We've *been* sending stuff out into space for the past 100 years in the form of electric lights (heavy on rfi), radio, television and in the past 30 years just about everything is wired or worse, wireless and is emitting shit into space in all kinds of ways.
What should be more concerning is if the aliens think we all watch Jerry Springer 24 hours a day. They'll probably deem us unworthy and send a construction fleet to demolish the earth to build a hyperspace bypass.
The difference is that Nintendo has a 1:1 ratio of points to dollars. While you may still have to overbuy or be under a little because the varying costs of games you at least understand the true cost of everything.
I hope you realize that you are part of the problem with fanning the flames in these stupid flamewars. It won't go away until people quit bitching about how one side or the other should be scolded because the other side wasn't allowed a pass.
Does it really matter? Do you sleep better at night?
BTW, the above is true of HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray and PS3 vs. Wii vs. 360 flamewars.
blu-ray can go to eleven for all i care but that doesn't make it a better format. nor do i think 95% of anyone gives a shit about the capacity until recordable drives for both the computer and standalone video recorders become available in a reasonable price range for the average consumer (read the walmart consumer).
as far as what the extra space could be used for i on video i doubt anyone will really take advantage of it. think about it, why would it get used? i don't think we are gong to see much in higher bitrates as it is fairly unnecessary. so what else might it be used for? well you could say perhaps multi disc sets might be compacted into a single disc. i **really** doubt this will happen. why? because of the psychological factor. people are more willing to buy something that seems more substantial (thus why many collectors sets are spread to multiple discs when there is often enough space on a dvd9 to fit it all.
as far as the format war is concerned i don't know how to feel about it. i recently bought an hd-dvd player but haven't hooked it up yet. i'm not sure if i will be purchasing any discs for it just yet either. for now i'm thinking i'll probably use it for netflix hd-dvd's and as a scaler for my standard def discs.
I don't doubt that Leopard has some bugs. Probably even many of them. I did an "Upgrade Install" and have a fair amount of 3rd party apps installed including some utilities. Knowing I might have problems I disabled several of them before installing and others I looked up to see if they support Leopard. Of course a good many didn't have any info on Leopard yet.
However I would bet there are a good many people who have existing problems with their system and don't know it or have applications installed that they don't really understand could be dangerous. I'm willing to bet though that this is more likely to be a third party issue than a Leopard issue just from my own experience... but who knows. Like most of these types of problems with any new OS (Windows, OS X, Linux, what-have-you) I doubt that it is widespread. IMHO headlines like this one should be considered flame-bait unless someone can conclusively prove Apple's at fault.
"While our friends at Intel, Google and Microsoft may find system errors, computer glitches and dropped calls tolerable, broadcasters do not."
I find that statement by these old curmudgeons and stalwarts offensive and I don't work for any of these companies.
I do however have cable internet and digital cable television (Comcast) and it is extremely glitchy, both the internet service and the TV. The TV service momentarily blinks out and pixelates about 10 times per day on average and sometimes worse. Quite often I get loud blasts of a split second static. These glitches are incredibly annoying if you are watching a movie and take you out of the experience.
The cable internet I have is one of their premium packages and though it is very fast it blinks out about once a week or so and I regularly have strange bouts of extremely slow speeds.
I can't help but think that a company like Google could do a better job of providing these services if they were so inclined. NAB is all about protecting their business interests by any means necessary. They've done their best to fight satellite radio: http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/the-nab-a-history-of-hypocrisy.html. The unfortunate thing is these guys have deep pockets and (which they buy their friends in Congress with) and influence policy without any concern of the common good of the people. These are OUR radio waves right? We employ the government to mange the airways to suit our interests right? Well at least that was the the idea...
betamax died in the consumer market but caught on big in the broadcast industry.
minidisc was big for a short time with some concert tapers (until they realized the quality wasn't as hot as they hoped for).
the cd, while a joint venture with philips, was far and away a philips product rather than a sony one. sony did very little in the research and development of the technology aside from writing some firmware and creating the circ error correction system. they did however do a lot to promote the technology through advertising and theirh their own hardware.
but make no mistake, it was philips that created almost all of the technology and they deserve 95% of the credit.
You know I'd probably care more about them being underfunded if I actually believed they were using their computer farms for finding terrorists rather than spying on American citizens.
As long as your OS of choice (Windows 2000 or newer, Linux, OS X, etc.) can handle memory in a relatively modern way you should pay little attention to RAM use as it means nothing. Programs using vast amounts of memory is only an issue with crappy old operating systems with poor memory management (ala Win95, 98, ME for example). Opera caches as much as it can in RAM for speed. It isn't a memory leak it is a feature.
That is a nice feature. A workaround for wiki pages for other browsers, Safari 2 included is to do: searchitem wiki in the google search field. The wiki page will be the first result. Of course this means a few extra clicks and whatnot...
