Um, I gave help for someone else on how to do that, I didn't really have an image I could link to. Being on/. and everything, perhaps you could use Google to help you find some breasts?
Krita makes very much sense to me. Means "crayon" in swedish, which certainly seems appropiate.
Actually, it's even better than that. If you suspect the usual KDE naming convention (Add K in front of whatever), and remove the K, you get "rita". Which means "draw" in Swedish...
My only strange question is how it got that name, when none of the developers seems to have a swedish origin. Or am I missing someone?
Seems to be quite easy, if the info on the page is correct. All you would have to do is basically add that to some kind of program, maybe "Crack.exe", "XXX.jpg.exe" (with icon from a pron image, or for the/. crowd still on the dark side: "Breasts.jpg.exe" with the same trick.
Sorry, didn't work, it seems. But remember, hell has now officially frozen over (mac on x86, debian released, etc). Only thing missing is Duke Nukem Forever, but we do have to save something for when pigs fly too, don't we?:)
I wasn't aware Firefox was prefetching links. Is this part of the standard distribution of Firefox or is it as usual an addon?
BTW, the same could be said about IE but because of another reason... It does visit a whole buttload of pages, which the user never asked it to go to...
Yeah, I sure was stuck under a rock, even though I know they were already available for others...
My family didn't get a computer until 1993, it was meant for bookkeeping only (though we, ie I and my sisters, changed that fact easily), and thus didn't even have a sound card. The first computer with a sound card we only got around that time I mentioned (it still was meant for bookkeeping, but then the multimedia hype had started, so it did have a sound card...)
You could (and in this case probably should) subdivide the groups even more. There are "legal downloads" from online music stores, and there are "legal downloads" on the net available for free (musicians putting up music for free downloads themselves etc), which certainly are legal, but aren't really in the interest of the RIAA bosses.
I for one, actually made legal downloads far earlier than illegal ones. In the 97-98 time range there were some formats (XM,IT,MOD) quite widely spread (among geeks) smaller in file size than MP3s, if the author made them available. And they did. Most of the musicians were working like people on/. want the music industry to work (heck, lots of them probably are here).
But MP3s? Back on the modem it was a PITA to download MP3s (we still burned CDs with them though, sharing by the manual work protocol).
These take CF cards and are supplied with a 4GB microdrive - so if moving parts are not your thing (but spending lots of money is) then you can easily pick up a 4GB Ultra II.
You DO know that a microdrive is basically a minituarized hard drive in a flash card package? Even though it might be more rugged than a standard hard drive, it still contains moving parts...
Are you really, really sure? And you are talking about the european software patent proposal? Because in the european variant, as I've understood it, your invention actually has to do something - to be "technical". That holds for both proposals as I've understood it. Also, in both proposals, software as such won't be patentable, actually. What will be patentable if the dark side wins, though, is a computer system (an off-the-shelf-one) with the software installed. Thus, at least in Europe, as I've understood, it would be totally legal to publish the software as a literary work, and totally illegal to use it as an actual software. Of course, none of this has been taken to court, but at least for me the answer to the question isn't really obvious that a book with source code would be illegal unless used to program computers - as the patent is on the computer system, and not on the computer software as such. There could be made an argument that the code was meant to be read, not to be programming computers with, at least if distributed in dead-tree-form.
And also, do get my "joke" about the Shakespear programming language. It was partly jokingly, partly seriously meant. Also - at least some strange people here at/. consider some code even in other programming languages a type of art (not all obviously, but the situation is the same in traditional arts). As I wondered - where actually is the border between poetry and code, or for that matter code and maths?
(would be good to corrected by a link to a credible source - FFII or equal, if I really am wrong about the software patents in Europe, though).
No, I haven't, but I do know how it works (my student union at my university did, me being one of the users), but you also seem to miss my point totally.
My main point is that there is a reason to really have AC post possibility, and it would be bad to throw the baby away with the bath water.
A possible solution to make both of us happy is still having to login, only being able to post as AC when ticking that box below...
No, as I explained in my comment below, you can't, with the possible (not certain) exception of following posts on the same topic. By cross-correlating different "anonymous" comments, you can find out a lot of info. Data mining, you know...
Even though you are modded "funny", your comment gives me an interesting thought. There isn't really a clear definition what is literature or code, or for that matter between what is mathematics and what is code (that's another argument for not allowing software patents - but that's another story).
As the proposed patent regulation in Europe wouldn't outlaw the writing of the code as such, we could basically as a non-violent "Mahatma Gandhi"-demonstration against it, publisize the code, but as literature (or, for that matter, maths). Stranger things should have been publicized before, there's lot of strange poetry etc floating around. If in doubt, we'll just have to port all open source projects to Shakespear.
