7Mbps service minimum to be able to watch DVD quality movies real time. Unfortunately you are not right. Or, actually, you are "too" right. The problem is that e.g. for DVB broadcasts the bit rate is somewhere around 3-4Mbps (at least in Finland). It is claimed to be "high quality", although it is nowhere near DVD.
At least in the near future both SD and HD content from the net will be compressed heavier (and use better compression like H264 instead of mpeg2).
the BD+ system requires regular firmware updates, Do you have anything to back this up? As far as I know BD+ requires no firmware updates. It is just a piece of code in the disk for unencrypting the data contents of the disk. The point is that the code can be different in every disk thereby making reverse-engineering harder (but apparently not impossible).
I am more willing to pirate than buy bluray+tv+amplifier, I do have perfectly OK amp+tv already, I refuse to pay $2000 on new TV just to be able to see HD movies - "torrented" ones do not use HDCP. Therefore DVD's it is.
BTW, I'm "old school", I like to own, therefore I buy CD's (but not "copy protected"). MP3s just don't have the same "feeling" of ownership. I doubt mp3's have any resale value, CD's do have a reasonable one. Not that I have ever sold one:-)
The number of internet capable phones sold by Nokia (or Sony-Ericsson, or...) is hugely bigger than the sales of iPhones.
In the near future there will be more hits from phones than computers, but these hits will be more limited to banks, etc. Some Finnish banks already have "text only" interface, just for phones.
Even if the whole business isn't "respectable" by your standards, you obviously respect their work enough to watch it. I have watched genocide in Darfur. I do not respect it.
To never pay is to vote for a world where that work is never produced. I am willing to take that vote as I know I am in the minority. And if there are more people like me, perhaps even a couple of percent of the population, we might have a chance to kill DRM (and DMCA) for good.
The DRM for music was not killed by paying for it, it was killed by not paying for it.
I do consider DRM as it is in e.g. blu-ray/hd-dvd/HDMI an atrocity. Therefore I will rather torrent HD movies than pay for them. If my behaviour kills the movie industry which uses DRM I'll be just happy.
I decided not to answer your first post because it did not address any of the problems I mentioned, it was just ad-hominem ranting.
Now you are twisting my words.
First, C#/J# are essentially one language with minimal syntax difference. Unlike C++ v.s. C++.Net, garbage collection makes a difference especially in multi-threaded programming (C++.Net are always MT). Second, the cost of requiring everyone in the project(s) to be fluent in more than language is prohibitive. Third, sockets perform much better than you think and give nice process separation enabling e.g. parallel processing.
Apparently you can only imagine synchronous method calls. But in this case several languages are really going to drive people debugging less familiar code insane.
Just to annoy you I will not say anything about my experience.
You're a C++ developer? It's a lot more comfortable to use C++.Net than it is to use ActionScript. You do realise that C++.Net is not C++. You cannot use existing C++ code, you must use "managed C++" which is very different (garbage collected).
[...]but the.Net libraries share a common format, style, and organization. And Java does not? (You brought Java into the discussion)
Silverlight application is going to be obviously OO [...] easily share/reuse code between Silverlight, ASP.Net, and JIT'd GUI apps. OO does not magically make stuff reusable. It makes it easier, but not easy (data structures usually kill reuse).
you can mix multiple languages in a silverlight project Let me give you a good advice: even if you can, don't. Split the project into parts and connect the parts via sockets or mmap.
BTW, Visual Studio (2005) is worse than e.g. NetBeans. Yes, it is faster, but it still is worse (esp. the debugger sucks).
P.S. I have no experience on flash and I am not defending it. I am just pointing that you use invalid arguments to favour silverlight.
Apparently you are wrong person to ask as you installed XP, but - so what!
Does you/anybody know if it is capable of viewports? [scrolling the screen by moving mouse, i.e. the screen (800x480) is just a "view" of the "full" desktop (e.g. 1024x768 or whatever)]. This could ease the pain a bit (as do virtual desktops).
FVWM does support so maybe it would be a good idea...
None that are not backed by a company. OTOH OpenSolaris is one.
BTW Gnome tries harder to maintain binary compatibility, 2.8 should be reasonably compatible with latest. However, I doubt it really is very good (for 3 yr old programs to run on 2.20).
KDE guys don't guarantee that KDE 3.5 will be supported next 3 years Really? That sounds horrible, the development model of KDE sounds very amateurish.
not kinda cool that there won't be LTS for KDE, I think it is very cool not to include immaturely developed programs.
Say for instance the 1900 leap year bug. [...] do what MS are doing: use the tag to denote the issue. But this is NOT what Microsoft is doing! There is no tag. Every OOXML spreadsheet is assumed to calculate wrong. BTW you cannot have dates before 1900. This is, to me, totally unacceptable.
Same goes with CEILING, etc. There is no tag "calculate CEILING mathematically (in)correctly", the definition of CEILING is to calculate incorrectly.
