she said she used it as a dictionary. It gets tough for me to distinguish
No shit. That's because you're not god. You've no right to judge people guilty and ban their stuff, or even force them to change their behaviour, without investigation, evidence, and a trial. Even with all that, many would question whether true justice was present.
And the qualifier is, of course, "qualifying." The article doesn't say who qualifies,
And it doesn't really matter, so long as you fill in the application form to tell them all about your organisation, tell MS whether it's worth having a sales rep call you, and educate yourself about Microsoft's offerings.
Maybe if you're a really big target segment and very likely to go open source, they'll shove exchange or something like that down your throat for free. You'll end up paying for all the basic functionality that Linux gives for free, one way or another.
Oh, if you really think it's sound, you should look into making everything use a sound daemon, or making everything use alsa with it's virtual mixer card thing (whatever it's called:D)
Are you a coder? You don't sound like one. How about if I pay you to build an app for my API, which is documented to 96% accuracy? You'll guarantee to complete the app to my specifications, on time and for a fixed price, I hope? Here's the app spec:
Should deliver $10000 to my account when the on-screen button is pressed.
Ubuntu still gives me random lockups from time to time
Linux has crap drivers, sadly. But you might want to buy a better mobo in future; bad motherboards are often a source of frustration that's hard to identify.
That's why Python has "universal newlines": so that the code units representing newline on MS-DOS (0D 0A) and pre-2002 Mac OS (0D) get translated to UNIX newlines (0A) within the standard library.
I like python too, but I'm pretty sure the standard C library has been doing like this for decades, with the text-mode open(, "r") etc. [as opposed to the binary mode, open(, "rb") etc.].
It's "Hang, draw, and quarter". They would "hang" you but not drop you as they do in modern times
I believe he was referring to the much more more ancient and noble tradition, whereby inquisitors would take a number 2 hard leaded pencil, and make a few quick sketches to scare you. Generally these would include yourself being hung, and given quarters.
In LaTeX, you can write a three-letter macro to add all those newlines for you. You could even make it support arguments, so you could tell it how many blank pages to add.
But this is precisely the problem. Some people don't get that, and think they can take every word literally. Except that they ignore all the literal words that don't suit their pre-conceived purposes.
You're to be congratulated for seeing the veiled metaphors and higher wisdom present in books like the bible, but it's a small portion of the so-called religious who do.
It's kind of like cars: sure the McLaren F1 may be faster than my Ford Focus, but it's not the car that's setting the 75mph speed limit.
Actually, it's because there's a "speed limit" that the extra performance matters most.
Graphics acceleration for animation etc. is all about getting stuff rendered within the time a frame takes to complete. If you miss that time, graphics stutter, tear, or just plain look boring.
Now remember that acceleration of a line or a video means you have more time to do other things. Just like how acceleration of 3d texturing meant more time to add extra layers of texture and thus achieve more realism.
There wouldn't be much to license; they'll simply be pushing high-level graphics calls down the API/driver stack to the graphics layer. The open equivalent would be for firefox/webkit to have high-level graphics API calls added to the X rendering libraries (cairo or whatever) and call those directly when running on systems that have the necessary libraries. The X-window graphics stack would then do its part, by providing high-level graphics primitives and high-level API functions implemented with fast, low-level code that's tailored to your hardware. The most obvious candidate for achieving that is Gallium3D.
What for? Object tags have been around for years, and can embed ANY type of content in a webpage. I was doing video streaming (along with custom play/pause buttons etc.) with them and the older embed tag back in 2000. I believe object has been around since '96, and embed longer. AND, object can support any multimedia content, including video, audio, flash, panoramas, applets, etc. I'm not sure how advanced/generic DOM scripting is for them, but that should be relatively easy to define as well as anything for the video tag can be defined.
The only thing special that I know of about the video tag is a standardised video format, but mpeg4 and now x264 are pretty much de facto anyway. WebM is nicer, if it supports the multiple angles and subtitles and everything that matroska supports. Apart from that, the open standard is nice, but I don't see much to get excited about.
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Did you just call him a dick? ;)
No shit. That's because you're not god. You've no right to judge people guilty and ban their stuff, or even force them to change their behaviour, without investigation, evidence, and a trial. Even with all that, many would question whether true justice was present.
