It's among the vaguest documents I've ever read. All it ensures is "licences with other parties on a non-discriminatory basis on reasonable terms and conditions." IANAL, but it seems like the word "reasonable" leaves far too much room for interpretation.
Which makes it even more disappointing that Ogg Theora didn't make it into the HTML5 spec. There still isn't a good, portable way to do video in a browser without relying on plugins.
The <video> element is still in the draft, it just doesn't specify what codecs or container formats should be supported.
Grif: So now we're forced to work together. How ironic. Simmons: No, that's not ironic. Ironic would be if we had to work together to hurt each other. Donut: No. Ironic would be instead of that guy kidnapping Lopez, Lopez kidnapped him. Sarge: I think it would be ironic if our guns didn't shoot bullets, but instead squirted a healing salve that cured all wounds. Caboose: I think it would be ironic if everything was made of iron.
TWO HOURS LATER
Church: Okay. [slowly] We're all agreed that while the current situation is not totally ironic, the fact that we have to work together is odd in an unexpected way that defies our normal circumstances. Is everybody happy with that?
One good explanation I've found is that sex is considered a private, intimate thing, to be kept in the bedroom; it's not exactly something you see on the street. Violence, on the other hand, belongs in public (so it can be known and stopped). Public sex and private violence are equally disturbing in the American view.
See Lugaru for an excellent example of what you're talking about. In Lugaru, as you take hits, your model starts looking more beat-up, animations change, and if you're close to death (or just got a nasty knock on the head) your vision blurs.
Why not make a candybar phone with a chorded keyboard on the sides? It would fit the human hand better than the upside-down or rightside-up designs, and gives you proven speed (stenotype machines used in court reporting use a chorded keyboard). It would require some training, but the speed gains would be worth it for heavy texters.
If Amoco can make it in Puerto Rico then Open Moco can make in the world, I hope.
Yes, but Amoco had an advantage: the Greek a- prefix, which clearly transforms the meaning to "not mucus." I'd much rather have "Not Mucus" than "Open Mucus."
It seems very possible that in the minds of those committing vote fraud, their actions are patriotic. Republicans are Republicans and Democrats are Democrats because each believes their party has the best plan for America.
Let's imagine a (hopefully) rather extreme example. It's 2016 and America has suffered several tragic terror attacks, including one just a few months before the election. The Republicans play off the natural xenophobia the attacks have developed by announcing a plan to reject at the border all immigrants and visitors from Muslim Countries, and even those who have recently visited such "terrorist territories." Illegal immigrants from these countries would receive the death penalty with only a token trial. The Democrats believe this plan would cause much more harm than good, and fight it. The polls are close, but the Republicans have a slight edge.
What would a Democratic election official do in this situation? Commit vote fraud and damage one part of American freedom, or do nothing and allow the Republicans to damage another?
There's nothing like that in current American politics, but we're in no way lacking in charged political issues. Would a Democrat commit vote fraud to stop the Iraq war sooner and save the lives of a few troops? Would a Republican commit vote fraud to get a pro-life candidate into office and save the lives of a few babies?
Please note that I am neither approving vote fraud or condemning Republicans (I try to be party neutral, but someone had to take the fall to make my example work). I'm just trying to work out the motivations of those who do defraud the voters.
If Microsoft wants to sell a *music player*, they don't need to negotiate terms at all. They don't even need to fucking *talk* to the likes of Sony. This is *Microsoft*. If they want to capture a significant percentage of the music player market, and maybe even take some of that market away from Apple, then they shouldn't negotiate terms. They should worry about making a music player that people are going to *want to buy*. Like, maybe something that plays every damned format of audio you can stick on it, including Vorbis. Maybe something that features improvements over the iPod interface (and there are quite a few interface improvements that should be readily apparent to anyone who has used one).
When has Microsoft ever made a product that sells on its own merit? Windows only owns the OS market because it's pre-installed on almost every PC on the market (thanks to the infamous IBM contract from the DOS days). MS Office won the office-suite wars because it fit the best with Windows. Their server and software development suites followed basically the same formula. Do I even need to mention Internet Explorer?
The XBox 360 is a possible exception. I believe it can compete in features, quality, and (most importantly) game selection with any other console on the market. On the other hand, it had a year-long head start on the competition, which the Zune certainly did not.
So it looks like Microsoft products have two ways to become successful: either integrate with an existing product in ways that the competition can't, or hit the market first with a must-have feature. The Zune did neither, and that's why it's failing.
In fact, I'd say that by now it's impossible for Microsoft to beat the iPod. As a portable device, there's hardly any room for OS integration (besides syncing, which iTunes handles well enough already). And there are very few features left for Apple to add to the iPod, especially now that they rolled a Wi-Fi-enabled smart phone into it.
I prefer the OS that's developed by committee without consistent standards, then given away without any official support to a primarily Socialist user/fanatic base.
Please stop reporting on the numbers that analysts pull out of their hats. It's not news, it's a guess./dev/random would be just as good as these clowns at predicting sales numbers.
