Sounds to me like they should just release a good, working Demo, with an easy way to simply upgrade it to full status. (perhaps purchase the rest of the content, etc) If piracy numbers decline and purchases increase, then you may be right about the testing idea. If not, then perhaps Shivetya sees through it all.
Ya kno, it's funny, but the bars in my college town always seem to be more packed when they have a live band playing...
There is still quite a market for live performance, but I agree, the performers likely can't make a living off that, and the market is definitely smaller. But then, how many restaurants can really afford to pay some musicians a living wage? Unfortunately, like many former professions, being a musician for a living is becoming impossible. Time to move on, I guess. Limiting other people's freedoms (copyright, DRM, etc) just to keep your profession alive is anti-social and unproductive.
well, assuming you're just comparing each pixel value to the one before it, the ability to compare and then sum the differences (this can simply by 0 vs 1, and do a logical AND or OR) at a rate of 15Ghz (15 billion pixels/second).
or compare 15-60 in parallel, and you need to do between 1Ghz and 250Mhz. This ignores time to store the previous value, etc but... this Should be doable. Especially with dedicated hardware comparing, say, 250 pixels at a time.
Here, here, and this applies to cars very well, too. You absolutely must know how to maintain them. And that can be as little as recognizing your light is out, wipers are old (dried out), etc. Or at least get the freaking snow off your roof before you drive! (one of my peeves about dumb drivers in the winter: an icy, snowy roof is dangerous to drivers behind you).
Ditto for knowing how to use a computer responsibly and not becoming a bothost and placing other people's computer's at risk.
Heh, when shopping for my new car stereo (wanted a CD player and an aux input). A FRICKING VOLUME KNOB was the one thing i had the hardest time trying to find combined with the previous two requirements.
Ended up with a pretty decent sony whose knob just doesn't *quite* stick out enough to grasp it quickly without pushing it in (which changes the mode of the knob).. sigh...
Get a business connection and split it with your neighbor(s)? Just run some cat6 from one house to the next? I dunno. It's only illegal if you get caught?
If they have enough bandwidth to stream 99 channels in uncompressed SDTV resolution through the cable line AND highspeed internet... They have enough bandwidth the stream video over the internet without sending those 99 analog channels...
No Thanks. I like fm6 's idea better. My monthly bill for a service like internet should be fixed. No Surprises. Just throttle me for the rest of the month when I go over. If it bothers me, I'll move my plan up a notch.
If he or his son Johann Christian were starting out today, they'd be mixers, not composers.
Wouldn't a composer be someone who takes smaller elements and combines (composes) them in some way to form a larger whole. I don't much like rap/hiphop/mixmasters but really, who says the largest element a musician may use and still be called a musician is a single musical note/chord?
Or for that matter an artist a single pigment? etc...
Even now, although Linux prides itself on having more than one window manager, things have coalesced around two, and one of those is not going to survive.
What gave you that idea? Gnome and KDE are very different window managers, and people have very different preferences when it comes to how they work with and access the applications that they really want to use.
There will always be room for more than one desktop environment.
And that is why people pirate. It's not worth $0.99 per track to people, and it's too easy to get it free with little risk.
Record labels could make TONS of money if they captured a fraction of the pirate "market". Sell ALL tracks for somewhere around %0.05 to $0.25 each, and they might sell like hotcakes. (I really can't guarantee that this would last more than a day, anyway) But personally, with how small the risk of pirating causing me trouble being, the 'insurance' is only worth around that much to me.
My meager ~4.5k tracks collection is something I would never have spent $4k on. $450 (since its been growing over 6 years) I would definitely have spent. Maybe even $900 ($0.20/track). That would have been better than $0, wouldn't it have?
Don't mean to troll, but... Who the hell thought that up? Hold down the mouse button at boot to eject all disks? WHAT? How does one come up with that association? Almost as bad as dragging to the trash!
Press Backspace to go back, which is usually up one level. This has the advantage of always being in the same place in real space, irregardless of where on the screen the window is positioned.
Heh, you're a little off. Everyone should definitely know how to make a cooking fire. But it's going to be to cook the microwave dinners, (once) frozen food, spaghetti and such they steal from their local grocers, Walmarts and the people a few blocks down.
