That is absolutely false. My church runs something called the Giving Closet, it's basically two small warehouses (back to back) where we give away clothes, housewares and on occasion food to anyone who comes. We don't discriminate-though we do have an electronic system for keeping things orderly so it's not one big rush in the door at opening time.
There's only "preaching" if people specifically ask for it, we don't care who you are or what you've done or what you think you've done, the doors are open for anyone. Period.
Please don't judge the tree because of a few wormed apples. You've got to remember that when you do that, you're no better than the ones on the other side who do the exact same thing.
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They work fine for me. Try disabling your extensions or opening the page using another Firefox profile.
I'll get mod'd down for this, but I don't care, it has to be said.
Is it just me or are these tubes jokes just getting old and stale? They were funny for the first few months, but now they're just predictable.
Stop mod'ing them as funny, they aren't anymore. There's very little humor value in a 3 month old joke, that gets told -invariably- everyday, on at least one story. Ted Stevens is a tool. His explanation was stupid, but it wasn't that funny...at least not this long after he'd made it.
Gee...I don't know. Maybe it's because the new chipset is for Intel computers?
FTFA:
Rather than launching as a standalone chipset, the nForce 680i SLI is coming to market as a complete platform. I really hate to call the 680i a platform--that word is misused in far too many press releases these days--but that's really what it is: a complete platform, including the chipset, motherboard, BIOS, and software, built explicitly for PC enthusiasts. The question, of course, is whether it's the right platform for your next Core 2 Duo build. Read on to find the answer.
Is it just me, or has every article now been treated to the "itsatrap" tag? Getting annoying, and it's a flagrant abuse of the tagging system. Come on people, this isn't digg.
Why is it "ridiculous?" If the phishing operators were located in Romania and Poland, isn't it safe to mention Romania and Poland? RTFA and you'll notice that they didn't just pull "Romania" out of their ass "just for kicks," they did it because Romania is the country in which this occurred.
If you don't want to break the GNOME UI paradigms but still want a half-way decent music player, install Banshee and it's plugins. That way you get MP3, FLAC, AAC, OGG among others, with album art, Audioscrobbler, podcast grabber, pluggable media player support, DAAP sharing, ShoutCast/IceCast, MultiMedia Keys, Smart Playlists, among quite a few other cool features.
The only downside is it's GStreamer based (if, indeed you don't like GStreamer:)
You're talking about image formats that have entirely different uses. TIFF is lossless, supports many different bit depths and different types of (lossless) compression. It's suitable for use in print, camera, screen and even HDR applications.
JPEG is designed almost entirely for preview quality work on 24-bit mediums. It does support 32-bit CMYK but TIFF is still preferred in that area. And it's lossy. JPEG algorithms create much smaller images for non line-art work, with reasonable quality.
So before you shoot your mouth off claiming "Foo sucks and Bar doesn't," try to realize that Foo is not Bar, and is not meant to be Bar 99% of the time. No matter how hard Foo tries.
Is that conjecture, or do you have any hard evidence? I'm not saying you're wrong, I've just never heard that before. If they are, that's "net neutrality" violation and I'd think there'd be a huge uproar over it.
I don't think that's at all true. HDTV is a goofy buzzword really. It'll have Composite and 480p output (at 16:9), which isn't bad at all. Most "HDTV" tele's are 720p anyway so it'll be trivial to upscale to 720. Now, setting a PS3 next to and XBox 360 next to a Wii...well it won't look nearly as good. But that doesn't really matter as long as the games are better in gameplay quality. Besides, $200 versus $400 (xbox) or $800 (ps3) is a pretty good deal too. Couple that with easily downloadable versions of old games all the way back to NES (including titles from Genesis, SNES, Game Boy among others) will really be a draw for a lot of people.
The causal gaming market is something neither Microsoft nor Sony knows how to approach. Nintendo may not either, it's hard to tell until everything is released, but at least they appear to be trying. Microsoft and Sony simply can't say that.
