the smell goes away after a while, but as I understand it, it is part of some sort of preservative and prevents disc decay. You are supposed to keep the spools closed and wrapped until you are going to actually start burning.
not true. You can get an 8.99 netflix subscription and stream movies on 4 computer all day, every day, all month long. Maybe they are losing money on me individually, but it makes economic sense to offer this sort of service. I don't see a reason why hulu can't do the same. $15, 4 computers, no ads, I'm in. If they use a less crappy video player, that would be icing on the cake.
We can't have a sustainable electricity grid when lightbulbs are using 100w or even 60w. CFLs use 20w, and LEDs use a fraction of that. There is no way we can generate enough electricity, through any means, when we are being so wasteful in our consumption.
Why spend R&D money on improving obsolete technology when we haven't even begun to explore what is possible with new things? It's like trying to refine a silver coin from 99% to 99.9% purity to increase its value when you could be refining the bucket of gold ore sitting next to you.
I can watch 720p mkvs smoothly on my mini 9 with coreAVC, no hardware acceleration required.
Hulu is tolerable at the absolute lowest settings(low res, flash quality on low).
I was able to watch full screen SD video on abc.com. there were some audio stutters, but i think that is just some sort of network/configuration issue.
Deleting something contributed by a "post n run" IP is a lot easier to justify than reverting an edit made by someone with a registered account and a history. Besides, this will still be effective because 90% of them won't know how to obscure their IPs. Sure, some of them will, but this might get rid of a good chunk of the crap.
Of course, one of the biggest obstacles to linux adoption is that Windows is effectively "open source".
True, you can't actually see or modify the source code, but something tells me you probably wouldn't want to.
And yes, VLC is awesome. I have tried virtually every other media player and not a single one even comes close. mplayer, zoomplayer, media player classic, mpc home cinema, xbmc, wmp, quicktime(lol), and more. Features like being able to crop to aspect ratio are really useful. Dealing with DVDs is really great too. Not only can it play any DVD known to man, it can change audio and subtitle tracks seamlessly. MPC spazzes out every time you change the subtitle track, and even then it doesn't usually change it properly anyway.
I use Office 2007 as well. I have been trying to get it to work with ODF, but it has the same problem ODF always had. WHen it comes time to share the document with someone else, you have to go save it as a.doc. Even using docx is risky.
Hopefully within a couple of years MS will fix the ODF filter and the average computer can be reasonably expected to have Office 2007sp2 or newer.
I support a gas tax as well, but you have to think of the implications.
Gas taxes are going to hurt the poor who cannot afford to purchase a new fuel efficient car and are stuck driving a second hand Yukon or Ford Excursion.
On the other hand, people who can afford 20k+ cars are not going to care too much about a one or two dollar gas tax.
If you have a tax large enough to alter the behavior of the rich and the middle class, you will also at the same time vastly reduce the mobility of hte poor.
So the solution here is to force the people who can afford to purchase brand new cars to get fuel efficient ones, and then 5 years later those cars will be available to the poor in the second hand market.
My desktop is out of service right now because my download of Windows 7 from MS was corrupted, and the installer hangs(after taking the liberty of formatting my existing OS, of course).
I wish they had put up a torrent instead, it is a much more robust way to download large important files.
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the smell goes away after a while, but as I understand it, it is part of some sort of preservative and prevents disc decay. You are supposed to keep the spools closed and wrapped until you are going to actually start burning.
not true. You can get an 8.99 netflix subscription and stream movies on 4 computer all day, every day, all month long. Maybe they are losing money on me individually, but it makes economic sense to offer this sort of service. I don't see a reason why hulu can't do the same. $15, 4 computers, no ads, I'm in. If they use a less crappy video player, that would be icing on the cake.
FYI, there is a relatively reliable and uniform way of measuring your LCD contrast ratio http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/contrast_ratio.php
We can't have a sustainable electricity grid when lightbulbs are using 100w or even 60w. CFLs use 20w, and LEDs use a fraction of that. There is no way we can generate enough electricity, through any means, when we are being so wasteful in our consumption.
