Yeah. Both are promoting sexual attraction to a wrong target.
Letting John marry Bob because "he loves him" and not letting M. Jackson love one of his kids even though "they love each other" means an inequality within the law. If you allow homosexual marriages, you are obliged to allow: * zoophilia * necrophilia * group marriages (including ones with under-age kids (Utah!)) * kill-and-eat-me relations
This is a slippery path on which I wouldn't want to tread. Making concensual sex legal is fine _as long_ as it doesn't give one extra rights: the right to adopt children, marry and receive tax exemptions. Otherwise, I demand a tax refund for the time I lived together with several male friends: we didn't have sex with each other, but you can't discriminate against platonic relationships, can you? If the rights you are promoting would be applied, we could have made a fake group marriage:p
In some parts of the world, anti-gay propaganda is frowned upon. In some parts of the world, pro-gay propaganda is frowned upon.
The only way to satisfy people globally, is banning such kind of talk -- in a game, it is TOTALLY out-of-character anyway. Thus, while somewhat limitting the freedom of speech, it bans only topics that are not appropiate to the topic of the game. If you want to discuss outside things, nothing can prevent you from using any outside forum.
I used to be a high-ranking but sub-admin coder on a MUD. We enforced PG13 rules (no swearing, etc), and, while allowing OOC talk in general, we stopped (first by a verbal warning, then another one on the record, then a ban from global comm channels, and in egregious cases with a removal of the character) some topics that are grossly out-of-place. Such topics included talks about someone's sexual exploits, racial and sexual harassment, and yeah, pro-gay and anti-gay propaganda. You are free to talk about any topic you want, but you are not free to talk about them everywhere. On private property (like a game), the game admins have the right to remove you for not complying with the rules.
1. Get a pile of anything that consists mostly of C,H,O&N. 2. Let ultraviolet or similar things affect it. 3. Watch it spawn amino acids and the rest of important chemicals. 4. Proceed for a looooong time, while combinations of simple proteins form and get broken down. 5. After enough time, watch a protein complex have the ability to copy itself. 6. Have it die, then spawn elsewhere every a million years or so. 7. Watch one of such complexes survive long enough to have one of its many copies hit by ultraviolet (mutate) to form something more complex. 8. Have the pre-life grow a cellular wall, turning sparse pools of dirty water turn into small, concentrated tiny blobs of life. Organisms. 9. With actual cells, everything goes downhill. 10. Watch someone invent (create) the underpants gnomes. 11....
Once a structure gets the ability to multiply, it can form new structures. Another example: since creationism and most religions include an urge to preach to non-believers, it _does_ survive. And, it does mutate and evolve into forms such as ID which have a better chance of survival in the hostile environment.
1950s? In Poland, you will usually get your photos erased if you try to photograph a train station today. Sure, they no longer have the right to do so, but most of train guards and people don't realize this. And most folks get intimidated when apprehended by uniformed men who don't know it better.
The actual law was changed just a few years ago, too. And even though it no longer considers train stations "objects of vital military importance", shooting a photo of a lawn at a military training grounds can put you in trouble.
In other news, all statistic that is done on a small sample are really susceptible to noise.
Also, note that many of Firefox users will block any advertising and counting scum, thus reducing the visible usage. IE users tend to be non-technical, and thus they simply don't have the means to do so, at least until the bad evil sysadmin at their company blocks the relevant spies on DNS/squid level.
Of course, 17" CRT and 1024x768 with ClearType is a bad idea. But, when my work monitor broken down and was temporarily replaced with a 15" one at just 1280x1024, I would say that it looked better with ClearType than without it. But yeah, at any pixel size larger than that, the smudged look and visible color bleeding is bad.
Generally, it depends on the font you want to use. All fonts shipped with Windows are an utter mistake with ClearType, on LCD or not. They were made with no AA in mind, and they look just ugly. On the other hand, the new Vista fonts simply need anti-aliasing of some kind.
Actually, you CAN'T have normal gray-scale aliasing on Windows. It simply ignores any attempts to turn it on even if you use the relevant APIs, for all sizes 7-13.
On the other hand, if you say that ClearType should be on, it is on. This makes it the only apparent way to force anti-aliasing, and thus, it is useful even on CRTs in big resolutions on a small physical display.
Thus, it's best to use: * Windows, LCD -> ClearType * Windows, CRT, small-to-medium res per size -> no antialiasing:( * Windows, CRT, big res, tiny screen -> ClearType * FreeType renderer (Linux,...), LCD -> sub-pixel anti-aliasing (ie, ClearType without the TM mark:p) * FreeType renderer, CRT -> gray-scale anti-aliasing
This leads to ridiculous results, where the new Vista fonts are really usable on CRT only if you use a non-Microsoft system. And I admit that they are just awesome.
