IE7 fully supports the alpha channel in PNG, so the problem is solved. Screw the older versions; they're easily fixed with a JavaScript hack provided by/IE7/.
Encryption is used so that A can send a message to B in such a way that C cannot intercept and read what the message is. DRM sets B:= C, thus defeating the purpose of encryption. It is therefore a logical impossibility.
They've destroyed companies that were reselling Sony products from Japan. I hear Japan doesn't have the rights to first sale or whatever it is we have here in the US. Thus, it'd be safer to import from the US because it's unquestionably legal to do so here, but not so much in Japan.
Here's hoping that Vista helps lower hardware prices across the board. I'd love to be able to build a screaming fast and powerful machine for a grand or so.
There is no compelling reason to move to a new operating system simply because it appears to be more secure at the expense of not having functional applications. Notice the similarities when you replace "language" with "operating system".:O
It's much easier to say **AA, RIAA, *AA (if you want to glob correctly),..AA, etc., than to come up with a name that represents all the member companies of the RIAA. When we speak of the MAFIAA, RIAA, or MPAA, we're not only referring the the lawyers; we're referring to the industry they represent as a whole as well. You can just consider the 'AA organisations to be the legal departments of their respective companies.
Unless you know of a better name that describes the music or film industries as a whole (although we are using MAFIAA to describe them quite well), we'll just continue using **AA et al. thank you very much.
Well, if we're going to drill the fact that copyright infringement isn't theft, then we might as well also drill the fact that entrapment can only be done by members of the State (e.g. if a policeman is selling drugs undercover and approaches you with an offer and you buy).
Maybe we should start using non-legal terms for this? Or maybe there are legal terms for what they're doing anyhow.
Because you can use your own domain name behind the OpenID server you run. Even if you think that all the good domains are taken, remember that there are a ton of ccTLD's you can use (especially in countries that don't use the Latin alphabet).
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Well, anyone can run their own OpenID server to authenticate against, but to use Passport, you rely upon Microsoft's passport.net servers no matter which email address you associate with it.
If they could stop using the words "consumer" and "consume" the way they do (which doesn't make sense) and would instead use words like "customer", "user", "person"/"people", "buy", and "use" (which do make much more sense when used in proper context instead of "consume(r)"), that would drastically help hide their market speak. Whenever I see someone use the word "consume" and they're not talking about consuming food (the only situation that calls for the word "consume" in my opinion), I know that they're either a marketdroid, an economics graduate, or an MBA.
Just look at what Wikipedia says about the word "consumer" (emph mine):
Typically when businesspeople and economists talk of consumers they are talking about person as consumer, an aggregated commodity item with little individuality other than that expressed in the buy/not-buy decision. However there is a trend in marketing to individualize the concept. Instead of generating broad demographic profile and psychographic profiles of market segments, marketers are engaging in personalized marketing, permission marketing, and mass customization. To paraphrase something I've seen on Slashdot (which was probably quoting someone else), once a business stops referring to its customers as "customers", "clients", or "users", and instead refers to them as "consumers", they've become a megalomaniacal corporation with no regards for anything but its bottom line.
Vote for it I guess. I don't like how many bugs are years old in Mozilla, but it happens. Bug spam never solved anything. If you've got an idea on how to fix it that hasn't been mentioned already, go ahead and propose the idea. Ask about what needs to be fixed in order to fix the bug to perhaps get some people motivated to fix it (outside of the Mozilla developers).
Does this mentality apply to the entire trunk? I know that there's a strict review process for the stable and branch, uh, branches, but the trunk doesn't seem to be as rigorously reviewed.
Then where will all the MySpace users go? Didn't you experience the neverending September when AOL became popular? At least MySpace keeps all of those people in one place.:)
DRM doesn't only stand for digital rights/restrictions management; it also stands for plenty of other things. Maybe that's why it shows more results in Google?
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IE7 fully supports the alpha channel in PNG, so the problem is solved. Screw the older versions; they're easily fixed with a JavaScript hack provided by /IE7/.
