Doesn't matter if it's technically possible or not. The backers of various formats rarely if ever decide to cut the crap and play nice with one another, and they never want to share.
And whenever they try, someone tries to sabotage it.
I imagine that the previous poster was thinking of public web pages when he said that.
Of course your clients can control what browsers are used with what configurations in your case. With publicly available web pages, that is not the case, and one could make the case that some level of incompetence is required to allow only JS enabled users to actually get any functionality from your site. (It's okay if the bells don't chime and the whistles don't whistle, but people should be able to get from here to there without too much fuss)
Seriously, GOOD RIDDANCE. Have you used Yahoo chat in the last two years? If so, you know what a nuisance all those belligerant, retarded cyber-seekers from India (and pakistan and bangladesh) can be.
They will not be missed by the other users, for the most part.
Control the cooking of your turkey while you're at work. (Well, you can't baste it, but...) Or jerky. Cook your chili. (Well, you'll scorch it, but still...don't have to be there!)
Or how about a furnace? Or water heater? Remote diagnostics and maybe even adjustment even for older hardware.
There's lots of appliances that could be better with internet connectivity. Toasters are probably not among them, however.
Is this to make it clear that they are doing something about conflicts of interest involving account consulting?
Perhaps they've got some misdeeds that may come to light, and are trying to prevent anything that might be discovered from precipitating an Anderson-esque collapse?
Well, in any event, to an ignoramus like me, it sounds win-win.
Yeah, and most surviving american cars from the 70s and 80s run great, too. Doesn't mean the vast majority weren't pieces of crap with serious quality control problems.
Not all Iomega drives fail/failed, but enough have that anyone who has used many, or knows more than a handful of people who have, is likely to know at least one person who had a bad drive, and is likely to have encountered numerous bad disks.
I've never come across a bad Jaz drive, but I HAVE had a bad disk.
BTW, GOOD RIDDANCE to floppies. I wouldn't be saying that, but for the fact that the quality of the media has been crap for the last 6 years or more. To my knowledge you simply cannot buy good floppies (that is to say, floppies you can actually trust with your data) anymore.
I worked in a few university computer labs, and not a week went by someone didn't lose a paper (or ALL of their papers for that semester) to a bad floppy disk...and that was just in the hours I was working.
I'd sooner trust my data to a stack of post-it notes than a floppy disk. Older disks lasted for years...All (all I've checked, anyhow) my 20 year old apple disks which are still flawless, as are my 8 year old 1.44s. Disks I got more recently, I'd trust for maybe a week.
Used to be people would reuse AOL or Prodigy floppies...people would joke about how bad they were, how unreliable. And they were. Thing is, they were no less reliable than the average floppy is today.
Floppies turned to crap when? When they got cheap.
CDRs are getting really cheap now. What do you think is happening?
A few years ago, I never saw the aluminum flaking right off of CDs which hadn't been abused. I have seen this in the past year.
How much of a drain does the application software (as opposed to high-end and/or custom software, which if anything could be HELPED by free software...SOMEONE is getting paid to adapt that software to an organization's needs) industry put on the economy, compared to the benefits it offers?
How many jobs will be created in businesses that rely upon commercial application software as a result of costs cut through cheaper software?
Shouldn't free software, apart from it's impacts on the application software industry, be seen just like tax cuts are?
Well, unless tax cuts aren't all they're cracked up to be.
First of all, didn't VCD come out over 10 years ago? I seem to recall something about CD-I being able to play it (and that being one of it's nifty selling points...or not). That's new?
Second, VCD is a mediUM. When people talk about "New Media" they are speaking of more than one mediUM.
JEEZ. Why do so many people have to do so many bad things to MY language?
I can see advertising some long-lived product, like coca-cola, or a company on a tombstone, but seriously...I doubt more than 1 in 10 games has anyone still caring about it a year after release. And after 5 years, it's probably 1 in 100. I hope they plan to swap ads.
Oh, and nevermind that hardly anyone would see the things. And most of those people probably don't play video games.
I guess this news story was the REAL advertisement, then.
The writing in the Chinese book is not quite up to the standards which have made Rowling the most popular children's author of her generation.
'Harry doesn't know how long it will take to wash the sticky cream cake off his face,' the book begins.
'For a civilised young man it is disgusting to have dirt on any part of his body.
'He lies in the high-quality china bathtub, keeps wiping his face, and thinks about Dali's face, which is as fat as the bottom of Aunt Penny.'
