It's called a marketing technique. Before you offically release your product you sell lots of it to some company for release with their new product. One then enters into an agreement with the company.
Now if apple can just get one more feature in one application to be faster than a pc... they... well.. will still be lightyears behind. But hey! more cheap ass marketing for them!
"I just bought this new Dual G4, I can bring up help dialog boxes like never before. wow"
That really is a problem. That's like the only time apple is faster than a pc. In like one, MAYBE two applications. PC's are 1/2 or 1/3 or less the cost and can do just oh so much more.
Lets assume you've been living under a rock. Now lets take a look at some basic math/counting. First there was the GeForce card. It was good.
GeForce 2 was the next, it was better.
Still counting in a normal manner, GeForce 3 came next. Improving more still.
Now, if you ever played those "complete the pattern" or "what comes next" games in preschool... one would say the next logical step would be... GeForce 4. Which, unless they are going backwards, should be even better still.
This concluded our lesson for today. Oh, and class. Matrox G550 has the best performance in Windows, not top notch 3d performance tho.
I doubt it will come close to a real pc in performance. Apple spends most of their time making things look pretty and keeping other people out, than actually making a decent product.
It's a wonder they are still in business sometimes. Granted they had some breakthrough technology back when the Apple IIe came out... but since then it's pretty much just been a downward spiral. Apple sucks. PC's can do all an apple can... cheaper, faster, better, more.
I doubt eBay made any money on that. I don't think that if someone is going to try and rip off buyers that he's going to live up to his eBay due's and pay what he "owes" to ebay.
They (ebay) might try to go after him for the dues, but not the bid money.
I got burned too. There needs to be more buyer security. I haven't bought anything from ebay since, and I won't till something can be done to improve the security for both buyer and seller. Moreso the buyer.
How about this, I have lots of mp3's. Some downloaded and some homemade. I want a way to normalize them. Make them all the same sound level. Some of them are really loud and some of them are very low and some are in between.
Is there a program that can decode/re-encode and normalize a batch of mp3's?
It's a stupid question. Your making illegal copies already, what do you care if it's with an encoding scheme that's free or not. Just warez a program. Your in the stealing/illegal frame of mind anyway. Plus, mp3's work just fine. There are many many diffrent bitrates you can encode in that give better quality than the standard 128bit. Shut up and use mp3. It'll save you time and trading is a ton easier. I don't know anyone that actually uses one of those other encoders for all their songs. MP3's are quick and WIDELY supported. There's not much of a loss, there will be some with no matter what you use. Just use mp3 and shut up.
I still prefer when the naming went from 286 to 386 to 586. Ever since the pentium naming, companies have just used them to confuse peope. If it continued to run like that I would be running something like a 786 right now. And it would also be nice to have a + or - next to it. The - being like a celeron chip and the + representing a regular chip. None of this athlon, celeron, willamette(sp), duron, P4, Xeon crap. Unless you do research and understand the diffrences, it's just confusing as all hell. I think that's exactly what they are trying to do.
On another note. AMD is useing the non-mhz rating system. Yet the 1300+ sure seems close/confusing to a 1300mhz chip. Why not make it an Athlon 5+ or a 5634652346+? Why have it almost exactly where all the mhz ratings are falling into place? To confuse people. Also... AMD sucks. I will never own that crap. Thank you.
Bah! AMD has sucked from the beginging. They cannot copy intel's design, it's illegal. Intel's are more expensive, but they work! They work everytime, they set the standard and amd is not the standard. AMD is merely trying to immitate it. They aren't doing too bad of a job, but they can never be king.
Intel is quite expensive, but I've never had a probelm with an intel component. AMD's have provided me with many many hassles. I will never own one. Thank you.
Hell with that idea. Obvisiouly more political bullshit. They have no clue do they? The REASON it was popular was cause it was fun. Free. There was a challenge that I think most people thought was fun.
Now they expect us to PAY for that? They are way out there. Morons. No way I would pay for something like that. They have GOT to be smoking something nasty.
Bunch of greedy hordes. There are studies and reports all over that show that ever since mp3's have been around... music sales have never been higher. GREEDY!!!
well, I just read pretty much the whole site there. That's some interesting stuff. Now, how old are these people? 14? 15? I find it hard to believe someone over 18 or 19 could be so immature as to contiue too talk to either side after the first one or two contacts.
To Smoothwall people if they are reading: Great product, works nicely and is pretty easy. I see and pretty much agree with the point that it's a -firewall- nothing more. But(as always)... even tho this guy did not have a very nice attitude, it was very unprofessional for the responces given. I know I know, you've heard that. Lets look at why I repeated it though. Lets say I have a strong influence in a decision that is coming up about security for a large network. I see SW, it's nice, quick, easy, robust, secure, simple, small, cost effective... but... I also see all this arguing. What's with that? I'm really gunna think twice about giving money to people that act like that. If I need to pitch this to a boss, they want to know what happens when something goes wrong and we need to contact someone. Lets also suppose that I am going to be honest to him and tell him about the arguments over some simple things. He'll most likely look at me and ask who's next, not give a second thought to SW...... Something to ponder.
