I find your user name to be suspiciously relevant. Any "supply" with respect to digital media is, in large part, a matter of artificial scarcity, so I find it inane to speak of protecting the supply; in a way, you are begging the question by not addressing the "why" and "to what extent" of the artificial scarcity.
Or they could be trying to close a number of known gaps, such as a complete lack of standard spreadsheet functions.
The solution to this (OpenFormula) has been pending final quality control for a year or so, but the drafts are complete enough that the major ODF-capable programs implement more recent drafts.
I imagine that this mess involving so many players in the standardization community is not very helpful for getting things done.
Solution: Instead of introducing it as "The GIMP", use its full name: "The GNU Image Manipulation Program"; it's only marginally worse than "Adobe Photoshop $FOO", where FOO is whatever subproduct in the Photoshop familiy you happen to be using.
(this is/., so tweaking Windows shouldn't be a problem)
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How about no. Windows to me is fucking opaque: I never understood what it's doing. I figure that Windows retarded my understanding of how computers work by at least five years.
how the hell did I get redundant? I'm the first person to voice this (unpopular) view.
You were modded "Redundant" for lack of a better descriptor, and because others have expressed this view before (not that 90% of everything said is unoriginal to begin with), and because this view kinda sorta goes against the groupthink, but mostly because it doesn't work like that: you don't change the behavior of other people as a group simply by asking.
Just because something is illegal doesn't mean that people won't do it. The economics has to work out---and by "economics", I'm not merely referring to money, but also to time, effort, opportunity cost, and so on. And the economics of DRM just don't work. It might even be that the economics of computer gaming don't scale as the companies want them to, such that DRM is an attempt to overcome this by trying to make a general-purpose computer more like a console (something which is doomed to failure).
You're using the same logic NAMBLA uses to justify their perverted acts, for your own perverted acts.
"We just want to love little boys, stop persecuting us!" is no different than "We just want to have sex with wolves and raccoons, stop the fursecution!"
I suggest seeking mental help.
Dear AC:
LOL WUT
WHARRGARBL
Having said these things, I hope we can now understand each other better.
One of the things you're supposed to do with speeches---and that was most definitely a speech---is to keep the point of the speech simple. Another thing you're supposed to do is to be very redundant with the point you're trying to make: say that you're going to say it, say it, and say that you said it. He did both of these things.
You know who's behind W3C, do you? It's a committee of companies. And Microsoft is one of the big fishes in there. (Primarily responsible for blockings and intrigues.)
Why, yes, I did know that.:| But it's not one single company, which is the important point.
Well, you need SMIL, XForms, a bunch of other things, and a Javascript API to tie everything together to begin to match Flash feature for feature.
But yes, I would much prefer that over either Flash or Silverlight. I trust the W3C to do The Right Things much much more than Adobe or (obviously) MS.
Short answer: in this context, "furry" refers to matters involving anthropomorphic animals and related concepts. A "furry" avatar in Second Life would resemble a humanoid animal.
Longer answer: For a more comprehensive answer covering many more contexts, we ourselves can argue about the specific semantics for long periods of time but this is a good start summarizing the entirety of what "furry" can represent. (Finding additional concurring views and dissenting views from the linked article is not difficult and is left as an exercise to the reader.)
Or you could probably have the OS zero out all memory, or just those physical memory frames for whose pages have been marked as needing to be erased (would require application changes, but that wouldn't be the first time).
Excuuuuuuse me, but I think you are either confused or yourself trolling with respect to your definition of "trolling". How is representing ourselves in such a form "trolling"?
Either that, or you are really confusing me and should explain yourself further.
I think the point is that light and portable is (finally) down to similar price points ro clunky desktop replacements. For the longest time, these light machines cost twice as much as middle-of-the-road laptops.
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It's code centric. It shouldn't be. It should be design centric. Then we could dump all these expensive programmers and get some work done.
Computers are code-centric. If you can't handle it, GTFO.
Not likely. Terrorists don't strike me as being good lolcows.
I find your user name to be suspiciously relevant. Any "supply" with respect to digital media is, in large part, a matter of artificial scarcity, so I find it inane to speak of protecting the supply; in a way, you are begging the question by not addressing the "why" and "to what extent" of the artificial scarcity.
