The best part about Slashdot is that we don't get any of those damn "amazing photo!!11oneone!1" stories that plague Digg and reddit. If the editors could refrain from posting obvious flamebait/troll articles and inflammatory headlines, then we wouldn't have as many complaints about the editors. Also, if they edited submissions to fix common mistakes like lose/loose, begs the question (instead of raises the question), there/their/they're, OpenBSD Foundation Accounced [sic], etc.
but just what percentage of images out there in the wild are PNGs? Shitloads. Try the search with jpg and you get a bit more results (about 50% more) and gif (far less results; about 20% as many as png).
Back in the day, IE 5.0 was the best web browser on Mac OS. Strange, I know, but it used to be like that. Now it's an outdated pile of crap in comparison to Safari, Firefox/Camino, Opera (which is gratis nowadays), etc.
If I have "licensed" the software, then the company licensing it to me should provide a new copy free of charge (or cost of materials) if my original (or new copy) is scratched, broken, or lost forever in any way. Oh wait, they don't want to do that? I bought a physical product and the fact that I (or someone else) broke it means I have to buy it again? But wait; I thought I was licensing it? Oh, so now I own it just so they don't have to provide me with a new copy? What the fuck? If they're not going to provide me with a new copy when needed, then they should be forced to let me do that. They can't have their cake and eat it too.
I would say that it's a right since it is an exception to a law (i.e., these practises under the Fair Use section are not considered copyright infringement) and the Ninth Amendment.
And you can just make the machine invisible to the Internet at large via a firewall but still use a public IP address to address the machine (no need for NAT!).
Does Bungie even acknowledge the existence of the Halo novels? It would have been quite easy (and interesting to the story) to use all of Blue Team for example as the four available characters instead of making three of them Elites. I hope that the story at least attempts to connect to Ghosts of Onyx...
The people who actually did end up switching only did so after XP Pro SP2 (which should have been the official release in the first place), yet many others still continue to use 2000 without any issues. It took Microsoft a few years to stabilise just one release to make it halfway decent; people are sceptical about Vista for reasons such as this. Vista looks cool and all and has some interesting under-the-hood improvements, but the release was rushed, and Microsoft has way too much bureaucratic nonsense going on for them to actually release something good.
You can easily embed fonts in a PDF file. You can even embed only the parts of a font that you used in the document so you don't bloat it with a huge almost-complete Unicode font.
Now that is an example of sciency humour that is also funny without knowing what he meant (crazy old coot or expert in quantum physics?). What I like about Futurama is that it was funny when I was younger, and now it's funnier when I understand more of the subtleties.
Legally, all Google have to do is remove videos identified by DMCA take-down requests. The fact that they're going above and beyond that could end up biting them in the ass when it fails in any given situation. Any IP lawyers or law students here to clarify the matter?
There's something called first degree murder (the first example) and second degree murder (arguably, the second example, but it could also be covered by intentional homicide or something like that instead due to the situation).
Try to read legalese without a law degree and see how far that gets you. Same goes for any programming language without actually being a programmer or having any concept of computer science.
Do the Chinese citizens all have access to the source code? Didn't think so. With how abusive both the US's and PRC's governments are, I'm surprise either citizens can trust proprietary software from spying on them.
Thankfully, by the time DRM'd content starts forcing use of HDCP, we'll have cracked AACS et al. so thoroughly that it won't matter at all. The only thing HDCP is good for is increasing the price of hardware and making early adopters buy new hardware all over again.
Try out a LiveCD of Ubuntu or Kubuntu to see how well your hardware works (which should all work based on what you've said).
For image editting, on Kubuntu (or any KDE-based distribution really), try out Krita which is a lot more similar to Photoshop than Gimp ever will be. There is also cinepaint for an Aperture-like program.
For video editting, there's Kino and Cinelerra (I don't believe this is in the repository, so installing it isn't as easy as tick the box -> install). There is also Avidemux, but that seems to be more suited for small edits and transcoding videos (GNOME program as well, not that it matters if you don't care about desktop environments).
