Don't forget AAC, very nice codec, beats the shit out of mpeg 1/2 layer 1,2,3 and the hardware sells like mad (iPod anyone?).
Anyone having a clue on what kind of high quality they are talking about? These are the days when $200 DVD players are marketed as high-end (yeah right) after all, and Dolby Pro Logic I/II/II" is marketed as high quality (sounds like crap after all).
I'd rather see ogg/aac tuned to 96khz/24bit (or 32) and 7.1 channels and give it some serious bandwidth on blu-ray. But since that would be a good choice from a quality standpoint, I'm sure that it will never happen. Just look at VHS, mp3, and DD...
Same here, I want all the little windows inside another big window, just as in photoshop. Photoshop has a more "gimp" alike system on the mac, and it really really sucks ass bigtime. Same with apps like codewarrior. Fortunatly they gave taht one a "not one million little windows cluttering up everything" mode for windows, which made it as least useful.
How much does it actually cost to see one 21 min sit-com? As in, how much does the channel get from commercials and other sources. If that is somewhere between $1 and $5 I would rather pay that amount and get quality TV without the commercials and whatnot.
I know which shows I want to watch, I very rarely just "watch TV". I have the internet to burn time on instead...
Very easy to crash your browser, and should be fairly easy to set up and start finding crashing bugs. I already run firefox, but would love to see it not fail this easily.
Besides, I wouldn't use the word genius about anyone who was involved in making java. I don't see what is so horribly hard about making a horrible combination of Obj-C and Smalltalk, two far better languages.
Should also have a connection to www.tvtome.com then, since a lot of the material on TV is infact TV series.
But then again, I prefer channel Internet. No commercials, watch on demand, and better quality that the shity cable... And then I usually have access to Firefox.
Maybe it's better to spend the money on a plasma to begin with, hooks up to the PC easily:))
Which is why those "nasty evil socialist edicts" should also apply to anyone who manufactured goods _imported_ into a country. If you can't show proof that whomever made the stuff has the same rights and conditions, you have to ship it back. Would change a whole lot of stuff very very quickly.
But I guess our goverments will be sufficiently bribed || gotten nutcase agendas before that will ever happen.
Hopefully, in the future, we'll simply grow any organs that would be needed. That is unless some idiots stop this particular brand of research, but I hope there are countries who decides that this is still a good idea. Probably not from the kindness of their hearts, but out of lust for money.
Shouldn't the PS3 by all means have the umpah to simply emulate the PS1 and PS2 in software, instead of putting it in hardware? The same goes for the XBox 2 / XBox situation.
Buffer owerflow attacks won't happen in languages which doesn't "support" that feature, such as perl, python, ruby, java, C# (any managed code), or managed C++ for that matter.
Another way of killing the problem is using the NX (I hope I got that correct) instruction/bit in newer CPUs and simply separate code and data, and not allow execution in a data segment. Win SP2 does this, I am sure Linux does/will soon, one of the BSDs have done stuff like this for a while, etc.
So yes, you would prevent it. But then again, calling a javalib from C...:)
How long before someone sits down and tries to make an OSS OS version of whatever OS runs on newton? Sounds like a pretty interesting idea to me at least:)
Isn't that a virus? Or maybe we should call it a worm. Never the less, if anyone do own a CD like that (I'm not putting a music CD into my computer again, ever) and has been infected, you should sue the company for spreading computer viruses/worms.
Seriously, this is no different from let's say the old amiga boot block viruses...
I think they called it "Smyge" or something along those lines. Whatever it is called I've seen it myself, and it looks pretty spiffy. I'm sure you could sell it to drug lords for quite an incredible sum of money:)
...remember how horrible the swap is in Windows (including XP). It really kills the resposivness to have large parts of most apps being swapped out. Especially if you leave the computer. Why swap a bunch of stuff out just because I am not sitting there and no program actually want any more (especially since I never use any other screensavers than "blank" or "turn of the monitor").
I think the problem is basically that "seldomly used memory" is simply "a page not accessed in the last x time". I'm sure that a better system for a process can be deviced after all, and not having the startup code for the app in RAM isn't too bad, but swapping out everything needed to turn of the screensaver and start surfing/coding/gaming again really really pisses people off. Remember, it is about percieved speed.
Why not just make it simple? Any outsourced job has to go to someone with the same benifits and rights as the worker in the country of the origin of the outsourcing.
I can't really get especially mad if companies outsource to better workers, but since they are outsourcing to workers who accept much worse conditions I do tend to get mad. Are we really so eager to let major corporations throw away all the progress we have made to force them to treat us like sentient beings and not numbers?
Not to mention the fact that the developers of C# (i.e. the people developing the language, not with the language) made sure that one can easily make use of C and C++ code and binaries already in existance. You can already call all the C/C++ APIs.
I'm not sure or clear of why one would want to code in C instead of C# when developing for a.NET environment (be in Microsoft or Mono or something else). It can't be because you can't make use of already written APIs (since you easily can call them), so we killed that point. It can't be because of the "speed" of C, since it will be running the same IL on the same CLR. We are basically down to the language of C.
