead of just one as with current DVDs (the encryption) for example. But with more and more laws appearing around the world forbidding those kinds of work arounds there might come a time where you will be breaking several laws just by displaying a BluRay movie on your Linux machine.
And remember this is not about just paying a license to be able to use some decoder, this is about your freedom to do with your computer and the information on it as you see fit. If you pay for an MP3 license you have bought the rights to listen to your MP3-encoded music, but at the same time you are free to just convert it to just about any other format you would want. There are no shackles. With DRM this changes, you might be able to pay off the industry so you are allowed to watch their movies but that's the only thing you will be able to do with it, they decide when, how and how many times you can watch your movie. A Linux system that allows those kind of limits just wouldn't be Linux anymore.
Well, as far as I know the ownership of a lot (all?) of the GNU code has been signed over to the FSF just so they can better protect the work of all the individuals involved.
I don't know which works better or if there is even any real difference, just pointing out that there are alternatives in the management of the ownership using the same GPL.
Sure, and how many XBoxes can you buy that run Linux? The fact that somebody _can_, at some time, hack around the DRM and install Linux does not mean that it is a viable alternative. We are lucky that we can actually watch DVDs on Linux, not because some guy figured out how to decode the data but the fact that his work isn't considered illegal (yet) in a lot of places. But still, most distros don't include the necessary code just to be on the safe side. Thing is that I don't think that Linux will be a popular and viable OS in the future if people have to _knowingly_ break the law just to make it do the most basic of things: run it.
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Boy you must find it difficult to make decisions in life ;-)
Or they make it easy for you and offer a client to go with their service or you got options which means you can make your own choice. And even then you don't know what to do?
It seems you just accepted Skype without looking at the alternatives because as far as I can see most SIP providers offer complete packages with call in and call out etc. I'm actually "subscribed" to 3 of them with "subscribed" meaning that I've got call out credits or something similar. The reason I have more than one is because of the difference in rates, I need to be able to call to several countries in different parts of the world and there is not one provider offering the lowest price for all of them. And I can tell you Skype definitely isn't one of the cheapest.
In the end SIP is all about freedom of choice, _I_ decide which provider to use which makes it possible to find one (or in my case several) that suits my needs. I also decide which client to use. Because even though Skype might work pretty well it is far to "heavy" for my taste, I like my programs simple, cleanly designed and "light". Having an open protocol also means you might find it integrated into several of your favorite apps, in my case MythTV (a TiVo-like application for Linux).
All of that makes it a no-brainer for me: SIP.
"showing that the beta moniker is a sort of second name for the software"
But it's NOT! It's not a name, not in any way.
It's like saying that a car is dubbed "diesel" when that word is written in small letters below the brand name. Yes marketeers might put a lot of focus on it because it might sell better, who knows, but in no way could you ever say that "diesel" was somehow a nickname for the car unless your grandma is in love with her little car and has "dubbed" it "her little diesel".
In the same way you can't do that with the beta "modifier" that both Google and Yahoo are using, it just doesn't make any sense.
Now if one of them would literally name their product "beta" or if for some reason people would actually start referring to them like that, eg "I sent a message to your beta account" then you would be right and you could use the word "dubbed".
Ssssst! Jeez man! Don't give them any ideas!
Sure, that will make the Mozilla people happy and will create a positive environment for future collaboration.
How about DebianBrowser?
Who the f*** cares?
Come up editors, if I want this kind of "news" I'd read cosmopolitan.
Ok, with 4-8 and doing so _every_ single day I would tend to agree with you. But you also said "People that play this game for more than 2 hours a night are just gross and need help immediately" which is an exaggeration because 2 hours are over in a wink of an eye. There are movies that last longer than that!
Now if you would have said that about people who come home, turn on the TV and just sit there watchings soaps until they go to bed, yes, they're the ones that need help. Of course that probably means that about 80% of the population is in a pretty sad state.
Hahahaha, so it's okay to spend 8 hours a day working but do anything else for more than 2 hours at a time and there's something wrong with you? Boy do you have some silly priorities.
And this is different in what way from parties where people do nothing but talk about: football, cars (or when older) morgage, babies?
Just admit it that most talk at parties is depressingly boring only you notice it now because it's not _your_ kind of boring!
"Where did I write "arbitrary level of distortion"?"
vs
"And even if one certain implementation is broken, just add another layer of distortion"
with the knowledge that several of these CAPTCHAs have been "broken" this definitely seems to suggest that we just should add new layers of distortion hence an "arbitrary level of distortion".
And if you would actually read the page I linked to you would see that even the latest improved CAPTCHA has a 33% success rate which is more than sufficient for most purposes.
And if you would actually look at the CAPTCHAs (even the "broken" ones as you call them) you would see that there are several which are damn hard to read for humans but the program doesn't seem to have any problems with them.
So I still say that you can call bullshit all you want but humans are not always better at these kind of things.
What we _are_ good at is cognizing all kinds of objects and even better, abstract notions, something that a computer would not easily copy, but if I see examples of this: http://gs264.sp.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/esp-pix it's even damn hard for human beings!