Add the controversy of (not having) a stable kernel interface to the mix and you have nailed it.
I, personally, see the (re)birth of (Open)Solaris. Stable interfaces, ZFS,... If they could somehow get the HW support to a reasonable level (this won't happen soon, if ever).
Or perhaps Mac OSX will become cheaper, let's say $50 installable to a white box. Unlikely, I know.
I have used Ubuntu, Fedora,... all have similar brittleness problems.
1. I have removed top "panel" as I see no reason to have two panels taking screen estate. After this and a month maybe 50% of logins work as expected, starting the programs intented on start-up. There are too many dot directories to know which ones to recover (I would love a VCS plugin for configuration).
2. I sometimes use SCIM+anthy. It does not always work, sometimes you have to logout-login. Can be related to updates (which in Windows would have forced reboot).
3. I use Finnish keyboard. Quite often quite a few programs fail (VNC is useless, RDPclient need restart, old Java could not produce '~',...).
4. I use UTF-8 (LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8). Bash no longer work perfectly, readline fails, editing long lines fail,...
5. There is some silly 32k limit on command line length. I have 2 gigs of memory. Does-not-compute.
I have to say Linux is not really much worse than e.g. XP in this sense. Though most of my XP problems comes with virtuaWin, I just cannot use a computer without several desktops. YMMV, as usual.
The problem was that child molesters went to countries with no laws agains child molestation (or the law was overlooked).
This was no "think about the children" case, the problem was already there before the law and it was getting rampant. One case/person had abused around 300 chidren of which some were eight.
I am absolutely certain UK police does follow cars...
In C++ I often copy non-braced region on purpose, because I can re-indent it as it should, trivially with indent-region. This operation is impossible very hard with Python.
This does not make Python a bad language, it makes it a langueage against my instinct. Nothing more, nothing less.
Just a question: how often did you, in C/C++/... mismatch a brace?
In Python it will quietly kill your program - in run time.
Point 3 cannot make any intendation "no-brainer", at least not for me. I still, even in C++, have problems. Why, just why, should I have to feel uncomfortable with the language I use (last point)?
P.S. I have nothing against Python, it just ain't for me(tm).
Problem 1: You cannot reliably copy-paste. Problem 2: You cannot add easy to notice debug output lines, or whatever, e.g.
if (foo){ printf("did foo\n");// remove this line later
do_foo(bar);
} Problem 3: prone to user errors
if (bar())
strFoo += "<xml>"
"long lines indented according to xml rules for clarity"... add 100 lines "</xml>"
strFoo += "OOP";// What "level" is this?
bar();// Or this? Problem 4: indent-region is much better than your hack, in every sense. Problem 5: It just makes me (and the GP/GGP) uncomfortable. So why bother as there clearly are enough other languages for us?
There are "oodles" of people arrested from child molestation (having sex with a minor) which has occured in Thailand. They have been arrested in e.g. Finland. And convicted, btw.
Finnish law makes it illegal, no matter where it happens. I do not know for sure if Finnish law makes smoking pot in Netherlands illegal, but what I have heard it does not.
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You forgot one important: Enable *much* cheaper and convenient car sharing and car pools.
Why would I own a car if I can get a suitable (big/small/... depending on particular need) car to my front door whenever I need one?
At least in the near future both SD and HD content from the net will be compressed heavier (and use better compression like H264 instead of mpeg2).
I am confident nobody really thinks the rootkit was as bad as they claim.
They just use it as an excuse for pirating.
You, sir, are truly a Windows man: "Any attempt to separate users and administrators is a bad thing".
I do not pirate.
:-)
I am more willing to pirate than buy bluray+tv+amplifier, I do have perfectly OK amp+tv already, I refuse to pay $2000 on new TV just to be able to see HD movies - "torrented" ones do not use HDCP. Therefore DVD's it is.
BTW, I'm "old school", I like to own, therefore I buy CD's (but not "copy protected"). MP3s just don't have the same "feeling" of ownership. I doubt mp3's have any resale value, CD's do have a reasonable one. Not that I have ever sold one
Your assumption is completely bogus.
...) is hugely bigger than the sales of iPhones.
The number of internet capable phones sold by Nokia (or Sony-Ericsson, or
In the near future there will be more hits from phones than computers, but these hits will be more limited to banks, etc. Some Finnish banks already have "text only" interface, just for phones.
The DRM for music was not killed by paying for it, it was killed by not paying for it.
I do consider DRM as it is in e.g. blu-ray/hd-dvd/HDMI an atrocity. Therefore I will rather torrent HD movies than pay for them. If my behaviour kills the movie industry which uses DRM I'll be just happy.
"This ain't rock-n-roll, this is genocide!"
I thought so, because what I said "you cannot use existing C++ code" where the context should be bloody obvious (it is in the topic).
HTH. HAND.
