Dude, have you seen any commercials on TV lately? These Fx Flicks are pure gold in comparison to the endless mounds of pure shit that gets spewed constantly in every 20 minutes per hour of television. You overestimate what commercials (and ads in general) should do.
Funny how you mention Linux distros in a post recommending muTorrent. Need I remind you that muTorrent is proprietary and Windows-only? Unacceptable. There are other low-footprint (and Free) bittorrent applications out there which are cross platform.
Any audiophile can tell you that you need to do the test with high quality speakers or headphones to hear the difference. Low bitrate audio is acceptable for some situations (e.g. car stereo, computer speakers, iPod headphones), but higher end setups need better quality media.
Maybe because every single image on flickr is reduced to an incomprehensible blob of pixels due to some stupid image compression gizmo? I still don't understand how people manage to post any pictures on that site when all images are reduced to the resolution of NTSC.
Unless you're serving XHTML 1.1 pages as application/xhtml+xml, stick with XHTML 1.0 Strict or HTML 4.01 Strict. Until other browsers than Firefox and Opera know to use an XML parser on application/xhtml+xml (I'm looking at Konqueror/Safari; they use standards compliance mode of their soup parsers as of now) or to even parse it period *coughmsiecough*, it's not that big a deal.
Just to mention, this is a common practise with *nix systems to partition off several different areas of the system. For instance, one might partition off separate spaces for/usr,/var,/home (way more common with multi-user environments),/boot (usually default with many Linux distros' auto-partitioning), and root. In Windows (not sure on the exact process, but roughly), one could partition off \Windows, \Windows\System32, \Documents and Settings, \Program Files, and root. It's very useful for recovery, and doing a system wipe is that much easier without touching other files. It can also be more secure (e.g. setting noexec on/home and/var). Also allows for storing said partitions on another machine and mounting the directories via NFS or Samba.
Does Microsoft even realise they're being charged with illegal monopoly practises at the moment? Do they know that the EUC isn't going to let them get away with any illegal bundling while they're charging them? Sheesh...
Everyone knows that if you have nothing to hide, you don't need to encrypt your communications traffic. This obviously means that terrorists are using open source software more often now! We need a law banning open source software now!
Yes, but they're going after random people in the hopes they strike gold because everybody obviously pirates music. They're suing innocent people, and that's just sick.
Well, just wait for someone to post a Python script to go through all 153 topic icons replacing the whitespace with alpha=0 and converting the image to PNG. Then, a followup script will create a drop shadow for all the images (that won't look right in IE without an "if lt IE7" hack).
My ultimate recommendation is that all layouts must continue to remain liquid; no Web 2.0 designs that are made for the 90's resolution of 800x600.
The beauty of "analogue" film (which will always be favoured by hardcore photographers and filmers(?)) is that the resolution is as accurate as the individual particles of the emulsion used during exposure. Anyone with some basic knowledge of particle physics or quantum gravity would know that the resolution isn't infinitesimally precise, but with the relative size of the emulsion's particles and the picture itself, one could say that it's "close enough to infinitesimally precise".
Nothing, which is why this bill will be rejected by their Supreme Courts like all the other attempts at censoring art in the past has been (in any state).
The article mentions it, and I knew about it beforehand, but KDE has developed a library called KSVG for renderring SVGs, so both KDE and Mac OS X have native SVG support. Firefox has its own SVG support, but that only extends as far as Firefox goes. Firefox 3.0 (the trunk nightlies are at this point already) will use GNOME's Cairo graphics library, so its support for SVG will be much better by then. I don't know about Opera, but I'm sure they'll get around to it sooner or later. For those stuck in 1997, Adobe offers an SVG plugin for IE.
To answer your question more specifically, KDE uses SVG in many icons for a few of its icon themes (e.g. Crystal SVG).
I didn't think anyone used bitmapped fonts anymore. Why aren't you using ttf? It sounds as if you have an LCD monitor, so you can just enable subpixel renderring. If you know anything about the ~/.fonts.conf file, just add this to your fontconfig:
Do you even know what a pirate is? The stereotypical pirates who would hijack ships at sea, steal their goods, and sell them are what pirates are defined as and known to be. To expand the notion of copyright infringement to be at the same level of immorality and illegality as actual robbery (legal term) and sale of stolen goods just further proves that the double-a's brainwashing regarding small dents at their bottomless profits has been quite successful. I'll bet you think that downloading a copy of a song is just as bad as stealing a CD from a store.
Now, I wouldn't mind being called a pirate if it meant that I would be thought of as an actual "arr matey" sort of pirate, but the dilution of the term now gives the image of some geek trying to "stick it to the man" by bootlegging movies.
Well, if you used Newton's real equation of F = dp/dt, it'd hold true in many more circumstances. Force is caused by a changing momentum over a period of time. Force particles (bosons?) have momentum (even photons do despite their masslessness), so that makes sense.
At least Debian's naming made sense; they just used names of characters from Toy Story. I still don't get Ubuntu's naming scheme and why they lack symlinks named "stable", "unstable", and optionally "testing" in their apt repositories so I never have to update my damn sources.list file every few months.
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Dude, have you seen any commercials on TV lately? These Fx Flicks are pure gold in comparison to the endless mounds of pure shit that gets spewed constantly in every 20 minutes per hour of television. You overestimate what commercials (and ads in general) should do.
