Re:Missing the point of CMYK?
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If you can't code, then go to rentacoder or simular sites and pay somebody to add the features you think you need... chances are it will still be cheaper than paying for an equivalent commercial product. What part of "It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness" are you not quite clear on?
Missing the point of CMYK?
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See a need? Meet it your self. Don't wait for some mythical "someone else" to do it for you. RGB to CMYK conversion is pretty well known and shouldn't be that difficult to implement, IMHO.
Well, obviously allowing anonymous posting is not a good idea, as it significantly lowers your signal to noise ratio. In fact, there should be some sort of cost associated with creating each online persona, to discourage people from creating throwaway accounts just for the purpose of harrasing others. Although why anybody considers it worth their time to troll is beyond me...
One of the main purposes of an online community is to establish your credibility over time with consistently insightful comments. Thus an archive where you can lookup up the complete history of a subject or online persona is necessary.
I think the best way to proceed is to just start a community, attract whoever you can, and then let the community itself guide (and hopefully help implement) any enhancements.
when you travel at the speed of light, then time is stopped for you That solves the conundrum of "If you are driving at the speed of light, and you turn on your headlights, what happens?" You can't turn on your headlights, since time has stopped for you! However, doesn't this make it a little difficult to navigate when your traveling at the speed of light? Or more to the point, doesn't your relative reaction time get slower the faster you go?
If evidence of bacterial life was found on Mars, that wouldn't be evidence of independent origin. More likely, it would be cause to suspect a common source, e.g. life originating in asteroids which impacted both Mars and Earth. It is even possible that "life" ejected from one planet in a meteoroid collision survived the trip through space to land on the other planet. Granted, the odds against this are huge, but a lot can happen in 4 billion years.
Every one of the tens of millions of hotmail customers have and use a.NET passport. That includes many slashdotters (like me). Granted, most of these are throw-away email accounts, but still, they are used.
What an amazing day to live in, when we may be at the threshold of discovering LIFE on ANOTHER PLANET! Better yet, we may be at the threshold of creating life on another planet! As far-fetched as the eventual terra-forming of Mars seems, it is much more likely than finding little green men, or even little green bacteria, already living there.
100 year registration is plain silly. Really? Microsoft has repeatedly forgotten to renew domains -- once bringing hotmail to a screeching halt. The other time I beleive it only impacted Microsoft UK. The cost of hotmail being out of service for a day probably far exceeds the cost of registering it for the next hundred years.
True, this is not a scientific survey. However, my personal experience tells me Linux is being considered for about half of all new devices. Look at the economics. A wireless access point is now about a $50 device. How much sense does it make to pay a $25 license fee for the OS for every one of these? You simply can't do that and still remain competitive. Arguably, you can't pay ANY per-unit license fees now and still remain competive with companies that are paying only development costs -- at least for any devices selling in high volumes.
Uh, no, the planets are hardly ever in a straight line. Just imaging all the orbits are perpendicular to the surface of the Earth. A truly accurate model of the solar system would have all the planets moving around the model of the Sun on elliptic tracks... then you could complain about the curvature of the earth.
"We are firm in our belief that the unchecked spread of open-source software, under the GPL (the General Public License covers Linux and many other open-source programs), is a much more serious threat to our capitalist system than U.S. corporations realize," McBride said. Right. That's why much larger corporations than SCO, like IBM and HP, are avidly supporting Unix... because they want to destroy our capitalist system! McBride, if you honestly beleived this, shouldn't you buy shares in these companies, and institute a shareholder lawsuit? Obviously the destruction of capitalism can't be good for the shareholders of IBM or HP, can it?
Doesn't the legal principle of sovereing Immunity imply that you can't sue the Feds without their permission? Something tells me that using the Federal Court system to screw the Federal Government out of money isn't going to be terribly productive. Why can't the government say "You wanna mess with us? Fine! We refuse to enforce ANY of your 'intellectual property rights'. Unix is now officially public domain!" or something to that effect...
In fact, a new class of game would be to simply provide the world server and document the APIs, then allow anyone to write their own clients. People could oompete on how usable their interface design was, instead of just how nimble their fingers are. (Other strategies such as maximizing your own bandwidth while DoSing your competitors present themselves as well.) Of course, there is no profit to be made in doing an online game like that...
Voluntarily giving up your privacy with fully informed consent is much different then sneaking in spyware without telling you about it. Those that are paranoid about privacy simply won't install it.
Even if that were true, it is perfectly legal for law enforcement to hire third party consultants who aren't bound by the same rules. In this case, the "decoy" can truthfully answer that they are not a cop - they are just someone hired by the cops to help them make vice arrests!
I disagree. I beleive there are legal precedents that have found it is perfectly legal for cops to lie. What isn't legal is use of coercion to force people to incriminate themselves. The cops can lie all they want -- if you offer money for something considered unlawful in your jurisdiction, you're busted!
Let me remind you that calling up Darl McBride and reminding him that he is an asshole is also considered vigilantism. So is subscribing known spammers to mailing lists. Morality isn't as black and white as you appear to beleive.
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If you can't code, then go to rentacoder or simular sites and pay somebody to add the features you think you need... chances are it will still be cheaper than paying for an equivalent commercial product. What part of "It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness" are you not quite clear on?