To the guy that "started" all this when he went in irc. You do have a decent idea that it would be nice to have some more things that -could- compete with SuSe and others. That's nice, they didn't like it, drop it. It's really not fun spending so much time on something, getting so little in return and getting people also complaining that it's not good enough. Yes, with some work.. again it could be quite a contender. But that's not what they want and that's fine. Do not deny that you pushed to. You most certianly could have dropped it and let it go, you -did- push too. Legal action? Reporting to hosting, email server, isp? Again, how old are you? That's something I've not seen since I used to go on irc and everyone was under 15. OH no, stop the world. Someone said something that didn't make me feel special!!!#$@#%^#$%
It's really about time both sides took a step back... take a deep breath... take another step back and look at what is going on here. It's stupid. Shut up. Go on. Live.
Of course... when I saw that first "Go away:)" I cracked up for like 5 mins. Thank you. This has been MY oppinion.
Well that's fine for people that know what they are doing and have a pc setup right and know how to monitor that. What about the hot chick down the hall that uses her pc to talk to mom and write papers and get some webpages. She might not know that WinMX, Kazaa, and Morpheus are still running from last semester. Would they make an exception for her lack of knowledge? Or would she not be able to complete her "legit" work that she thought she was doing the whole time.
Or what about if someone has SirCam? Lack of knowledge can kill ya sometimes.
GREAT!!! Now when AOL/TW decide to take over people like you, your bill will be 130% higher for the same damn thing!! Or better yet, LESS!!
Currently I have Digital Cabel (apx: 450channels) and cable modem. My bill is about $70/month. They do offer telephone access but we have a better deal than they can offer. We've got some Sprint plan that's like $0.04/min anytime to anywhere in the US. International? Who cares.:p
Well first of all, AOL? You know it'll be 30% higher in price than anyone else. I can see it now, flipping through stations and seeing "AOL: Please wait... retreiving 42653 emails. Please read before watching more TV."
Time Warner used to be such a respectable company. It's like combining Caviar with Mac`n Cheese.
"Welcome, you've got advertising!" "Goodb...er.. you will be taken to the mail now. More advertisements are now in your mail."
"i used to work for microsoft, i know how they work" (he worked in the sales dept selling licenses)
Well that just tells you that he must have some idea about security if he's not working at Microsoft. You think Microsoft would let someone with security idea's continue to work there?
I have no idea if he was fired or left or still works there.
There was a point made that I think applies very well. What's the point of encrypting the files if the only one that can read the files is root.
If the only one that can read the files is root. And root can do anything on the system by default. Well once your in as root, why would you care about if it's encryped or not? Your already in.
I've been useing SmoothWall 0.9.9SE for a few weeks now and I've looked over what this "reviewer" mentioned. He must have been reviewing an old version.
Again, if you want to read the password files to get root, you need to be root to read them. So what's the point of reading the password files if your already root?
Ok, so now you have to KNOW and understand ALL US laws.... and all forien laws. I can barely tell when I'm speeding or not(joke) and I'm supposed to know if some bloke in Austrailia takes offence to me putting something on my website? Hell with that idea.
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It's called a marketing technique. Before you offically release your product you sell lots of it to some company for release with their new product. One then enters into an agreement with the company.
Now if apple can just get one more feature in one application to be faster than a pc... they... well.. will still be lightyears behind. But hey! more cheap ass marketing for them!
"I just bought this new Dual G4, I can bring up help dialog boxes like never before. wow"
That really is a problem. That's like the only time apple is faster than a pc. In like one, MAYBE two applications. PC's are 1/2 or 1/3 or less the cost and can do just oh so much more.
GeForce 2 was the next, it was better.
Still counting in a normal manner, GeForce 3 came next. Improving more still.
Now, if you ever played those "complete the pattern" or "what comes next" games in preschool... one would say the next logical step would be ... GeForce 4. Which, unless they are going backwards, should be even better still.
This concluded our lesson for today. Oh, and class. Matrox G550 has the best performance in Windows, not top notch 3d performance tho.
It's a wonder they are still in business sometimes. Granted they had some breakthrough technology back when the Apple IIe came out... but since then it's pretty much just been a downward spiral. Apple sucks. PC's can do all an apple can... cheaper, faster, better, more.
You got your money, yippie. Don't be a dick about it.
I read that and didn't see anywhere that they got anyone. Did I miss it? I did skim it quicker than usual.
