Don't forget that GIF is always indexed colour, while PNGs can do truecolour. For a fair fight, make sure you use the right colour mode. GIF does win for very small images though, because it has smaller headers.
The real use here is animation. Imagine making growing bar effects from live data. Presentations always need more shiny things:)
Add a dance beat, put the voice through a vocoder to hide the bad singing, create a video with "cyberspace" imagery to fit the software theme, get some women who forget to dress properly to dance to it on Top of the Pops, and you have a number one single.
The result can't be much worse than the rubbish they release nowadays. It makes me wish for a decade with more talent and creativity, like the 80s or something.
The trouble with any ads is it can cause impartiality into question. No doubt it's hard to add bias, as you'd just get edited, but the question could be more damaging than the reality.
6a. Don't try to download more images than the connection can handle. I always have problems with Fark photoshop contests on dialup, some of the images will time out. Learn what my connection can handle.
If advert blocking gets too aggressive, sites will simply not bother to support Mozilla because they don't make any money from the users. Webhosting is not free. If you don't like how it's being paid for, don't visit the site.
For any form of quackery or pseudo-science, you'll find advocates who think they work. They are more likely to visit sites on the subject than the annoying sceptics who demand things like proof.
So you'll get such sites with a fairly high "true" rating, despite being false.
Say I discover a new webcomic, or somesuch. I'd like to read through the archives before starting to follow the main thread. This isn't usually possible in one sitting.
So, I'd like to make a bookmark that remembers my place on a site, and updates itself when I visit and read some more.
If I've caught up with the front page, the mark should take me there. If I miss a few comics, it should drop me in the archive at the correct place.
....or scanning customers' E-mail and giving back automated responses...
Great. When I send an email to customer service departments, it's because I want somebody to actually *DO* something. All too often, I just get a canned response which is the nearest FAQ item my question looked like. Forget the fact that's irrelavant, it saves the operator from doing actual work!
Before we start adding artificial intelligence to answer customer queries, let's get a working system where *human* intelligence is used.
Case in point: T-Mobile sends me SMS spam (I am not a customer). I use their online customer service form to complain about it. I get a generic response on how to stop SMS spam, rather than an apology and assurance I was deleted from their lists.
It's not that expensive at all. In fact, you can have a domain with POP3 email for around 10 pounds a year, from somebody like 1&1. You don't need web hosting to run a domain.
Note the post asks "...make me understand why it's wrong to sue people who are stealing from you..."
Three of the four answers are based around the semantic point it isn't called stealing. Although the first of these ties this to the "it isn't really a loss" argument, tying it to the semantic argument weakens it. Simply stating "they wouldn't have made the sales anyway, so the fines do not reflect the effect" would have said what I think the poster meant, just much more clearly.
Note especially the fourth:
" Because they aren't stealing. They're infringing on the artists copyright."
In other words, it's not stealing, therefore it's OK.
It's the MPAA/RIAA/BSA that causes that problem by using by basing their argument on that wording: "Stealing is obviously wrong. Copyright infringement is actually stealing. So copyright infringement is wrong too".
It's interesting you highlight the point that way round. It's often made the other way round, i.e. "You called this stealing, it isn't stealing, therefore it isn't wrong". Which, of course, doesn't make sense. It can still be wrong, just have a different name for it. Much better to state why something isn't wrong independent of what it's been called.
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Once you get a rep for keeping the cash regardless nobody will email you.
So, if I choose to email somebody, I'm now supposed to do a background check on them to make sure they're not going to steal my money?
What happens if people start posting false accusations of this?
That's quite a neat trick, and almost completeley useless. Well done :)
Don't forget that GIF is always indexed colour, while PNGs can do truecolour. For a fair fight, make sure you use the right colour mode. GIF does win for very small images though, because it has smaller headers.
:)
The real use here is animation. Imagine making growing bar effects from live data. Presentations always need more shiny things
Add a dance beat, put the voice through a vocoder to hide the bad singing, create a video with "cyberspace" imagery to fit the software theme, get some women who forget to dress properly to dance to it on Top of the Pops, and you have a number one single.
