[quote]and very quick to label this guy as a religious nut with dangerous delusions and now a sore loser[/quote]
What's wrong with that? The headline does say [i]theologian[/i].
For Androids the cheapest Huaweis sell here for about 110e and you get a ton of options around 150e.
There are a lot of Nokians that sell between 50e and 100e, but I doubt that Nokia could sell anything they can jam linux into below 100e. Those cheap ass phones are all series40 with virtually zero sw costs and a line of phones they've been making for ten years now so no wonder they can make them cheap. Nokia always had good hardware manufacturing and logistics, it's what they did and didn't do with software that sunk them into the maelstrom they're in now.
More importantly, tell that to the relatives of the people who will die next time, because everyone says "bah, evacuate my ass, remember Irene?".
Warning people to protect themselves in the face of a legitimate threat has unmeasurable value to society, it can save countless lives and reduce the actual property damage resulting from unpreparedness. Crying wolf just teaches people to ignore the warnings.
I can see how you may think that, but from where I come it would be a lot more appropriate to tell the people the way things are. In this case "It's quite not a hurricane from a windspeed point of view, but it's the rain and flooding that can be truly frightening and will require action." that would be a lot better than twist the truth about categorization.
If you're truthful to the public, the public will pay heed when the time comes. If you keep twisting it, they'll try to interpret the need of caution themselves.
At least Slashdot could have mentioned the other 20 photographs in the complaint. All of which clearly depict the appropriate aspect ratio. Oh well. Independent thought really is dead.
At least you could have mentioned the other 20 photographs in the complaint all to be from an angle. None of which depicts the aspect ratios as clearly as the picture in page 28 does or would have. Oh well. Apple fanboys accept one in 20 pictures to be fake when evidence is presented.
Seeing Florian Troller's name in the excerpt is enough to ensure I never RTFA. Thanks to OP for saving me the time - it's better spent writing this post, or getting a colonoscopy.
Now, look who's trolling... I'm don't know much about Florian Muller, but I do know that he's the founder of the NoSoftwarePatents. That, to me, a sw developer, is quite enough to convince that he is not really troll unless peered through corporate goggles (or possibly in this case, an apple fanboy goggles).
I would expect that the people who know how to root their phone are also unlikely to pay $3.99 to rent a movie - I can't imagine there's a lot of overlap or heartache here amongst the users.
Why would even say that, because that's exactly the kind of crap they put out.
Rooting an Android device has precious little to do with movie piracy. Except now, that they making it so, having the audacity to ask me to unroot to access a movie market.
This has precious little effect on those who pirate. The only ones this has any effect again is those that would be customers. And those are being denied of root access to their phone. Some may unroot, others will download them elsewhere.
This is just as assbackwards as copy protection. Make life more difficult for paying customers and have no relevance what so ever to those who download illegal copies.
For all the idiots that are going to complain about Google reneging on their openness promises this was obviously required by the content owners.
That's a load of crap.
Google could've said no. Just as they should've said no when it was china doing the asking.
"You want to sell movies in Android? Then sell to those who rooted the devices, too, because it has jack to do with piracy. You fight your piracy wars on your own turf and where it has considerably less collateral damage to legit user experience."
Having a spine when it counts is what not being evil is all about. Being not evil only when it's parallel to profit, is not being not evil.
I really need and use the features that rooting the device provides. Without it, I'd be a lot less inclined to even buy Androids. Denying that in the name of DRM is just ridiculous. And Google should've said so.
Plans to make QT a real community project already existed before Stephen Elop was made CEO of Nokia. And I would be very happy to see 3rd parties developing big chunks of QT - that would mean it can survive without Nokia.
QT would have no problems without Nokia. It's the "with" part that people are worried about. And never so much as now that there's another bigger "with" involved.
"Ed Bott's Microsoft Report" predicts that IE will survive and Firefox will die.
In other news a VCR said that VHS ain't going nowhere...
(And what's worse, the fkuc up is making arguments based on major version number delta over time. Such uncanny insight is rare!)
Debian CUT == Constantly Unstable Testing.
There, fixed it for ya.
as useful as a Linux box
Sure.
What next? They'll discover a hidden parallel port and what? It's supposed to stop world hunger?
I agree. Strange article. During the last upgrades my laptop has gone from 1600x1200 to 1920x1200 and my work lcd went from 1600x1200 to 2560x1600. A "loss of pixels" is not the conclusion I'd draw from that. Most of my coworkers have two 1920xsometing screens side by side, plenty of pixels there, too. I think that has everything to do with the fact that it's easier to yaw that pitch with your head when there's more and more surface area to goggle at. And by easier I mean neckwise. One really should have any screen above one's eye hight and there's only so much angle between one's eye height and keyboard and plenty to go sideways.
It's pretty sad that after the prequels people can still get so excited over 15 or so seconds of Luke handling his lightsabre. It's baffling and kind of sad that there's all this cheering and enthusiatic shouting over a mundane snippet like this.
I think it speaks volumes about the prequels, really.
"One lawyer can steal more than a hundred men with guns." -- The Godfather