So is this because someone feels that OO could be too big for very small devices (Java MIDP showed us this very clearly, since it is completely missplaced and awful on mobile phones)? I can buy that.
Or is it because of some form of hatred towards C#? That makes it sad. The APIs for.NET are far better than any C API I've stumbled upon thus far (win32, POSIX, Solaris, GNU, etc), contains a vast amount of useful things, and easily calls unsafe (.NET terminology, look it up if you don't actually know what it means) C/C++ APIs.
Don't forget the rising number of open source solutions. You can just forget about putting anything like that into them. It will be easy enough for anyone with sufficient coding skills to remove the parts that identify songs, and voila, you've got a free system again.
And for each iteration the software will move more and more towards secure crypted and hard to trace methods of sharing. Making it easier and easier to use for far worse purpuses than downloading music. A very real life example would be the spreading of child porn.
I have trouble when the movies pan sideways (etc) at 24fps in cinemas. It jumps so much it gets both annoying and unsettling. I sure would like to get a higher fps, especially since it is more than possible with todays technology.
And speaking of technology, if they compress one high resolution movie down to 5GB, what kind of sound do they output? It's bad enough to go to a cinema and pay (nowdays) a silly amount of money to get Dolby Digital, espcially when the movie is out on DTS _AND_ the cinema can play it.
I was looking forward to digital cinema (I can see low bitrate problems with DCT, so MPEG2 nor MPEG4 will get through me, and I'm not even good at finding them!) with great sound (Apparently rumours about uncompressed sound was just that roumours -_-). Apparently what we will get is the 1337 DivX wannabes. I can just as well watch the releases on the net then...
This is why our countries have goverments, and why I think that they are not doing their jobs properly. Why isn't there laws protecting citizens from this kind of abuse from the corporate world? Sure, you can always say "don't take the job then", but how easy is that if your alternative is unemployment? I don't have a big beard and followers willing to pay me as a religious leader after all (guess who).
There are countless examples of how corporations run our countries effectivly through this kind of behaviour, and we have the stomach to stand up and speak about democracy?
Bah, ranting is over for today, nothing to see here, MoveAlong() { MoveAlong(); }...
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Don't forget AAC, very nice codec, beats the shit out of mpeg 1/2 layer 1,2,3 and the hardware sells like mad (iPod anyone?).
Anyone having a clue on what kind of high quality they are talking about? These are the days when $200 DVD players are marketed as high-end (yeah right) after all, and Dolby Pro Logic I/II/II" is marketed as high quality (sounds like crap after all).
I'd rather see ogg/aac tuned to 96khz/24bit (or 32) and 7.1 channels and give it some serious bandwidth on blu-ray. But since that would be a good choice from a quality standpoint, I'm sure that it will never happen. Just look at VHS, mp3, and DD...
Same here, I want all the little windows inside another big window, just as in photoshop. Photoshop has a more "gimp" alike system on the mac, and it really really sucks ass bigtime. Same with apps like codewarrior. Fortunatly they gave taht one a "not one million little windows cluttering up everything" mode for windows, which made it as least useful.
How much does it actually cost to see one 21 min sit-com? As in, how much does the channel get from commercials and other sources. If that is somewhere between $1 and $5 I would rather pay that amount and get quality TV without the commercials and whatnot.
I know which shows I want to watch, I very rarely just "watch TV". I have the internet to burn time on instead...
Don't forget Russia, China, Sweden, etc
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/378632/2004 -10-15/2004-10-21/0
Very easy to crash your browser, and should be fairly easy to set up and start finding crashing bugs. I already run firefox, but would love to see it not fail this easily.
You're not smurf in the smurf, smurf!
Not to mention that it would be pirated like wildfire...
I bet they use Bogosort :)
And if you would like to know what that is, check this out:
Bogosort
And if you don't get the joke after reading that, well, congratulations to getting paid for writing the code for DirecTV DVR:)
We can figure out how much we like someone though, just use a simple formula:
if(someone.patents.software > 0)
EngageMode(EHate);
else
EngageMode(ELike);
Besides, I wouldn't use the word genius about anyone who was involved in making java. I don't see what is so horribly hard about making a horrible combination of Obj-C and Smalltalk, two far better languages.
Should also have a connection to www.tvtome.com then, since a lot of the material on TV is infact TV series.
:))
But then again, I prefer channel Internet. No commercials, watch on demand, and better quality that the shity cable... And then I usually have access to Firefox.
Maybe it's better to spend the money on a plasma to begin with, hooks up to the PC easily
Which is why those "nasty evil socialist edicts" should also apply to anyone who manufactured goods _imported_ into a country. If you can't show proof that whomever made the stuff has the same rights and conditions, you have to ship it back. Would change a whole lot of stuff very very quickly.
But I guess our goverments will be sufficiently bribed || gotten nutcase agendas before that will ever happen.
Hopefully, in the future, we'll simply grow any organs that would be needed. That is unless some idiots stop this particular brand of research, but I hope there are countries who decides that this is still a good idea. Probably not from the kindness of their hearts, but out of lust for money.