That's what P2P technologies like BitTorrent are for. If only the people running the RIAA, MPAA and the Gaming industry weren't so daft and actually realized there's a real wealth of distribution technologies that could make their profit margins soar and their development and deployment costs go down.
Best part of that article is the firmware chip encased in epoxy.
Ha! Wouldn't that be interesting if after n hours of use the epoxy would become conductive? Whether this is possible or not is another story, I haven't seen pictures of it either so it may not even be touching the contacts on the chip (haven't even read the article...it appears to be/.'d already.). I'd love to see the smug look on MS execs' face as it just melts right off...
Whoever said they weren't "useful" or "real life"? I was mentioning the fact that many if not all of them are ambiguous and meant to be broadly applied. Some of these are novel ideas, but they were done before and really a bit obvious.
Here's just a few: Amazon's World Famous One-Click ordering system: 5,960,411 Multi Click/Long Click Logic (using various click lengths and multiple clicks to activate user interfaces): 6,727,830 Hierarchical Menu Based on Metadata: 6,928,433 Point To Point Internet Protocol: 6,108,704
Software Patents, traditionally refer to specific algorithms, logical concepts and specific software features (which are often written with a great amount of vagueness). Most software patents are on trivial concepts that have to do with the software's logic. You can patent the carburetor if it's an original and "innovative" design that hasn't really been done before, that you want to take to market. If it's a trivial and obvious thought or concept, that's hardly worth patenting. That's the problem with business model patents: they're simply ideas, thought processes and logical concepts, they aren't tangible designs ready to go to market. Unless you're going to stick someone with a lawsuit 3 years after they've been "infringing" on your patent. Bingo! We have the real reason for obvious and trivial patents. There's a reason why they call them trolls.
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No, really, according Alberto Gonzalez they do! Not really but according to the RIAA/MPAA, file sharing is the same as selling full on bootlegs.
That is absolutely false. My church runs something called the Giving Closet, it's basically two small warehouses (back to back) where we give away clothes, housewares and on occasion food to anyone who comes. We don't discriminate-though we do have an electronic system for keeping things orderly so it's not one big rush in the door at opening time.
There's only "preaching" if people specifically ask for it, we don't care who you are or what you've done or what you think you've done, the doors are open for anyone. Period.
Please don't judge the tree because of a few wormed apples. You've got to remember that when you do that, you're no better than the ones on the other side who do the exact same thing.
They work fine for me. Try disabling your extensions or opening the page using another Firefox profile.
I'll get mod'd down for this, but I don't care, it has to be said.
Is it just me or are these tubes jokes just getting old and stale? They were funny for the first few months, but now they're just predictable.
Stop mod'ing them as funny, they aren't anymore. There's very little humor value in a 3 month old joke, that gets told -invariably- everyday, on at least one story. Ted Stevens is a tool. His explanation was stupid, but it wasn't that funny...at least not this long after he'd made it.
http://banshee-project.org/Main_Page
Banshee is one of those really cool projects too.
That is quite possibly the truest thing I've heard said about DRM. Ever.
Yes. The lawyers don't keel over and die when they're finished, like the should.
Gee...I don't know. Maybe it's because the new chipset is for Intel computers?
FTFA:
They also get the worst.
Many that I've seen recently actually have an audio key to listen too if you can't read the image.
How accessible is this though? Won't it hinder those who use screen readers?
If it doesn't, this honestly isn't a solution in my opinion.
That's not a group of words we see very often when coupled with that man's name.
Is it just me, or has every article now been treated to the "itsatrap" tag? Getting annoying, and it's a flagrant abuse of the tagging system. Come on people, this isn't digg.
No, wait, it's Slashdot!
Shhhh!!! Don't tell the wife...
In the documentary it mentions Republicans doing the same thing that the Democrats are in other states like Maryland...