I decided not to answer your first post because it did not address any of the problems I mentioned, it was just ad-hominem ranting.
Now you are twisting my words.
First, C#/J# are essentially one language with minimal syntax difference. Unlike C++ v.s. C++.Net, garbage collection makes a difference especially in multi-threaded programming (C++.Net are always MT). Second, the cost of requiring everyone in the project(s) to be fluent in more than language is prohibitive. Third, sockets perform much better than you think and give nice process separation enabling e.g. parallel processing.
Apparently you can only imagine synchronous method calls. But in this case several languages are really going to drive people debugging less familiar code insane.
Just to annoy you I will not say anything about my experience.
BTW, Visual Studio (2005) is worse than e.g. NetBeans. Yes, it is faster, but it still is worse (esp. the debugger sucks).
P.S. I have no experience on flash and I am not defending it. I am just pointing that you use invalid arguments to favour silverlight.
Cheez ... I'd be happy with a terminal which handles ctrl-c (etc). as copy.
Besides, I'm already 2008! Bite that!
Apparently you are wrong person to ask as you installed XP, but - so what!
...
Does you/anybody know if it is capable of viewports? [scrolling the screen by moving mouse, i.e. the screen (800x480) is just a "view" of the "full" desktop (e.g. 1024x768 or whatever)]. This could ease the pain a bit (as do virtual desktops).
FVWM does support so maybe it would be a good idea
None that are not backed by a company. OTOH OpenSolaris is one.
BTW Gnome tries harder to maintain binary compatibility, 2.8 should be reasonably compatible with latest. However, I doubt it really is very good (for 3 yr old programs to run on 2.20).
Same goes with CEILING, etc. There is no tag "calculate CEILING mathematically (in)correctly", the definition of CEILING is to calculate incorrectly.
Add the controversy of (not having) a stable kernel interface to the mix and you have nailed it.
... If they could somehow get the HW support to a reasonable level (this won't happen soon, if ever).
I, personally, see the (re)birth of (Open)Solaris. Stable interfaces, ZFS,
Or perhaps Mac OSX will become cheaper, let's say $50 installable to a white box. Unlikely, I know.
I have used Ubuntu, Fedora, ... all have similar brittleness problems.
...).
...
1. I have removed top "panel" as I see no reason to have two panels taking screen estate. After this and a month maybe 50% of logins work as expected, starting the programs intented on start-up. There are too many dot directories to know which ones to recover (I would love a VCS plugin for configuration).
2. I sometimes use SCIM+anthy. It does not always work, sometimes you have to logout-login. Can be related to updates (which in Windows would have forced reboot).
3. I use Finnish keyboard. Quite often quite a few programs fail (VNC is useless, RDPclient need restart, old Java could not produce '~',
4. I use UTF-8 (LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8). Bash no longer work perfectly, readline fails, editing long lines fail,
5. There is some silly 32k limit on command line length. I have 2 gigs of memory. Does-not-compute.
I have to say Linux is not really much worse than e.g. XP in this sense. Though most of my XP problems comes with virtuaWin, I just cannot use a computer without several desktops. YMMV, as usual.
The problem was that child molesters went to countries with no laws agains child molestation (or the law was overlooked).
...
This was no "think about the children" case, the problem was already there before the law and it was getting rampant. One case/person had abused around 300 chidren of which some were eight.
I am absolutely certain UK police does follow cars
Finnish.
In C++ I often copy non-braced region on purpose, because I can re-indent it as it should, trivially with indent-region. This operation is impossible very hard with Python.
This does not make Python a bad language, it makes it a langueage against my instinct. Nothing more, nothing less.
Just a question: how often did you, in C/C++/... mismatch a brace?
In Python it will quietly kill your program - in run time.
Point 3 cannot make any intendation "no-brainer", at least not for me. I still, even in C++, have problems. Why, just why, should I have to feel uncomfortable with the language I use (last point)?
P.S. I have nothing against Python, it just ain't for me(tm).
That is not the whole point.
// remove this line later ... add 100 lines // What "level" is this? // Or this?
Problem 1: You cannot reliably copy-paste.
Problem 2: You cannot add easy to notice debug output lines, or whatever, e.g.
if (foo){
printf("did foo\n");
do_foo(bar);
}
Problem 3: prone to user errors
if (bar())
strFoo +=
"<xml>"
"long lines indented according to xml rules for clarity"
"</xml>"
strFoo += "OOP";
bar();
Problem 4: indent-region is much better than your hack, in every sense.
Problem 5: It just makes me (and the GP/GGP) uncomfortable. So why bother as there clearly are enough other languages for us?
There are "oodles" of people arrested from child molestation (having sex with a minor) which has occured in Thailand. They have been arrested in e.g. Finland. And convicted, btw.
Finnish law makes it illegal, no matter where it happens. I do not know for sure if Finnish law makes smoking pot in Netherlands illegal, but what I have heard it does not.