There's plenty of great actors and actresses around. The fact that there are a LOT more movies coming out might give the appearance of low quality, but, frankly, there were a lot of low quality movies "back in the day".
As for actors being chosen for their "real life drama", come on. We live in a society of the most venomous fans I've ever seen. If an actor has real life drama it's more of a death knell than a sign of success to come.
If you think that Nvidia is the stronger player here you are sadly mistaken. Granted ATI is now a part of AMD but don't be suprised if Intel doesn't further their support for ATI Crossfire in upcoming motherboard and chipset implementations.
Reverse engineering code to demonstrate flaws is one thing. Testing the software in a complete fashion without breaking into the code is quite another. Get YOUR facts straight.
Huh? How does using a standard connector, if only for power, equate to "antics" or "bastardizing"??? I think you are sensationalizing for affect. And you are far off the mark. About the only thing you said that made sense is video out, and certainly the USB pinouts were not designed to carry video out, audio out, pc interface and power all at the same time. The Apple doc connector is, fine. But that has zip to do with the use of the mini USB connector for power AND other data services.
So your phone shows up as a camera only. Your ignorance shows. Apple could very well adopt that cable to sync as well.
Now what apple COULD have done (and won't as it impacts their ability to control the aftermarket) is add a mini USB connector that could be used or sync/power. This would allow customers the flexibility of using the standard cable for the most common functions. If you want video then use the Apple connector. I doubt anyone would complain.
But then again we don't expect Apple to adopt the industry standard when it will impact their control, do we?
At least there's one voice of reason. Thanks Fuzzy.
It's very humorous to see people saying that Apple goes out of their way to adopt standards. Apple goes out of their way to NOT adopt standards if they can avoid it. The Mac has been one of the most closed platforms on the planet, and the iPhone is another in a long line of the same.
Apple only cares about standards when forced to care about standards. End of story.
Ok, now this is absurd. I can understand finding that it violates the EULA, that's pretty obvious to anyone, but the DMCA? Where exactly did they copy code? Does this judge have ANY experts assuring he understands wtf he is making a ruling about?
Why not just say "if at any point in the process the system produces complete ready to use nuclear weapons this won't be allowed..."
All I see is pure speculation, hype if you will. If you have facts that this is the case state them rather than speculating without facts for shock value.
There's no way? So the fact that the example given proves you wrong doesn't bother you?
I think you should have made your case differently. Something like this:
For this to be true the content of the material has to be of good enough quality for the viewer to want to "keep it for future reviewing" and we know not all material falls into this category. So, some content will be worthy of purchase, some will not, and that will dictate the increase or not of shelf sales.
However for content of good quality the availability of "preview quality copies" on youtube may hold significant value in marketing the piece to the masses.
Yeah, obviously there are no other statistics available beyond those you make yourself.
You gotta love posters that either through stupidity or intentional ignorance make posts for no other purpose than to try to appear smarter than the poster who makes the most sense. Hurricane, you are an idiot.
That said, Kent's post is the only one I've seen in this thread so far that makes sense. Obviously Seagate is doing what they can for their customers. But boy isn't that dissapointing to the lynching mob! No, you'd rather they screw their customers and hide these problems so you can try to jump on the lynching bandwagon. Pitiful.
Kudos to Seagate for recognizing and acting to resolve the issue. Drives are incredibly complex and precise devices and frankly it's amazing that they don't fail more than they do.
You think the Beetles are unknown among modern youth? Hmm.
And why do you think Motzart is "timeless"? Probably because it's force fed in music related classes?
Everything fades with time. And I'd be willing to bet that the Beatles are heard more often with youth born after their time, than Motzart ever will be.
They are making PLENTY of money off the app store, far more than they expected. Ballmer's comments about "there's not much money being made" is simply his way of discounting Apples success and predicting his own failure.
I hate playing on a console. It's a pain in the ass. I'd much rather play on a PC, be able to switch to a browser when I want, use a keyboard and mouse (it's so much easier to play a game with a kb and mouse imo).
Certainly consoles have provided a less expensive way to get quality graphics and gameplay. It has nothing to do with "finding the right level of PC but rather the fact that ANY PC that can play games of console caliber will cost more than the console itself. That's a fact.
