"The re-encodes (from divx/xvid) are on par with with the original files." No, they're not. Sure, the files may be good for their size, but you will lose information and thus quality, there's no avoiding it. If you feel the reduction in filesize is worth the reduction in quality, then go right ahead, but please don't spread inaccuracies.
KOTOR II started off great, but fell apart somewhat towards the end. The game was obviously badly rushed, resulting in game-breaking bugs and an ending that made almost no sense. It's a shame, because it definitely would have been brilliant given more time.
There is no way in hell that 70% of people will have Vista by the time Halo 2 comes out. Not even 70% of gamers will have Vista. There will be compatibility concerns, driver issues and the simple fact that XP works fine that will stop gamers from migrating to Vista. Halo 2 is slated to come out in 2006 and Vista is somewhere between August and December according to most rumours. If you're very lucky and Vista comes out in August, you may see 25% penetration.
The argument that "the bee is so complex it must have been designed by some sort of creator" leads to the question of "who designed the creator?". It's a bit dumb to argue that something is so complex that it must have been designed by something even more complex, it just leads to an infinite loop.
"Speciation, however, is AFAIK always the mutation of the genetic material to less information, not more." Where the hell did you get that from? Hang about... "Particles to people evolution requires observation and experimentation that show spontaneous generation of new genetic material. This is IMO, a bigger problem than how bees fly." Welcome to the world of mutations.
"But what I gathered is that there are almost an infinite number of improbabilities that had to be fulfilled just right for life to exist as it does now." Seeing as you can never get to "almost infinite", we'll just say there's an awful lot. Well, guess what, there's an awful lot of galaxies, each of which having an awful lot of starts, most of which seem to have planets orbiting them. Thus, there were plenty of chances for life to evolve, it so happens it struck lucky on earth.
So, Boeing want Java, a non-RT language and runtime for their real-time systems? Oh dear. Hmm...perhaps they'll use RTJ, despite it being a horrible hack.
Oh bullshit, it's an implementation issue. The web browsers that download fonts don't stick them in the global font collection, it sticks them in a temporary location and only uses them for that site. If someone really wanted the font that badly, it wouldn't be hard to get it in either case.
And how do you think sIFR displays the font? By downloading it! A bit of hacking around and you can get the font yourself, so it's really no different from supplying a URL in the stylesheet.
So, Mike, who went to all the trouble to create some crazy Flash-based font downloader, didn't realise that @font-family{src:} has been part of CSS2 (which was made a recommendation 7 years ago) all along?!
Still, this whole SIFr thing screams of "HACK!" and a quick browse through the comments indicates it's not without flaws. Perhaps web designers should just stop trying to dictate what font you use to view their "works of art" and leave the user in control.
I imagine lots of those people are using such music stores now. The fact that they're selling like hotcakes seems to indicate so. I'd be happy to pay a quid a song, just so long as it was high-bitrate non-DRM. Otherwise, I may as well get the CD.
In my final year of my "Computer Systems/Software Engineering" (such a fucking cumbersome name) degree, our module on advanced object-oriented-design had a change in lecturer to someone who was leaving the university to form/work for Xactium. Hell, seeing as I'm this far, I may as well name names: Andy Evans. Ordinarily, I wouldn't do so, but he's tried to silence friends of mine for criticising his work, so I have a bone to pick with him.
He decided that the course wouldn't be about what we signed up for, but instead would be about this "amazing" new proprietary tool, XMOF (now called XMF-Mosaic). The lecturer used his unfinished book on XMOF as the course notes. Entire chapters weren't written and 90% of the people attending the course complained that the content was complete and utter crap. Nearly every example contradicted some other part of the book, most of the processes were flawed and the course exam itself didn't really match up with what the book/course taught us.
Now, maybe Andy's stopped trying to shovel crap down peoples' throats, but at the time, his course/work was complete and utter toss and practically everyone who saw it recognised it.
Hidden IFrames are the preferred method when XMLHttpRequest isn't available, IIRC. There's also the cunning trick of sticking a script element into the page, but I'm not sure how well that works and could cause all sorts of issues.
This seems to work on the assumption that you want to do some harm with a program you created yourself, you can't actually take a random RPM and turn it into an evil RPM with the same MD5. So, yes, it's bad, but it's not as bad as you might think.
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"The re-encodes (from divx/xvid) are on par with with the original files."
No, they're not. Sure, the files may be good for their size, but you will lose information and thus quality, there's no avoiding it. If you feel the reduction in filesize is worth the reduction in quality, then go right ahead, but please don't spread inaccuracies.
KOTOR II started off great, but fell apart somewhat towards the end. The game was obviously badly rushed, resulting in game-breaking bugs and an ending that made almost no sense. It's a shame, because it definitely would have been brilliant given more time.