The result can't be much worse than the rubbish they release nowadays. It makes me wish for a decade with more talent and creativity, like the 80s or something.
I can see it now... "Honestly, officer, I wasn't planning to sell these two kilos of cocaine, it's for my art project!"
If this was Wikipedia, my "cause impartiality" error would have been fixed by now :)
It comes down to the Wiki is not paper policy. Wikipedia has the capability to have information on everything somebody might want to know, so why not?
The trouble with any ads is it can cause impartiality into question. No doubt it's hard to add bias, as you'd just get edited, but the question could be more damaging than the reality.
Write out 100 times, "I will hit the Preview button and check the link"
6a. Don't try to download more images than the connection can handle. I always have problems with Fark photoshop contests on dialup, some of the images will time out. Learn what my connection can handle.
You mean like this?
If advert blocking gets too aggressive, sites will simply not bother to support Mozilla because they don't make any money from the users. Webhosting is not free. If you don't like how it's being paid for, don't visit the site.
For any form of quackery or pseudo-science, you'll find advocates who think they work. They are more likely to visit sites on the subject than the annoying sceptics who demand things like proof.
So you'll get such sites with a fairly high "true" rating, despite being false.
Say I discover a new webcomic, or somesuch. I'd like to read through the archives before starting to follow the main thread. This isn't usually possible in one sitting.
So, I'd like to make a bookmark that remembers my place on a site, and updates itself when I visit and read some more.
If I've caught up with the front page, the mark should take me there. If I miss a few comics, it should drop me in the archive at the correct place.
You can restore your context menu, and do a ton of other stuff, with the power of bookmarklets.
... its spelled "grammer nazi's"
I haven't worked out (read, haven't looked for) the key combo under KDE to switch between the desks
You want control-tab I believe.
....or scanning customers' E-mail and giving back automated responses...
Great. When I send an email to customer service departments, it's because I want somebody to actually *DO* something. All too often, I just get a canned response which is the nearest FAQ item my question looked like. Forget the fact that's irrelavant, it saves the operator from doing actual work!
Before we start adding artificial intelligence to answer customer queries, let's get a working system where *human* intelligence is used.
Case in point: T-Mobile sends me SMS spam (I am not a customer). I use their online customer service form to complain about it. I get a generic response on how to stop SMS spam, rather than an apology and assurance I was deleted from their lists.
You probablary made the mistake of choosing an easy-to-guess name. I bet hsj72_zmfoe_248q@hotmail.com doesn't get any!
Well, until the bad bots read this page, anyway...
... "even if the lunch titles suck" ...
You don't like Grand Theft Buffet then?
It's not that expensive at all. In fact, you can have a domain with POP3 email for around 10 pounds a year, from somebody like 1&1. You don't need web hosting to run a domain.
For example, this
Note the post asks "...make me understand why it's wrong to sue people who are stealing from you..."
Three of the four answers are based around the semantic point it isn't called stealing. Although the first of these ties this to the "it isn't really a loss" argument, tying it to the semantic argument weakens it. Simply stating "they wouldn't have made the sales anyway, so the fines do not reflect the effect" would have said what I think the poster meant, just much more clearly.
Note especially the fourth:
" Because they aren't stealing. They're infringing on the artists copyright."
In other words, it's not stealing, therefore it's OK.
It's the MPAA/RIAA/BSA that causes that problem by using by basing their argument on that wording: "Stealing is obviously wrong. Copyright infringement is actually stealing. So copyright infringement is wrong too".
It's interesting you highlight the point that way round. It's often made the other way round, i.e. "You called this stealing, it isn't stealing, therefore it isn't wrong". Which, of course, doesn't make sense. It can still be wrong, just have a different name for it. Much better to state why something isn't wrong independent of what it's been called.
Which kills people faster, lack of water or lack of warez?
by 0racle ...
Its quite simple really,
That'll teach me to spend five minutes perfecting my wording, somebody else goes ahead and uses them first...