Just to prevent further confusion, I don't claim that you personally steal. The people you buy stuff from steal via selling it to you, therefore you encourage stealing. There. Finished.
Wnen you don't pay for watching/listening to media that the creator wants money for, you infringe on their copyright.
When you profit from the said creator's work without paying anything to them, you steal. Both legally and morally.
Note that I would not have any problem with you if you downloaded your Totoro copy for free via a filesharing service or whatever (I do that myself). I do have a problem with people trying to profit illegitimately from others' work.
Nor would I have that much of a problem if you had no access to the said free copy via P2P, but I highly suspect that you do. Yes, it's lower quality, and yes, it's probably not available in many different subs or dubs, but this inconvenience pales in comparison with paying quite a lot of money to people who don't deserve it. At least in my eyes.
Oh, and switching to ad hominem mode, I never did use the word "pirate", I never defended Disney (in fact, I hate that company), and I never voiced an opinion on freely distributing modified work such as subs and dubs (I have a 50-CD stack of burned subbed anime, including all of Miyazaki, that I have paid nothing for). Also, I'd like to know what exactly "moral copyright infringement" is supposed to mean.
Dude, I know Miyazaki's work is beautiful, and I know that once you have seen it you will want to share its grace and genius with others. But what you're doing - paying all the wrong people for it - is not cool.
Your comparison is flawed. Abandonware and MAME are not tools that allow distributors to profit from distributing media without paying its creators. Bootlegs are.
You are indeed a hindrance, in that you support paying money to people who don't deserve it, while at the same time not paying at all the people who created the media for you. This discourages creativity and greatly encourages stealing. Regardless of any other issue, it is also much more morally wrong than downloading media for free (which at least does not encourage bootleggers).
Are you kidding? Of course Netscape did a feature freeze when going to mozilla 1.0. In fact, they were tightly controlling features since 9.6 or whatever. And there are more regression testing scripts for Mozilla than you can shake a stick at. Granted, the end result may have not made those evident in the past, but it's pretty obvious right now.
Simple, elegant code requires thoroughly understanding the task at hand. Spending a minimum amount of resources means the opposite.
To put it another way, you have to write a (relatively - depends on your skill) bloated, inefficient implementation before you can write a graceful implementation - unless someone who is already an expert is holding your hand.
I don't remember exactly how it is done, but many devices I have convert DC voltages on the fly (for example, cd player: 3V from the batteries or 6V from the power supply).
I think running a low-power 12V DC main together with a standard AC main would be a great idea. When the manufacturers standardize the plug size and make all their circuitry accept 12V, that could remove anywhere from 5 to 25 transformers from an average technically advanced household.
Not to express any opinion on Microsoft, but this article shows serious lunacy on michael's part. The Mozilla bug is very serious, despite its triviality. The IIS bug is NOT gravely serious, or at least is not serious in magnitude comared to the font bug.
I think I'll go turn off michael in my prefs now...
A few inches is wrong. See the replies above. But also...
Among other things, disappearing ice in polar regions will mean changed reflective index of earth surface in polar regions, which means more heat absorption from sun, which means a rise in global temperatures. BTW, any lands "released for use" in arctic regions will be countered thousandfold by lands in the tropical region becoming deserts because of rising global temperature and changing precipitation patterns.
No. Buran is the name of the first shuttle that was completed and space-flight tested
No. Buran was the name of the entire shuttle program (Buran-Energiya). The first orbiter was named Buran, too. (The Buran part of the program was kinda nameless while in development, and then they named it Baikal, but renamed it Buran at the last minute.) If it would ever come to multiple craft, I speculate they would just call them Buran-1, 2, and so on. They didn't have a history of naming units in a series with their own names.
If I buy a book with cash, there is no way to trace it.
Well, technically, there is, because the bank notes all have serial numbers on them. So if your bookstore teamed up with your bank, they could track it.
Personally, I want one of these (the top one =)): Fujitsu P-2000. The specs beat the Sony one hands down, it has a modular (!) cdrw/dvd bay that can be used for a second battery, built-in 100baseT/wavelan, faster Crusoe, all for an ultra-low $1800. The graphics adapter sucks, but I can live with that.
And it's 10.6"(w) x 7"(d) x 1.59"(h), which makes it only a tiny bit less portable than the Sony one. I admit the Sony can look more attractive, but you'll have to haul around an extra cd drive and pcmcia card for equivalent functionality.
I'm not going to go into specifics now, but most brand-name computers I've seen, except Packard Bell (good riddance), things like Dell, Gateway, Micron, are in general not more or less serviceable or standard-parts than an average computer you can assemble from a diverse parts market. They're just branded, that's all. Ok, maybe you've had a bad experience with a 5-year-old Compaq because they went out on a limb and assembled some weird thing. But today, and for a few years now, assembling something that is not an ATX/sub-ATX mobo, or carries any other weird parts that you can't get on the market, is not price-competitive at all.
Calm down you idiot, you are flamebait not because the other guy is right but because you are insulting him, and everyone else who has to read your drivel too.
Personally, I have recently been stunned by the quality of the graphics in Serious Sam 2E. I thought I wouldn't see anything more beautiful than Unreal/UT before U2 came out. I was wrong.
