I honestly cannot even fathom what they could be possibly putting into the install binary to make it that large. The SumatraPDF install is 1.43MB...it'd still fit on a floppy!
That said, I really wish Sumatra would incorporate decent printing support.
Not only native FLAC support. Decoding hardware/DACs. Stock headphones. Not having to use iTunes.
By what metric are iPods "the best thing out there"? I'd say they're the most popular thing out there, but that's not exactly the point you were trying to prove now, was it?
I agree with this a lot. I feel like a luddite sometimes because of this, but I still exclusively buy CDs, actual paper books, DVDs etc. Games are the only area where I have gone (almost) purely digital.
Honestly, I'm not sure why this even really needs to be argued about for more than a few minutes though. Right to first sale is all that really needs to be said. Anything after that should be superfluous, and it's sad (and worrying) that it isn't.
Living in Australia, this is what we've been dealing with for many, many years. Our top plans cap out at somewhere around 100GB (give or take a bit depending on your provider), however, that's generally highly expensive at upwards of $120 a month for most places.
One of the only *good* things about this is that we have ISPs that don't measure certain things in your quota. If you're with a half decent ISP (not Telstra), they should have a Steam mirror, and your steam downloads will not count towards your monthly cap. So you could download as much as you wanted from Steam without penatly. Likewise, they have a ton of unmetered online radio stations, some of them host linux distro ISOs, and so forth.
Having said that, I think it's pretty sad and pathetic that they're going from unmetered plans to bandwidth caps. That's taking a giant backwards leap, and is definitely not a good sign...
Indeed. I was trolling through the replies to see if anyone was going to say this, and I'm glad someone did.
Then again, this must be an April Fools joke. Or at least I'll keep telling myself that.
Or if you're making a paper for school, why not just use LaTeX? Produces better looking output, autoupdates your reference numbers for you, Bibliography handling is still the easiest yet, typing mathematic symbols and formulae is infinitely easier than any other word processor on the market, etc etc.
(Ok, I'll stop derailing this now with fanboyisms).
You mean if Valve goes bankrupt, yes, they're obliged to unlock every game you purchased.
Where does it say that?
It doesn't say this, but I'm fairly sure Gabe Newell has gone on record saying that if this ever occured and Valve did go bankrupt, they would unlock all the games.
There are other players out there than iPods. I'm sure if you're an audiophile, you've done your research and decided to buy a player which supports (or can be flahsed to support) FLAC.
I get the feeling this technology will be DOA. There's simply no market for it.
Misconfigurations occur more than you would think, especially with regards to BGP; one estimate is around 300 per day. Most aren't going to knock our a substantial portion of the network (most of the time they'll either make paths longer or simply knock out the origin network), although occasionally you'll see a "black hole" effect like this.
Again, these misconfigurations occur all the time, it's just that no-one really notices unless it manages to bring down any sizeable portion of the network, which is pretty rare.
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I honestly cannot even fathom what they could be possibly putting into the install binary to make it that large. The SumatraPDF install is 1.43MB...it'd still fit on a floppy!
That said, I really wish Sumatra would incorporate decent printing support.
Well, there goes my crack headline of "Latest Global Warming Cause : Shuttle Farts".
Yahoosoft.
Just think of it in sexual terms, and the joke will come.
Not only native FLAC support. Decoding hardware/DACs. Stock headphones. Not having to use iTunes.
By what metric are iPods "the best thing out there"? I'd say they're the most popular thing out there, but that's not exactly the point you were trying to prove now, was it?
I happen to be a dog and can hear sounds in the 100kHz range, you insensitive clod!
I agree with this a lot. I feel like a luddite sometimes because of this, but I still exclusively buy CDs, actual paper books, DVDs etc. Games are the only area where I have gone (almost) purely digital.
Honestly, I'm not sure why this even really needs to be argued about for more than a few minutes though. Right to first sale is all that really needs to be said. Anything after that should be superfluous, and it's sad (and worrying) that it isn't.
Because it's been proven. Beyond all shadow of a doubt. Yep, all those scientists that disagree, we'll just sweep them under a rug.
Living in Australia, this is what we've been dealing with for many, many years. Our top plans cap out at somewhere around 100GB (give or take a bit depending on your provider), however, that's generally highly expensive at upwards of $120 a month for most places.
One of the only *good* things about this is that we have ISPs that don't measure certain things in your quota. If you're with a half decent ISP (not Telstra), they should have a Steam mirror, and your steam downloads will not count towards your monthly cap. So you could download as much as you wanted from Steam without penatly. Likewise, they have a ton of unmetered online radio stations, some of them host linux distro ISOs, and so forth.
Having said that, I think it's pretty sad and pathetic that they're going from unmetered plans to bandwidth caps. That's taking a giant backwards leap, and is definitely not a good sign...
Indeed. I was trolling through the replies to see if anyone was going to say this, and I'm glad someone did. Then again, this must be an April Fools joke. Or at least I'll keep telling myself that.
Is all math going to be found to be expressed somewhere in the universe sooner or later? Is there one kind of math that explains the basis?
Only if that one kind of math is linearly independent and spans the entire universe. *Ba-dum-tish* I'll show myself out.
Or if you're making a paper for school, why not just use LaTeX? Produces better looking output, autoupdates your reference numbers for you, Bibliography handling is still the easiest yet, typing mathematic symbols and formulae is infinitely easier than any other word processor on the market, etc etc. (Ok, I'll stop derailing this now with fanboyisms).
Where does it say that?
It doesn't say this, but I'm fairly sure Gabe Newell has gone on record saying that if this ever occured and Valve did go bankrupt, they would unlock all the games.
There are other players out there than iPods. I'm sure if you're an audiophile, you've done your research and decided to buy a player which supports (or can be flahsed to support) FLAC. I get the feeling this technology will be DOA. There's simply no market for it.
In before Eternal Sunshine...oh wait. Damn.
Misconfigurations occur more than you would think, especially with regards to BGP; one estimate is around 300 per day. Most aren't going to knock our a substantial portion of the network (most of the time they'll either make paths longer or simply knock out the origin network), although occasionally you'll see a "black hole" effect like this. Again, these misconfigurations occur all the time, it's just that no-one really notices unless it manages to bring down any sizeable portion of the network, which is pretty rare.