This wouldn't really in theory help - compiling the code and putting it on a computer wouldn still infringe the patents. There wouldn't be any easy way to control it, though, compare with the indian salt marches during the indian independence fight...
So you mean, for each and every AC post I want to do, I have to get an e-mail (ok, that's already done - have a whole domain forwarded to my account, but everybody might not be that (un)lucky (spam!)). Then I have to create a new account, write the post, repeat from start.
What you forget, is that by cross-correlating the content of different posts belonging to the same account, you might at the end find out a lot about the author. That's not possible with AC posts - there are many AC's. Of course, some one could create an account MrAC, post the password publicly, but then we would be back where we started, wouldn't we?
Oh, sorry, my comment was roughly off. The grandparent was talking about legal sized paper. That is, actually quite a lot bigger than Letter/A4. It's easy to make the mistake though - here in Germany we only have one standard - A4, that's roughly that size. (why do you have two so similar sizes, really? One european and one american standard would at least be understandable, but one with european origin and two with american???)
Here, here and here is more info on paper size standards. Especially the second one is interesting. According to it, the systems have been in use from more or less the same time. The american system is quite new, 20th century thing, first reference in 1921 (but not with today's size then). The A? was first proposed already during the 18th century, and legalized in France, although not very widely used and forgotten again. It was reproposed in Germany 1922, and rapidly spread to many other countries. (of course in Germany - it's a very orderly made system - in Deutschland muß ja Ordnung sein!). So the answer is - it was the americans who made the second system...
According to the sources, Letter/Legal is only used in Mexico, USA and Canada, whereas the A?-system is used more or less in the rest of the world, and the A?-system also has certain positive technical sides - as the aspect ratio is constant from size to size, and an A4 can be parted in two A5 pieces easily, scaling documents up or down can be done without any white edges, giving an easy possibility for thumbnails, copying two A4 pages onto a single one (saving paper) etc...
It's still not perfect though. Even though the paper format is standardized all over the world (almost), the binder hole format is not. That leads to binders and documents possibly being totally incompatible (which has been a problem for me - as a swede in Germany)...
You're very informative, it's a pity Slashdot is filled with geeks and not musicians, though. A lot of people actually have done what you suggest for a long time (even though most of them are amateurs). Actually, I have done exactly what you suggest (except the selling million copies:) - I haven't sold a single one, but a couple thousand downloads (don't have exact number) is quite nice that too considering I think I'm being counted to the lesser amateurs). The first song was put on the net by me in 1998. And I certainly wasn't first to do that...
A couple of guys who did, erm, a bit better than me, are Lagoona. I don't actually think they sold a million copies either, but at least they sold some, and they had millions of downloads, for sure. If they hadn't had had problems with MP3.com they might have done even better...
Basically, musicians distributing their music themselves is the nightmare of the RIAA bosses. That would reduce their record companies to studio renting services, copyright holder companies and online music salepoints (woops. Apple took that market - two out of three ain't that bad though).
Sorry, seems better than it is. The new law "Upphovsrättslagen" was voted through last month by riksdagen. (link in Swedish)
Even though ThePirateBay might not have to close down immediately at 1st of July due to the legislators really f*cking up the thing they were aiming for not thinking about outlawing BT-like techniques, it is still quite horrid.
Things that has been discussed in other part of this thread, like breaking copy protection mechanisms, are being made illegal, however crappy they are (shift key anyone?). Heck - even spreading information about how to crack them is made illegal.
Also, the levy on unrecorded media for fair use private copies (works just like the canadian systems) is being RAISED and applied to NEW types of media, not inherently specifically for audio or video (as it was before). In theory according to the law, the fee for a DVDRW might be as high as SEK20 (~=$3), even though CopySwede probably will put a rebate on that amount... Still - it really doesn't make sense (you're still allowed to make a copy of your non-copyprotected stuff - good luck to find such with "DRM" CDs and legally bought wma files, and encrypted DVDs).
Yeah, but the point really is that Fisher-Price may have well-designed products for its target audience, but Microsoft's target at least shouldn't be the same, and therefore shouldn't be designed like FisherPrice, if they want to earn money. Few two-year-olds spend a lot of money on computer software...;-)
It IS bigger than the 12" this is correct. however it is bigger in only one direction and since all of the other specs are so significantly superior, I think this is an area where one could compromise.
You're totally missing that we live in a three-dimensional world. I can't believe that thing should be as thin as the iBook (unless it's built of lead or something). So you basically have same size in one direction, and bigger in the other two. (width+thickness). That wouldn't probably change the possibility to put the laptop in the backpack, but it would reduce the amount of books you could put there concurrently with your laptop...
