Come on now. I know we don't like the RIAA, but do we really have to include the "they havn't done x...yet" line in every story. Did it ever occur to anyone here that maybe the reason they didn't do it in the first place is that they don't want to do it. That's right, maybe they don't want to sue everybody! Maybe they are just defending what they beleive is their rights, the same way we all defend our right to privacy, etc.. Give the bias a rest, please.
Hm, flinging insults will do you no good. The point is, non-root users can't modify ALL of their files (I know I know, root users can't even alter files if the permissions are wrong). And yes, I do have important files. The solution with those is to make back ups, not to change the perms so you have to change them back everytime you wish to make an edit.
Not many companies would put 'warfare' in a job descriptions firstly because few are in a mindset that they at war (i.e. the goal is to destroy, not that the goal is to make profit by selling goods), and secondly because not many companies can get away with it. People would think Coca-Cola completely daft if they asked for a CTO to help shut down Pepsi's website. Now mind you, pretty much everyone admits that Pepsi's actions are more or less legal. That, however, doesn't make it any less excusible because vigalantism is supposidly illegal. That's my 2*10^-2*dollars.
If I had mod points, I'd rate you funny. If you don't get it (and I don't think the writer did) just think about users not having the permissions to alter files on their own systems. Ask yourself how many users want to protect their files from themselves.
The only difference between a graphic card considered 3d and one that is considered 2d is the card's ability to handle vectors in three dimensions. I imagine that in order to really make use of this with current cards you would have to implement x 2d buffers, where x is the z resolution of the display. That means the entire image would be constructed in approximatly x times more time.
You can downsample in any format pretty much without it sounding any different than if it were originally formatted that way. What you can't do without significant artifacts is go from lower quality to higher, in any format. And believe it or not, high quality mp3 to high quality ogg conversion doesn't cost you anything in the audible range.
Is it just me, or is this meglomatic overkill? I mean, you know whether a chair is assembled correctly or not. Does it look like a chair? Does it support weight? Then you've done an a-ok job by my standards.
It is really easy to convert a large mp3 collection to vorbis. It isn't at all the same thing as having to manually copy all of your 8-tracks to tape to CD and then rip them to mp3. One shell script and you could convert your entire collection. At no cost.
or do those screenshots (the D3 ones)look an awful lot like halflife? I mean, it is really sad if that is what the next generation looks like. Not to be cruel, but I was expected a lot of innovation (perhaps some good use of the new top rate pixel shaders from ATI and nVidia) from the 'new generation' of FPS. Or maybe they just cheated and generated the screenshots from a special halflife MOD...hehe...
This is *twitch* exactly what I *twitch* need. My *jerk, twitch* caffiene isn't strong *twitch, eyes roll back in head* strong enough. Now where did I put that 64 ounce coffee mug?
I really don't understand what the big deal with XML is. The word processor people could just decide on one standard format, XML or no XML. The real inovation is that they would use the same format. XML is really more of way of thinking about things than a specific set of instructions, so I think it is a bit overrated.
Really, the best alliance we have in the fight against this patent is *shudder* AOL. AOL is notoriously pissy about people using their services for anything but looking at the ads at the top of them. Perhaps someone should mention to them that all of these bots running around aren't browsing through the sites of all of their "merchant partners." I'm sure they would be rather upset, in classic AOL style.
for those of you who have not heard this already. Don't like it? USE SOMETHING ELSE. Netscape can do whatever it wants with its software. Mind you, they might do something else if people quit using the software. So perhaps, instead of compaining that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, like it seems to do three times a day on slashdot, seek alternatives. Thank you.
chances are, we will have bigger problems than building acurate reproductions of the original. There would definitely be wholesale destruction to clean up. And it isn't like the people there couldn't be moved to somewhere else.
Ask yourself, how is that insightful? The author clearly intended that the SSL functionality in the browsers is a joke. Not SSL itself. In fact, it says that both in the story and the comment. Do not be tempted onto the moderation bandwagon!
Slashdot Mirror
Come on now. I know we don't like the RIAA, but do we really have to include the "they havn't done x...yet" line in every story. Did it ever occur to anyone here that maybe the reason they didn't do it in the first place is that they don't want to do it. That's right, maybe they don't want to sue everybody! Maybe they are just defending what they beleive is their rights, the same way we all defend our right to privacy, etc..