See a need? Meet it your self. Don't wait for some mythical "someone else" to do it for you. RGB to CMYK conversion is pretty well known and shouldn't be that difficult to implement, IMHO.
Well, obviously allowing anonymous posting is not a good idea, as it significantly lowers your signal to noise ratio. In fact, there should be some sort of cost associated with creating each online persona, to discourage people from creating throwaway accounts just for the purpose of harrasing others. Although why anybody considers it worth their time to troll is beyond me...
One of the main purposes of an online community is to establish your credibility over time with consistently insightful comments. Thus an archive where you can lookup up the complete history of a subject or online persona is necessary.
I think the best way to proceed is to just start a community, attract whoever you can, and then let the community itself guide (and hopefully help implement) any enhancements.
when you travel at the speed of light, then time is stopped for you That solves the conundrum of "If you are driving at the speed of light, and you turn on your headlights, what happens?" You can't turn on your headlights, since time has stopped for you! However, doesn't this make it a little difficult to navigate when your traveling at the speed of light? Or more to the point, doesn't your relative reaction time get slower the faster you go?
Are you sure it's a good idea to have presentation software that actually responds to comments shouted out by hecklers in the audience?
Remember, the opera isn't over until the fat lady sings!
I, for one, really don't want to find out what website uttering a sudden exclamation like "Oh, shit!" will take me to!
Obviously this is Eisner's last, desperate attempt to make Disney more popular...
If evidence of bacterial life was found on Mars, that wouldn't be evidence of independent origin. More likely, it would be cause to suspect a common source, e.g. life originating in asteroids which impacted both Mars and Earth. It is even possible that "life" ejected from one planet in a meteoroid collision survived the trip through space to land on the other planet. Granted, the odds against this are huge, but a lot can happen in 4 billion years.
Every one of the tens of millions of hotmail customers have and use a .NET passport. That includes many slashdotters (like me). Granted, most of these are throw-away email accounts, but still, they are used.
You were expecting maybe .DOC files instead?
What an amazing day to live in, when we may be at the threshold of discovering LIFE on ANOTHER PLANET! Better yet, we may be at the threshold of creating life on another planet! As far-fetched as the eventual terra-forming of Mars seems, it is much more likely than finding little green men, or even little green bacteria, already living there.
100 year registration is plain silly. Really? Microsoft has repeatedly forgotten to renew domains -- once bringing hotmail to a screeching halt. The other time I beleive it only impacted Microsoft UK. The cost of hotmail being out of service for a day probably far exceeds the cost of registering it for the next hundred years.
True, this is not a scientific survey. However, my personal experience tells me Linux is being considered for about half of all new devices. Look at the economics. A wireless access point is now about a $50 device. How much sense does it make to pay a $25 license fee for the OS for every one of these? You simply can't do that and still remain competitive. Arguably, you can't pay ANY per-unit license fees now and still remain competive with companies that are paying only development costs -- at least for any devices selling in high volumes.
But if our nation's enemies pay SCO $699 per processor, Darl is okay with them using this software???
Uh, no, the planets are hardly ever in a straight line. Just imaging all the orbits are perpendicular to the surface of the Earth. A truly accurate model of the solar system would have all the planets moving around the model of the Sun on elliptic tracks... then you could complain about the curvature of the earth.
"We are firm in our belief that the unchecked spread of open-source software, under the GPL (the General Public License covers Linux and many other open-source programs), is a much more serious threat to our capitalist system than U.S. corporations realize," McBride said. Right. That's why much larger corporations than SCO, like IBM and HP, are avidly supporting Unix... because they want to destroy our capitalist system! McBride, if you honestly beleived this, shouldn't you buy shares in these companies, and institute a shareholder lawsuit? Obviously the destruction of capitalism can't be good for the shareholders of IBM or HP, can it?
Doesn't the legal principle of sovereing Immunity imply that you can't sue the Feds without their permission? Something tells me that using the Federal Court system to screw the Federal Government out of money isn't going to be terribly productive. Why can't the government say "You wanna mess with us? Fine! We refuse to enforce ANY of your 'intellectual property rights'. Unix is now officially public domain!" or something to that effect...
How about:
4) Selling for less that $50.
In fact, a new class of game would be to simply provide the world server and document the APIs, then allow anyone to write their own clients. People could oompete on how usable their interface design was, instead of just how nimble their fingers are. (Other strategies such as maximizing your own bandwidth while DoSing your competitors present themselves as well.) Of course, there is no profit to be made in doing an online game like that...
Voluntarily giving up your privacy with fully informed consent is much different then sneaking in spyware without telling you about it. Those that are paranoid about privacy simply won't install it.
Sorta makes you nostalgic for a president that was doing it to his intern instead of doing it to the country, doesn't it?
Even if that were true, it is perfectly legal for law enforcement to hire third party consultants who aren't bound by the same rules. In this case, the "decoy" can truthfully answer that they are not a cop - they are just someone hired by the cops to help them make vice arrests!
I disagree. I beleive there are legal precedents that have found it is perfectly legal for cops to lie. What isn't legal is use of coercion to force people to incriminate themselves. The cops can lie all they want -- if you offer money for something considered unlawful in your jurisdiction, you're busted!
Let me remind you that calling up Darl McBride and reminding him that he is an asshole is also considered vigilantism. So is subscribing known spammers to mailing lists. Morality isn't as black and white as you appear to beleive.