If you're concerned about sound quality, you are not listening to compressed audio of any sort.
On the other hand, PNGs are lossless compression which provide roughly the same file size as lossy GIFs and JPGs. You can keep your gradients looking sharp, and still expect a quick download of the image.
I won't disagree that OGG sounds better or worse. I'm saying that NOBODY who uses compressed audio seriously gives a rat's ass.
I know nothing about pacemakers. Do the medical computers that monitor them use wireless transmissions to communicate?
If yes, I see the potential for some sort of strong-arm wardriving in retirement communities.;-)
"Yes Mrs. Johnson, if you don't send us your retirment savings, you may be liable for a serious accident. Wha... what's that? You think your heart just skipped a beat?"
Not to mention that anyone needing roaming file access is probably part of an organization that has the savvy to provide an in-house service. Or, at least lap-tops, which produces a similar result.
Average desk-jockeys simply don't need the service, and mom'n'pop casual users get confused by anything more complicated than photo-sharing sites..COM fucktards were everywhere. The sky already fell.
I've never heard of snoozerland (until now). I've never heard any of their songs. How am I supposed to find snoozerland on a file sharing network when I don't even know it exists? WHY would I search for snoozerland if I don't know it exists? WHY would I search for snoozerland besides something with more name recognition?
Filesharing doesn't help get the word out about your band. It only helps get the music out to those who already have the word and care about hearing your music.
For instance, you say: "(Actually untill napster we weren't selling any records outside Canada!)". As I stated above, how could napster help you sell records outside of Canada when no one outside of Canada knew about your existance?
Wouldn't 'net radio or sites like MP3.com be more influential for fledgling bands when a filesharing system?
(I'm not trying to poop on your parade here. Just presenting a line of thought. It's cool that you are now experiencing greater success because of MP3s and the 'net, I'm just saying that I'm not sure how important a factor filesharing was to the bands success due to the natue of filesharing systems.)
You're right about TOS, but STOS was something else entirely. STOS was a programming environment/language specifically designed for making games. It looked very much like BASIC but had many built in functions and things for handling various game related tasks. AMOS was the Amiga version.
STOS/AMOS... wow, that brings back memories. Friend of my had an ST and introduced me to STOS. I had an amiga (several actually), so I got AMOS. What an amazing piece of software.
Anyone out there know what happened to François Lionet? That guy was my hero for the longest time.
When will mainstream moviemakers, such as Lucasfilm, finally replace their render farms and Renderman with a GPU (Geforce or Radeon) and Cg based renderer?
which is just plain stupid. The never will. What film makers need is not even from the same planet as what gamers need.
The idea though is just plain old.
It's called puppetry. Real Time Animation is another word for Digital Puppetry. Check out the performance group D'Cukoo (or whatever the fuck they're called). They did this kind of stupid shit many years ago wit ha digital puppet named Rigby (if I remember correctly).
I have no idea what the/. editors saw in this post. It must truly be a slow news day.
Thanks for the link. It was an interesting article. However, it was very rambling and not very informative, except to say that there will be some performance problems with a SQL based FS because traditional DB data structures don't map well to their use cases. (At least that's what I got from it. I found it somewhat difficult to follow, I'll admit)
I think that they are forgetting that the desktops of today are orders of magnitude more powerful than those of 1993. Massive amounts of RAM and incredibly fast CPUs will facilitate this evolution with ease, imho.
Yeah, of course there will be problems, but I think that performance will not be a major factor. I'm thinking that data integrity will be the much bigger issue.
SQL server as the filesystem is exactly what they're doing. The first taste will be.NET server sometime in the near future. Not only that, but they're integrating SQL server with the.NET platform. Apparently, you'll be able to write stored procs in any.NET supported language, not just T-SQL.
The whole thing actually sounds really good on paper. Even the Oracle DBAs around my office seem impressed. I for one hope that it comes to fruition. (flame me as you will)
I can see this fleet of black John Deere's rumbling down the road at 20mph, followed by a low-noise "stealth" crop duster. Men in black suits with matching John Deere baseball-caps pushed way up high on their heads in the driver's seats.