The ak47 is the most widely used and produced gun in the world. The simplicity and durability are what makes it remarkable as it can take a lot of abuse and keep on working. It's not the best but there's a reason why demand has lasted so long.
The problem is that the Russian factory isn't the only one making it and most of the countries that are making it aren't exactly the kind that bends over to intellectual property demands. I don't see how they are going to enforce this as late in the game as it is...
This sounds less like a concern over the zune and more of a concern about showing 'good faith' in not being monopolistic with regard to their DRM (ie, I'll bet this is to keep a lawsuit from happening).
Your comment is true to the extent of considering a Mac a machine that can only run OS X. However when you consider the new Intel Macs can also run Windows you could argue successfully that it is capable of running more apps than a standard PC due to its ability to run Windows and Linux in addition to OS X...
Umm... Games yes, applications no. Most applications "people use" are available for both platforms or an analogous piece of software is. You as a MBP owner should know this.
Your argument in favor of Windows still makes no sense in light of your provided examples...
i would bet that they haven't rewritten the software since the old os9/classic days and more than likely they have no interest in starting from scratch any time soon. i can't remember what that library is called (carbon maybe?) but lots of programs continue to use it since they are too lazy to update using the newer libraries.
that of course has nothing to do with lack of features, just something i've noticed of lazy companies that don't bother to write decent mac software. my sentiments in this regard are also shared with eudora for mac.
Your point is still kind of stupid. People are buying new TV's because:
1. They are told by everyone and all the commercials the new sets are cool 2. They think their viewing experience will be so much better (even though they have no hd sources to play on it) 3. The gov't is threatening to pull the plug on analog (and somehow most people think this means they are pulling the plug on SD) 4. Their old set is on the fritz or is 10-15 years old and they (mistakenly?) think a new set will last as long
Most people have less a problem spending money on a TV than a 'videogame box'.
i think the reason why people seem to worship halo is because it is one of the few 3d shooter/action games on a console that gets it right. there have been years and years of countless pc games that are better or more interesting and that, i think, is the disconnect...
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We've *been* sending stuff out into space for the past 100 years in the form of electric lights (heavy on rfi), radio, television and in the past 30 years just about everything is wired or worse, wireless and is emitting shit into space in all kinds of ways.
What should be more concerning is if the aliens think we all watch Jerry Springer 24 hours a day. They'll probably deem us unworthy and send a construction fleet to demolish the earth to build a hyperspace bypass.
or defective drivers...
The difference is that Nintendo has a 1:1 ratio of points to dollars. While you may still have to overbuy or be under a little because the varying costs of games you at least understand the true cost of everything.
can't wait for the kde vs. gnome debate to stir up. again.
I hope you realize that you are part of the problem with fanning the flames in these stupid flamewars. It won't go away until people quit bitching about how one side or the other should be scolded because the other side wasn't allowed a pass.
Does it really matter? Do you sleep better at night?
BTW, the above is true of HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray and PS3 vs. Wii vs. 360 flamewars.
blu-ray can go to eleven for all i care but that doesn't make it a better format. nor do i think 95% of anyone gives a shit about the capacity until recordable drives for both the computer and standalone video recorders become available in a reasonable price range for the average consumer (read the walmart consumer).
as far as what the extra space could be used for i on video i doubt anyone will really take advantage of it. think about it, why would it get used? i don't think we are gong to see much in higher bitrates as it is fairly unnecessary. so what else might it be used for? well you could say perhaps multi disc sets might be compacted into a single disc. i **really** doubt this will happen. why? because of the psychological factor. people are more willing to buy something that seems more substantial (thus why many collectors sets are spread to multiple discs when there is often enough space on a dvd9 to fit it all.
as far as the format war is concerned i don't know how to feel about it. i recently bought an hd-dvd player but haven't hooked it up yet. i'm not sure if i will be purchasing any discs for it just yet either. for now i'm thinking i'll probably use it for netflix hd-dvd's and as a scaler for my standard def discs.
I don't doubt that Leopard has some bugs. Probably even many of them. I did an "Upgrade Install" and have a fair amount of 3rd party apps installed including some utilities. Knowing I might have problems I disabled several of them before installing and others I looked up to see if they support Leopard. Of course a good many didn't have any info on Leopard yet.
However I would bet there are a good many people who have existing problems with their system and don't know it or have applications installed that they don't really understand could be dangerous. I'm willing to bet though that this is more likely to be a third party issue than a Leopard issue just from my own experience... but who knows. Like most of these types of problems with any new OS (Windows, OS X, Linux, what-have-you) I doubt that it is widespread. IMHO headlines like this one should be considered flame-bait unless someone can conclusively prove Apple's at fault.