And what's wrong with playing the old games? I have wasted some major time recently on replaying Crusader and X-COM. Kickass games are worth keeping and replaying.
Keep in mind that good games come out rarely. That doesn't mean they don't ever come out.
A low end GF4 is _not_ the same as a GF4ti 4200 or 4600 (I forget the low end designations). Anyway, iirc the low end GF4 is based on the same chip as the Xbox, only with fewer shader pipelines, while the high-end GF4 uses a new chip, more similar to GF3 than to the Xbox (obviously they all have similar features, but these have significant performance differences). As Carmack said recently, you don't want to buy a low-end GF4 to play future advanced shader-enabled games, because it doesn't have the hardware for that. Instead buy a high-end GF4 or a GF3 or a Radeon 8500+.
Yeah, it's strange, because the previous beta does install the service. It's easy though, just run apache -i.
I've just switched to 2.0 a few days ago on win32... so far it's been about the same as 1.3 for me, the only thing I had a problem with is that it doesn't substitute paths for shebang lines in cgi-bin files, so I have to write out full paths (1.3 did). And the conf file from 1.3 doesn't exactly work right away with 2 (which would be nice), I had to tweak it. Otherwise it's great.
I've been using it for almost a year now (bought it when it came out). It is wonderful. I've been playing all kinds of games with it, tried my friend's Razor Boomslang, this is definitely better. I like the shape, although I suspect some of the bigger mice (like MS Optical) may be more comfortable for the hand. Batteries work for two or three months (I use rechargeable so it's more like a month and then I spend 5 seconds replacing them with charged ones). Doesn't need a pad, doesn't collect residue like ball mice. Windows detects it as a standard HID device, so no drivers needed. Not bad at all, I say it's definitely worth the money.
Very often. And the problem is, unlike hard drives, which will try their best not to return the data if they have a hint that it's corrupted (meta-data, checksums, etc.), DRAM will be more than happy to return the incorrect data, which then might get written to disk. Some of the errors I've seen due to corrupt DRAM are pretty amusing.
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Just to prevent further confusion, I don't claim that you personally steal. The people you buy stuff from steal via selling it to you, therefore you encourage stealing. There. Finished.
Wnen you don't pay for watching/listening to media that the creator wants money for, you infringe on their copyright.
When you profit from the said creator's work without paying anything to them, you steal. Both legally and morally.
Note that I would not have any problem with you if you downloaded your Totoro copy for free via a filesharing service or whatever (I do that myself). I do have a problem with people trying to profit illegitimately from others' work.
Nor would I have that much of a problem if you had no access to the said free copy via P2P, but I highly suspect that you do. Yes, it's lower quality, and yes, it's probably not available in many different subs or dubs, but this inconvenience pales in comparison with paying quite a lot of money to people who don't deserve it. At least in my eyes.
Oh, and switching to ad hominem mode, I never did use the word "pirate", I never defended Disney (in fact, I hate that company), and I never voiced an opinion on freely distributing modified work such as subs and dubs (I have a 50-CD stack of burned subbed anime, including all of Miyazaki, that I have paid nothing for). Also, I'd like to know what exactly "moral copyright infringement" is supposed to mean.
Dude, I know Miyazaki's work is beautiful, and I know that once you have seen it you will want to share its grace and genius with others. But what you're doing - paying all the wrong people for it - is not cool.
Your comparison is flawed. Abandonware and MAME are not tools that allow distributors to profit from distributing media without paying its creators. Bootlegs are.
You are indeed a hindrance, in that you support paying money to people who don't deserve it, while at the same time not paying at all the people who created the media for you. This discourages creativity and greatly encourages stealing. Regardless of any other issue, it is also much more morally wrong than downloading media for free (which at least does not encourage bootleggers).
Are you kidding? Of course Netscape did a feature freeze when going to mozilla 1.0. In fact, they were tightly controlling features since 9.6 or whatever. And there are more regression testing scripts for Mozilla than you can shake a stick at. Granted, the end result may have not made those evident in the past, but it's pretty obvious right now.
Simple, elegant code requires thoroughly understanding the task at hand. Spending a minimum amount of resources means the opposite.
To put it another way, you have to write a (relatively - depends on your skill) bloated, inefficient implementation before you can write a graceful implementation - unless someone who is already an expert is holding your hand.
Voltage dividers?
I don't remember exactly how it is done, but many devices I have convert DC voltages on the fly (for example, cd player: 3V from the batteries or 6V from the power supply).
I think running a low-power 12V DC main together with a standard AC main would be a great idea. When the manufacturers standardize the plug size and make all their circuitry accept 12V, that could remove anywhere from 5 to 25 transformers from an average technically advanced household.
Two words: Unicode and upcase
You're nitpicking way too much.
We're talking about Mozilla.
Not to express any opinion on Microsoft, but this article shows serious lunacy on michael's part. The Mozilla bug is very serious, despite its triviality. The IIS bug is NOT gravely serious, or at least is not serious in magnitude comared to the font bug.
I think I'll go turn off michael in my prefs now...
