Yeah I remember that one. He referred to MP3 as "a tool that lets people swap music" or something equally stupid. He probably didn't even know what audio compression is.
What you just said suggests that you have very little knowledge of how public-key cryptography works. It is highly unlikely that any of the PGP ciphers have been broken - they have been studied for years and no serious flaws have been found (that's why they're in PGP!) To draw a parallel between that and the Enigma machine is just plain laughable. With current computing power the US government wouldn't be able to crack a single PGP message by the time the universe came to an end.
Winamp 5.0 fixed the "ogg seeking" problem, which bothered me a lot in 2.x. I didn't use 3.x because they lost a lot of 2.x features that I liked (plus I hated the interface).
The fact that there aren't dual-boot Win/Linux machines available isn't really a big issue. If someone can't partition and install Linux him/herself, I don't think he/she would be able to use Linux anyway. Linux isn't really a consumer-level OS yet.
Well, maybe, but Brad Mehldau isn't really that obscure in the jazz world at least, and I don't think it was his personal decision, probably something on his producer's or the record companies' part. In any case, his music is good.
This has happened previously. One of Brad Mehldau's CDs released last year I believe (One of his Art of the Trio CDs) had the SafeAudio protection on it. I wasn't able to play it on my Plextor CD-R drive but my five-year old 6x drive was able to play it in Windows (it can't extract the audio digitally though).
For those of you who don't know, Brad Mehldau is a jazz pianist.
There IS an "l" sound. What's written "r" sounds like an "l". This is because the system of using english characters to represent Japanese was created by some Dutch guy, I believe. So "Linux" is pronouced "linakkusu" in Japanese.
OK, first of all, this sailor-suit and tentacle-porn stuff is not indicative of Japanese popular culture, or anything Japanese for that matter. They're spin-offs of Japanese pop culture popularized by...... AMERICANS! (much like Pokemon.)
I'm Japanese and have lived in Japan all my life, and I have yet to see any of this "hentai" porn. It's probably more popular in the US than here.
Also, there is no pornography whatsoever on mainstream Japanese TV. (Pornography laws are strict, even hardcore porno stuff is all censored)
NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai) is a non-commercial channel, so you get stuff like news, documentaries, informative stuff. No commercials. Better than the "appeal-to-the-lowest-common-denominator" crap you get elsewhere.
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Yeah I remember that one. He referred to MP3 as "a tool that lets people swap music" or something equally stupid. He probably didn't even know what audio compression is.
Anybody have a link?
What you just said suggests that you have very little knowledge of how public-key cryptography works. It is highly unlikely that any of the PGP ciphers have been broken - they have been studied for years and no serious flaws have been found (that's why they're in PGP!) To draw a parallel between that and the Enigma machine is just plain laughable. With current computing power the US government wouldn't be able to crack a single PGP message by the time the universe came to an end.
Winamp 5.0 fixed the "ogg seeking" problem, which bothered me a lot in 2.x. I didn't use 3.x because they lost a lot of 2.x features that I liked (plus I hated the interface).
"reckless" you mean
The fact that there aren't dual-boot Win/Linux machines available isn't really a big issue. If someone can't partition and install Linux him/herself, I don't think he/she would be able to use Linux anyway. Linux isn't really a consumer-level OS yet.
Well, maybe, but Brad Mehldau isn't really that obscure in the jazz world at least, and I don't think it was his personal decision, probably something on his producer's or the record companies' part. In any case, his music is good.
This has happened previously. One of Brad Mehldau's CDs released last year I believe (One of his Art of the Trio CDs) had the SafeAudio protection on it. I wasn't able to play it on my Plextor CD-R drive but my five-year old 6x drive was able to play it in Windows (it can't extract the audio digitally though). For those of you who don't know, Brad Mehldau is a jazz pianist.
There IS an "l" sound. What's written "r" sounds like an "l". This is because the system of using english characters to represent Japanese was created by some Dutch guy, I believe. So "Linux" is pronouced "linakkusu" in Japanese.
I think you mean "1984", there was no Goldstein in "Catcher in the Rye". That was Holden Caulfield.
What's with all this anti-Japanese bullcrap?
OK, first of all, this sailor-suit and tentacle-porn stuff is not indicative of Japanese popular culture, or anything Japanese for that matter. They're spin-offs of Japanese pop culture popularized by...... AMERICANS! (much like Pokemon.)
I'm Japanese and have lived in Japan all my life, and I have yet to see any of this "hentai" porn. It's probably more popular in the US than here.
Also, there is no pornography whatsoever on mainstream Japanese TV. (Pornography laws are strict, even hardcore porno stuff is all censored)
NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai) is a non-commercial channel, so you get stuff like news, documentaries, informative stuff. No commercials. Better than the "appeal-to-the-lowest-common-denominator" crap you get elsewhere.