Why spend R&D money on improving obsolete technology when we haven't even begun to explore what is possible with new things? It's like trying to refine a silver coin from 99% to 99.9% purity to increase its value when you could be refining the bucket of gold ore sitting next to you.
Of course. It mixes red, green and blue light to produce black, so it has triple the bandwidth.
I can watch 720p mkvs smoothly on my mini 9 with coreAVC, no hardware acceleration required.
Hulu is tolerable at the absolute lowest settings(low res, flash quality on low).
I was able to watch full screen SD video on abc.com. there were some audio stutters, but i think that is just some sort of network/configuration issue.
Deleting something contributed by a "post n run" IP is a lot easier to justify than reverting an edit made by someone with a registered account and a history. Besides, this will still be effective because 90% of them won't know how to obscure their IPs. Sure, some of them will, but this might get rid of a good chunk of the crap.
No, they're the first people to get screwed by DRM in space.
Take that you commies!
Of course, one of the biggest obstacles to linux adoption is that Windows is effectively "open source".
True, you can't actually see or modify the source code, but something tells me you probably wouldn't want to.
And yes, VLC is awesome. I have tried virtually every other media player and not a single one even comes close. mplayer, zoomplayer, media player classic, mpc home cinema, xbmc, wmp, quicktime(lol), and more. Features like being able to crop to aspect ratio are really useful. Dealing with DVDs is really great too. Not only can it play any DVD known to man, it can change audio and subtitle tracks seamlessly. MPC spazzes out every time you change the subtitle track, and even then it doesn't usually change it properly anyway.
Maybe not DISK drives, but we do have SSDs that are approaching 3Gb. SSDs go over 250megs easy, and they are still in their infancy.
We already have SSDs which go well over 3Gb, and they are all PCIe based.
Connectors should be made so that if something breaks, it should be the cable, not the device it is connected to!
Every security system can be compromised. You only prefer copper because you know more about hacking than you know about lock picking.
I think this might be because cats are hunters while dogs are scavengers.
You look at porn at all day and watch videos of cats doing funny things.
There, and I didn't even have to sit at your computer.
Yes, because the rest of us are using Firefox with adblock.
I use Office 2007 as well. I have been trying to get it to work with ODF, but it has the same problem ODF always had. WHen it comes time to share the document with someone else, you have to go save it as a .doc. Even using docx is risky.
Hopefully within a couple of years MS will fix the ODF filter and the average computer can be reasonably expected to have Office 2007sp2 or newer.
Wow, over a year with your feet on it and it never once fell over? That is some good up time.
This is the mac daily build page
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/sub-rel-mac/
Just use the AutoPager Firefox extension. It loads all the pages for you and you can just scroll down.
I support a gas tax as well, but you have to think of the implications.
Gas taxes are going to hurt the poor who cannot afford to purchase a new fuel efficient car and are stuck driving a second hand Yukon or Ford Excursion.
On the other hand, people who can afford 20k+ cars are not going to care too much about a one or two dollar gas tax.
If you have a tax large enough to alter the behavior of the rich and the middle class, you will also at the same time vastly reduce the mobility of hte poor.
So the solution here is to force the people who can afford to purchase brand new cars to get fuel efficient ones, and then 5 years later those cars will be available to the poor in the second hand market.
SO Open Source isn't all that great at sorting, but since they had the biggest toys, it obviously shows that it works as a business model.
Government funded open source textbooks.
I'm sure there are flaws in the idea, but I think it is better than the mess we have now, certainly for k-12. College is a bit more complicated
For those concerned about censorship/propaganda, it is really no different than what we have now. The government picks out the textbooks either way.
What about the war in Iraq?
Big, expensive, daring. It will put us in the history books.
but you can already nice processes on a single core system.
My desktop is out of service right now because my download of Windows 7 from MS was corrupted, and the installer hangs(after taking the liberty of formatting my existing OS, of course).
I wish they had put up a torrent instead, it is a much more robust way to download large important files.