And btw considering the backpack - I should perhaps enlight you with the fact that I'm in Europe. No one here uses Letter paper, at least not in Germany or Sweden where I've spent the last 23,5 years. And the iBook is an almost perfect match with DIN A4, so I can play that argument card too.:)
Why would you, seriously, consider a 4 kg luggable as a substitute for a small computer as an iBook??? I just can't understand it - even though I do understand that sometimes a luggable is what fits best...
Even if we DO accept that a 15" PC laptop could be comparable with the 15" one - there are lots of 15" PC laptops that weigh A LOT less and still have all the candy (they're Pentium/Celeron M ones though - might be a little more expensive but not more than is justifiable by performance differences).
Basically, a luggable is not at all even in the nearest in the same market segment as an iBook - a sleek Pentium M is, even if it's a little bigger and heavier, but this - it's plain silly - it's not a little heavier - it's not even not that far from the double weight. And even you have noticed yourself that the battery time plain sucks...
(add jokes about toasted testicles and jet engines here, btw - some of the really bad sides of the P4m)
In Sweden, there is something called e-kort, available at Föreningssparbanken and at least one more bank (don't remember exactly which one though).
Basically, it's a service from the bank, giving you the opportunity to create disposable one time, amount limited, credit card numbers, with a shorter than normal expiry time. More or less does exactly what you want, but in a totally different way...:)
Backside: Only works for online purchases, unfortunately. OTOH, this is/. so there isn't really any reason to consider other use cases...
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Um, I gave help for someone else on how to do that, I didn't really have an image I could link to. Being on /. and everything, perhaps you could use Google to help you find some breasts?
Actually, it's even better than that. If you suspect the usual KDE naming convention (Add K in front of whatever), and remove the K, you get "rita". Which means "draw" in Swedish...
My only strange question is how it got that name, when none of the developers seems to have a swedish origin. Or am I missing someone?
Seems to be quite easy, if the info on the page is correct. All you would have to do is basically add that to some kind of program, maybe "Crack.exe", "XXX.jpg.exe" (with icon from a pron image, or for the /. crowd still on the dark side: "Breasts.jpg.exe" with the same trick.
Sorry, didn't work, it seems. But remember, hell has now officially frozen over (mac on x86, debian released, etc). Only thing missing is Duke Nukem Forever, but we do have to save something for when pigs fly too, don't we? :)
BTW, the same could be said about IE but because of another reason... It does visit a whole buttload of pages, which the user never asked it to go to...
My family didn't get a computer until 1993, it was meant for bookkeeping only (though we, ie I and my sisters, changed that fact easily), and thus didn't even have a sound card. The first computer with a sound card we only got around that time I mentioned (it still was meant for bookkeeping, but then the multimedia hype had started, so it did have a sound card...)
I for one, actually made legal downloads far earlier than illegal ones. In the 97-98 time range there were some formats (XM,IT,MOD) quite widely spread (among geeks) smaller in file size than MP3s, if the author made them available. And they did. Most of the musicians were working like people on /. want the music industry to work (heck, lots of them probably are here).
But MP3s? Back on the modem it was a PITA to download MP3s (we still burned CDs with them though, sharing by the manual work protocol).
Oops, misread that comment... :)
ICs are geeky. Though, the hardware geeks aren't of exactly the same flavour as the software ones...
As long as it's +5 Funny, that shouldn't be a problem though? *ducks*
You DO know that a microdrive is basically a minituarized hard drive in a flash card package? Even though it might be more rugged than a standard hard drive, it still contains moving parts...
Actually, the average geek might not even have lady friends... ;-)
And also, do get my "joke" about the Shakespear programming language. It was partly jokingly, partly seriously meant. Also - at least some strange people here at /. consider some code even in other programming languages a type of art (not all obviously, but the situation is the same in traditional arts). As I wondered - where actually is the border between poetry and code, or for that matter code and maths?
(would be good to corrected by a link to a credible source - FFII or equal, if I really am wrong about the software patents in Europe, though).
Unfortunately I haven't got any mod points yet (check my user number), so I can't say I know how modding works that well...
My main point is that there is a reason to really have AC post possibility, and it would be bad to throw the baby away with the bath water.
A possible solution to make both of us happy is still having to login, only being able to post as AC when ticking that box below...
No, as I explained in my comment below, you can't, with the possible (not certain) exception of following posts on the same topic. By cross-correlating different "anonymous" comments, you can find out a lot of info. Data mining, you know...
As the proposed patent regulation in Europe wouldn't outlaw the writing of the code as such, we could basically as a non-violent "Mahatma Gandhi"-demonstration against it, publisize the code, but as literature (or, for that matter, maths). Stranger things should have been publicized before, there's lot of strange poetry etc floating around. If in doubt, we'll just have to port all open source projects to Shakespear.