Last time I had to do any tech support (many many moons ago), the internals of the Dells that the company had were all custom Dell jobs. The cases were not ATX compliant, the mobos were all on backplane/rise-cards and many other quirky things.
I have no idea what the current situation is like, nor do I know about Micron or Gateway PCs but I don't doubt that they're as non standard as possible to prevent just this sort of reuse.
The one thing I cannot stand about LoTR:FoTR is the sound track. If just oozes with disgustingly obvious contrivance. Way to "breathy" and full of sweeping strings and "stirring renditions". Made me feel like I was watching a commercial for Zamphir or that I was stuck by the "Mood Music" cd rack in one of those stores that sells tarot cards and crystals.
Almost compelled me to run to the snack bar to see if they would sell me some granola.
Hokey new age shit.
It's pop music for "enlightened" people.:-\
( Then again I consider Autechre, Aphex Twin, muZiq, etc... to be musical. So feel free to take my opinion with a grain of salt. )
Uhm... the kit comes with a network adapter. NIC + broadband connection = distribution network. No need for discs, or licensing. Quite wonderful really.
By being nothing but open and honest about why employees are paid the amount they are paid. Start with clearly defined roles and responsibilities then add clearly defined performance metrics. It's almost self managing because everyone has an idea of what everyone else is supposed to be doing to earn what they are earning.
Last I heard Nintendo is sitting on a big fat pile of cash courtesy of strong franchise characters and the Gameboy. Square is currently in the economic toilet because of the debacle that was the Final Fantasy movie. Not to mention that they've lost a lot of street credit on their last bunch of sorry-ass excuses for games, it's just taking the mainstream (and noisy fanboys) awhile to wake up to the fact.
Square has been floundering for some time now and can use all the help they can get. They're probably thanking their lucky stars that Nintendo is also in serious need of securing software partnerships and was willing to talk with them. This is a compromise on both thier parts. If anything, they'll sink or swim together for the near future.
And that is why MS is transitioning from an OS company to an application/network services company. They know that the OS is becoming a non-issue which is why they are trying to get way ahead of the curve in those aspects (the.NET platform/service being the major factor).
The talk about commercial vs. free sofware, on the OS level is a feint. The important comments surround their reaction to Liberty Alliance which is a direct threat to their future revenue stream. Their future OS will only serve as a convenient gateway to where the real money will be made: brokering "identities" to developers using.NET for their application's authentication/profile component. (Yeah, hooking your app into.NET/Passport is free (cheap?) now... but wait for versions 2 or 3 when they substantially change everything and charge application providers through the nose)
As you say, the customer walks up to the salesperson and asks for a demonstration of the product. The salesperson then goes to get a key to unlock the demonstration computer's ports. Demo proceeds as normal.
The point is: restrict the customers direct access to the machine. They should ask for permission to have access to the machine beyond mousing around on the desktop without supervision.
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CompUSA and other computer stores could take a few simple steps to prevent software from being copied, said Mac expert Dave Horrigan, who writes a syndicated Macintosh column.
Any Mac can easily be configured to allow changes only by administrators, he said. Also, a system profile tool logs all peripheral equipment, but it must be running to log an iPod. For Macs running OS X, a locked dummy file in an application's package will protect the entire file from being copied without a password.
But Horrigan didn't think the iPod presents a serious piracy threat to Microsoft, and doubted the company would take special measures to prevent in-store copying.
Here's a suggestion: Physically block the fucking I/O ports on display models. Put a locked metal bar across them or something. Cheap, quick, and effective.
I'm willing to bet that most people consider ugliness a disease. Look around you, there are more "cures" for ugliness than there are for anything else. I'm sure that at the first opportunity, Calvin Klein and the rest of the fashion mafia will be producing true "designer" babies.
A body that is granted a charter recognizing it as a separate legal entity having its own rights, privileges, and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
Such a body created for purposes of government. Also called body corporate.
A group of people combined into or acting as one body.
Informal. A protruding abdominal region; a potbelly.
