So what you're saying is that legislation is like coding Perl, and lawyers are/usr/bin/perl? I prefer to think of lawyers as/dev/null, but hey, to each his own.
Wait, how are any of those situations different than normal?
We'd be paying $1500.00 for a coast to coast airline ticket.
Since it costs $400+ just to go from ORD to LAX on a friggin' Tuesday...
There'd be no interstate trucking industry. All freight would go by rail and canal.
Well, trains do carry far more cargo in one go than any truck could. Besides, truckers generally suck at driving nowadays, so the less truckers the better.
All television would be black and white. There'd be no VCR's (let alone PVR's!).
Didn't the MPAA already try that?
All radio would be AM.
Sounds like parts of Europe to me. I'd blame the FCC-equivalent in those areas for overregulating radio wave spectrums.
Telephones would all be dial. Long distance calls would be $2.50/minute.
Call me old-fashioned (well, don't, I'm not even 20 yet), but remember when this was true? You could easily be out a hundred bucks after an hour-long long distance call.
We'd all still be using slide rules.
Nothing wrong with using them where appropriate.
There would be no foreign cars in the U.S.
See: import tarifs.
There would be no sources of alternative energy (wind, solar, etc.) whatsoever.
With our oil daddies, that's no surprise. Wait, are you still talking about our current state of affairs or what the RIAA would do if they had control over other industries?
Export as PDF, dur! Or even a PostScript file if you're into that as well. I doubt your teacher needs to edit the crap out of your homework assignment, so a PDF should be fine.
This form of equation editting was first used (widely?) by something called LaTeX. You could enter in an equation into your document by simply typing the equation like this: $\frac{x^2}{4\alpha - \beta_0}$ OOo includes a similar syntax to the LaTeX method of typesetting equations that can sometimes seem more straightforward to a user not familiar with LaTeX.
Then check out either Vim or Emacs. I know Vim has C# and other.Net syntax highlighting scripts readily available, and since Emacs has more programs/functionality than KDE and GNOME combined, I'd assume it does as well.
Or more to the point, fourier transforms are good for entropic data in general, but consequently end up distorting non-entropic data such as solid colours. Therefore, the next person to post a screenshot of a program in a JPEG image, especially one from MSPaint, is going to get stabbed repeatedly in the face.
In all seriousness, at least all the ["valid"] GIF-related patents [in America] have expired. Too bad PNG has already come so far; the only use for GIFs now is animated smileys for Something Awful Forums.
LAME doesn't have to pay licensing fees to MPEG because LAME is Free software licensed under the Lesser GNU General Public License. Although some MPEG dudes from Germany own patents regarding MP3-encoding, they only charge licensing fees for commercial usage of MP3 encoding that crosses with their patents.
I don't know about most people, but my Siemens M56 has something called T9 input where it uses an internal dictionary where you just hit a number once for that letter, and it tries to guess the word you want. You can then cycle through other possible words if that wasn't the word you wanted. The order of the cycle is based on how often that word is normally used in conversational messages. With this grand tool, I can still type coherently on my phone to other people at rates usually faster than your typical txtmsgr.
But of course, it doesn't look so hot in KDE. That's using the Gorilla (Industrial engine) theme; you wouldn't want to see it in the gtk_qt_engine...
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I think the best part about KDE, being a former GNOME user, is that Debian actually has the latest KDE 3.4.x programs. Debian has GNOME 2.10, which kinda fucked over some basic functionality like menu editting and other basic customisations. That, and there's no way I'm going to upgrade half my packages via Ubuntu just to get some updated GNOME applications. For now, I'll just deal with the fact that Firefox and Thunderbird will look quite like ass in KDE.
Ever heard of PNG? Compresses images of your desktop to GIF-like file sizes, but it's lossless. JPEG is only good for really detailed images (like your cluttered desktop almost). That discrete cosine transform compression technique really looks like ass when you have a non-textured block of image.
Real pirating involves the theft of a tangible object and reselling them for profit, just like the old pirates on ships and whatnot did back in the day. "Pirating" music involves neither stealing nor selling stolen goods for profit, so it really shouldn't be a crime. The real crime is what companies involved in the RIAA do to their artists. Do you really think that by not allowing an artist to collect $0.04 in royalty by downloading their album is going to fuck them over? Artists under the RIAA make next to nothing anyhow from album sales, and those that do only get royalties because they decided to go to an independent record company to publish their albums; one that actually pays the damn artists and delivers quality content.
I thought the biggest growth industry was building houses in California? Damn house prices in several orders of magnitude larger than they're actually worth...
That's because all of their music will be so crippled by DRM that not even the collective force of the US and EU could crack the encryption and get an actual audio file from it that doesn't sound like ass.
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So they say they're replacing Thompson with Reiser. I thought they were trying to bring in someone who'd act like a professional...
You'll want to try out Clamwin, the open source AV program. Very good.