Give the bias a rest, please.
Hm, flinging insults will do you no good. The point is, non-root users can't modify ALL of their files (I know I know, root users can't even alter files if the permissions are wrong). And yes, I do have important files. The solution with those is to make back ups, not to change the perms so you have to change them back everytime you wish to make an edit.
Not many companies would put 'warfare' in a job descriptions firstly because few are in a mindset that they at war (i.e. the goal is to destroy, not that the goal is to make profit by selling goods), and secondly because not many companies can get away with it. People would think Coca-Cola completely daft if they asked for a CTO to help shut down Pepsi's website. Now mind you, pretty much everyone admits that Pepsi's actions are more or less legal. That, however, doesn't make it any less excusible because vigalantism is supposidly illegal. That's my 2*10^-2*dollars.
If I had mod points, I'd rate you funny. If you don't get it (and I don't think the writer did) just think about users not having the permissions to alter files on their own systems. Ask yourself how many users want to protect their files from themselves.
The only difference between a graphic card considered 3d and one that is considered 2d is the card's ability to handle vectors in three dimensions. I imagine that in order to really make use of this with current cards you would have to implement x 2d buffers, where x is the z resolution of the display. That means the entire image would be constructed in approximatly x times more time.
You can downsample in any format pretty much without it sounding any different than if it were originally formatted that way. What you can't do without significant artifacts is go from lower quality to higher, in any format. And believe it or not, high quality mp3 to high quality ogg conversion doesn't cost you anything in the audible range.
Is it just me, or is this meglomatic overkill? I mean, you know whether a chair is assembled correctly or not. Does it look like a chair? Does it support weight? Then you've done an a-ok job by my standards.
It is really easy to convert a large mp3 collection to vorbis. It isn't at all the same thing as having to manually copy all of your 8-tracks to tape to CD and then rip them to mp3. One shell script and you could convert your entire collection. At no cost.
I recall this idea being in a megaman game. I don't remember which one though. :/
or do those screenshots (the D3 ones)look an awful lot like halflife? I mean, it is really sad if that is what the next generation looks like. Not to be cruel, but I was expected a lot of innovation (perhaps some good use of the new top rate pixel shaders from ATI and nVidia) from the 'new generation' of FPS. Or maybe they just cheated and generated the screenshots from a special halflife MOD...hehe...
This is *twitch* exactly what I *twitch* need. My *jerk, twitch* caffiene isn't strong *twitch, eyes roll back in head* strong enough. Now where did I put that 64 ounce coffee mug?
lol. Someone erect a shrine to this karma martyr. He was a brave, brave man.
I really don't understand what the big deal with XML is. The word processor people could just decide on one standard format, XML or no XML. The real inovation is that they would use the same format. XML is really more of way of thinking about things than a specific set of instructions, so I think it is a bit overrated.
Really, the best alliance we have in the fight against this patent is *shudder* AOL. AOL is notoriously pissy about people using their services for anything but looking at the ads at the top of them. Perhaps someone should mention to them that all of these bots running around aren't browsing through the sites of all of their "merchant partners." I'm sure they would be rather upset, in classic AOL style.
I'd risk my karma to say he is right.
for those of you who have not heard this already. Don't like it? USE SOMETHING ELSE. Netscape can do whatever it wants with its software. Mind you, they might do something else if people quit using the software. So perhaps, instead of compaining that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, like it seems to do three times a day on slashdot, seek alternatives. Thank you.
chances are, we will have bigger problems than building acurate reproductions of the original. There would definitely be wholesale destruction to clean up. And it isn't like the people there couldn't be moved to somewhere else.
don't go to waterloo if you want to be an engineer and don't want to take C#?
Ask yourself, how is that insightful? The author clearly intended that the SSL functionality in the browsers is a joke. Not SSL itself. In fact, it says that both in the story and the comment. Do not be tempted onto the moderation bandwagon!
i understand this. what you must understand is that they both have direct in them.
Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate
I believe that is under the Department of Redundancy Department.
I fear that this algorithm well use up valuble CPU time that could be used to find the cure for cancer, or read the CIA's email.
Everyone knows that John Dillinger shot JFK, on behalf of the JAMs.
the BFR (big f-ing rocket).
well...it is more like a shell according to modern chemistry texts. I'm more of a newton-einstien man...bohr is a bore :)