Congregate yes, originate no. The Web was a cesspool long before Myspace. The web has been 90% cess since it was called Usenet. Myspace just upped the ratio to around 99%.
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It's among the vaguest documents I've ever read. All it ensures is "licences with other parties on a non-discriminatory basis on reasonable terms and conditions." IANAL, but it seems like the word "reasonable" leaves far too much room for interpretation.
Grif: So now we're forced to work together. How ironic.
Simmons: No, that's not ironic. Ironic would be if we had to work together to hurt each other.
Donut: No. Ironic would be instead of that guy kidnapping Lopez, Lopez kidnapped him.
Sarge: I think it would be ironic if our guns didn't shoot bullets, but instead squirted a healing salve that cured all wounds.
Caboose: I think it would be ironic if everything was made of iron.
TWO HOURS LATER
Church: Okay. [slowly] We're all agreed that while the current situation is not totally ironic, the fact that we have to work together is odd in an unexpected way that defies our normal circumstances. Is everybody happy with that?
One good explanation I've found is that sex is considered a private, intimate thing, to be kept in the bedroom; it's not exactly something you see on the street. Violence, on the other hand, belongs in public (so it can be known and stopped). Public sex and private violence are equally disturbing in the American view.
Please include a warning next time.
See Lugaru for an excellent example of what you're talking about. In Lugaru, as you take hits, your model starts looking more beat-up, animations change, and if you're close to death (or just got a nasty knock on the head) your vision blurs.
Why not make a candybar phone with a chorded keyboard on the sides? It would fit the human hand better than the upside-down or rightside-up designs, and gives you proven speed (stenotype machines used in court reporting use a chorded keyboard). It would require some training, but the speed gains would be worth it for heavy texters.
It's the only way to be sure...
It works for me. Here's a screenshot for proof (Opera, Linux).
It seems very possible that in the minds of those committing vote fraud, their actions are patriotic. Republicans are Republicans and Democrats are Democrats because each believes their party has the best plan for America.
Let's imagine a (hopefully) rather extreme example. It's 2016 and America has suffered several tragic terror attacks, including one just a few months before the election. The Republicans play off the natural xenophobia the attacks have developed by announcing a plan to reject at the border all immigrants and visitors from Muslim Countries, and even those who have recently visited such "terrorist territories." Illegal immigrants from these countries would receive the death penalty with only a token trial. The Democrats believe this plan would cause much more harm than good, and fight it. The polls are close, but the Republicans have a slight edge.
What would a Democratic election official do in this situation? Commit vote fraud and damage one part of American freedom, or do nothing and allow the Republicans to damage another?
There's nothing like that in current American politics, but we're in no way lacking in charged political issues. Would a Democrat commit vote fraud to stop the Iraq war sooner and save the lives of a few troops? Would a Republican commit vote fraud to get a pro-life candidate into office and save the lives of a few babies?
Please note that I am neither approving vote fraud or condemning Republicans (I try to be party neutral, but someone had to take the fall to make my example work). I'm just trying to work out the motivations of those who do defraud the voters.
I was skeptical, so I did a web search. This Boing Boing post has links to coverage from CNN and CBS. I guess he really said it.
Here's the exact quote (from Wally O'Dell, Diebold CEO and former Republican fundraiser):
"Victory passes back and forth between men." -- Homer "The will of Zeus was accomplished." -- Homer
When has Microsoft ever made a product that sells on its own merit? Windows only owns the OS market because it's pre-installed on almost every PC on the market (thanks to the infamous IBM contract from the DOS days). MS Office won the office-suite wars because it fit the best with Windows. Their server and software development suites followed basically the same formula. Do I even need to mention Internet Explorer?
The XBox 360 is a possible exception. I believe it can compete in features, quality, and (most importantly) game selection with any other console on the market. On the other hand, it had a year-long head start on the competition, which the Zune certainly did not.
So it looks like Microsoft products have two ways to become successful: either integrate with an existing product in ways that the competition can't, or hit the market first with a must-have feature. The Zune did neither, and that's why it's failing.
In fact, I'd say that by now it's impossible for Microsoft to beat the iPod. As a portable device, there's hardly any room for OS integration (besides syncing, which iTunes handles well enough already). And there are very few features left for Apple to add to the iPod, especially now that they rolled a Wi-Fi-enabled smart phone into it.
I prefer the OS that's developed by committee without consistent standards, then given away without any official support to a primarily Socialist user/fanatic base.
Please stop reporting on the numbers that analysts pull out of their hats. It's not news, it's a guess. /dev/random would be just as good as these clowns at predicting sales numbers.
At least it's not an Ethernet network of evil, with all the companies trying to be evil at the same time.
Carrier Sense Multiple Evil With [Patent] Collision Detection?
Congregate yes, originate no. The Web was a cesspool long before Myspace. The web has been 90% cess since it was called Usenet. Myspace just upped the ratio to around 99%.