For office, check out KOffice (faster and better than OpenOffice.org).
For video, you can still use VLC of course, but you can also check out Kaffeine with libxine1-ffmpeg and the win32 codecs (download at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html, get the essential codecs, extract to/usr/local/lib/codecs/; there is probably an easier way to do this via EasyUbuntu or something like that, but this is how I normally do it) for support for everything ever.
If you need more help, you can contact me via Jabber (in profile), or you can go on IRC (Konversation's a good client for that) on Freenode at #kubuntu. There are also the Ubuntu Forums as well as alt.os.linux.ubuntu (for some reason, I can't find the group on Google Groups, but it's available in AT&T's Usenet mirror). The community is very friendly and helpful, so don't be shy!
Try to run something that uses 100% CPU and then try to do anything else while that happens. What a great scheduler...
Also, try to fill up your RAM. Kind of hard, isn't it? Windows doesn't seem to think you have as much RAM as you do and starts to swap far too early to be considered useful. This is why people complain about Firefox using $x amount of RAM; Windows starts to swap way too early and causes slowdowns all around.
Try to delete a file that's in use (something you can do in any Unix-like system). File in use? Whoops, can't do that.
Also, Windows has jack shit support for more filesystems than their own FAT and NTFS families (both of which get fragmented; modern filesystems prevent that on the fly). Sure, you can get more support via plugins (I believe there are two different ways to make a filesystem plugin for Windows: kernel and shell), but that isn't as reliable as having native support for them. Windows should at least support FFS (fast filesystem, the UNIX/BSD file system of choice for a few decades).
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The best part about Slashdot is that we don't get any of those damn "amazing photo!!11oneone!1" stories that plague Digg and reddit. If the editors could refrain from posting obvious flamebait/troll articles and inflammatory headlines, then we wouldn't have as many complaints about the editors. Also, if they edited submissions to fix common mistakes like lose/loose, begs the question (instead of raises the question), there/their/they're, OpenBSD Foundation Accounced [sic], etc.
Back in the day, IE 5.0 was the best web browser on Mac OS. Strange, I know, but it used to be like that. Now it's an outdated pile of crap in comparison to Safari, Firefox/Camino, Opera (which is gratis nowadays), etc.
Disabled by default in the beta 1 build perhaps? It's in SVN and making lots of progress lately.
You think that people from Slashdot are the ones who click ads? Don't think so...
If I have "licensed" the software, then the company licensing it to me should provide a new copy free of charge (or cost of materials) if my original (or new copy) is scratched, broken, or lost forever in any way. Oh wait, they don't want to do that? I bought a physical product and the fact that I (or someone else) broke it means I have to buy it again? But wait; I thought I was licensing it? Oh, so now I own it just so they don't have to provide me with a new copy? What the fuck? If they're not going to provide me with a new copy when needed, then they should be forced to let me do that. They can't have their cake and eat it too.
Because books and CDs aren't "protected" by DRM. Fucking stupid, I know. :(
I would say that it's a right since it is an exception to a law (i.e., these practises under the Fair Use section are not considered copyright infringement) and the Ninth Amendment.
And you can just make the machine invisible to the Internet at large via a firewall but still use a public IP address to address the machine (no need for NAT!).
It's more likely to be uploaded to Google Video since they have a much larger file size limit.
Does Bungie even acknowledge the existence of the Halo novels? It would have been quite easy (and interesting to the story) to use all of Blue Team for example as the four available characters instead of making three of them Elites. I hope that the story at least attempts to connect to Ghosts of Onyx...
Businesses are consumers, too, so I don't know where you're going with this. Did you mean "home" or "SOHO" users, or just everyone ever?
I heard that one guy bought Vista and everyone just gets their copy for free from him. Some guy named Reloaded or something like that.