As far as VHS, tapes develop wear simply from being used. Each time, the tape itself is dragged across the rotating read head, after being pulled across it by two spindles. There are typically at minimum 4 points of contact between the storage medium and another surface. Any dust or imperfection can cause damage, and the necessary tension on the tape slowly causes wear. Such conditions do not occur in optical media (at least not during normal playback). **However, if the intent is for archival purposes, this is a non-issue.**
Additionally, Re-producing a CD/DVD in perfect quality takes drastically less time than duplicating a VHS.
Now, Digital Video Tape may be better, if it includes error checking and allows for high-quality high-speed dubbing, which I believe it does. As far as long term STORAGE goes, Tapes are still used for important data, as they do tend to have Much longer shelf life than burned optical media. However, I do agree that as far as degradation goes, analog media tends to degrade much more gracefully (one of the reasons I dislike DTV)
I think it's really a question of what your needs are:)
Not to be an apologist, but i think you missed the point in the trade-off with DVD-R's.
It is well known that writeable CD's and DVD's have a limited shelf life. They're not intended for archival purposes.
The point is that every X years, where X is sufficiently short to prevent data loss, you can make an EXACT COPY of the higher-quality video, with extremely little or no loss in quality.
That term... I do not think it means what you think...
Really, I think the terms 'Novice' and 'Professional' were meant to be applied to proficiency with the GIMP, and not digital photo manipulation in general.
Currently Ubuntu basically just copies the live, running image to disk, and does some tweaking. So, doing updates during install may be tricky.
As to the huge number of updates: what about windows? If you install XP, even with SP2 slipstreamed, you will need SP3, and many other updates, and have to REBOOT multiple ( > 3) times. With Ubuntu, you typically only have 1 or 2 reboots max from a fresh install after updating. Vista, with or without SP1, also requires a few reboots now.
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I wonder if the shrinking carry-on size is related to the growing (girth) population?
Eh, but i doubt they've changed the planes interiors much (how long does a plane stay in service?) Is it just post-911 bullshit?
Sounds to me like they should just release a good, working Demo, with an easy way to simply upgrade it to full status. (perhaps purchase the rest of the content, etc) If piracy numbers decline and purchases increase, then you may be right about the testing idea. If not, then perhaps Shivetya sees through it all.
Ya kno, it's funny, but the bars in my college town always seem to be more packed when they have a live band playing...
There is still quite a market for live performance, but I agree, the performers likely can't make a living off that, and the market is definitely smaller. But then, how many restaurants can really afford to pay some musicians a living wage? Unfortunately, like many former professions, being a musician for a living is becoming impossible. Time to move on, I guess. Limiting other people's freedoms (copyright, DRM, etc) just to keep your profession alive is anti-social and unproductive.
well, assuming you're just comparing each pixel value to the one before it, the ability to compare and then sum the differences (this can simply by 0 vs 1, and do a logical AND or OR) at a rate of 15Ghz (15 billion pixels/second).
or compare 15-60 in parallel, and you need to do between 1Ghz and 250Mhz. This ignores time to store the previous value, etc but... this Should be doable. Especially with dedicated hardware comparing, say, 250 pixels at a time.
On My Desktop!
It seems 85% of users that visit my helpdesk can barely see their wallpaper through their icons of documents, pictures, programs and crap.
Here, here, and this applies to cars very well, too. You absolutely must know how to maintain them. And that can be as little as recognizing your light is out, wipers are old (dried out), etc. Or at least get the freaking snow off your roof before you drive! (one of my peeves about dumb drivers in the winter: an icy, snowy roof is dangerous to drivers behind you).
Ditto for knowing how to use a computer responsibly and not becoming a bothost and placing other people's computer's at risk.
Heh, when shopping for my new car stereo (wanted a CD player and an aux input). A FRICKING VOLUME KNOB was the one thing i had the hardest time trying to find combined with the previous two requirements.
Ended up with a pretty decent sony whose knob just doesn't *quite* stick out enough to grasp it quickly without pushing it in (which changes the mode of the knob).. sigh...
Oh, and by many standards, I'm still a kid.
For one, if you have a large amount of machines, you should have a windows update server.
Secondly, the image being used obviously needs to be maintained. It should be updated once a week, this would save lots of bandwidth and trouble.
Get a business connection and split it with your neighbor(s)? Just run some cat6 from one house to the next? I dunno. It's only illegal if you get caught?
If they have enough bandwidth to stream 99 channels in uncompressed SDTV resolution through the cable line AND highspeed internet... They have enough bandwidth the stream video over the internet without sending those 99 analog channels...
