And so you have to buy expensive 666-frequency super-mega-world-phones to be able to use them world-wide. Sometimes standards are good. And GSM/GPRS is certanly good enough.
On the other hand, higher frequency traffic requires less power, so your cell phone's batteries will last longer. With well-placed carriers it's a good trade-off IMHO.
Um, yes, I must have been high on caffeine or something. Spdif is Sony's protocol for optical audio transfer while toslink/mini toslink is a connector type. So I was comparing apples with... parrots (got ya). Please kill me now.
Well, yes, except the CDDA content is not corrupt. The player just stumbles on the corrupt CD-ROM session and never even attempts to read the audio session.
It's a valid CD. It's just not a valid CD-ROM, which confuses players that care about such things. Unfortunately this hits many high-end players and all those nifty automotive cd-players that can do MP3s..
Shhh! Don't say such things on/. It might take away the nice warm feeling some people around here get in their tummy by overdoing the "Help, I'm being suppressed!" act. Watch Monthy Python's Holy Grail and you'll see what you are taking away from them.
Doesn't this mean that the actual audio data is not corrupted, meaning that this won't strain the error correction mechanism of an audio cd player, meaning that the disc will take just as much beating as an unprotected disc? If this is true, wouldn't the such claims be... well... FUD?!? Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Israel is currently a democracy in the "all people are equal, but some are more equal than others" way. I mean would USA use army helicopter attacks on DC if it turnes out that the serial sniper is a pro Bin Laden domestic terrorist? I think/hope not. Israel and the Palestinians both need new, fresh leadership with a desire for peace and no personal animosity against each other before things can start working out over there.
Yeah, we have so little domestic news in Finland, our newspapers consist of a front page with ads, the tv programme, some cartoons and a lot of pages saying "This page intentionally left blank".
Small artists which do not get screen-time on MTV or air-time on popular radio stations have no other way to let people "try before you buy" than the Internet. Some recording companies provide samples of music from the albums they publish, but an artist should have the right to do this him/herself if the record company doesn't. I know of only one record company where the artists own the copyright to their own work. DGM only functions as a recording and publishing company, they don't buy intellectual property. Arthur Brown made a record which sold 5 million copies in three months and never got anything for it. Somehow I don't buy it when the big recording companies say they work for the artists. They are in fact only working for artists that sell millions and then only to rip them off completely.
I mean come on! Even mozilla wasn't this slow when skinning was a new feature in it. Waiting 2-3 seconds for a menu to pop up after I click on it or for the scrolling to start after I touch my mouse-wheel stinks. Someone has a *lot* of optimization to do. Of course, since it's an open source project, someone might actually do that on a rainy sunday.
Abiword developers are having fun looking at this screenshot of KWord, OO and Abiword loading the same word document. At the same time AW fails to do perfectly while loading word docs as well. Closed file formats may not be the way to go for portability after all. Maybe XML will save us in some distant future..
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I remember Windows 1.01 as this odd file manager with and editor and some crappy games in it. I also had a copy of Micrografix Designer for DOS which came with some sort of bundled Windows 2.0 environment for DOS. Windows 2.0 and forward had semi-multitasking support on 386-class computers and better. I think you had to get a special 386 version of 2.0 however. Windows 3.0 was slow and buggy, but 3.1 (and 3.11) were the first really usable windowses. Then I switched to OS/2 instead and found temporary happiness until it just kinda died. Going back to Windows was not a pleasant experience and so here I am, using Linux.
No, it means that if I leave an OpenGL screensaver running while going away for a few hours, I am greeted by the lilo boot menu (i have no timeout) when I come back. Nothing in the logs, the machine just reboots it seems. Also using Xv in mplayer results in a black box that won't go away until I start another Xv app, like xawtv which works well. If you just need Xv, go for the gatos project instead (better Xv, no 3d).
The DRI-project have 3d-support available in CVS and binary snapshots with semi-friendly installers available. I'm using a snapshot now. Remember that this is not yet stable code (whatever that means). Look for 'r200' snapshots on their download page.
So, you have never written a buggy makefile and then spend a looong evening sorting out exactly what 'make clean' did and did not delete? You can delete files in many exciting ways, even if you never do 'rm -rf *' in the wrong terminal window.. I would love a trashcan that cleans up on every logoff..
Many, many Visual Basic coders. MS dug its own grave with Visual Basic. Very low barrier to entry, very difficult to scale above a certain height
Hey! Sounds like Perl. And just like Perl developers, VB developers choose another platform for developing database systems or office suites. Like VC. Or Delphi/C++ Builder. Delphi is my favourite developing platform for just about anything. Kylix just feels like a cheap replica.
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And so you have to buy expensive 666-frequency super-mega-world-phones to be able to use them world-wide. Sometimes standards are good. And GSM/GPRS is certanly good enough.
On the other hand, higher frequency traffic requires less power, so your cell phone's batteries will last longer. With well-placed carriers it's a good trade-off IMHO.