Consoles are a necessary evil but if they'd produce quality PC games they'll sell well.
I wonder, anyone have the sales figures for Oblivion? That's a good example of a PC/Console game that utilizes the hardware to it's full potential.
It's so good to know that we have you to tells us the TRUTH about the establishment.
1. Everyone in power is corrupt and has a disorder that caused them to get there. 2. We can never trust those in power because to get there they had to have this disorder and became corrupt as a part of the process.
Where do you people come from? I'll tell me what makes me sick. It's the people like yourself who see ghosts around every corner, resent anyone with more authority than they themselves have and probably sit on their asses all day posting on blogs about the above.
Face the facts, there will always be corruption and abuse of power. But there will ALSO always be those who don't, or simply through checks and balances mitigate the abuse of power.
As a people it's our responsibility to speak out (wow amazing that you can even post like this in such a corrupt abusive country isn't it?) about what we see and feel needs changed. But the wise ones are able to see both the good and the bad rather than simply inventing imaginary vast conspiracies about things they feel powerless over.
First off, what does this have to do with the OP? Nothing, but it gives you are chance to vent I guess.
Second, your first sentence makes no sense whatsoever. How about answering the "as" implied?
Third, I love those who, like yourself, cheered the war when it came (because back then you know where the terrorists were and what we had to do to get TO them) but now that the harsh reality of war, and it's impact on YOUR cushy way of life is apparent, preach how it's a "massive overreaction" and "dumb".
There was nothing dumb about the Afgan war. Iraq is questionable, granted, but like I said, there were few questioning it when it happened but there's sure a lot of "wise" people questioning it now. I wonder why.
You are right, thanks for pointing that out. It's easy to make blanket statements in forum posts:)
The thing that bugs me about the malware problem is that I don't think it's an OS problem, it's really a "success" problem. There's simply soooo many more users on Windows that it's the obvious target. I am not sure that Linux would fare any better if it had similar success. I doubt (but could be wrong) that there is anything inherently better about Linux that makes it more immune to malware...?
Btw I did pull that "Sub 1 percent" comment out of the air. I think it's probably true though. Just wanted to say that for the sake of truth in posting:)
Hardly flamebait. But you are right there are other reasons. My point is mainly to say I don't believe they are enough and I think my last paragraph is still true... gosh!
Now there are some great uses for Linux as well as you pointed out. Such as performance on low end PCs (however I believe light versions of XP have been shown to perform just as well). However I was trying to make the same point in my number 2 above.
Now now, you know you can go deeper than the registry if you want to. Much deeper. There's wide range of available API's at various levels available to developers.
If you like to "tweak and break" your OS you are in the sub 1 percent of users out there. If you are doing it for persons other than yourself and they are calling you with "all sorts of questions"... who's fault is that, yours or Microsoft's?;D
I'm not quite sure what you mean by saying that Windows somehow drops your network performance to 1/6 to 1/7th of your DSL connection? Really now, I am running Vista and I have a TimeWarner connection that is 20mbps... I have tested it consistently and I get just that out of the box... 20mbps. Saying that the OS drops your network connection by that order of magnitude is just malarky. If you have an app (sorry don't know what FF3 is by your reference) that is having issues... I'd bet it's the app and not the OS that's the culprit.
I can stream my SlingBox at 5mbps, download movies, play an online video game, all with no noticeable network or system performance lag, in Vista. And certainly I haven't topped out the network capability simply because there's no practical reason to stream more.
I dont' see myself abandoning Windows any time soon. I have NO desire to limit myself to a smaller available set of applications and device support than I have in Windows.
I'm not saying Linux is bad, but for most users, including power users, Linux provides little to entice a move. However for those that like to play with new OS's or want a smaller lighter and (possibly) more stable server platform then Linux makes sense.
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You mean when they are stealing the movie instead of paying for it. Gotcha. Thanks for your insight.
Yeah, he's in office for a little while and everything should have magically changed.
I wonder if people really want what they profess to want or simply use it as an excuse to get up on a personal podium.
I have to agree. Media Player Classic is the best player around. Why? Because it's simple and it just works.
There's plenty of great actors and actresses around. The fact that there are a LOT more movies coming out might give the appearance of low quality, but, frankly, there were a lot of low quality movies "back in the day".