There is no way in hell that 70% of people will have Vista by the time Halo 2 comes out. Not even 70% of gamers will have Vista. There will be compatibility concerns, driver issues and the simple fact that XP works fine that will stop gamers from migrating to Vista. Halo 2 is slated to come out in 2006 and Vista is somewhere between August and December according to most rumours. If you're very lucky and Vista comes out in August, you may see 25% penetration.
Loud noises can damage your hearing! This was something I was taught in primary school, it doesn't require a genious to know these things.
Some experimenting with GT4 shows the buttons are pressure sensitive rather than velocity sensitive.
If the KDE support is never used, it will never get paged into RAM. Thus, RAM usage will be largely the same.
"my necessity for the belief in God"
Says it all, really.
Let's suppose that there is a God. How, then, do you know which religion is the right one?
The argument that "the bee is so complex it must have been designed by some sort of creator" leads to the question of "who designed the creator?". It's a bit dumb to argue that something is so complex that it must have been designed by something even more complex, it just leads to an infinite loop.
"Speciation, however, is AFAIK always the mutation of the genetic material to less information, not more."
Where the hell did you get that from? Hang about...
"Particles to people evolution requires observation and experimentation that show spontaneous generation of new genetic material. This is IMO, a bigger problem than how bees fly."
Welcome to the world of mutations.
"But what I gathered is that there are almost an infinite number of improbabilities that had to be fulfilled just right for life to exist as it does now."
Seeing as you can never get to "almost infinite", we'll just say there's an awful lot. Well, guess what, there's an awful lot of galaxies, each of which having an awful lot of starts, most of which seem to have planets orbiting them. Thus, there were plenty of chances for life to evolve, it so happens it struck lucky on earth.
So, Boeing want Java, a non-RT language and runtime for their real-time systems? Oh dear. Hmm...perhaps they'll use RTJ, despite it being a horrible hack.
Oh bullshit, it's an implementation issue. The web browsers that download fonts don't stick them in the global font collection, it sticks them in a temporary location and only uses them for that site. If someone really wanted the font that badly, it wouldn't be hard to get it in either case.
And how do you think sIFR displays the font? By downloading it! A bit of hacking around and you can get the font yourself, so it's really no different from supplying a URL in the stylesheet.
So, Mike, who went to all the trouble to create some crazy Flash-based font downloader, didn't realise that @font-family{src:} has been part of CSS2 (which was made a recommendation 7 years ago) all along?!
Still, this whole SIFr thing screams of "HACK!" and a quick browse through the comments indicates it's not without flaws. Perhaps web designers should just stop trying to dictate what font you use to view their "works of art" and leave the user in control.
Well, not really, because evolution has been demonstrated to take place.
Err...the Northwood kept Intel ahead of AMD for most of its existence.
Whole new? I think not, just an evolution on an existing design.
That drive uses SATA 300MB/s, which means a peak speed, not a sustained speed. It seems the drive can manage 50-60MB/s sustained.
I imagine lots of those people are using such music stores now. The fact that they're selling like hotcakes seems to indicate so. I'd be happy to pay a quid a song, just so long as it was high-bitrate non-DRM. Otherwise, I may as well get the CD.
In my final year of my "Computer Systems/Software Engineering" (such a fucking cumbersome name) degree, our module on advanced object-oriented-design had a change in lecturer to someone who was leaving the university to form/work for Xactium. Hell, seeing as I'm this far, I may as well name names: Andy Evans. Ordinarily, I wouldn't do so, but he's tried to silence friends of mine for criticising his work, so I have a bone to pick with him.
He decided that the course wouldn't be about what we signed up for, but instead would be about this "amazing" new proprietary tool, XMOF (now called XMF-Mosaic). The lecturer used his unfinished book on XMOF as the course notes. Entire chapters weren't written and 90% of the people attending the course complained that the content was complete and utter crap. Nearly every example contradicted some other part of the book, most of the processes were flawed and the course exam itself didn't really match up with what the book/course taught us.
Now, maybe Andy's stopped trying to shovel crap down peoples' throats, but at the time, his course/work was complete and utter toss and practically everyone who saw it recognised it.
Hidden IFrames are the preferred method when XMLHttpRequest isn't available, IIRC. There's also the cunning trick of sticking a script element into the page, but I'm not sure how well that works and could cause all sorts of issues.
This seems to work on the assumption that you want to do some harm with a program you created yourself, you can't actually take a random RPM and turn it into an evil RPM with the same MD5. So, yes, it's bad, but it's not as bad as you might think.
No, because Intel were forced into the cross-licensing agreement with AMD by arbitration. They didn't willingly sign up.
Intel did not give away their patents, they were forced into a cross-licensing agreement during arbitration with AMD.