Not in formal proof notation, but:
:= C, thus defeating the purpose of encryption. It is therefore a logical impossibility.
Encryption is used so that A can send a message to B in such a way that C cannot intercept and read what the message is. DRM sets B
They've destroyed companies that were reselling Sony products from Japan. I hear Japan doesn't have the rights to first sale or whatever it is we have here in the US. Thus, it'd be safer to import from the US because it's unquestionably legal to do so here, but not so much in Japan.
Debian comes with nearly 20000 applications. 800 is absolutely nothing.
512 MB works fine here too. I was surprised myself, and things can only get better with KDE 4.
Here's hoping that Vista helps lower hardware prices across the board. I'd love to be able to build a screaming fast and powerful machine for a grand or so.
But the problem with your argument is that the supply is infinite. Therefore, the price should be nothing due to how economics work.
Uh, he was following the laws of transitivity, so he was right. You just wrote down the variables wrong:
a->b
b->c
therefore a->c
It's much easier to say **AA, RIAA, *AA (if you want to glob correctly), ..AA, etc., than to come up with a name that represents all the member companies of the RIAA. When we speak of the MAFIAA, RIAA, or MPAA, we're not only referring the the lawyers; we're referring to the industry they represent as a whole as well. You can just consider the 'AA organisations to be the legal departments of their respective companies.
Unless you know of a better name that describes the music or film industries as a whole (although we are using MAFIAA to describe them quite well), we'll just continue using **AA et al. thank you very much.
Well, if we're going to drill the fact that copyright infringement isn't theft, then we might as well also drill the fact that entrapment can only be done by members of the State (e.g. if a policeman is selling drugs undercover and approaches you with an offer and you buy).
Maybe we should start using non-legal terms for this? Or maybe there are legal terms for what they're doing anyhow.
Because you can use your own domain name behind the OpenID server you run. Even if you think that all the good domains are taken, remember that there are a ton of ccTLD's you can use (especially in countries that don't use the Latin alphabet).
Well, anyone can run their own OpenID server to authenticate against, but to use Passport, you rely upon Microsoft's passport.net servers no matter which email address you associate with it.
Just look at what Wikipedia says about the word "consumer" (emph mine): Typically when businesspeople and economists talk of consumers they are talking about person as consumer, an aggregated commodity item with little individuality other than that expressed in the buy/not-buy decision. However there is a trend in marketing to individualize the concept. Instead of generating broad demographic profile and psychographic profiles of market segments, marketers are engaging in personalized marketing, permission marketing, and mass customization. To paraphrase something I've seen on Slashdot (which was probably quoting someone else), once a business stops referring to its customers as "customers", "clients", or "users", and instead refers to them as "consumers", they've become a megalomaniacal corporation with no regards for anything but its bottom line.
Neither does anyone else on Slashdot.
Component is HD also. Composite is what he wants.
Working on generic PCs using idle CPU, that's probably pretty good, right? These aren't dedicated grid computers as far as I can tell.
This is the best idea to date. It works pretty well for OpenBSD, why not Wikipedia?
Vote for it I guess. I don't like how many bugs are years old in Mozilla, but it happens. Bug spam never solved anything. If you've got an idea on how to fix it that hasn't been mentioned already, go ahead and propose the idea. Ask about what needs to be fixed in order to fix the bug to perhaps get some people motivated to fix it (outside of the Mozilla developers).
Does this mentality apply to the entire trunk? I know that there's a strict review process for the stable and branch, uh, branches, but the trunk doesn't seem to be as rigorously reviewed.
Well, when you're like the 100th person to submit a duplicate bug of something that's already fixed, I can see why they start to get hostile.
Then where will all the MySpace users go? Didn't you experience the neverending September when AOL became popular? At least MySpace keeps all of those people in one place. :)
DRM doesn't only stand for digital rights/restrictions management; it also stands for plenty of other things. Maybe that's why it shows more results in Google?
How the hell did you deduce he was talking about Microsoft from that quote?