Why is it "ridiculous?" If the phishing operators were located in Romania and Poland, isn't it safe to mention Romania and Poland? RTFA and you'll notice that they didn't just pull "Romania" out of their ass "just for kicks," they did it because Romania is the country in which this occurred.
If you don't want to break the GNOME UI paradigms but still want a half-way decent music player, install Banshee and it's plugins. That way you get MP3, FLAC, AAC, OGG among others, with album art, Audioscrobbler, podcast grabber, pluggable media player support, DAAP sharing, ShoutCast/IceCast, MultiMedia Keys, Smart Playlists, among quite a few other cool features.
:)
The only downside is it's GStreamer based (if, indeed you don't like GStreamer
http://banshee-project.org/
Right, there's a joke.
You're talking about image formats that have entirely different uses. TIFF is lossless, supports many different bit depths and different types of (lossless) compression. It's suitable for use in print, camera, screen and even HDR applications.
JPEG is designed almost entirely for preview quality work on 24-bit mediums. It does support 32-bit CMYK but TIFF is still preferred in that area. And it's lossy. JPEG algorithms create much smaller images for non line-art work, with reasonable quality.
So before you shoot your mouth off claiming "Foo sucks and Bar doesn't," try to realize that Foo is not Bar, and is not meant to be Bar 99% of the time. No matter how hard Foo tries.
Is that conjecture, or do you have any hard evidence? I'm not saying you're wrong, I've just never heard that before. If they are, that's "net neutrality" violation and I'd think there'd be a huge uproar over it.
I don't think that's at all true. HDTV is a goofy buzzword really. It'll have Composite and 480p output (at 16:9), which isn't bad at all. Most "HDTV" tele's are 720p anyway so it'll be trivial to upscale to 720. Now, setting a PS3 next to and XBox 360 next to a Wii...well it won't look nearly as good. But that doesn't really matter as long as the games are better in gameplay quality. Besides, $200 versus $400 (xbox) or $800 (ps3) is a pretty good deal too. Couple that with easily downloadable versions of old games all the way back to NES (including titles from Genesis, SNES, Game Boy among others) will really be a draw for a lot of people.
The causal gaming market is something neither Microsoft nor Sony knows how to approach. Nintendo may not either, it's hard to tell until everything is released, but at least they appear to be trying. Microsoft and Sony simply can't say that.
That's what P2P technologies like BitTorrent are for. If only the people running the RIAA, MPAA and the Gaming industry weren't so daft and actually realized there's a real wealth of distribution technologies that could make their profit margins soar and their development and deployment costs go down.
Ha! Wouldn't that be interesting if after n hours of use the epoxy would become conductive? Whether this is possible or not is another story, I haven't seen pictures of it either so it may not even be touching the contacts on the chip (haven't even read the article...it appears to be /.'d already.). I'd love to see the smug look on MS execs' face as it just melts right off...
Whoever said they weren't "useful" or "real life"? I was mentioning the fact that many if not all of them are ambiguous and meant to be broadly applied. Some of these are novel ideas, but they were done before and really a bit obvious.
Here's just a few:
Amazon's World Famous One-Click ordering system: 5,960,411
Multi Click/Long Click Logic (using various click lengths and multiple clicks to activate user interfaces): 6,727,830
Hierarchical Menu Based on Metadata: 6,928,433
Point To Point Internet Protocol: 6,108,704
Software Patents, traditionally refer to specific algorithms, logical concepts and specific software features (which are often written with a great amount of vagueness). Most software patents are on trivial concepts that have to do with the software's logic. You can patent the carburetor if it's an original and "innovative" design that hasn't really been done before, that you want to take to market. If it's a trivial and obvious thought or concept, that's hardly worth patenting. That's the problem with business model patents: they're simply ideas, thought processes and logical concepts, they aren't tangible designs ready to go to market. Unless you're going to stick someone with a lawsuit 3 years after they've been "infringing" on your patent. Bingo! We have the real reason for obvious and trivial patents. There's a reason why they call them trolls.