I've once created a simpler thing for my T2T map page -- it doesn't have zoom and uses only one image instead of a bunch dynamically fetched, but generally it works in a similar way. And I'm a complete beginner in JS.
I would say, an experienced programmer would be able to recreate the API in less than a week. It's not the complexity what is cool -- it is the idea.
Contrary to what certain low-moderated posts say, this article is not a dupe. We got Q3/Q4 reports from both Free and NetBSD. I somehow predict a yet another article soon...
Requiring signed executables is a good security practice
Wrong. It's something terrible for the customers, as they are locked into a single vendor, and can't even fix problems that affect them.
What we really want, is having a warning when installing a non-signed executable, but being able to override that warning. This means, no one can fool the user into accepting binaries that were tampered with, but the user has the freedom to install binaries with his own and/or third party's modifications.
The freedom to fork and freedom to fix bugs is an important thing. Without it, the GPL is not worth the disk space it is written on.
Am I forgetting it? Hell no! I just preferred to use an example from my own family over something which is well-known to everyone who attended to any but Russian schools. My grandfather came from a numerous family -- if you count just people 1-2 degrees of relationship away, there were over 20 relatives murdered by Russians. And this is just counting that grandfather's side. His future wife, my grandma, had 10 of 13 of her and her first husband's siblings (including her first husband himself) killed in the Warsaw Uprising. The Uprising erupted when the Red Army already had all of east-bank Warsaw and good footholds on the left side; on Stalin's order, they withdrew and waited several months, all while actively denying the brits and americans any possibility for providing air support.
Germans were enemies, but they at least didn't claim they were friends. And they later gave a lot of gestures, begging for forgiveness -- while the Russians didn't even apologize once.
And yeah, Putin retracted all of Gorbatchev's words and punishes anyone he can punish who tries not to deny Russia's past.
Yes, Ukraine was occupied by Russia. In fact, Poland was occupied, too -- by anything but the name, all the way until 1989/91.
Unless you somehow try to argue that "our troops are stationing in your country, they act whenever the local traitor force can't pacify people fast enough (Hungary 56, Czechoslovakia 68, etc), kids who don't cry on the news of your leader's death disappear with their entire families" means "not occupied".
Also, don't forget that Russia occupied Poland in 1772-1918, and made a strong but failed attempt to re-occupy it in 1920.
I've had enough people murdered by Russians in my family to tell you that no, our hatred towards Russia is not a case of "sycophants". When Russian troops entered Poland on 17.IX.1939, they murdered a good part of Polish intelligentsia -- and treated everyone who had any education or property as a class enemy. Most teachers, journalists, priests, etc got wiped. Farmers who owned more land than it was needed for sustainance were disowned (and possibly imprisoned or murdered) as "kulaks", and even any workers who had any _basic_ skills were repressed. My grandfather's uncle, for example, was a mere senior factory worker, yet it was enough to be the reason for his death.
The consequences of the election of Yushenko are already evident. Ukrainian traditional culture is being eroded before one's eyes.
Do you mean, 300 years of Russian occupation didn't really have any negative effects? They have just freed themselves from a powerful, warmongering, authoritarian neighbour. Give them a chance, and forgive them the urge to find new allies with some clout.
There are tons of devices on standby right now. They just don't ever bother to tell you, so you THINK it's off.
Well, it's pretty hard to fail to notice that my USB mouse receives power even with the computer being off. I mean, it's not just a LED, it's nearly bright enough to read by.
This is the second mouse I have that emits so much light -- and we're not speaking about special fancy geek-style mice. They were just the "tell the tech guy at work: 'do we have a mouse I can buy? I'm too damn lazy to go to a shop'" kind.
If your random mouse draws that much power, I guess that the article has a good point.
No Java, not Flash, no other crap. It still doesn't work on MSIE or Opera, but I can always fall back to terminally slow full http requests. These are way too slow for decent interactivity in many cases -- but I can claim it works and direct those who want it to work fluently to a decent browser:p
More seriously, I would prefer a cross-platform solution, but this is nice at least for some users.
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Yeah. Both are promoting sexual attraction to a wrong target.
:p
Letting John marry Bob because "he loves him" and not letting M. Jackson love one of his kids even though "they love each other" means an inequality within the law. If you allow homosexual marriages, you are obliged to allow:
* zoophilia
* necrophilia
* group marriages (including ones with under-age kids (Utah!))