As for actors being chosen for their "real life drama", come on. We live in a society of the most venomous fans I've ever seen. If an actor has real life drama it's more of a death knell than a sign of success to come.
If you think that Nvidia is the stronger player here you are sadly mistaken. Granted ATI is now a part of AMD but don't be suprised if Intel doesn't further their support for ATI Crossfire in upcoming motherboard and chipset implementations.
Reverse engineering code to demonstrate flaws is one thing. Testing the software in a complete fashion without breaking into the code is quite another. Get YOUR facts straight.
What are you talking about? Why would they get arrested for demonstrating the vulnerability of an authentication system??? Sensationalism anyone?
Huh? How does using a standard connector, if only for power, equate to "antics" or "bastardizing"??? I think you are sensationalizing for affect. And you are far off the mark. About the only thing you said that made sense is video out, and certainly the USB pinouts were not designed to carry video out, audio out, pc interface and power all at the same time. The Apple doc connector is, fine. But that has zip to do with the use of the mini USB connector for power AND other data services.
So your phone shows up as a camera only. Your ignorance shows. Apple could very well adopt that cable to sync as well.
Now what apple COULD have done (and won't as it impacts their ability to control the aftermarket) is add a mini USB connector that could be used or sync/power. This would allow customers the flexibility of using the standard cable for the most common functions. If you want video then use the Apple connector. I doubt anyone would complain.
But then again we don't expect Apple to adopt the industry standard when it will impact their control, do we?
At least there's one voice of reason. Thanks Fuzzy.
It's very humorous to see people saying that Apple goes out of their way to adopt standards. Apple goes out of their way to NOT adopt standards if they can avoid it. The Mac has been one of the most closed platforms on the planet, and the iPhone is another in a long line of the same.
Apple only cares about standards when forced to care about standards. End of story.
I have my mouse in the center... under the desk and slightly forward...
Ok, now this is absurd. I can understand finding that it violates the EULA, that's pretty obvious to anyone, but the DMCA? Where exactly did they copy code? Does this judge have ANY experts assuring he understands wtf he is making a ruling about?
Why not just say "if at any point in the process the system produces complete ready to use nuclear weapons this won't be allowed..."
All I see is pure speculation, hype if you will. If you have facts that this is the case state them rather than speculating without facts for shock value.
There's no way? So the fact that the example given proves you wrong doesn't bother you?
I think you should have made your case differently. Something like this:
For this to be true the content of the material has to be of good enough quality for the viewer to want to "keep it for future reviewing" and we know not all material falls into this category. So, some content will be worthy of purchase, some will not, and that will dictate the increase or not of shelf sales.
However for content of good quality the availability of "preview quality copies" on youtube may hold significant value in marketing the piece to the masses.
Yeah, obviously there are no other statistics available beyond those you make yourself.
You gotta love posters that either through stupidity or intentional ignorance make posts for no other purpose than to try to appear smarter than the poster who makes the most sense. Hurricane, you are an idiot.
That said, Kent's post is the only one I've seen in this thread so far that makes sense. Obviously Seagate is doing what they can for their customers. But boy isn't that dissapointing to the lynching mob! No, you'd rather they screw their customers and hide these problems so you can try to jump on the lynching bandwagon. Pitiful.
Kudos to Seagate for recognizing and acting to resolve the issue. Drives are incredibly complex and precise devices and frankly it's amazing that they don't fail more than they do.
You think the Beetles are unknown among modern youth? Hmm.
And why do you think Motzart is "timeless"? Probably because it's force fed in music related classes?
Everything fades with time. And I'd be willing to bet that the Beatles are heard more often with youth born after their time, than Motzart ever will be.
They are making PLENTY of money off the app store, far more than they expected. Ballmer's comments about "there's not much money being made" is simply his way of discounting Apples success and predicting his own failure.
I hate playing on a console. It's a pain in the ass. I'd much rather play on a PC, be able to switch to a browser when I want, use a keyboard and mouse (it's so much easier to play a game with a kb and mouse imo).
Certainly consoles have provided a less expensive way to get quality graphics and gameplay. It has nothing to do with "finding the right level of PC but rather the fact that ANY PC that can play games of console caliber will cost more than the console itself. That's a fact.