As you can see, corporations are legal bodies. In essence, corporations are (almost) people. Incredibly rich powerful people made up from rich and powerful component parts with less than six degrees of separation between the major components of one corporation and any other corporation, including the government. Wonderful, isn't it?:)
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Not to mention that cablecos and telcos have been providing steady, stable, and inexpensive broadband in the major centres for 4+ years.
I love living here.
If you're concerned about sound quality, you are not listening to compressed audio of any sort.
On the other hand, PNGs are lossless compression which provide roughly the same file size as lossy GIFs and JPGs. You can keep your gradients looking sharp, and still expect a quick download of the image.
I won't disagree that OGG sounds better or worse. I'm saying that NOBODY who uses compressed audio seriously gives a rat's ass.
The difference between GIF or JPG and PNG is noticeable.
The difference between OGG and MP3 is... pretty much in the licensing.
That's the difference.
I know nothing about pacemakers. Do the medical computers that monitor them use wireless transmissions to communicate?
;-)
If yes, I see the potential for some sort of strong-arm wardriving in retirement communities.
"Yes Mrs. Johnson, if you don't send us your retirment savings, you may be liable for a serious accident. Wha... what's that? You think your heart just skipped a beat?"
C'mon... laugh damnit!
Not to mention that anyone needing roaming file access is probably part of an organization that has the savvy to provide an in-house service. Or, at least lap-tops, which produces a similar result.
.COM fucktards were everywhere. The sky already fell.
Average desk-jockeys simply don't need the service, and mom'n'pop casual users get confused by anything more complicated than photo-sharing sites.
Here's the deal:
I've never heard of snoozerland (until now). I've never heard any of their songs. How am I supposed to find snoozerland on a file sharing network when I don't even know it exists? WHY would I search for snoozerland if I don't know it exists? WHY would I search for snoozerland besides something with more name recognition?
Filesharing doesn't help get the word out about your band. It only helps get the music out to those who already have the word and care about hearing your music.
For instance, you say: "(Actually untill napster we weren't selling any records outside Canada!)". As I stated above, how could napster help you sell records outside of Canada when no one outside of Canada knew about your existance?
Wouldn't 'net radio or sites like MP3.com be more influential for fledgling bands when a filesharing system?
(I'm not trying to poop on your parade here. Just presenting a line of thought. It's cool that you are now experiencing greater success because of MP3s and the 'net, I'm just saying that I'm not sure how important a factor filesharing was to the bands success due to the natue of filesharing systems.)
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You're right about TOS, but STOS was something else entirely. STOS was a programming environment/language specifically designed for making games. It looked very much like BASIC but had many built in functions and things for handling various game related tasks. AMOS was the Amiga version.
STOS/AMOS ... wow, that brings back memories. Friend of my had an ST and introduced me to STOS. I had an amiga (several actually), so I got AMOS. What an amazing piece of software.
Anyone out there know what happened to François Lionet? That guy was my hero for the longest time.
which is just plain stupid. The never will. What film makers need is not even from the same planet as what gamers need.
The idea though is just plain old.
It's called puppetry. Real Time Animation is another word for Digital Puppetry. Check out the performance group D'Cukoo (or whatever the fuck they're called). They did this kind of stupid shit many years ago wit ha digital puppet named Rigby (if I remember correctly).
I have no idea what the
Thanks for the link. It was an interesting article. However, it was very rambling and not very informative, except to say that there will be some performance problems with a SQL based FS because traditional DB data structures don't map well to their use cases. (At least that's what I got from it. I found it somewhat difficult to follow, I'll admit)
I think that they are forgetting that the desktops of today are orders of magnitude more powerful than those of 1993. Massive amounts of RAM and incredibly fast CPUs will facilitate this evolution with ease, imho.
Yeah, of course there will be problems, but I think that performance will not be a major factor. I'm thinking that data integrity will be the much bigger issue.
SQL server as the filesystem is exactly what they're doing. The first taste will be .NET server sometime in the near future. Not only that, but they're integrating SQL server with the .NET platform. Apparently, you'll be able to write stored procs in any .NET supported language, not just T-SQL.
