Apple has very clearly put clauses in their agreement with iTunes music buyers that if the store where to close they will bomb the DRM thus freeing your music completely.
What are we going to do if research on ternary computers ever delivers something useful? Create even more ambiguity by overloading k, M,... with values of ternary powers? Or be sensible and create prefixes with names that unambiguously indicate their values?
What do you propose, calling things "kitty-bytes" (ktB)?
That's what cache hints are for. The media player should be opening the file with a hint that it will be read sequentially. On NT, this means that the cache blocks go to the end of the list, the first to be recycled.
No can do; standard (i.e., POSIX) file-handling APIs don't have cache hints.
I can't imagine that Nintendo didn't change the security, so the cat and mouse game will continue. Hopefully it won't end. Otherwise *gulp* I'll have to start developing for the iPhone.:(
Why not just develop for something that's actuallyopen, so that you don't have to play cat-and-mouse games with DRM?
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Whooosh yourself! I know damn well when I'm being obtuse; I do it on purpose!
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
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You sure you don't just want a better workflow between GIMP and Inkscape, but allowing them to remain separate programs?
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Hmmm... there is also a Unix philosophy of all input and output being a text stream and programs being designed as 'filters'. Why doesn't GIMP stick to that?
Gimp does do that! You can run it in batch mode from the command-line, and you can write your own filters in either LISP ("Script-Fu") or Python ("Python-Fu"). Of course, depending on what you want to do you may also want to consider ImageMagick, which doesn't have a GUI mode at all.
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No really I want GIMP to be able to do this.
Example: Take a family photograph and circle somebody. Or add a cartoon speech bubble.
Nope, you still want Inkscape. Take the cartoon speech bubble example: how do you decide how big you want it to be? The answer is "big enough to fit the text I want inside," of course! And the easiest way to do that is if the speech bubble is a vector object, so that it can just expand as you type text (also inherently vectors) into it. And the program suited to working with vectors is Inkscape, not GIMP.
All you have to do is import your bitmap into Inkscape, which is easy to do, and go from there.
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You want to justify your excessive bandwidth usage by comparing apples and oranges i.e. legal vs "possibly" illegal in this case
What are you, an idiot? First of all, stuff on Youtube can be just as "illegal" as stuff on BitTorrent. Second, I don't give a shit whether it's "illegal" or not. And third, I was talking about the difference between streaming and not-streaming. Its an issue of latency, not legality!
I would appreciate it if, in the future, you would kindly quit being a fucking moron and avoid accusing me of saying things I didn't say!
So yes, people watching a lot of YouTube will get throttled. It's even possible that people watching a lot of YouTube will even be throttled before people downloading warez, if the people downloading warez keep their bandwidth under control.
This is exactly as it should be. It's no good for the ISPs to start turning into content police.
Not quite, IMO. You're right that ISPs shouldn't be throttling based on content, but I think real-time streaming (like Youtube) ought to have priority over bulk downloads (like BitTorrent).
Of course, I don't see the point of all this bullshit that Comcast is doing. Doesn't normal QoS fix this problem anyway??
Yeah, sure, maybe there aren't many CAD applications either, but engineers aren't the ones that need the super-easy transitions. And CAD-users are somewhat fever, at least afaik...
The thing that pisses me off about this issue is that AutoCAD USED TO run on Unix-like systems!
For this to work in the US, you would need to also remove the "case precedent" portion from the legal system.
What we need to do is periodically organize the case law, merge it into the statutes themselves, and disallow referencing from (the original version of) cases which have been so incorporated.
Ah, but you see, those Duke boys could get away with their hijinks specifically because Boss Hogg was local, and ultimately not that powerful. Imagine if they had the Secret Service after them!
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Hey, I learned something new! Thanks.
What do you propose, calling things "kitty-bytes" (ktB)?
Or exploded chuncks of flesh in a first-person shooter. But that's okay, because it's still a much better idea than "__bibytes!"
Wow. You might as well just stick a battery on the RAM and remove the HDD entirely!
No can do; standard (i.e., POSIX) file-handling APIs don't have cache hints.
Why not just develop for something that's actually open, so that you don't have to play cat-and-mouse games with DRM?
Whooosh yourself! I know damn well when I'm being obtuse; I do it on purpose!
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
You sure you don't just want a better workflow between GIMP and Inkscape, but allowing them to remain separate programs?
Gimp does do that! You can run it in batch mode from the command-line, and you can write your own filters in either LISP ("Script-Fu") or Python ("Python-Fu"). Of course, depending on what you want to do you may also want to consider ImageMagick, which doesn't have a GUI mode at all.
Nope, you still want Inkscape. Take the cartoon speech bubble example: how do you decide how big you want it to be? The answer is "big enough to fit the text I want inside," of course! And the easiest way to do that is if the speech bubble is a vector object, so that it can just expand as you type text (also inherently vectors) into it. And the program suited to working with vectors is Inkscape, not GIMP.
All you have to do is import your bitmap into Inkscape, which is easy to do, and go from there.
Then you want Inkscape instead.
Proof, nothing! That could be any clear liquid!
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"int main()" and "int main(void)" are the same thing, you idiot!
If you're going to be pedantic, at least try not to fuck it up!
It still has civil forfeiture!
What are you, an idiot? First of all, stuff on Youtube can be just as "illegal" as stuff on BitTorrent. Second, I don't give a shit whether it's "illegal" or not. And third, I was talking about the difference between streaming and not-streaming. Its an issue of latency, not legality!
I would appreciate it if, in the future, you would kindly quit being a fucking moron and avoid accusing me of saying things I didn't say!
Not quite, IMO. You're right that ISPs shouldn't be throttling based on content, but I think real-time streaming (like Youtube) ought to have priority over bulk downloads (like BitTorrent).
Of course, I don't see the point of all this bullshit that Comcast is doing. Doesn't normal QoS fix this problem anyway??
The thing that pisses me off about this issue is that AutoCAD USED TO run on Unix-like systems!
It's called "Federalism." Look it up. (And then lament the butchering it's undergone for the last 150 years).
I'm pretty sure Microsoft issues dividends anyway. All it'd have to do is change the amount, and that's just one number.
This is true, though -- but it accounts for the entire cost, not just part of it.
Likewise, MS currently sends tax forms anyway for its current dividends.
It's funny how you couldn't just say "BSD" because then you'd be including Mac OS X too.
What we need to do is periodically organize the case law, merge it into the statutes themselves, and disallow referencing from (the original version of) cases which have been so incorporated.
No, he's a rich white man too.
Exactly! And "most of the improvement" is more channels! Outside of (a subset of) Slashdot and a few A/V forums, nobody really gives a shit about HD!
Ah, but you see, those Duke boys could get away with their hijinks specifically because Boss Hogg was local, and ultimately not that powerful. Imagine if they had the Secret Service after them!