The book is in CHINESE. I'm sure it reads better in the original. Chinese grammar does NOT directly correspond to English, so the awkward phrasing found here is purely a creation of the person who translated this passage to English.
OTOH, it's a weird simile, and not having read the original books, I don't know if that's consistent with Rowling's writing style.
Since cartman is about 10 years old, that would make it in the neighborhood of the 40th trimester. But then, it really wouldn't be a trimester, would it?
This isn't something that the artists really CAN get a piece of unless the kiosks track whose songs are getting copied how often. If they have arrangements for a cut of royalties, that's all well and good, but if there's no way to determine who gets how much, the record companies will just hold onto all of it.
They didn't post that in a separate story, though? That tidbit is irrelevant to THIS topic, because, AFAIK, no one is running visual studio on the x-box.
3001 is the rambling of a senile old science fiction author. It's a common enough phenomenon, one we have now seen with all the big three. Asimov had the courtesy to die before getting too far into this stage. Heinlein, however, lingered on in that state for over a decade.
3001 is a "gee whiz" future-tech expo (from the guy who predicted geosynchronous communication sattelites, but also predicted that they would be manned) with no discernable plot, and no reason to even have it's tenuous connection to what is arguably Mr. Clarke's greatest work, save marketability.
Of course, just because they won't be actively supporting it doesn't mean you can't DO it, but...
Won't a lot of admins of IBM big iron running Linux be wanting their notebooks to be running it as well, not just out of personal preference, but AS PART OF THEIR JOB?
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Drug sales support terrorism, and drug laws support drug prices. Drug dealers, drug traffickers....they don't want drugs legalized.
THE DRUG WAR SUPPORTS TERRORISM.
Oh, yeah, we'll all be LINING UP to download crappy edited version of movies.
Doesn't matter if it's technically possible or not. The backers of various formats rarely if ever decide to cut the crap and play nice with one another, and they never want to share.
And whenever they try, someone tries to sabotage it.
I imagine that the previous poster was thinking of public web pages when he said that.
Of course your clients can control what browsers are used with what configurations in your case. With publicly available web pages, that is not the case, and one could make the case that some level of incompetence is required to allow only JS enabled users to actually get any functionality from your site. (It's okay if the bells don't chime and the whistles don't whistle, but people should be able to get from here to there without too much fuss)
Seriously, GOOD RIDDANCE. Have you used Yahoo chat in the last two years? If so, you know what a nuisance all those belligerant, retarded cyber-seekers from India (and pakistan and bangladesh) can be.
They will not be missed by the other users, for the most part.
Control the cooking of your turkey while you're at work. (Well, you can't baste it, but...) Or jerky. Cook your chili. (Well, you'll scorch it, but still...don't have to be there!)
Or how about a furnace? Or water heater? Remote diagnostics and maybe even adjustment even for older hardware.
There's lots of appliances that could be better with internet connectivity. Toasters are probably not among them, however.
Is this to make it clear that they are doing something about conflicts of interest involving account consulting?
Perhaps they've got some misdeeds that may come to light, and are trying to prevent anything that might be discovered from precipitating an Anderson-esque collapse?
Well, in any event, to an ignoramus like me, it sounds win-win.
Yeah, and most surviving american cars from the 70s and 80s run great, too. Doesn't mean the vast majority weren't pieces of crap with serious quality control problems.
Not all Iomega drives fail/failed, but enough have that anyone who has used many, or knows more than a handful of people who have, is likely to know at least one person who had a bad drive, and is likely to have encountered numerous bad disks.
I've never come across a bad Jaz drive, but I HAVE had a bad disk.
BTW, GOOD RIDDANCE to floppies. I wouldn't be saying that, but for the fact that the quality of the media has been crap for the last 6 years or more. To my knowledge you simply cannot buy good floppies (that is to say, floppies you can actually trust with your data) anymore.
I worked in a few university computer labs, and not a week went by someone didn't lose a paper (or ALL of their papers for that semester) to a bad floppy disk...and that was just in the hours I was working.
I'd sooner trust my data to a stack of post-it notes than a floppy disk. Older disks lasted for years...All (all I've checked, anyhow) my 20 year old apple disks which are still flawless, as are my 8 year old 1.44s. Disks I got more recently, I'd trust for maybe a week.