The people who actually did end up switching only did so after XP Pro SP2 (which should have been the official release in the first place), yet many others still continue to use 2000 without any issues. It took Microsoft a few years to stabilise just one release to make it halfway decent; people are sceptical about Vista for reasons such as this. Vista looks cool and all and has some interesting under-the-hood improvements, but the release was rushed, and Microsoft has way too much bureaucratic nonsense going on for them to actually release something good.
You can easily embed fonts in a PDF file. You can even embed only the parts of a font that you used in the document so you don't bloat it with a huge almost-complete Unicode font.
Now that is an example of sciency humour that is also funny without knowing what he meant (crazy old coot or expert in quantum physics?). What I like about Futurama is that it was funny when I was younger, and now it's funnier when I understand more of the subtleties.
Legally, all Google have to do is remove videos identified by DMCA take-down requests. The fact that they're going above and beyond that could end up biting them in the ass when it fails in any given situation. Any IP lawyers or law students here to clarify the matter?
There's something called first degree murder (the first example) and second degree murder (arguably, the second example, but it could also be covered by intentional homicide or something like that instead due to the situation).
Try to read legalese without a law degree and see how far that gets you. Same goes for any programming language without actually being a programmer or having any concept of computer science.
...that he didn't click on and thus just wasted the site's bandwidth with no ad revenue gained.
Do the Chinese citizens all have access to the source code? Didn't think so. With how abusive both the US's and PRC's governments are, I'm surprise either citizens can trust proprietary software from spying on them.
Thankfully, by the time DRM'd content starts forcing use of HDCP, we'll have cracked AACS et al. so thoroughly that it won't matter at all. The only thing HDCP is good for is increasing the price of hardware and making early adopters buy new hardware all over again.
Speaking of which, are there any other widely-attended gaming tournaments in Korea besides Starcraft ones?
Try out a LiveCD of Ubuntu or Kubuntu to see how well your hardware works (which should all work based on what you've said).
/usr/local/lib/codecs/; there is probably an easier way to do this via EasyUbuntu or something like that, but this is how I normally do it) for support for everything ever.
For image editting, on Kubuntu (or any KDE-based distribution really), try out Krita which is a lot more similar to Photoshop than Gimp ever will be. There is also cinepaint for an Aperture-like program.
For video editting, there's Kino and Cinelerra (I don't believe this is in the repository, so installing it isn't as easy as tick the box -> install). There is also Avidemux, but that seems to be more suited for small edits and transcoding videos (GNOME program as well, not that it matters if you don't care about desktop environments).
For office, check out KOffice (faster and better than OpenOffice.org).
For video, you can still use VLC of course, but you can also check out Kaffeine with libxine1-ffmpeg and the win32 codecs (download at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html, get the essential codecs, extract to
If you need more help, you can contact me via Jabber (in profile), or you can go on IRC (Konversation's a good client for that) on Freenode at #kubuntu. There are also the Ubuntu Forums as well as alt.os.linux.ubuntu (for some reason, I can't find the group on Google Groups, but it's available in AT&T's Usenet mirror). The community is very friendly and helpful, so don't be shy!
Try to run something that uses 100% CPU and then try to do anything else while that happens. What a great scheduler...
Also, try to fill up your RAM. Kind of hard, isn't it? Windows doesn't seem to think you have as much RAM as you do and starts to swap far too early to be considered useful. This is why people complain about Firefox using $x amount of RAM; Windows starts to swap way too early and causes slowdowns all around.
Try to delete a file that's in use (something you can do in any Unix-like system). File in use? Whoops, can't do that.
Also, Windows has jack shit support for more filesystems than their own FAT and NTFS families (both of which get fragmented; modern filesystems prevent that on the fly). Sure, you can get more support via plugins (I believe there are two different ways to make a filesystem plugin for Windows: kernel and shell), but that isn't as reliable as having native support for them. Windows should at least support FFS (fast filesystem, the UNIX/BSD file system of choice for a few decades).