The HD-DVD portion can't play on a regular DVD player, but it was announced in December that dual-layer HD-DVD discs are possible with the HD layer for newer players and a standard layer for older players (hence backwards compatibility). This is similar to the SACD music discs that play in regular CD players, just without the enhanced Super Audio ability.
Patent nonsense aside, I'm glad. As someone who works on VB.NET code for a living (don't get me started), we have to use Is for testing that objects aren't Nothing (the VB version of null), lest we get a NullReferenceException:
If Not MyObject Is Nothing Then
The equivalent (and much more sensical) statement in C-style languages is of course
if (MyObject != null) {
It seems silly, but I often find myself going back to the beginning of my If statement to insert the Not because it is contrary to the way I think and this interrupts my train of code. Being able to say IsNot will help that. Of course, I'll still be programming in VB...
In addition to Phish selling downloads, Pearl Jam has expanded on what they did in 2000, where they had recordings of all their shows available at retail. This year, they will have an unmastered mp3 version available to download soon after the show and then will send out mastered CD versions a couple weeks later, skipping the retail channel entirely,which is probably good, considering that all the record stores I go to still have quite a supply of these filed under Pearl Jam. In reality, most people will be most likely to buy only the show (or shows) they went to see (like I did).
I actually think a better analogy is that you have the same car, but since time has passed they are starting to repave the roads you drive on. But since you have an old car, they need to add an extra lane because your old car can't drive on the new roads. So your old car is holding back progress for everyone, even though most other people already have new cars. Oh yeah: you could get a new car absolutely free.
I was bored on sunday so i played a little with Gecko as we want to use
it into wa3. Note that it will only use Gecko if you have Mozilla installed,
we don't want to add 18 megs to the distribution:)
So here is the result : K-Meleon. A tiny, fast web browser using the Gecko engine.
It seems the plans are to include K-Meleon in Winamp 3 as a replacement for the current minibrowser, which is embedded IE. Makes sense, given that AOL owns Nullsoft.
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The HD-DVD portion can't play on a regular DVD player, but it was announced in December that dual-layer HD-DVD discs are possible with the HD layer for newer players and a standard layer for older players (hence backwards compatibility). This is similar to the SACD music discs that play in regular CD players, just without the enhanced Super Audio ability.
Patent nonsense aside, I'm glad. As someone who works on VB.NET code for a living (don't get me started), we have to use Is for testing that objects aren't Nothing (the VB version of null), lest we get a NullReferenceException:
If Not MyObject Is Nothing ThenThe equivalent (and much more sensical) statement in C-style languages is of course
if (MyObject != null) {It seems silly, but I often find myself going back to the beginning of my If statement to insert the Not because it is contrary to the way I think and this interrupts my train of code. Being able to say IsNot will help that. Of course, I'll still be programming in VB...
This will indeed be introduced in Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey).
Tenacious D says it best:
Stalactite, hold on tight
Stalagmite, might poke you in the ass
How about this interesting message upon clicking the link to bugzilla in the parent post:
Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled.
In addition to Phish selling downloads, Pearl Jam has expanded on what they did in 2000, where they had recordings of all their shows available at retail. This year, they will have an unmastered mp3 version available to download soon after the show and then will send out mastered CD versions a couple weeks later, skipping the retail channel entirely ,which is probably good, considering that all the record stores I go to still have quite a supply of these filed under Pearl Jam. In reality, most people will be most likely to buy only the show (or shows) they went to see (like I did).
Since the bitrate determines the file size, you're probably getting higher QUALITY at about the same file size, not higher bitrate :-)
I actually think a better analogy is that you have the same car, but since time has passed they are starting to repave the roads you drive on. But since you have an old car, they need to add an extra lane because your old car can't drive on the new roads. So your old car is holding back progress for everyone, even though most other people already have new cars. Oh yeah: you could get a new car absolutely free.
I was bored on sunday so i played a little with Gecko as we want to use it into wa3. Note that it will only use Gecko if you have Mozilla installed, we don't want to add 18 megs to the distribution :)
So here is the result : K-Meleon. A tiny, fast web browser using the Gecko engine.
It seems the plans are to include K-Meleon in Winamp 3 as a replacement for the current minibrowser, which is embedded IE. Makes sense, given that AOL owns Nullsoft.