Anyway, the problem with the idea of allowing anybody to carry a concealed weapon, as has been proposed in Texas, is that the assumption is made that all gun-owners are responsible, upstanding citizens. That's clearly not the case.
The ones that aren't responsible and upstanding don't care about the law, by definition. Therefore, they will carry concealed weapons anyway!
Why penalize responsible people when irresponsible ones are unaffected?
It's for changable print, not video. video refreshes 30-60 times per second, this stuff isn't capable of a refresh rate faster than about 1/2 FPS.
So? With work, it could have a higher refresh rate.
I wouldn't mind an eBook using it, though...
Yeah, me too... except I want my ebook reader to also function as a Tablet PC; hence, I want the capability of a higher refresh rate, even though I'd only be using it part of the time.
It makes it ideal for books and things, where the image only changes once ever minute, at most, but nto ideal when you're playing a video, where you would need to change the display at least 24 times a second.
Oh, I'm completely aware of that; I just want it to be capable of it so that the screen can be used in general-purpose mobile PCs, rather than only in E-book readers. Although I want to watch videos sometimes, other times (such as when reading Slashdot) I don't need a high refresh rate -- and that's where the benefit lies.
I agree that it's not nearly as "revolutionary" as some people think it is, but still -- if it gives me better battery life on my portable computer (while, ideally, retaining my ability to watch videos (I know the refresh rate isn't there yet)), I'm all for it!
I love the photos on the right: A picture of Steve Ballmer, wearing a suit, looking harmless, and captioned "The patent owner", followed by a picture of Richard Stallman, looking like an Al Qaeda member, captioned "The patent hater".
Actually, I think it's actually pretty fair: RMS looks crazy as usual, Moglen looks as sane and calm as a Buddha, and Ballmer looks like either a rapper, overexcited football coach, or a whore about to give a blowjob. IMHO, Moglen more than compensates for RMS.
Ah, if only we could avoid the issue! That's the problem with patents: you're still liable even if you've been coding under a rock in the Alaskan wilderness for the past 20 years, and had never even heard of Microsoft.
Count me in the vast group of people that have been online well over a decade, are familiar with virtually all Internet terminology, and have never, EVER heard of "ROFL" being referred to as an "emoticon".
I agree it's stupid, but some bastard forum software out there will do stuff like convert "[rofl]" to an animated smiley rolling back and forth, etc.
A Wacom-style digitizer screen that you use with a special stylus (as seen on most Tablet PCs) is not the same thing as a touch screen that you use with your finger (as seen on most PDAs). The latter would be almost useless for Photoshop, especially compared to the former.
Can you prove the Borg aren't out there getting ready to attack us? Then I guess we need to start building up weapons... see?
False dichotomy. The possibility of an imminent Borg attack could be non-zero but very, very small. In that case, we wouldn't be able to prove anything and we wouldn't be justified in building weapons.
It's the same with religions: nobody's scientifically proven the non-existence of god[s], but observations lead us to suspect that the chance of existence is small. Properly classified, this "belief" (or rather, lack thereof) is called "agnosticism," not "atheism."
Actually, to be honest, I've never thought about it; that's actually some really good advice. +1 insightful if I hadn't blown my mod points early this morning.
Yeah, it's just too bad I wasn't the one who thought of it. I think I read it on Slashdot a long time ago, or maybe one of my profs mentioned it...
Well, I'm talking about any C-style language, really, and any kind of indentation. I was just making the point that writing something like this:
if (foo) bar();
is slightly dangerous because then when somebody modifies it:
if (foo) bar(); baz();
They might not realize that the second line ("baz()") is going to get executed all the time, regardless of the value of foo. Instead, people should go ahead and always put in the braces to begin with:
if (foo) { bar(); }
and make the "then" block explicit. I think this is good practice with K&R, your style, or anything else.
Apparently in that situation they also called in the bomb squad and charged the protesters with a "hoax device"...
Never attribute to stupidity what you could attribute to malice, when the government is concerned. I'll bet they knew damn well it wasn't a bomb, but just wanted an excuse to arrest protesters.
I know what you're thinking, "but it's a single line, you don't need brackets!", and right you are! However, we're an anal bunch.
We don't need brackets on single lines because we're anal; we need brackets because when you go back later and add another line while forgetting to add the brackets too, you'll introduce a bug because the second line won't be part of the "then" block.
Perhaps it would be good for converting desktop LCD's to touch-screen though. Of course, they'd have to offer a huge variety of sizes and shapes of screen protectors. Or perhaps expect people to cut-to-size with a paper cutter or something.
Considering that a Wacom Cintiq is well over two grand (for a 21" LCD), for that particular market such effort would be worth it -- $300 + $100 + a little work is a Hell of a lot better than $2500!
[T]he prospect of attaching it to a laptop screen sounds pretty interesting but for the price I'd rather just pick up a small Wacom tablet.
If you're going to do that, why not buy a Tablet PC? The price premium over a regular laptop is the same as the cost of a Wacom tablet, and you'll have the (IMHO, much better) experience of actually having your drawings appear under your pen instead of drawing in one place and having it show up somewhere else.