Apparently nobody as it's already been slashdotted to a molten oblivion. Whoopsie...
Long and interesting read. Care to give some sources, though? I really liked it and would like to read more things from this (or similar) authors.
Funny how you mention Linux distros in a post recommending muTorrent. Need I remind you that muTorrent is proprietary and Windows-only? Unacceptable. There are other low-footprint (and Free) bittorrent applications out there which are cross platform.
I thought VNC was essentially what you just said (ssh -X, screen).
You don't consider Windows to have a huge memory footprint itself? Or are you running muTorrent on Windows 98 or something?
Any audiophile can tell you that you need to do the test with high quality speakers or headphones to hear the difference. Low bitrate audio is acceptable for some situations (e.g. car stereo, computer speakers, iPod headphones), but higher end setups need better quality media.
Maybe because every single image on flickr is reduced to an incomprehensible blob of pixels due to some stupid image compression gizmo? I still don't understand how people manage to post any pictures on that site when all images are reduced to the resolution of NTSC.
Unless you're serving XHTML 1.1 pages as application/xhtml+xml, stick with XHTML 1.0 Strict or HTML 4.01 Strict. Until other browsers than Firefox and Opera know to use an XML parser on application/xhtml+xml (I'm looking at Konqueror/Safari; they use standards compliance mode of their soup parsers as of now) or to even parse it period *coughmsiecough*, it's not that big a deal.
That used to be AOL chat rooms. Nothing's changed except the owner company (AOL to News Corp).
Just to mention, this is a common practise with *nix systems to partition off several different areas of the system. For instance, one might partition off separate spaces for /usr, /var, /home (way more common with multi-user environments), /boot (usually default with many Linux distros' auto-partitioning), and root. In Windows (not sure on the exact process, but roughly), one could partition off \Windows, \Windows\System32, \Documents and Settings, \Program Files, and root. It's very useful for recovery, and doing a system wipe is that much easier without touching other files. It can also be more secure (e.g. setting noexec on /home and /var). Also allows for storing said partitions on another machine and mounting the directories via NFS or Samba.
Does Microsoft even realise they're being charged with illegal monopoly practises at the moment? Do they know that the EUC isn't going to let them get away with any illegal bundling while they're charging them? Sheesh...
Everyone knows that if you have nothing to hide, you don't need to encrypt your communications traffic. This obviously means that terrorists are using open source software more often now! We need a law banning open source software now!
Yes, but they're going after random people in the hopes they strike gold because everybody obviously pirates music. They're suing innocent people, and that's just sick.
Since the quiz requires JavaScript, and since I have that by default disabled, I think I passed the test.
Well, just wait for someone to post a Python script to go through all 153 topic icons replacing the whitespace with alpha=0 and converting the image to PNG. Then, a followup script will create a drop shadow for all the images (that won't look right in IE without an "if lt IE7" hack).
My ultimate recommendation is that all layouts must continue to remain liquid; no Web 2.0 designs that are made for the 90's resolution of 800x600.
The beauty of "analogue" film (which will always be favoured by hardcore photographers and filmers(?)) is that the resolution is as accurate as the individual particles of the emulsion used during exposure. Anyone with some basic knowledge of particle physics or quantum gravity would know that the resolution isn't infinitesimally precise, but with the relative size of the emulsion's particles and the picture itself, one could say that it's "close enough to infinitesimally precise".
Nothing, which is why this bill will be rejected by their Supreme Courts like all the other attempts at censoring art in the past has been (in any state).
An intelligent filter that gets rid of annoying AOLers? Now that's the first legitly patentable idea I've heard for a long time!
America doesn't use 24-hour clock time like Europe does you insensitive clod! ;P
The article mentions it, and I knew about it beforehand, but KDE has developed a library called KSVG for renderring SVGs, so both KDE and Mac OS X have native SVG support. Firefox has its own SVG support, but that only extends as far as Firefox goes. Firefox 3.0 (the trunk nightlies are at this point already) will use GNOME's Cairo graphics library, so its support for SVG will be much better by then. I don't know about Opera, but I'm sure they'll get around to it sooner or later. For those stuck in 1997, Adobe offers an SVG plugin for IE.
To answer your question more specifically, KDE uses SVG in many icons for a few of its icon themes (e.g. Crystal SVG).
Do you even know what a pirate is? The stereotypical pirates who would hijack ships at sea, steal their goods, and sell them are what pirates are defined as and known to be. To expand the notion of copyright infringement to be at the same level of immorality and illegality as actual robbery (legal term) and sale of stolen goods just further proves that the double-a's brainwashing regarding small dents at their bottomless profits has been quite successful. I'll bet you think that downloading a copy of a song is just as bad as stealing a CD from a store.
Now, I wouldn't mind being called a pirate if it meant that I would be thought of as an actual "arr matey" sort of pirate, but the dilution of the term now gives the image of some geek trying to "stick it to the man" by bootlegging movies.
Well, if you used Newton's real equation of F = dp/dt, it'd hold true in many more circumstances. Force is caused by a changing momentum over a period of time. Force particles (bosons?) have momentum (even photons do despite their masslessness), so that makes sense.
At least Debian's naming made sense; they just used names of characters from Toy Story. I still don't get Ubuntu's naming scheme and why they lack symlinks named "stable", "unstable", and optionally "testing" in their apt repositories so I never have to update my damn sources.list file every few months.