Used to be people would reuse AOL or Prodigy floppies...people would joke about how bad they were, how unreliable. And they were. Thing is, they were no less reliable than the average floppy is today.
Floppies turned to crap when? When they got cheap.
CDRs are getting really cheap now. What do you think is happening?
A few years ago, I never saw the aluminum flaking right off of CDs which hadn't been abused. I have seen this in the past year.
Rome invented scramjets.
How much of a drain does the application software (as opposed to high-end and/or custom software, which if anything could be HELPED by free software...SOMEONE is getting paid to adapt that software to an organization's needs) industry put on the economy, compared to the benefits it offers?
How many jobs will be created in businesses that rely upon commercial application software as a result of costs cut through cheaper software?
Shouldn't free software, apart from it's impacts on the application software industry, be seen just like tax cuts are?
Well, unless tax cuts aren't all they're cracked up to be.
That suggests there is salvageable grey matter there. Might I suggest a LART?
The Ghost in the Shell 2 manga was released last summer in Japan. around 1500 yen, with a tiny little mousepad, to go with it.
I'm not sure when/where it was serialized.
I tried reading it, but DAMN....DAMN. That's hard stuff. (And I've translated some damned hard shit)
No one was talking about laser discs.
First of all, didn't VCD come out over 10 years ago? I seem to recall something about CD-I being able to play it (and that being one of it's nifty selling points...or not). That's new?
Second, VCD is a mediUM. When people talk about "New Media" they are speaking of more than one mediUM.
JEEZ. Why do so many people have to do so many bad things to MY language?
Weren't those magnetic?
ANYHOW...
That is COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT to this topic, because...
Hardly anyone uses them anymore
Most people do not have hardware that can read them
Most people alive today have probably never even heard of them let alone seen them
The recording hardware is NOT nor was it ever cheap and ubiquitious as CDR has become.
So shut the hell up.
I can see advertising some long-lived product, like coca-cola, or a company on a tombstone, but seriously...I doubt more than 1 in 10 games has anyone still caring about it a year after release. And after 5 years, it's probably 1 in 100. I hope they plan to swap ads.
Oh, and nevermind that hardly anyone would see the things. And most of those people probably don't play video games.
I guess this news story was the REAL advertisement, then.
The writing in the Chinese book is not quite up to the standards which have made Rowling the most popular children's author of her generation.
'Harry doesn't know how long it will take to wash the sticky cream cake off his face,' the book begins.
'For a civilised young man it is disgusting to have dirt on any part of his body.
'He lies in the high-quality china bathtub, keeps wiping his face, and thinks about Dali's face, which is as fat as the bottom of Aunt Penny.'
The book is in CHINESE. I'm sure it reads better in the original. Chinese grammar does NOT directly correspond to English, so the awkward phrasing found here is purely a creation of the person who translated this passage to English.
OTOH, it's a weird simile, and not having read the original books, I don't know if that's consistent with Rowling's writing style.
Fewer....people....drive.
Since cartman is about 10 years old, that would make it in the neighborhood of the 40th trimester. But then, it really wouldn't be a trimester, would it?
I guess I have some reason to NOT try and fill every last byte on the disc even if I don't need another copy of the files I'm burning.
I can use all that extra real estate to burn thumbnails of my porn collection.
This isn't something that the artists really CAN get a piece of unless the kiosks track whose songs are getting copied how often. If they have arrangements for a cut of royalties, that's all well and good, but if there's no way to determine who gets how much, the record companies will just hold onto all of it.
They didn't post that in a separate story, though? That tidbit is irrelevant to THIS topic, because, AFAIK, no one is running visual studio on the x-box.
3001 is the rambling of a senile old science fiction author. It's a common enough phenomenon, one we have now seen with all the big three. Asimov had the courtesy to die before getting too far into this stage. Heinlein, however, lingered on in that state for over a decade.
3001 is a "gee whiz" future-tech expo (from the guy who predicted geosynchronous communication sattelites, but also predicted that they would be manned) with no discernable plot, and no reason to even have it's tenuous connection to what is arguably Mr. Clarke's greatest work, save marketability.
Of course, just because they won't be actively supporting it doesn't mean you can't DO it, but...
Won't a lot of admins of IBM big iron running Linux be wanting their notebooks to be running it as well, not just out of personal preference, but AS PART OF THEIR JOB?
The economics of libertarianism is like high school physics. Everything is a sphere, and there is no friction.