Whatever the reason for your obfuscation and apparent lack of rigour...
It's a figure of speech called "hyperbole."
Personally, I can't get past the fact that people will jump up to the soapbox to defend the actions of a suspected criminal...
Here's a hint: a lot of people on Slashdot don't agree that what he did was wrong, or at least believe it should be a civil (rather than criminal) offense.
Do you seriously want to tell me that ANY copyright infringement could ever be as bad as an "average" rape?
I was treating the issue of the relative "badness" of copyright infringement separately from the issue of the unfair comparison. If you were familiar with my posting history, you'd see that not only do I not need to see a shrink, but I completely agree with you about the outright ridiculousness of it all.
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The ones that aren't responsible and upstanding don't care about the law, by definition. Therefore, they will carry concealed weapons anyway!
Why penalize responsible people when irresponsible ones are unaffected?
So? With work, it could have a higher refresh rate.
Yeah, me too... except I want my ebook reader to also function as a Tablet PC; hence, I want the capability of a higher refresh rate, even though I'd only be using it part of the time.
Oh, I'm completely aware of that; I just want it to be capable of it so that the screen can be used in general-purpose mobile PCs, rather than only in E-book readers. Although I want to watch videos sometimes, other times (such as when reading Slashdot) I don't need a high refresh rate -- and that's where the benefit lies.
I agree that it's not nearly as "revolutionary" as some people think it is, but still -- if it gives me better battery life on my portable computer (while, ideally, retaining my ability to watch videos (I know the refresh rate isn't there yet)), I'm all for it!
Old? You think that's old?! You make me sick!
I recently upgraded from a GeForce 3 Ti to a 6200, you insensitive clod!
Actually, I think it's actually pretty fair: RMS looks crazy as usual, Moglen looks as sane and calm as a Buddha, and Ballmer looks like either a rapper, overexcited football coach, or a whore about to give a blowjob. IMHO, Moglen more than compensates for RMS.
Ah, if only we could avoid the issue! That's the problem with patents: you're still liable even if you've been coding under a rock in the Alaskan wilderness for the past 20 years, and had never even heard of Microsoft.
Ah, just like SCO! As they say, "turnabout is fair play."
No kidding. Then they have to add a special [code] tag, and re-invent which other markup is valid within it...
Personally, I wish forums would just let us use regular HTML (and not Slashdot's bastardized HTML, either!).
I agree it's stupid, but some bastard forum software out there will do stuff like convert "[rofl]" to an animated smiley rolling back and forth, etc.
<sarcasm>This sounds like a job for XML!</sarcasm>
A Wacom-style digitizer screen that you use with a special stylus (as seen on most Tablet PCs) is not the same thing as a touch screen that you use with your finger (as seen on most PDAs). The latter would be almost useless for Photoshop, especially compared to the former.
False dichotomy. The possibility of an imminent Borg attack could be non-zero but very, very small. In that case, we wouldn't be able to prove anything and we wouldn't be justified in building weapons.
It's the same with religions: nobody's scientifically proven the non-existence of god[s], but observations lead us to suspect that the chance of existence is small. Properly classified, this "belief" (or rather, lack thereof) is called "agnosticism," not "atheism."
Yeah, it's just too bad I wasn't the one who thought of it. I think I read it on Slashdot a long time ago, or maybe one of my profs mentioned it...
Well, I'm talking about any C-style language, really, and any kind of indentation. I was just making the point that writing something like this:
is slightly dangerous because then when somebody modifies it:
They might not realize that the second line ("baz()") is going to get executed all the time, regardless of the value of foo. Instead, people should go ahead and always put in the braces to begin with:
and make the "then" block explicit. I think this is good practice with K&R, your style, or anything else.
Never attribute to stupidity what you could attribute to malice, when the government is concerned. I'll bet they knew damn well it wasn't a bomb, but just wanted an excuse to arrest protesters.
We don't need brackets on single lines because we're anal; we need brackets because when you go back later and add another line while forgetting to add the brackets too, you'll introduce a bug because the second line won't be part of the "then" block.
They want your money every way they can get it, and every way they can't get it too!
That doesn't make sense. How could there possibly be enough evidence to convict somebody of stealing them, but not any evidence that they were yours?
Since when did mice have firmware?
Considering that a Wacom Cintiq is well over two grand (for a 21" LCD), for that particular market such effort would be worth it -- $300 + $100 + a little work is a Hell of a lot better than $2500!
If you're going to do that, why not buy a Tablet PC? The price premium over a regular laptop is the same as the cost of a Wacom tablet, and you'll have the (IMHO, much better) experience of actually having your drawings appear under your pen instead of drawing in one place and having it show up somewhere else.
By definition, a system that I don't have control over doesn't "work."
It's a figure of speech called "hyperbole."
Here's a hint: a lot of people on Slashdot don't agree that what he did was wrong, or at least believe it should be a civil (rather than criminal) offense.
I was treating the issue of the relative "badness" of copyright infringement separately from the issue of the unfair comparison. If you were familiar with my posting history, you'd see that not only do I not need to see a shrink, but I completely agree with you about the outright ridiculousness of it all.