"While our friends at Intel, Google and Microsoft may find system errors, computer glitches and dropped calls tolerable, broadcasters do not."
I find that statement by these old curmudgeons and stalwarts offensive and I don't work for any of these companies.
I do however have cable internet and digital cable television (Comcast) and it is extremely glitchy, both the internet service and the TV. The TV service momentarily blinks out and pixelates about 10 times per day on average and sometimes worse. Quite often I get loud blasts of a split second static. These glitches are incredibly annoying if you are watching a movie and take you out of the experience.
The cable internet I have is one of their premium packages and though it is very fast it blinks out about once a week or so and I regularly have strange bouts of extremely slow speeds.
I can't help but think that a company like Google could do a better job of providing these services if they were so inclined. NAB is all about protecting their business interests by any means necessary. They've done their best to fight satellite radio: http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/the-nab-a-history-of-hypocrisy.html. The unfortunate thing is these guys have deep pockets and (which they buy their friends in Congress with) and influence policy without any concern of the common good of the people. These are OUR radio waves right? We employ the government to mange the airways to suit our interests right? Well at least that was the the idea...
Grow Your Own Heart Valves
;P
Again? It was hard enough for me to do it the first time.
betamax died in the consumer market but caught on big in the broadcast industry.
minidisc was big for a short time with some concert tapers (until they realized the quality wasn't as hot as they hoped for).
the cd, while a joint venture with philips, was far and away a philips product rather than a sony one. sony did very little in the research and development of the technology aside from writing some firmware and creating the circ error correction system. they did however do a lot to promote the technology through advertising and theirh their own hardware.
but make no mistake, it was philips that created almost all of the technology and they deserve 95% of the credit.
You know I'd probably care more about them being underfunded if I actually believed they were using their computer farms for finding terrorists rather than spying on American citizens.
As long as your OS of choice (Windows 2000 or newer, Linux, OS X, etc.) can handle memory in a relatively modern way you should pay little attention to RAM use as it means nothing. Programs using vast amounts of memory is only an issue with crappy old operating systems with poor memory management (ala Win95, 98, ME for example). Opera caches as much as it can in RAM for speed. It isn't a memory leak it is a feature.
That is a nice feature. A workaround for wiki pages for other browsers, Safari 2 included is to do: searchitem wiki in the google search field. The wiki page will be the first result. Of course this means a few extra clicks and whatnot...
and its a good thing we have guns to make sure it keeps going.
The ak47 is the most widely used and produced gun in the world. The simplicity and durability are what makes it remarkable as it can take a lot of abuse and keep on working. It's not the best but there's a reason why demand has lasted so long.
The problem is that the Russian factory isn't the only one making it and most of the countries that are making it aren't exactly the kind that bends over to intellectual property demands. I don't see how they are going to enforce this as late in the game as it is...
This sounds less like a concern over the zune and more of a concern about showing 'good faith' in not being monopolistic with regard to their DRM (ie, I'll bet this is to keep a lawsuit from happening).
nail meet head. my thoughts exactly. there must be another conference they are planning or attending where they will drop more info regarding leopard.
Yes, obviously Opera hates you and wants your computer to die a thousand deaths. //yawn//
The Wicked Witch of Silicon Valley will get you my little pretties.
Your comment is true to the extent of considering a Mac a machine that can only run OS X. However when you consider the new Intel Macs can also run Windows you could argue successfully that it is capable of running more apps than a standard PC due to its ability to run Windows and Linux in addition to OS X...
Umm... Games yes, applications no. Most applications "people use" are available for both platforms or an analogous piece of software is. You as a MBP owner should know this.
Your argument in favor of Windows still makes no sense in light of your provided examples...
i would bet that they haven't rewritten the software since the old os9/classic days and more than likely they have no interest in starting from scratch any time soon. i can't remember what that library is called (carbon maybe?) but lots of programs continue to use it since they are too lazy to update using the newer libraries.
that of course has nothing to do with lack of features, just something i've noticed of lazy companies that don't bother to write decent mac software. my sentiments in this regard are also shared with eudora for mac.
Your point is still kind of stupid. People are buying new TV's because:
1. They are told by everyone and all the commercials the new sets are cool
2. They think their viewing experience will be so much better (even though they have no hd sources to play on it)
3. The gov't is threatening to pull the plug on analog (and somehow most people think this means they are pulling the plug on SD)
4. Their old set is on the fritz or is 10-15 years old and they (mistakenly?) think a new set will last as long
Most people have less a problem spending money on a TV than a 'videogame box'.
duuuuuude. yer freakin' me out man. shit's like he told the future or something. woooooah. like fuckin' magic crystals n' shit.
i think the reason why people seem to worship halo is because it is one of the few 3d shooter/action games on a console that gets it right. there have been years and years of countless pc games that are better or more interesting and that, i think, is the disconnect...