* kill-and-eat-me relations
This is a slippery path on which I wouldn't want to tread. Making concensual sex legal is fine _as long_ as it doesn't give one extra rights: the right to adopt children, marry and receive tax exemptions. Otherwise, I demand a tax refund for the time I lived together with several male friends: we didn't have sex with each other, but you can't discriminate against platonic relationships, can you? If the rights you are promoting would be applied, we could have made a fake group marriage
In some parts of the world, anti-gay propaganda is frowned upon.
In some parts of the world, pro-gay propaganda is frowned upon.
The only way to satisfy people globally, is banning such kind of talk -- in a game, it is TOTALLY out-of-character anyway. Thus, while somewhat limitting the freedom of speech, it bans only topics that are not appropiate to the topic of the game. If you want to discuss outside things, nothing can prevent you from using any outside forum.
I used to be a high-ranking but sub-admin coder on a MUD. We enforced PG13 rules (no swearing, etc), and, while allowing OOC talk in general, we stopped (first by a verbal warning, then another one on the record, then a ban from global comm channels, and in egregious cases with a removal of the character) some topics that are grossly out-of-place. Such topics included talks about someone's sexual exploits, racial and sexual harassment, and yeah, pro-gay and anti-gay propaganda.
You are free to talk about any topic you want, but you are not free to talk about them everywhere. On private property (like a game), the game admins have the right to remove you for not complying with the rules.
1. Get a pile of anything that consists mostly of C,H,O&N. ...
2. Let ultraviolet or similar things affect it.
3. Watch it spawn amino acids and the rest of important chemicals.
4. Proceed for a looooong time, while combinations of simple proteins form and get broken down.
5. After enough time, watch a protein complex have the ability to copy itself.
6. Have it die, then spawn elsewhere every a million years or so.
7. Watch one of such complexes survive long enough to have one of its many copies hit by ultraviolet (mutate) to form something more complex.
8. Have the pre-life grow a cellular wall, turning sparse pools of dirty water turn into small, concentrated tiny blobs of life. Organisms.
9. With actual cells, everything goes downhill.
10. Watch someone invent (create) the underpants gnomes.
11.
Once a structure gets the ability to multiply, it can form new structures. Another example: since creationism and most religions include an urge to preach to non-believers, it _does_ survive. And, it does mutate and evolve into forms such as ID which have a better chance of survival in the hostile environment.
Beh... cellphones? What for?
Transmit the data over CPIP!
Does this include even encrypted connections?
Right, here.
1950s? In Poland, you will usually get your photos erased if you try to photograph a train station today. Sure, they no longer have the right to do so, but most of train guards and people don't realize this. And most folks get intimidated when apprehended by uniformed men who don't know it better.
The actual law was changed just a few years ago, too. And even though it no longer considers train stations "objects of vital military importance", shooting a photo of a lawn at a military training grounds can put you in trouble.
In other news, all statistic that is done on a small sample are really susceptible to noise.
Also, note that many of Firefox users will block any advertising and counting scum, thus reducing the visible usage. IE users tend to be non-technical, and thus they simply don't have the means to do so, at least until the bad evil sysadmin at their company blocks the relevant spies on DNS/squid level.
Of course, 17" CRT and 1024x768 with ClearType is a bad idea. But, when my work monitor broken down and was temporarily replaced with a 15" one at just 1280x1024, I would say that it looked better with ClearType than without it. But yeah, at any pixel size larger than that, the smudged look and visible color bleeding is bad.
Generally, it depends on the font you want to use. All fonts shipped with Windows are an utter mistake with ClearType, on LCD or not. They were made with no AA in mind, and they look just ugly. On the other hand, the new Vista fonts simply need anti-aliasing of some kind.
Actually, you CAN'T have normal gray-scale aliasing on Windows. It simply ignores any attempts to turn it on even if you use the relevant APIs, for all sizes 7-13.
:( ...), LCD -> sub-pixel anti-aliasing (ie, ClearType without the TM mark :p)
On the other hand, if you say that ClearType should be on, it is on. This makes it the only apparent way to force anti-aliasing, and thus, it is useful even on CRTs in big resolutions on a small physical display.
Thus, it's best to use:
* Windows, LCD -> ClearType
* Windows, CRT, small-to-medium res per size -> no antialiasing
* Windows, CRT, big res, tiny screen -> ClearType
* FreeType renderer (Linux,
* FreeType renderer, CRT -> gray-scale anti-aliasing
This leads to ridiculous results, where the new Vista fonts are really usable on CRT only if you use a non-Microsoft system. And I admit that they are just awesome.
Hmm... SVG... it would be just _great_, except for the fact that most people use a certain poor excuse for a browser.
Just a technical note: why would your page force people to get a SVG plugin if most modern browsers already can handle it natively?
Well, the Google Map API isn't that complex.