Well yes, that might surprise you but my mother can easily stand upright for half an hour but would be dead tired after walking for the same time.
Although I have no idea what kind of energy managing a segway takes so it might very well be possible that she wouldn't be able to use one of those either.
The best would be if you could actually rent these kind of things http://www.city-butler.nl/scootmob.html , called "scootmobiel" in Dutch, I have no idea what they're called in english. My mother has one but it's not something you take with you on the plane if you want to go on holiday or something.
Call all you want: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mori/research/gimpy/
Of course recognizing these images has little to do with OCR programs.
Those definitions would make all freedom fighters in history terrorists, in fact it would make the entire US a terrorist state for the unlawful uprising against England, France etc.
Declaring war might make it "lawful" but that would mean the US attack on Irak is a terrorist act as well (they can't seem to agree anyway if that is a "police action" or a full-blown "war") because it sure as hell is political and pretty coercive.
I tend to agree with the GP that anytime you're willingly and knowingly attacking civilians you are committing an act of terrorism. So yes, that would include the WW2 bombings of German cities and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And it is good that people ask themselves at times if all of that was necessary.
"We need a life plus nothing term for all copyright" Why life? The US founding fathers obviously thought that was a ridiculously long time. That way if you struck the proverbial gold-mine you could live off it the rest of your life and I have the feeling that somehow didn't fit well with the values that the US was founded on. Copyright was set just so that you had some time to make money but not too much that you didn't have any incentive anymore to create more work.
Or a fixed one, otherwise they might not even want to help the elderly.
Imagine how quiet it would be around dinner time! No phones ringing. Or at least no need to check caller id because you know it can only be a friend or family member who wants to know how you are.
Ok, back to reality...
Hmm, I think they made the wrong rules then. They should forbid jackasses from selling stuff.
Of course nothing matched! Seeing that he didn't enter anything... Even so I noticed it's best to always put singular and plural versions of most things, you see "trees" he writes "tree", you see "mountain" he writes "mountains" etc.
Works fine for me (FF on Linux)
Don't know what Windows you have been using but my Windows 95 drivers never worked in WinNT whose drivers were useless for Win2K whose drivers brought XP to it's knees.
The worst problems I've had with Windows in the past were always due to its drivers. Using Microsoft's own drivers (if they existed) normally worked better but of course didn't have all the features of the "real" driver.
You mean source is available now? (http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/j2se/ java2/download.xml)
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And they are going to open source Flash within the next few months? (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/24/1
Well that's good news!
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"If I were to compare coding with the QT4 API to anything it would be Java on steroids"
;-)
You mean, that's why they implemented so many Java-like features in version 4, so they could call it Java on steroids?
Or is it maybe because they took a look at Java and went "hey, there's a lot of cool stuff i there, we can use that as well!"
"Last time I checked, it's still legal to run linux"
Of course it is, we were talking about what _could_ happen in the future and looking at the writing on the wall that future might not be too far off.
Just looking at the kinds of security features they are builing into the next-gen DVDs where even your display hardware will check if you actually have the rights to display the contents of the disc! For this your display needs to support DRM and it will check if it gets it information from trusted source, yes your Gfx card will need to support DRM which of course needs a driver that supports DRM as well. But that driver can only be trusted if it runs on an OS that supports DRM. Even simulation of an OS won't be possible with the Trusted Platform being implemented.
So hacking around all those limitations will be a difficult job if only because you will have to do it on several levels instead of just one as with current DVDs (the encryption) for example. But with more and more laws appearing around the world forbidding those kinds of work arounds there might come a time where you will be breaking several laws just by displaying a BluRay movie on your Linux machine.
And remember this is not about just paying a license to be able to use some decoder, this is about your freedom to do with your computer and the information on it as you see fit. If you pay for an MP3 license you have bought the rights to listen to your MP3-encoded music, but at the same time you are free to just convert it to just about any other format you would want. There are no shackles. With DRM this changes, you might be able to pay off the industry so you are allowed to watch their movies but that's the only thing you will be able to do with it, they decide when, how and how many times you can watch your movie. A Linux system that allows those kind of limits just wouldn't be Linux anymore.
Well, as far as I know the ownership of a lot (all?) of the GNU code has been signed over to the FSF just so they can better protect the work of all the individuals involved.
I don't know which works better or if there is even any real difference, just pointing out that there are alternatives in the management of the ownership using the same GPL.
Sure, and how many XBoxes can you buy that run Linux? The fact that somebody _can_, at some time, hack around the DRM and install Linux does not mean that it is a viable alternative. We are lucky that we can actually watch DVDs on Linux, not because some guy figured out how to decode the data but the fact that his work isn't considered illegal (yet) in a lot of places. But still, most distros don't include the necessary code just to be on the safe side. Thing is that I don't think that Linux will be a popular and viable OS in the future if people have to _knowingly_ break the law just to make it do the most basic of things: run it.