..that would actually be Petri Siltakoski and not the other way around..
Did you pay for you copy of Windows? :)
Living proof for the above interbreeding statement
Um, yes, I must have been high on caffeine or something. Spdif is Sony's protocol for optical audio transfer while toslink/mini toslink is a connector type. So I was comparing apples with ... parrots (got ya). Please kill me now.
Well, yes, except the CDDA content is not corrupt. The player just stumbles on the corrupt CD-ROM session and never even attempts to read the audio session.
..except the spdif input found on many sound cards is not the same as toslink found on many cd-players.. :(
It's a valid CD. It's just not a valid CD-ROM, which confuses players that care about such things. Unfortunately this hits many high-end players and all those nifty automotive cd-players that can do MP3s..
Shhh! Don't say such things on /. It might take away the nice warm feeling some people around here get in their tummy by overdoing the "Help, I'm being suppressed!" act. Watch Monthy Python's Holy Grail and you'll see what you are taking away from them.
Doesn't this mean that the actual audio data is not corrupted, meaning that this won't strain the error correction mechanism of an audio cd player, meaning that the disc will take just as much beating as an unprotected disc? If this is true, wouldn't the such claims be ... well ... FUD?!? Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Israel is currently a democracy in the "all people are equal, but some are more equal than others" way. I mean would USA use army helicopter attacks on DC if it turnes out that the serial sniper is a pro Bin Laden domestic terrorist? I think/hope not. Israel and the Palestinians both need new, fresh leadership with a desire for peace and no personal animosity against each other before things can start working out over there.
Yeah, we have so little domestic news in Finland, our newspapers consist of a front page with ads, the tv programme, some cartoons and a lot of pages saying "This page intentionally left blank".
Small artists which do not get screen-time on MTV or air-time on popular radio stations have no other way to let people "try before you buy" than the Internet. Some recording companies provide samples of music from the albums they publish, but an artist should have the right to do this him/herself if the record company doesn't. I know of only one record company where the artists own the copyright to their own work. DGM only functions as a recording and publishing company, they don't buy intellectual property. Arthur Brown made a record which sold 5 million copies in three months and never got anything for it. Somehow I don't buy it when the big recording companies say they work for the artists. They are in fact only working for artists that sell millions and then only to rip them off completely.
But would it be? Where would the web be today if Mosaic had been released under the GPL? Would we have had Netscape? IE? I think not.
I agree. All new research should be BSD licensed so that it will be free for all to implement.
Asking why we don't use RISC processors in x86-based PCs would be kinda stupid, wouldn't it?
Who cares what processor is slightly slower or faster than others? You need at least a 10% difference in overall system performance to notice anyway.
Darn, I missed fp by thinking...
I....do..n't...like.........it...becuase it..'s...so.......godd*...*n...s.l.o.w.
I mean come on! Even mozilla wasn't this slow when skinning was a new feature in it. Waiting 2-3 seconds for a menu to pop up after I click on it or for the scrolling to start after I touch my mouse-wheel stinks. Someone has a *lot* of optimization to do. Of course, since it's an open source project, someone might actually do that on a rainy sunday.
Abiword developers are having fun looking at this
screenshot
of KWord, OO and Abiword loading the same word document. At the same time AW fails to do perfectly while loading word docs as well. Closed file formats may not be the way to go for portability after all. Maybe XML will save us in some distant future..
I remember Windows 1.01 as this odd file manager with and editor and some crappy games in it. I also had a copy of Micrografix Designer for DOS which came with some sort of bundled Windows 2.0 environment for DOS. Windows 2.0 and forward had semi-multitasking support on 386-class computers and better. I think you had to get a special 386 version of 2.0 however. Windows 3.0 was slow and buggy, but 3.1 (and 3.11) were the first really usable windowses. Then I switched to OS/2 instead and found temporary happiness until it just kinda died. Going back to Windows was not a pleasant experience and so here I am, using Linux.
No, it means that if I leave an OpenGL screensaver running while going away for a few hours, I am greeted by the lilo boot menu (i have no timeout) when I come back. Nothing in the logs, the machine just reboots it seems. Also using Xv in mplayer results in a black box that won't go away until I start another Xv app, like xawtv which works well. If you just need Xv, go for the gatos project instead (better Xv, no 3d).
The DRI-project have 3d-support available in CVS and binary snapshots with semi-friendly installers available. I'm using a snapshot now. Remember that this is not yet stable code (whatever that means). Look for 'r200' snapshots on their download page.
So, you have never written a buggy makefile and then spend a looong evening sorting out exactly what 'make clean' did and did not delete? You can delete files in many exciting ways, even if you never do 'rm -rf *' in the wrong terminal window.. I would love a trashcan that cleans up on every logoff..
Hey! Sounds like Perl. And just like Perl developers, VB developers choose another platform for developing database systems or office suites. Like VC. Or Delphi/C++ Builder. Delphi is my favourite developing platform for just about anything. Kylix just feels like a cheap replica.