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Re:Will MOOCs Destroy Academia? on Monday March 04, 2013 @11:55AM (#5319079)
Yes, hopefully.

Schools make no sense.

Re:Accidental layer creation on Monday March 04, 2013 @10:28AM (#5318617)
Yeah, but in the example the text is not transformed, it's merely overlaid on a composited surface.
Re:Accidental layer creation on Monday March 04, 2013 @08:59AM (#5318176)
The text in Firefox doesn't lose subpixel antialiasing, at least in my browser.

Also, it's perfectly possible to use GPU compositing with subpixel antialiased texture, you just need a separate texture to store the (Ra, Ga, Ba) pre-component "alpha" vales and either dual source blending, two rendering passes (first to apply alpha to destination, second to add color), three rendering passes (one per color), or a pixel shader that takes the pre-blend target surface as an input.

If your browser doesn't do that, file a bug.

Re:Microsoft owes Denmark $1B in taxes on Monday March 04, 2013 @08:40AM (#5318100)
Taxation is theft.

Especially given that surely Microsoft hasn't consumed anything even remotely close to 1 billion in Danish goverment services.

Hopefully Microsoft will be able to resist this armed robbery attempt.

Otherwise, they could simply use half that amount, $500 million, to purchase missiles and drone planes to defend themselves and counterattack (they can buy 500-1000 tomahawk cruise missiles or 10-20 MQ-9 Reaper drones with that amount).