I like my macro better. It's what I was taught in LaTeX wordpressing class, and I'm sticking with it.
And it doesn't really matter, so long as you fill in the application form to tell them all about your organisation, tell MS whether it's worth having a sales rep call you, and educate yourself about Microsoft's offerings.
Maybe if you're a really big target segment and very likely to go open source, they'll shove exchange or something like that down your throat for free. You'll end up paying for all the basic functionality that Linux gives for free, one way or another.
And some creatures' gender is decided by temperature. What's your point?
Try packed with gender-changing hormones ;)
Indeed. Algae farm + weedkiller sounds like a natural combo.
Sounds good, but you only said "there", without saying where.
Of course not. You're supposed to have an "Oh, sorry, you're browser is broken, please file a bug report with the developers." moment.
Like I give a crap about Adobe's latest rebranding ploy ;)
It's better than the truth: soylent green is people.
Oh, if you really think it's sound, you should look into making everything use a sound daemon, or making everything use alsa with it's virtual mixer card thing (whatever it's called :D)
"Cross-platform" means that Windows hates you, and doesn't want your damn chocolates. Or your fucking flowers. Bastard.
Because Visual Studio sucks? ;)
Are you a coder? You don't sound like one. How about if I pay you to build an app for my API, which is documented to 96% accuracy? You'll guarantee to complete the app to my specifications, on time and for a fixed price, I hope? Here's the app spec:
Should deliver $10000 to my account when the on-screen button is pressed.
and the API:
bool deliver_funds(dst_account, src_account, amt);
returns: boolean true for success, false for failure
Moves amt US Dollars from src_account to dst_account.
By the way, we have a new version close to release, but still internal. Release notes:
* fixed a bug in deliver_funds. Rather than using the src_account number supplied, it seemed to prefer the developer's accounts.
Hahha, I see. Thanks for that :)
Yes. But some are much less bad than others.
I like python too, but I'm pretty sure the standard C library has been doing like this for decades, with the text-mode open(, "r") etc. [as opposed to the binary mode, open(, "rb") etc.].
I believe he was referring to the much more more ancient and noble tradition, whereby inquisitors would take a number 2 hard leaded pencil, and make a few quick sketches to scare you. Generally these would include yourself being hung, and given quarters.
In LaTeX, you can write a three-letter macro to add all those newlines for you. You could even make it support arguments, so you could tell it how many blank pages to add.
But this is precisely the problem. Some people don't get that, and think they can take every word literally. Except that they ignore all the literal words that don't suit their pre-conceived purposes.
You're to be congratulated for seeing the veiled metaphors and higher wisdom present in books like the bible, but it's a small portion of the so-called religious who do.
Actually, it's because there's a "speed limit" that the extra performance matters most.
Graphics acceleration for animation etc. is all about getting stuff rendered within the time a frame takes to complete. If you miss that time, graphics stutter, tear, or just plain look boring.
Now remember that acceleration of a line or a video means you have more time to do other things. Just like how acceleration of 3d texturing meant more time to add extra layers of texture and thus achieve more realism.
There wouldn't be much to license; they'll simply be pushing high-level graphics calls down the API/driver stack to the graphics layer. The open equivalent would be for firefox/webkit to have high-level graphics API calls added to the X rendering libraries (cairo or whatever) and call those directly when running on systems that have the necessary libraries. The X-window graphics stack would then do its part, by providing high-level graphics primitives and high-level API functions implemented with fast, low-level code that's tailored to your hardware. The most obvious candidate for achieving that is Gallium3D.
Sadly, when the competition is also rendering it incorrectly, the comparison seems fair.
What for? Object tags have been around for years, and can embed ANY type of content in a webpage. I was doing video streaming (along with custom play/pause buttons etc.) with them and the older embed tag back in 2000. I believe object has been around since '96, and embed longer. AND, object can support any multimedia content, including video, audio, flash, panoramas, applets, etc. I'm not sure how advanced/generic DOM scripting is for them, but that should be relatively easy to define as well as anything for the video tag can be defined.
The only thing special that I know of about the video tag is a standardised video format, but mpeg4 and now x264 are pretty much de facto anyway. WebM is nicer, if it supports the multiple angles and subtitles and everything that matroska supports. Apart from that, the open standard is nice, but I don't see much to get excited about.