I've once created a simpler thing for my T2T map page -- it doesn't have zoom and uses only one image instead of a bunch dynamically fetched, but generally it works in a similar way. And I'm a complete beginner in JS.
I would say, an experienced programmer would be able to recreate the API in less than a week. It's not the complexity what is cool -- it is the idea.
Contrary to what certain low-moderated posts say, this article is not a dupe.
We got Q3/Q4 reports from both Free and NetBSD.
I somehow predict a yet another article soon...
Requiring signed executables is a good security practice
Wrong. It's something terrible for the customers, as they are locked into a single vendor, and can't even fix problems that affect them.
What we really want, is having a warning when installing a non-signed executable, but being able to override that warning. This means, no one can fool the user into accepting binaries that were tampered with, but the user has the freedom to install binaries with his own and/or third party's modifications.
The freedom to fork and freedom to fix bugs is an important thing. Without it, the GPL is not worth the disk space it is written on.
Northern Europe will become MUCH colder.
Crap. I knew that this whole global warming thingy is a plot by Russia to force us into purchasing more gas for exorbitant prices.
Really, we're having one of hashest winters in the recent X years...
It was -26C here just a few days ago, on the latitude of 50N.
So even though the average temp is increasing, the amplitude is increasing even faster.
We'll just turn all of south america and africa into big ethanol farms
Or, we'll turn most of Russia into a big ethanol farm... oh, wait...
Well, you see, I can find some a lot better uses for ethanol than using it as a fuel...
Am I forgetting it? Hell no! I just preferred to use an example from my own family over something which is well-known to everyone who attended to any but Russian schools.
My grandfather came from a numerous family -- if you count just people 1-2 degrees of relationship away, there were over 20 relatives murdered by Russians.
And this is just counting that grandfather's side. His future wife, my grandma, had 10 of 13 of her and her first husband's siblings (including her first husband himself) killed in the Warsaw Uprising. The Uprising erupted when the Red Army already had all of east-bank Warsaw and good footholds on the left side; on Stalin's order, they withdrew and waited several months, all while actively denying the brits and americans any possibility for providing air support.
Germans were enemies, but they at least didn't claim they were friends. And they later gave a lot of gestures, begging for forgiveness -- while the Russians didn't even apologize once.
And yeah, Putin retracted all of Gorbatchev's words and punishes anyone he can punish who tries not to deny Russia's past.
Yes, Ukraine was occupied by Russia.
In fact, Poland was occupied, too -- by anything but the name, all the way until 1989/91.
Unless you somehow try to argue that "our troops are stationing in your country, they act whenever the local traitor force can't pacify people fast enough (Hungary 56, Czechoslovakia 68, etc), kids who don't cry on the news of your leader's death disappear with their entire families" means "not occupied".
Also, don't forget that Russia occupied Poland in 1772-1918, and made a strong but failed attempt to re-occupy it in 1920.
I've had enough people murdered by Russians in my family to tell you that no, our hatred towards Russia is not a case of "sycophants". When Russian troops entered Poland on 17.IX.1939, they murdered a good part of Polish intelligentsia -- and treated everyone who had any education or property as a class enemy. Most teachers, journalists, priests, etc got wiped. Farmers who owned more land than it was needed for sustainance were disowned (and possibly imprisoned or murdered) as "kulaks", and even any workers who had any _basic_ skills were repressed. My grandfather's uncle, for example, was a mere senior factory worker, yet it was enough to be the reason for his death.
In one of the most fertile regions of the world, a drought would cause just a reduction of crops. Not massive starvation.
The consequences of the election of Yushenko are already evident. Ukrainian traditional culture is being eroded before one's eyes.
Do you mean, 300 years of Russian occupation didn't really have any negative effects?
They have just freed themselves from a powerful, warmongering, authoritarian neighbour. Give them a chance, and forgive them the urge to find new allies with some clout.
There are tons of devices on standby right now. They just don't ever bother to tell you, so you THINK it's off.
Well, it's pretty hard to fail to notice that my USB mouse receives power even with the computer being off. I mean, it's not just a LED, it's nearly bright enough to read by.
This is the second mouse I have that emits so much light -- and we're not speaking about special fancy geek-style mice. They were just the "tell the tech guy at work: 'do we have a mouse I can buy? I'm too damn lazy to go to a shop'" kind.
If your random mouse draws that much power, I guess that the article has a good point.
Schweet.
:p
No Java, not Flash, no other crap. It still doesn't work on MSIE or Opera, but I can always fall back to terminally slow full http requests. These are way too slow for decent interactivity in many cases -- but I can claim it works and direct those who want it to work fluently to a decent browser
More seriously, I would prefer a cross-platform solution, but this is nice at least for some users.