This wouldn't really in theory help - compiling the code and putting it on a computer wouldn still infringe the patents. There wouldn't be any easy way to control it, though, compare with the indian salt marches during the indian independence fight...
What you forget, is that by cross-correlating the content of different posts belonging to the same account, you might at the end find out a lot about the author. That's not possible with AC posts - there are many AC's. Of course, some one could create an account MrAC, post the password publicly, but then we would be back where we started, wouldn't we?
Here, here and here is more info on paper size standards. Especially the second one is interesting. According to it, the systems have been in use from more or less the same time. The american system is quite new, 20th century thing, first reference in 1921 (but not with today's size then). The A? was first proposed already during the 18th century, and legalized in France, although not very widely used and forgotten again. It was reproposed in Germany 1922, and rapidly spread to many other countries. (of course in Germany - it's a very orderly made system - in Deutschland muß ja Ordnung sein!). So the answer is - it was the americans who made the second system...
According to the sources, Letter/Legal is only used in Mexico, USA and Canada, whereas the A?-system is used more or less in the rest of the world, and the A?-system also has certain positive technical sides - as the aspect ratio is constant from size to size, and an A4 can be parted in two A5 pieces easily, scaling documents up or down can be done without any white edges, giving an easy possibility for thumbnails, copying two A4 pages onto a single one (saving paper) etc...
It's still not perfect though. Even though the paper format is standardized all over the world (almost), the binder hole format is not. That leads to binders and documents possibly being totally incompatible (which has been a problem for me - as a swede in Germany)...
A couple of guys who did, erm, a bit better than me, are Lagoona. I don't actually think they sold a million copies either, but at least they sold some, and they had millions of downloads, for sure. If they hadn't had had problems with MP3.com they might have done even better...
Basically, musicians distributing their music themselves is the nightmare of the RIAA bosses. That would reduce their record companies to studio renting services, copyright holder companies and online music salepoints (woops. Apple took that market - two out of three ain't that bad though).
Even though ThePirateBay might not have to close down immediately at 1st of July due to the legislators really f*cking up the thing they were aiming for not thinking about outlawing BT-like techniques, it is still quite horrid.
Things that has been discussed in other part of this thread, like breaking copy protection mechanisms, are being made illegal, however crappy they are (shift key anyone?). Heck - even spreading information about how to crack them is made illegal.
Also, the levy on unrecorded media for fair use private copies (works just like the canadian systems) is being RAISED and applied to NEW types of media, not inherently specifically for audio or video (as it was before). In theory according to the law, the fee for a DVDRW might be as high as SEK20 (~=$3), even though CopySwede probably will put a rebate on that amount... Still - it really doesn't make sense (you're still allowed to make a copy of your non-copyprotected stuff - good luck to find such with "DRM" CDs and legally bought wma files, and encrypted DVDs).
Yeah, but the point really is that Fisher-Price may have well-designed products for its target audience, but Microsoft's target at least shouldn't be the same, and therefore shouldn't be designed like FisherPrice, if they want to earn money. Few two-year-olds spend a lot of money on computer software... ;-)
It IS bigger than the 12" this is correct. however it is bigger in only one direction and since all of the other specs are so significantly superior, I think this is an area where one could compromise.
You're totally missing that we live in a three-dimensional world. I can't believe that thing should be as thin as the iBook (unless it's built of lead or something). So you basically have same size in one direction, and bigger in the other two. (width+thickness). That wouldn't probably change the possibility to put the laptop in the backpack, but it would reduce the amount of books you could put there concurrently with your laptop...
And btw considering the backpack - I should perhaps enlight you with the fact that I'm in Europe. No one here uses Letter paper, at least not in Germany or Sweden where I've spent the last 23,5 years. And the iBook is an almost perfect match with DIN A4, so I can play that argument card too. :)
Even if we DO accept that a 15" PC laptop could be comparable with the 15" one - there are lots of 15" PC laptops that weigh A LOT less and still have all the candy (they're Pentium/Celeron M ones though - might be a little more expensive but not more than is justifiable by performance differences).
Basically, a luggable is not at all even in the nearest in the same market segment as an iBook - a sleek Pentium M is, even if it's a little bigger and heavier, but this - it's plain silly - it's not a little heavier - it's not even not that far from the double weight. And even you have noticed yourself that the battery time plain sucks...
(add jokes about toasted testicles and jet engines here, btw - some of the really bad sides of the P4m)
Basically, it's a service from the bank, giving you the opportunity to create disposable one time, amount limited, credit card numbers, with a shorter than normal expiry time. More or less does exactly what you want, but in a totally different way... :)
Backside: Only works for online purchases, unfortunately. OTOH, this is /. so there isn't really any reason to consider other use cases...