Verdana was designed to be legible on low-resolution displays. Displays have higher resolutions now, and font rendering technologies have improved. Verdana has outlived its usefulness.
Hey, I like Verdana (aside from the fact that it renders larger at a given point size than other fonts). Just because it may have been designed for some particular purpose doesn't mean it isn't pretty!
Hell, this very subthread starts with a post saying that this format should be rejected just because it comes from Microsoft, regardless of the merits and regardless of how liberal the license is.
No, it says it should be rejected because the fact that it's from Microsoft makes us suspicious that the license is actually much less liberal than the article implies.
Most people in the community would understand that recording the whole movie is stealing.
And most people would be wrong, because it's actually "copyright infringement" instead.
Let's reverse the situation: imagine you were the one accused of copyright infringement, and I went around writing about how you were "stealing" stuff. Would you be upset? You should be, because that would be considered libel.
Conversely, your writing is libelous too, because you're implying that the subject of the story was accused of theft rather than copyright infringement. Cut it out, please.
Why should the theater decide between "good and bad stealing"?
You know what? My problem is not with letting a judge/jury decide; my problem is with the fact that the National Association of Theater Owners libeled the poor girl by implying that she was accused of "stealing" instead of copyright infringement!
Dissatisfaction with the market does not act as an excuse to break the law.
No copyright infringement took place. Nothing was "circumvented." So what law would have been broken?
They designed, financed and made the product, it's up to them to determine the terms under which they offer it for sale.
Right. And they did determine those terms, and they did offer it for sale, and he did buy it while complying with those terms, and then modded it after it was his own property, to do with what he wished (i.e., the definition of what "property" is!). So again, what law would have been broken?
Slashdot keeps everyone from reposting too often by checking IP-addresses, I think. So in order to accomplish this, the troll has to have control of a number of machines (not behind the same NAT, either!) equal to the number of posts in the sequence.
Sure it's a random troll, but you have to admit it's impressive that whoever did it managed the coordination between the multiple machines necessary to accomplish that.
Of course, all subsequent trolls of the same type should be modded to -1, obviously.
I knew somebody was going to object to that sentence...
Anyway, I meant "straight" in the acting sense, sort of, not in the sexual sense. Or in other words, I'm claiming that Zapp isn't a parody of Shatner because Shatner himself is that bad too.
Don't you just hate it when you have to explain a joke?
Think, stupid! They're searching for cameras in an attempt to prevent people from filming the movie, right? Well, in order to actually accomplish the filming, the people would have to have their camera out during the entire movie! It would be in plain sight to anyone wearing night-vision goggles. Get it now?
run it on a factory-new iPod, where all the bitz on the hard drive other than the ones holding the OS are zeroed, or
want a backup image possibly of an equal size to the capacity of the iPod itself (e.g. if all the "free space" is random bits), which would suck for a 30GB or larger model.
What? Mazda is owned by Ford; it's at least as American as, say, the Chevy Aveo (built in Korea) or anything Chrysler (until very recently, owned by Daimler Benz).
Branding is no longer, and has not for some time, been a reliable way to determine the "American-ness" of a car. Hell, look at pickup trucks: because of import tariffs, every single one of them, including the Toyota Tundra and Nissan Titan, is designed and built in America!
Cars that don't (Pontiac GTO for example) have not done so well.
The silly thing about the GTO (AKA Holden Monaro) was that it was a really good car anyway -- I bet it would have done much better if they had just left it badged as a Monaro. Badging it as a GTO just gave people the wrong (retro) expectations.
Even if brought back, it's unlikely its styling would survive the major rehashing it would undergo to avoid offending the sensibilities of the modern automobile consumer.
What, are you kidding? The people who would buy it are the kind that like the 80's styling. For me, at least, cars like the DeLorean, C4 Corvette, 1st-gen 300ZX, and 2nd-gen CRX had some of the coolest styling ever.
Excellent point! However, I've figured out a plausible way to weasel out of that plot-hole:
Doc had already stuck the car in the mine long before he had written the letter (which Marty chose to arrive after). Knowing it would be there for 70 years, he obviously drained the fluids out of it first so that it would be preserved properly. By the time Marty arrived, the gas was long gone.
The flying DeLorean got (accidentally) zapped by a bolt of lightning in 1955, at the end of Part II. This caused Doc and the car to end up in 1885 and fried both the flying circuits (so that the car "would never fly again") and time circuits (stranding Doc in 1885. Although the flying circuits could only have been repaired with 2015 technology, luckily for Marty the time circuits could be repaired with 1955 technology (e.g. vacuum tubes).