When will it be illegal to not have a valid email address?
Shouldn't the PS3 by all means have the umpah to simply emulate the PS1 and PS2 in software, instead of putting it in hardware? The same goes for the XBox 2 / XBox situation.
Could be NX as well:)
Buffer owerflow attacks won't happen in languages which doesn't "support" that feature, such as perl, python, ruby, java, C# (any managed code), or managed C++ for that matter.
:)
Another way of killing the problem is using the NX (I hope I got that correct) instruction/bit in newer CPUs and simply separate code and data, and not allow execution in a data segment. Win SP2 does this, I am sure Linux does/will soon, one of the BSDs have done stuff like this for a while, etc.
So yes, you would prevent it. But then again, calling a javalib from C...
How long before someone sits down and tries to make an OSS OS version of whatever OS runs on newton? Sounds like a pretty interesting idea to me at least :)
Isn't that a virus? Or maybe we should call it a worm. Never the less, if anyone do own a CD like that (I'm not putting a music CD into my computer again, ever) and has been infected, you should sue the company for spreading computer viruses/worms.
Seriously, this is no different from let's say the old amiga boot block viruses...
I think they called it "Smyge" or something along those lines. Whatever it is called I've seen it myself, and it looks pretty spiffy. I'm sure you could sell it to drug lords for quite an incredible sum of money:)
...remember how horrible the swap is in Windows (including XP). It really kills the resposivness to have large parts of most apps being swapped out. Especially if you leave the computer. Why swap a bunch of stuff out just because I am not sitting there and no program actually want any more (especially since I never use any other screensavers than "blank" or "turn of the monitor").
I think the problem is basically that "seldomly used memory" is simply "a page not accessed in the last x time". I'm sure that a better system for a process can be deviced after all, and not having the startup code for the app in RAM isn't too bad, but swapping out everything needed to turn of the screensaver and start surfing/coding/gaming again really really pisses people off. Remember, it is about percieved speed.
"If I have to wait, it takes too long".
--Forgoil
Why not just make it simple? Any outsourced job has to go to someone with the same benifits and rights as the worker in the country of the origin of the outsourcing.
I can't really get especially mad if companies outsource to better workers, but since they are outsourcing to workers who accept much worse conditions I do tend to get mad. Are we really so eager to let major corporations throw away all the progress we have made to force them to treat us like sentient beings and not numbers?
Not to mention the fact that the developers of C# (i.e. the people developing the language, not with the language) made sure that one can easily make use of C and C++ code and binaries already in existance. You can already call all the C/C++ APIs.
.NET environment (be in Microsoft or Mono or something else). It can't be because you can't make use of already written APIs (since you easily can call them), so we killed that point. It can't be because of the "speed" of C, since it will be running the same IL on the same CLR. We are basically down to the language of C.
.NET are far better than any C API I've stumbled upon thus far (win32, POSIX, Solaris, GNU, etc), contains a vast amount of useful things, and easily calls unsafe (.NET terminology, look it up if you don't actually know what it means) C/C++ APIs.
I'm not sure or clear of why one would want to code in C instead of C# when developing for a
So is this because someone feels that OO could be too big for very small devices (Java MIDP showed us this very clearly, since it is completely missplaced and awful on mobile phones)? I can buy that.
Or is it because of some form of hatred towards C#? That makes it sad. The APIs for
Don't forget the rising number of open source solutions. You can just forget about putting anything like that into them. It will be easy enough for anyone with sufficient coding skills to remove the parts that identify songs, and voila, you've got a free system again.
And for each iteration the software will move more and more towards secure crypted and hard to trace methods of sharing. Making it easier and easier to use for far worse purpuses than downloading music. A very real life example would be the spreading of child porn.
I have trouble when the movies pan sideways (etc) at 24fps in cinemas. It jumps so much it gets both annoying and unsettling. I sure would like to get a higher fps, especially since it is more than possible with todays technology.
And speaking of technology, if they compress one high resolution movie down to 5GB, what kind of sound do they output? It's bad enough to go to a cinema and pay (nowdays) a silly amount of money to get Dolby Digital, espcially when the movie is out on DTS _AND_ the cinema can play it.
I was looking forward to digital cinema (I can see low bitrate problems with DCT, so MPEG2 nor MPEG4 will get through me, and I'm not even good at finding them!) with great sound (Apparently rumours about uncompressed sound was just that roumours -_-). Apparently what we will get is the 1337 DivX wannabes. I can just as well watch the releases on the net then...
This is why our countries have goverments, and why I think that they are not doing their jobs properly. Why isn't there laws protecting citizens from this kind of abuse from the corporate world? Sure, you can always say "don't take the job then", but how easy is that if your alternative is unemployment? I don't have a big beard and followers willing to pay me as a religious leader after all (guess who).
There are countless examples of how corporations run our countries effectivly through this kind of behaviour, and we have the stomach to stand up and speak about democracy?
Bah, ranting is over for today, nothing to see here, MoveAlong() { MoveAlong(); }...