They (ebay) might try to go after him for the dues, but not the bid money.
I got burned too. There needs to be more buyer security. I haven't bought anything from ebay since, and I won't till something can be done to improve the security for both buyer and seller. Moreso the buyer.
Is there a program that can decode/re-encode and normalize a batch of mp3's?
It's a stupid question. Your making illegal copies already, what do you care if it's with an encoding scheme that's free or not. Just warez a program. Your in the stealing/illegal frame of mind anyway. Plus, mp3's work just fine. There are many many diffrent bitrates you can encode in that give better quality than the standard 128bit. Shut up and use mp3. It'll save you time and trading is a ton easier. I don't know anyone that actually uses one of those other encoders for all their songs. MP3's are quick and WIDELY supported. There's not much of a loss, there will be some with no matter what you use. Just use mp3 and shut up.
On another note. AMD is useing the non-mhz rating system. Yet the 1300+ sure seems close/confusing to a 1300mhz chip. Why not make it an Athlon 5+ or a 5634652346+? Why have it almost exactly where all the mhz ratings are falling into place? To confuse people. Also... AMD sucks. I will never own that crap. Thank you.
Intel is quite expensive, but I've never had a probelm with an intel component. AMD's have provided me with many many hassles. I will never own one. Thank you.
Now they expect us to PAY for that? They are way out there. Morons. No way I would pay for something like that. They have GOT to be smoking something nasty.
Bunch of greedy hordes. There are studies and reports all over that show that ever since mp3's have been around... music sales have never been higher. GREEDY!!!
To Smoothwall people if they are reading: Great product, works nicely and is pretty easy. I see and pretty much agree with the point that it's a -firewall- nothing more. But(as always)... even tho this guy did not have a very nice attitude, it was very unprofessional for the responces given. I know I know, you've heard that. Lets look at why I repeated it though. Lets say I have a strong influence in a decision that is coming up about security for a large network. I see SW, it's nice, quick, easy, robust, secure, simple, small, cost effective... but... I also see all this arguing. What's with that? I'm really gunna think twice about giving money to people that act like that. If I need to pitch this to a boss, they want to know what happens when something goes wrong and we need to contact someone. Lets also suppose that I am going to be honest to him and tell him about the arguments over some simple things. He'll most likely look at me and ask who's next, not give a second thought to SW. ..... Something to ponder.
To the guy that "started" all this when he went in irc. You do have a decent idea that it would be nice to have some more things that -could- compete with SuSe and others. That's nice, they didn't like it, drop it. It's really not fun spending so much time on something, getting so little in return and getting people also complaining that it's not good enough. Yes, with some work.. again it could be quite a contender. But that's not what they want and that's fine. Do not deny that you pushed to. You most certianly could have dropped it and let it go, you -did- push too. Legal action? Reporting to hosting, email server, isp? Again, how old are you? That's something I've not seen since I used to go on irc and everyone was under 15. OH no, stop the world. Someone said something that didn't make me feel special!!!#$@#%^#$%
It's really about time both sides took a step back... take a deep breath... take another step back and look at what is going on here. It's stupid. Shut up. Go on. Live.
Of course... when I saw that first "Go away :)" I cracked up for like 5 mins. Thank you. This has been MY oppinion.
Or what about if someone has SirCam? Lack of knowledge can kill ya sometimes.
That sounds stupid. The UK sucks. Thank you.
Well how else are they going to pay to have someone sit there and think up the most annoying and stupid looking interfaces ever possible?
Currently I have Digital Cabel (apx: 450channels) and cable modem. My bill is about $70/month. They do offer telephone access but we have a better deal than they can offer. We've got some Sprint plan that's like $0.04/min anytime to anywhere in the US. International? Who cares. :p
Time Warner used to be such a respectable company. It's like combining Caviar with Mac`n Cheese.
"Welcome, you've got advertising!" "Goodb...er.. you will be taken to the mail now. More advertisements are now in your mail."
Well that just tells you that he must have some idea about security if he's not working at Microsoft. You think Microsoft would let someone with security idea's continue to work there?
I have no idea if he was fired or left or still works there.
Maybe Slashdot can make that "Post Annomously" option also automatically remove your signature? Or did you type that manually?
Prove it, their site says it's Protected By SmoothWall. Hack it and lets see this. I don't think you can.
If the only one that can read the files is root. And root can do anything on the system by default. Well once your in as root, why would you care about if it's encryped or not? Your already in.
I've been useing SmoothWall 0.9.9SE for a few weeks now and I've looked over what this "reviewer" mentioned. He must have been reviewing an old version.
Again, if you want to read the password files to get root, you need to be root to read them. So what's the point of reading the password files if your already root?
CANADA SUCKS btw.