In other words, by the time Marty goes back to 1885 and rips the fuel line, the car doesn't fly anymore.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, I like Verdana (aside from the fact that it renders larger at a given point size than other fonts). Just because it may have been designed for some particular purpose doesn't mean it isn't pretty!
How the fuck does expecting to actually be able to use the standard in Free Software make us an aggressor?!
No, it says it should be rejected because the fact that it's from Microsoft makes us suspicious that the license is actually much less liberal than the article implies.
And most people would be wrong, because it's actually "copyright infringement" instead.
Let's reverse the situation: imagine you were the one accused of copyright infringement, and I went around writing about how you were "stealing" stuff. Would you be upset? You should be, because that would be considered libel.
Conversely, your writing is libelous too, because you're implying that the subject of the story was accused of theft rather than copyright infringement. Cut it out, please.
Obviously, people like you aren't allowed to go to theaters anymore. Or, at least, that's what the idiots apparently think...
You know what? My problem is not with letting a judge/jury decide; my problem is with the fact that the National Association of Theater Owners libeled the poor girl by implying that she was accused of "stealing" instead of copyright infringement!
NEITHER DOES A FUCKING NINTENDO DS, DUMBASS!
Games have EULAs, but games aren't what the modchip gets applied to!
Hello, Mr. Fucking Pot! I'd like you to meet Mr. Kettle...
No copyright infringement took place. Nothing was "circumvented." So what law would have been broken?
Right. And they did determine those terms, and they did offer it for sale, and he did buy it while complying with those terms, and then modded it after it was his own property, to do with what he wished (i.e., the definition of what "property" is!). So again, what law would have been broken?
Holy crap, how many versions of Ubuntu are there now? So far, I'm counting:
When is it going to be enough already?!!
Because everybody other than Windows users would have already picked between OS X and Linux?
Slashdot keeps everyone from reposting too often by checking IP-addresses, I think. So in order to accomplish this, the troll has to have control of a number of machines (not behind the same NAT, either!) equal to the number of posts in the sequence.
Sure it's a random troll, but you have to admit it's impressive that whoever did it managed the coordination between the multiple machines necessary to accomplish that.
Of course, all subsequent trolls of the same type should be modded to -1, obviously.
I knew somebody was going to object to that sentence...
Anyway, I meant "straight" in the acting sense, sort of, not in the sexual sense. Or in other words, I'm claiming that Zapp isn't a parody of Shatner because Shatner himself is that bad too.
Don't you just hate it when you have to explain a joke?
Think, stupid! They're searching for cameras in an attempt to prevent people from filming the movie, right? Well, in order to actually accomplish the filming, the people would have to have their camera out during the entire movie! It would be in plain sight to anyone wearing night-vision goggles. Get it now?
Whaddya mean, "parody?" Zapp plays it straight!
Great idea if you either:
Thanks; it's fixed now.
What? Mazda is owned by Ford; it's at least as American as, say, the Chevy Aveo (built in Korea) or anything Chrysler (until very recently, owned by Daimler Benz).
Branding is no longer, and has not for some time, been a reliable way to determine the "American-ness" of a car. Hell, look at pickup trucks: because of import tariffs, every single one of them, including the Toyota Tundra and Nissan Titan, is designed and built in America!
I would have doubts about its ability to hit 88MPH in those short (mall parking lot) distances without the Porsche engine...
The silly thing about the GTO (AKA Holden Monaro) was that it was a really good car anyway -- I bet it would have done much better if they had just left it badged as a Monaro. Badging it as a GTO just gave people the wrong (retro) expectations.
What, are you kidding? The people who would buy it are the kind that like the 80's styling. For me, at least, cars like the DeLorean, C4 Corvette, 1st-gen 300ZX, and 2nd-gen CRX had some of the coolest styling ever.
No, Marty asked "Are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?" It had nothing to do with gas.
Excellent point! However, I've figured out a plausible way to weasel out of that plot-hole:
Doc had already stuck the car in the mine long before he had written the letter (which Marty chose to arrive after). Knowing it would be there for 70 years, he obviously drained the fluids out of it first so that it would be preserved properly. By the time Marty arrived, the gas was long gone.
The flying DeLorean got (accidentally) zapped by a bolt of lightning in 1955, at the end of Part II. This caused Doc and the car to end up in 1885 and fried both the flying circuits (so that the car "would never fly again") and time circuits (stranding Doc in 1885. Although the flying circuits could only have been repaired with 2015 technology, luckily for Marty the time circuits could be repaired with 1955 technology (e.g. vacuum tubes).
In other words, by the time Marty goes back to 1885 and rips the fuel line, the car doesn't fly anymore.
What about the flying circuits?