Consoles are a necessary evil but if they'd produce quality PC games they'll sell well.
I wonder, anyone have the sales figures for Oblivion? That's a good example of a PC/Console game that utilizes the hardware to it's full potential.
It's so good to know that we have you to tells us the TRUTH about the establishment.
1. Everyone in power is corrupt and has a disorder that caused them to get there.
2. We can never trust those in power because to get there they had to have this disorder and became corrupt as a part of the process.
Where do you people come from? I'll tell me what makes me sick. It's the people like yourself who see ghosts around every corner, resent anyone with more authority than they themselves have and probably sit on their asses all day posting on blogs about the above.
Face the facts, there will always be corruption and abuse of power. But there will ALSO always be those who don't, or simply through checks and balances mitigate the abuse of power.
As a people it's our responsibility to speak out (wow amazing that you can even post like this in such a corrupt abusive country isn't it?) about what we see and feel needs changed. But the wise ones are able to see both the good and the bad rather than simply inventing imaginary vast conspiracies about things they feel powerless over.
How unaware you are.
First off, what does this have to do with the OP? Nothing, but it gives you are chance to vent I guess.
Second, your first sentence makes no sense whatsoever. How about answering the "as" implied?
Third, I love those who, like yourself, cheered the war when it came (because back then you know where the terrorists were and what we had to do to get TO them) but now that the harsh reality of war, and it's impact on YOUR cushy way of life is apparent, preach how it's a "massive overreaction" and "dumb".
There was nothing dumb about the Afgan war. Iraq is questionable, granted, but like I said, there were few questioning it when it happened but there's sure a lot of "wise" people questioning it now. I wonder why.
Maybe they don't want to be in the fab for hire business. They need to focus on their core business, not selling space to other chip manufacturers.
It also means they can go to other fabs if they need chips built should the spin off fab fail.
Right now their fab is running under capacity and losing money. Spinning it off makes a lot of sense.
You are right, thanks for pointing that out. It's easy to make blanket statements in forum posts :)
The thing that bugs me about the malware problem is that I don't think it's an OS problem, it's really a "success" problem. There's simply soooo many more users on Windows that it's the obvious target. I am not sure that Linux would fare any better if it had similar success. I doubt (but could be wrong) that there is anything inherently better about Linux that makes it more immune to malware...?
Btw I did pull that "Sub 1 percent" comment out of the air. I think it's probably true though. Just wanted to say that for the sake of truth in posting :)
Hardly flamebait. But you are right there are other reasons. My point is mainly to say I don't believe they are enough and I think my last paragraph is still true... gosh!
Now there are some great uses for Linux as well as you pointed out. Such as performance on low end PCs (however I believe light versions of XP have been shown to perform just as well). However I was trying to make the same point in my number 2 above.
Now now, you know you can go deeper than the registry if you want to. Much deeper. There's wide range of available API's at various levels available to developers.
If you like to "tweak and break" your OS you are in the sub 1 percent of users out there. If you are doing it for persons other than yourself and they are calling you with "all sorts of questions"... who's fault is that, yours or Microsoft's? ;D
I'm not quite sure what you mean by saying that Windows somehow drops your network performance to 1/6 to 1/7th of your DSL connection? Really now, I am running Vista and I have a TimeWarner connection that is 20mbps... I have tested it consistently and I get just that out of the box... 20mbps. Saying that the OS drops your network connection by that order of magnitude is just malarky. If you have an app (sorry don't know what FF3 is by your reference) that is having issues... I'd bet it's the app and not the OS that's the culprit.
I can stream my SlingBox at 5mbps, download movies, play an online video game, all with no noticeable network or system performance lag, in Vista. And certainly I haven't topped out the network capability simply because there's no practical reason to stream more.
I dont' see myself abandoning Windows any time soon. I have NO desire to limit myself to a smaller available set of applications and device support than I have in Windows.
I'm not saying Linux is bad, but for most users, including power users, Linux provides little to entice a move. However for those that like to play with new OS's or want a smaller lighter and (possibly) more stable server platform then Linux makes sense.
I'm not sure if you are supporting or making fun of :)
In any event I'm not quite sure where you got the decade number, it's been consistently 4 years... or can't you add on that Linux box of yours ;)