So what you're saying is that legislation is like coding Perl, and lawyers are /usr/bin/perl? I prefer to think of lawyers as /dev/null, but hey, to each his own.
Wait, how are any of those situations different than normal?
Since it costs $400+ just to go from ORD to LAX on a friggin' Tuesday...
Well, trains do carry far more cargo in one go than any truck could. Besides, truckers generally suck at driving nowadays, so the less truckers the better.
Didn't the MPAA already try that?
Sounds like parts of Europe to me. I'd blame the FCC-equivalent in those areas for overregulating radio wave spectrums.
Call me old-fashioned (well, don't, I'm not even 20 yet), but remember when this was true? You could easily be out a hundred bucks after an hour-long long distance call.
Nothing wrong with using them where appropriate.
See: import tarifs.
With our oil daddies, that's no surprise. Wait, are you still talking about our current state of affairs or what the RIAA would do if they had control over other industries?
If you want anyone who doesn't give a damn to hear it, release it in MP3.
How great of both TFA and the Firefox 1.5 "What's New" page to not mention the Unofficial Firefox 1.5 RC3 changelog from The Burning Edge.
Export as PDF, dur! Or even a PostScript file if you're into that as well. I doubt your teacher needs to edit the crap out of your homework assignment, so a PDF should be fine.
This form of equation editting was first used (widely?) by something called LaTeX. You could enter in an equation into your document by simply typing the equation like this: $\frac{x^2}{4\alpha - \beta_0}$ OOo includes a similar syntax to the LaTeX method of typesetting equations that can sometimes seem more straightforward to a user not familiar with LaTeX.
Then check out either Vim or Emacs. I know Vim has C# and other .Net syntax highlighting scripts readily available, and since Emacs has more programs/functionality than KDE and GNOME combined, I'd assume it does as well.
JPEG2000 is far more patented than even GIF was. *sigh* damn people thinking they can patent math equations...
Or more to the point, fourier transforms are good for entropic data in general, but consequently end up distorting non-entropic data such as solid colours. Therefore, the next person to post a screenshot of a program in a JPEG image, especially one from MSPaint, is going to get stabbed repeatedly in the face.
In all seriousness, at least all the ["valid"] GIF-related patents [in America] have expired. Too bad PNG has already come so far; the only use for GIFs now is animated smileys for Something Awful Forums.
LAME doesn't have to pay licensing fees to MPEG because LAME is Free software licensed under the Lesser GNU General Public License. Although some MPEG dudes from Germany own patents regarding MP3-encoding, they only charge licensing fees for commercial usage of MP3 encoding that crosses with their patents.
I don't know about most people, but my Siemens M56 has something called T9 input where it uses an internal dictionary where you just hit a number once for that letter, and it tries to guess the word you want. You can then cycle through other possible words if that wasn't the word you wanted. The order of the cycle is based on how often that word is normally used in conversational messages. With this grand tool, I can still type coherently on my phone to other people at rates usually faster than your typical txtmsgr.
Sony: main screen turn on.
In Soviet Russia, ADD
But of course, it doesn't look so hot in KDE. That's using the Gorilla (Industrial engine) theme; you wouldn't want to see it in the gtk_qt_engine...
I think the best part about KDE, being a former GNOME user, is that Debian actually has the latest KDE 3.4.x programs. Debian has GNOME 2.10, which kinda fucked over some basic functionality like menu editting and other basic customisations. That, and there's no way I'm going to upgrade half my packages via Ubuntu just to get some updated GNOME applications. For now, I'll just deal with the fact that Firefox and Thunderbird will look quite like ass in KDE.
Ever heard of PNG? Compresses images of your desktop to GIF-like file sizes, but it's lossless. JPEG is only good for really detailed images (like your cluttered desktop almost). That discrete cosine transform compression technique really looks like ass when you have a non-textured block of image.
Real pirating involves the theft of a tangible object and reselling them for profit, just like the old pirates on ships and whatnot did back in the day. "Pirating" music involves neither stealing nor selling stolen goods for profit, so it really shouldn't be a crime. The real crime is what companies involved in the RIAA do to their artists. Do you really think that by not allowing an artist to collect $0.04 in royalty by downloading their album is going to fuck them over? Artists under the RIAA make next to nothing anyhow from album sales, and those that do only get royalties because they decided to go to an independent record company to publish their albums; one that actually pays the damn artists and delivers quality content.
Or maybe the rootkit uses LAME to encode CDs you rip afterwards? It's probable that they just add DRM to it and sell it as "ATRAC2" or something...
I thought the biggest growth industry was building houses in California? Damn house prices in several orders of magnitude larger than they're actually worth...
That's because all of their music will be so crippled by DRM that not even the collective force of the US and EU could crack the encryption and get an actual audio file from it that doesn't sound like ass.
...wait a minute...
I dunno, things look pretty natural and GNOMEy to me (Industrial engine)...
Hmm, and I thought I was crazy when I experienced that issue. How would I go about re-enabling the usage of a different file selector?