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Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
Nowhere. But right now it's the most widely adopted and implemented (pretty much everyone but Firefox either does or is planning to support it).
Huh, that's really confusing. Because according to Wikipedia, Ogg Theora looks more supported in browsers than H.264.
No, he means exactly what he said. Pretty much everyone but Firefox either does or is planning to support it.
Yes, there are lots of no-name browsers with zero user base that don't do h.264. But IE, Chrome, and Safari all do h.264. Which leaves Firefox and Opera as the WebM holdouts.
Yeah. Good luck with that.
article title should be fixed to "Apple sends out update to fix PDF Vulnerability"
No, see, Apple users are all gay!
Which is funny, for some reason, because sexual orientations are funny. So...outing....
I don't think the leaked Afghanistan war documents are a 'little egg'. It's clear proof that the war is lost and there is no hope for winning.
Bullshit. The Wikileaks documents a lot of out-of-context reports, mostly from low-level soldiers and unit commanders. Essentially, it's an internal bug-tracking database for the war.
Look at any internal bug-tracking database for any reasonably-sized project and you'll immediately conclude that the project is a horrible steaming pile of crap that everyone hates. That does not necessarily mean that the project actually is worthless. Imagine what the MS Windows (or OS X, or whatever) internal bug database must be like. Millions of known, incompatibilities, crash reports, and unsubstantiated error reports. And yet MS and Apple make shit-tons of money from them, and millions of people use them every ay.
Of course there are major problems with the war. It's a fucking war.
And? Do you think I haven't seen this countless times when I was making the point? The period takes up a small portion of its box in a fixed-width font. There's space to the left and space to the right of it - much more space than other characters. As a result, dot-space looks completely fine in a fixed-width font.
Wow. Just...wow.
THE PERIOD IN A MONOSPACED FONT IS AS WIDE AS A FUCKING 'W'. IT IS NOT FUCKING SMALL. In a monospaced font, all characters are the same width; hence there are no "small" characters in a monospaced font. Your assertion that a monospaced period is "small" is therefore demonstrably false.
So, in a monospaced font, you need two spaces to (visually) compensate for the wider space. A single space would be lost next to the huge gaping negative visual space surrounding the period.
In a proportional font, the period has no extra padding, therefore no extra spacing is needed after the period.
I had to RTFA to find out that WDE is Westinghouse Digital Electronics.
From TFS:
"The Software Freedom Conservancy has received a judgement against Westinghouse Digital Electronics for $90,000 in damages, $50,000 in costs plus a donation of all of the offending HDTV's that were using BusyBox in violation of the GPL. Given that WDE is nearly bankrupt it's likely that most if not all of the cash will disappear in a legal 'poof', but it is a victory regardless."
Did the summary get edited to include that, or what?
I was about to say the same thing. Because in fixed-width the period is so small...
What? Here, take a look:
WWWWW
Two spaces are appropriate for typewriters and similar monospaced fonts (Courier, Monaco, Andale Mono, Consolas, Vera, Deja Vu mono)
One space for proportional fonts (Times, Helvetica, almost everything.)
In that case the engineering drawings for a 777 (or anything else) should also be open to public scrutiny. Is that reasonable?
Honestly, I find this "magic" marketing strategy to be a complete turnoff.
The fact that you're on Slashdot makes you Not The Target Market.
To most people, virtually any computer thingie is sufficiently advanced.
"Acts of God" is a legal term encompassing chance events, sudden natural disasters, and other unforeseeable and uncontrollable happenings. Forest fires, lightning, earthquakes, meteor strikes, volcanic eruptions, sudden sinkholes, etc.
The lawyers and judges understand what it means. It's a standard part of contracts and has nothing to do with any deity or religious belief whatsoever.
Jesus! God has individual control over each nut?
He must. They all claim to either know him or be him
(By the way, The Times didn't exist in the 12th century).
Freudian typo. It's still stuck in the 11th, obviously.
"WhichTimes"? This article is really tagged "WhichTimes"? It's the real and proper Times, damnit. The one that's called "The Times" (unless it is a Sunday, at which point it is called "The Sunday Times").
You mean, it's the one that's so out of touch with reality that it doesn't recognize that, in the last 220 years, some real and legitimate competition has arisen? No wonder they're having trouble adjusting to the 12st century
Luckily, if things keep going the way they are, there will only be one Times again. Though probably not that one.
It may shock some people, but there was an Internet (and a web) before there were commercially supported websites.
It was smaller, but it worked just fine. In fact, it worked beautifully. Many of us want it back.
The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.