Or they could be trying to close a number of known gaps, such as a complete lack of standard spreadsheet functions.
The solution to this (OpenFormula) has been pending final quality control for a year or so, but the drafts are complete enough that the major ODF-capable programs implement more recent drafts.
I imagine that this mess involving so many players in the standardization community is not very helpful for getting things done.
Solution: Instead of introducing it as "The GIMP", use its full name: "The GNU Image Manipulation Program"; it's only marginally worse than "Adobe Photoshop $FOO", where FOO is whatever subproduct in the Photoshop familiy you happen to be using.
(this is /., so tweaking Windows shouldn't be a problem)
u_u
How about no. Windows to me is fucking opaque: I never understood what it's doing. I figure that Windows retarded my understanding of how computers work by at least five years.
So I'll take my Slackware, thankyouverymuch.
They still want an x86 computer, so that they can still sell to people who want Windows, never mind if it chugs along slowly.
how the hell did I get redundant? I'm the first person to voice this (unpopular) view.
You were modded "Redundant" for lack of a better descriptor, and because others have expressed this view before (not that 90% of everything said is unoriginal to begin with), and because this view kinda sorta goes against the groupthink, but mostly because it doesn't work like that: you don't change the behavior of other people as a group simply by asking.
Just because something is illegal doesn't mean that people won't do it. The economics has to work out---and by "economics", I'm not merely referring to money, but also to time, effort, opportunity cost, and so on. And the economics of DRM just don't work. It might even be that the economics of computer gaming don't scale as the companies want them to, such that DRM is an attempt to overcome this by trying to make a general-purpose computer more like a console (something which is doomed to failure).
Quoth the AC:
You're using the same logic NAMBLA uses to justify their perverted acts, for your own perverted acts.
"We just want to love little boys, stop persecuting us!" is no different than "We just want to have sex with wolves and raccoons, stop the fursecution!"
I suggest seeking mental help.
Dear AC:
LOL WUT
WHARRGARBL
Having said these things, I hope we can now understand each other better.
*facepaw* Have you learned nothing from the lesson of Ed Grubermann^W^Wthe Internet?
(BTW, you're welcome.) :P
It also has to do with the media he is using.
One of the things you're supposed to do with speeches---and that was most definitely a speech---is to keep the point of the speech simple. Another thing you're supposed to do is to be very redundant with the point you're trying to make: say that you're going to say it, say it, and say that you said it. He did both of these things.
And I'm sure if he'd thought you'd listen to more than 16 minutes, he'd have made a more complex argument.
You know who's behind W3C, do you?
It's a committee of companies. And Microsoft is one of the big fishes in there. (Primarily responsible for blockings and intrigues.)
Why, yes, I did know that. :| But it's not one single company, which is the important point.
Well, you need SMIL, XForms, a bunch of other things, and a Javascript API to tie everything together to begin to match Flash feature for feature.
But yes, I would much prefer that over either Flash or Silverlight. I trust the W3C to do The Right Things much much more than Adobe or (obviously) MS.
Such propoganda posters are often artistic works, not photographs.
There's also the custom <URL:http://slashdot.org/> trick.
That's kind of important, I would think.
What, do they have oil or something?
Oh boy...
Short answer: in this context, "furry" refers to matters involving anthropomorphic animals and related concepts. A "furry" avatar in Second Life would resemble a humanoid animal.
Longer answer: For a more comprehensive answer covering many more contexts, we ourselves can argue about the specific semantics for long periods of time but this is a good start summarizing the entirety of what "furry" can represent. (Finding additional concurring views and dissenting views from the linked article is not difficult and is left as an exercise to the reader.)
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No, he's criticizing the parent poster for not using "fewer" instead of "less": where possible, one should use "fewer" with quantifiable nouns.
For example, "less money", but "fewer coins".
Discuss.
Or you could probably have the OS zero out all memory, or just those physical memory frames for whose pages have been marked as needing to be erased (would require application changes, but that wouldn't be the first time).
Excuuuuuuse me, but I think you are either confused or yourself trolling with respect to your definition of "trolling". How is representing ourselves in such a form "trolling"?
Either that, or you are really confusing me and should explain yourself further.
I think the point is that light and portable is (finally) down to similar price points ro clunky desktop replacements. For the longest time, these light machines cost twice as much as middle-of-the-road laptops.