No Thanks. I like fm6 's idea better. My monthly bill for a service like internet should be fixed. No Surprises. Just throttle me for the rest of the month when I go over. If it bothers me, I'll move my plan up a notch.
If he or his son Johann Christian were starting out today, they'd be mixers, not composers.
Wouldn't a composer be someone who takes smaller elements and combines (composes) them in some way to form a larger whole. I don't much like rap/hiphop/mixmasters but really, who says the largest element a musician may use and still be called a musician is a single musical note/chord?
Or for that matter an artist a single pigment? etc...
Point is... what's the difference, really?
Even now, although Linux prides itself on having more than one window manager, things have coalesced around two, and one of those is not going to survive.
What gave you that idea? Gnome and KDE are very different window managers, and people have very different preferences when it comes to how they work with and access the applications that they really want to use.
There will always be room for more than one desktop environment.
And that is why people pirate. It's not worth $0.99 per track to people, and it's too easy to get it free with little risk.
Record labels could make TONS of money if they captured a fraction of the pirate "market". Sell ALL tracks for somewhere around %0.05 to $0.25 each, and they might sell like hotcakes. (I really can't guarantee that this would last more than a day, anyway) But personally, with how small the risk of pirating causing me trouble being, the 'insurance' is only worth around that much to me.
My meager ~4.5k tracks collection is something I would never have spent $4k on. $450 (since its been growing over 6 years) I would definitely have spent. Maybe even $900 ($0.20/track). That would have been better than $0, wouldn't it have?
Well, it IS name YOUtube. It's supposed to be user-created content.
I wouldn't be surprised if he stated something along the lines of "in the days around March 29" and someone mistook it to be more specific.
Don't mean to troll, but... Who the hell thought that up? Hold down the mouse button at boot to eject all disks? WHAT? How does one come up with that association? Almost as bad as dragging to the trash!
Press Backspace to go back, which is usually up one level. This has the advantage of always being in the same place in real space, irregardless of where on the screen the window is positioned.
Heh, you're a little off. Everyone should definitely know how to make a cooking fire. But it's going to be to cook the microwave dinners, (once) frozen food, spaghetti and such they steal from their local grocers, Walmarts and the people a few blocks down.
Do I get lossless with this subscription? (I don't use lossless, but lots of people do)
Can I keep the downloads forever and use them on ANY portable player with minimal effort?
If the service goes under, can I keep my media?
From what I can tell from the site: no, no and no.
And how do you explain to the authorities why you are paying for an overseas VPN account with a fake name and a pre-paid Visa?
You don't have to.
Or, if that doesn't suit you, "To be anonymous, thus the purchase of an anonymity service using anonymous methods...duh"
I think we both missed something.
:)
As far as VHS, tapes develop wear simply from being used. Each time, the tape itself is dragged across the rotating read head, after being pulled across it by two spindles. There are typically at minimum 4 points of contact between the storage medium and another surface. Any dust or imperfection can cause damage, and the necessary tension on the tape slowly causes wear. Such conditions do not occur in optical media (at least not during normal playback). **However, if the intent is for archival purposes, this is a non-issue.**
Additionally, Re-producing a CD/DVD in perfect quality takes drastically less time than duplicating a VHS.
Now, Digital Video Tape may be better, if it includes error checking and allows for high-quality high-speed dubbing, which I believe it does. As far as long term STORAGE goes, Tapes are still used for important data, as they do tend to have Much longer shelf life than burned optical media. However, I do agree that as far as degradation goes, analog media tends to degrade much more gracefully (one of the reasons I dislike DTV)
I think it's really a question of what your needs are
Not to be an apologist, but i think you missed the point in the trade-off with DVD-R's.
It is well known that writeable CD's and DVD's have a limited shelf life. They're not intended for archival purposes.
The point is that every X years, where X is sufficiently short to prevent data loss, you can make an EXACT COPY of the higher-quality video, with extremely little or no loss in quality.
Try that with a VHS tape.
That term... I do not think it means what you think...
Really, I think the terms 'Novice' and 'Professional' were meant to be applied to proficiency with the GIMP, and not digital photo manipulation in general.
Currently Ubuntu basically just copies the live, running image to disk, and does some tweaking. So, doing updates during install may be tricky.
As to the huge number of updates: what about windows? If you install XP, even with SP2 slipstreamed, you will need SP3, and many other updates, and have to REBOOT multiple ( > 3) times. With Ubuntu, you typically only have 1 or 2 reboots max from a fresh install after updating. Vista, with or without SP1, also requires a few reboots now.