A few inches is wrong. See the replies above. But also...
Among other things, disappearing ice in polar regions will mean changed reflective index of earth surface in polar regions, which means more heat absorption from sun, which means a rise in global temperatures. BTW, any lands "released for use" in arctic regions will be countered thousandfold by lands in the tropical region becoming deserts because of rising global temperature and changing precipitation patterns.
No. Buran is the name of the first shuttle that was completed and space-flight tested
No. Buran was the name of the entire shuttle program (Buran-Energiya). The first orbiter was named Buran, too. (The Buran part of the program was kinda nameless while in development, and then they named it Baikal, but renamed it Buran at the last minute.) If it would ever come to multiple craft, I speculate they would just call them Buran-1, 2, and so on. They didn't have a history of naming units in a series with their own names.
If I buy a book with cash, there is no way to trace it.
Well, technically, there is, because the bank notes all have serial numbers on them. So if your bookstore teamed up with your bank, they could track it.
Personally, I want one of these (the top one =)): Fujitsu P-2000. The specs beat the Sony one hands down, it has a modular (!) cdrw/dvd bay that can be used for a second battery, built-in 100baseT/wavelan, faster Crusoe, all for an ultra-low $1800. The graphics adapter sucks, but I can live with that.
And it's 10.6"(w) x 7"(d) x 1.59"(h), which makes it only a tiny bit less portable than the Sony one. I admit the Sony can look more attractive, but you'll have to haul around an extra cd drive and pcmcia card for equivalent functionality.
Yay! finally.
This was the one show-stopper for me. I tried more than once to switch from 1.3 and was able to fix everything but this. Now I'm all set.
...NOT.
I'm not going to go into specifics now, but most brand-name computers I've seen, except Packard Bell (good riddance), things like Dell, Gateway, Micron, are in general not more or less serviceable or standard-parts than an average computer you can assemble from a diverse parts market. They're just branded, that's all. Ok, maybe you've had a bad experience with a 5-year-old Compaq because they went out on a limb and assembled some weird thing. But today, and for a few years now, assembling something that is not an ATX/sub-ATX mobo, or carries any other weird parts that you can't get on the market, is not price-competitive at all.
Calm down you idiot, you are flamebait not because the other guy is right but because you are insulting him, and everyone else who has to read your drivel too.
Yeah, I guess it's just you.
Personally, I have recently been stunned by the quality of the graphics in Serious Sam 2E. I thought I wouldn't see anything more beautiful than Unreal/UT before U2 came out. I was wrong.
And what's wrong with playing the old games? I have wasted some major time recently on replaying Crusader and X-COM. Kickass games are worth keeping and replaying.
Keep in mind that good games come out rarely. That doesn't mean they don't ever come out.
A low end GF4 is _not_ the same as a GF4ti 4200 or 4600 (I forget the low end designations). Anyway, iirc the low end GF4 is based on the same chip as the Xbox, only with fewer shader pipelines, while the high-end GF4 uses a new chip, more similar to GF3 than to the Xbox (obviously they all have similar features, but these have significant performance differences). As Carmack said recently, you don't want to buy a low-end GF4 to play future advanced shader-enabled games, because it doesn't have the hardware for that. Instead buy a high-end GF4 or a GF3 or a Radeon 8500+.
It's Provideniya, not provodanya.
afaik all those places on the Russian shore of the Bering strait primarily serve as Air Force bases.
Umm... explain to me again why they would have to use this many bits for the key.
iirc they already use 16 alnum digits, which gives us at least 80 bits...
Yeah, it's strange, because the previous beta does install the service. It's easy though, just run apache -i.
I've just switched to 2.0 a few days ago on win32... so far it's been about the same as 1.3 for me, the only thing I had a problem with is that it doesn't substitute paths for shebang lines in cgi-bin files, so I have to write out full paths (1.3 did). And the conf file from 1.3 doesn't exactly work right away with 2 (which would be nice), I had to tweak it. Otherwise it's great.
(I don't work for logitech.)
I've been using it for almost a year now (bought it when it came out). It is wonderful. I've been playing all kinds of games with it, tried my friend's Razor Boomslang, this is definitely better. I like the shape, although I suspect some of the bigger mice (like MS Optical) may be more comfortable for the hand. Batteries work for two or three months (I use rechargeable so it's more like a month and then I spend 5 seconds replacing them with charged ones). Doesn't need a pad, doesn't collect residue like ball mice. Windows detects it as a standard HID device, so no drivers needed. Not bad at all, I say it's definitely worth the money.
That is in fact done, at least in Diablo 2 battle.net. You can't log in from two installations of D2 with one key simultaneously.
$250/gig? That's not reasonably priced. I think PC133 DRAM can cost as low as $125/gig in bulk now...
Very often. And the problem is, unlike hard drives, which will try their best not to return the data if they have a hint that it's corrupted (meta-data, checksums, etc.), DRAM will be more than happy to return the incorrect data, which then might get written to disk. Some of the errors I've seen due to corrupt DRAM are pretty amusing.
There is no OE 2002, you're using Outlook 2002. I wonder why they excluded that feature though, it wasn't hurting them.