The whole thing actually sounds really good on paper. Even the Oracle DBAs around my office seem impressed. I for one hope that it comes to fruition. (flame me as you will)
Okay, now THAT is funny.
I can see this fleet of black John Deere's rumbling down the road at 20mph, followed by a low-noise "stealth" crop duster. Men in black suits with matching John Deere baseball-caps pushed way up high on their heads in the driver's seats.
The Fortune Tellers Association of America called. They want their idea back. They're claiming "patent infringement" or some such.
300w nothing...
Last time I had to do any tech support (many many moons ago), the internals of the Dells that the company had were all custom Dell jobs. The cases were not ATX compliant, the mobos were all on backplane/rise-cards and many other quirky things.
I have no idea what the current situation is like, nor do I know about Micron or Gateway PCs but I don't doubt that they're as non standard as possible to prevent just this sort of reuse.
Well said.
:-\
The one thing I cannot stand about LoTR:FoTR is the sound track. If just oozes with disgustingly obvious contrivance. Way to "breathy" and full of sweeping strings and "stirring renditions". Made me feel like I was watching a commercial for Zamphir or that I was stuck by the "Mood Music" cd rack in one of those stores that sells tarot cards and crystals.
Almost compelled me to run to the snack bar to see if they would sell me some granola.
Hokey new age shit.
It's pop music for "enlightened" people.
( Then again I consider Autechre, Aphex Twin, muZiq, etc... to be musical. So feel free to take my opinion with a grain of salt. )
Uhm... the kit comes with a network adapter. NIC + broadband connection = distribution network. No need for discs, or licensing. Quite wonderful really.
By being nothing but open and honest about why employees are paid the amount they are paid. Start with clearly defined roles and responsibilities then add clearly defined performance metrics. It's almost self managing because everyone has an idea of what everyone else is supposed to be doing to earn what they are earning.
Last I heard Nintendo is sitting on a big fat pile of cash courtesy of strong franchise characters and the Gameboy. Square is currently in the economic toilet because of the debacle that was the Final Fantasy movie. Not to mention that they've lost a lot of street credit on their last bunch of sorry-ass excuses for games, it's just taking the mainstream (and noisy fanboys) awhile to wake up to the fact.
Square has been floundering for some time now and can use all the help they can get. They're probably thanking their lucky stars that Nintendo is also in serious need of securing software partnerships and was willing to talk with them. This is a compromise on both thier parts. If anything, they'll sink or swim together for the near future.
It's only a nial in the coffin of XBOX if Square doesn't whore itself out to all interested parties.
And that is why MS is transitioning from an OS company to an application/network services company. They know that the OS is becoming a non-issue which is why they are trying to get way ahead of the curve in those aspects (the .NET platform/service being the major factor).
.NET for their application's authentication/profile component. (Yeah, hooking your app into .NET/Passport is free (cheap?) now... but wait for versions 2 or 3 when they substantially change everything and charge application providers through the nose)
The talk about commercial vs. free sofware, on the OS level is a feint. The important comments surround their reaction to Liberty Alliance which is a direct threat to their future revenue stream. Their future OS will only serve as a convenient gateway to where the real money will be made: brokering "identities" to developers using
As you say, the customer walks up to the salesperson and asks for a demonstration of the product. The salesperson then goes to get a key to unlock the demonstration computer's ports. Demo proceeds as normal.
The point is: restrict the customers direct access to the machine. They should ask for permission to have access to the machine beyond mousing around on the desktop without supervision.
Here's a suggestion: Physically block the fucking I/O ports on display models. Put a locked metal bar across them or something. Cheap, quick, and effective.
I'm willing to bet that most people consider ugliness a disease. Look around you, there are more "cures" for ugliness than there are for anything else. I'm sure that at the first opportunity, Calvin Klein and the rest of the fashion mafia will be producing true "designer" babies.
As you can see, corporations are legal bodies. In essence, corporations are (almost) people. Incredibly rich powerful people made up from rich and powerful component parts with less than six degrees of separation between the major components of one corporation and any other corporation, including the government. Wonderful, isn't it? :)