Quite useful. I'm on "free" (part of the rent) broadband most of the year, but have to resort to dial-up in the summer. Since I'm not paying the dial-up myself I wouldn't actually want to be that visible on the phone bill, so I'll remember this.
Factor in the times spent reading the pages as well... If your'e on a pay-per-second line, reading slashdot actively every day is not exactly cheap, especially considering the "quality" of the content. (in general, not any specific post)
Im running yesterday's snapshot of the DRI project's drivers for the ATI Radeon r200 series chips (8500 and probably 9000 as well) and OpenGL works (gears at least..). Xv works as well (xawtv). These will probably be integrated into the XFree86 codebase at some point. Remember that these are snapshots and not releases so they will probably not be 100% stable.
When you make a copy of some digital bits that you only are willing to copy precisely because it costs you next to nothing, and honestly (there's the rub) would rather do without if it cost you more, you do not deprive anyone of anything.
Am I to understand this that downloading music illegally is "kinda legal" as long as you don't like the music you download and thus would never have bought that piece of music? What a bunch of crap. You download music because you don't want to cough up the cash and know that you'll never get caught. If it's about "try before you buy" you should look for a better music store, one that allows you to listen to any record in the shop (except maybe that 1000 mint condition 1950s collector's vinyl they have on the wall) before buying purchasing it. Thinking like you makes software piracy, sneaking into the movies, not paying your bus tickets and other similar things "kinda legal" as long as you state that you would never have paid for it anyway, so what's the harm?
Of course you give your document a name, you just shouldn't have to bother about where the file can be saved, because the point is that if your disks are full you *never* choose not to save that document you just wrote (Oh my! The disk is full. Well I'll just throw away these ten pages of text and write it again some other day). You put it on another disk instead. When you want to retrieve it, the computer knows what documents are saved, but acts like a librarian. You don't have to find the actual (physical) book, just know its name and the computer will retrieve it for you. There are UI books which acknowledge document saving as a problem. Read one.
DVD-A (DVD-Audio) is a real standard, and more labels than just Sony's are producing material in this format.
Severalsmallaudiophile record companies are also producing material for the SACD-format.
Here are some facts about Sony's SACD players. They don't have a digital output. So that $1500+ DAC that you have is going to do no good.
Not that they would do you any good anyway: DACs don't do DSD-encoded streams. You can use DACs with the digital PCM output on Sony players, however, but only with CDs. Since PCM is a late 1970s compromise anyway I'm not sure I care.
I'm not sure about the region coding on SACDs
There isn't any.
They are restricting content more and more
How? By forcing SACDs to have a watermark as proof that they are not copies? By making piracy harder (in contrast to video-DVD-style copy "protection" which does not hinder mass production of pirated DVDs but rather (kind of) hinders DVD playback on Linux.)?
"Monica Stories" could not be saved, because the disk "Blackmail stuff" is full. Try saving onto a different disk. [OK]
Still, a good ui wouldn't bother the user with such trivial things as choosing where to save a file, other than "on my computer" or "on my website". It should look for a disk with available space, save the file there and remember what files are available where. Saving is not intuitive: "What do you mean it's not here!?! I typed it in yesterday and saw it on my screen and everything was just fine!...SAVE?!? I tell you, it was in my computer yesterday!". This is where advanced autosaving and revision control steps in...
If 12-15 seconds worth of urine is enough to fill my bladder and make me go to the bathroom, where does my body find room for 2-3 times that amount?
..can...not...resist...(sorry)
Your head?
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Where do you hide all of this "diverse" music of yours, America?
Jazz? Blues? Soul? Country? Do any of these ring a bell?
Palestian! Northern Ireland! Abortion! Gay marriage! DRUGS! Tolerent...hah, good one.
I'll agree with this one. Just because other cultures aren't tolerant towards you, doesn't mean your intolerance toward them are excused. Not that this makes USA any less tolerant than other countries, just more on the same level, but about different things.
Your constitution doesn't mean dick
Even the bible doesn't mean dick if no-one follows it.
The thing I'm afraid of is that american companies and globalisation will normalize all cultures to death. The american (USA) culture is just the first to go. Video did kill the radio star (sorry 'bout that...). The rest of us are next, unless we fight back. Not by laws but by actively supporting our own cultures.
Why? People can kill with a screwdriver, but are tool manufacturers sued? Trying to stop crime by taking away the tools used is just plain stupid, since it won't solve the real problem.
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By reading this comment you accept me as your god.
Forcing someone into a new agreement is illegal.
Who is forcing you? There are other operatig systems available as well.
You can remove the Microsoft EULA
At the same time you remove your right to use the software since it's a shrinkwrap license. Useful, da?
OSDN Terms of Service [osdn.com] say
This is not a shrinkwrap license and if I have never seen it (I haven't until now) I can only assume that The Fine Print is the complete EULA and that I still own the copyright to my comment. Hmmm.. should I sue anyone who quotes me..?
while accepting that Europe is for the most part a decent place,
How very generous of you. Thank you. May I breathe now?
American capital punishment.
Actually when a country has so much crime as the USA (or at least so many heavy punishments per capita) something is wrong and the error is not neccesarily in the punishments themselves. If crime would drop, the "need" for capital punishment would eventually go away.
Most likely the real application will be service providers trying to rip off customers by offering expensive "animated 3d logos", made by summerworking students getting minimum salaries.
I was under the impression that the defining characteristics of the dark ages was ignorance, suppression, warfare, famine, strife -- you know, BAD STUFF.
And how again does this description NOT fit the modern digital world?
We can only blame ourselves, using planets whose licenses expire after some time. We should all be building an open source alternative to Earth, named for example FreeEarth or OpenEarth. Sure, if we have to move in less that fifty years, FreeEarth may still be unstable then, but I can stand the sky falling down once a week, if the planet if truly free. Also, I know that if the planet suddenly blows up, the maintainers will be hard at work to fix the bug that caused it. I mean, has God offered any bugfixes for Earth? We'd all be much better off.
Some people are unlucky I guess, I haven't had X crashing for any other reason than GLX through NVidia's driver for over six months. I use Gnome 1.4 on a daily basis.
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More like MySQL versus SQL Server these days, unless you underestimete MySQL.
Quite useful. I'm on "free" (part of the rent) broadband most of the year, but have to resort to dial-up in the summer. Since I'm not paying the dial-up myself I wouldn't actually want to be that visible on the phone bill, so I'll remember this.
Factor in the times spent reading the pages as well... If your'e on a pay-per-second line, reading slashdot actively every day is not exactly cheap, especially considering the "quality" of the content. (in general, not any specific post)
Im running yesterday's snapshot of the DRI project's drivers for the ATI Radeon r200 series chips (8500 and probably 9000 as well) and OpenGL works (gears at least..). Xv works as well (xawtv). These will probably be integrated into the XFree86 codebase at some point. Remember that these are snapshots and not releases so they will probably not be 100% stable.
Am I to understand this that downloading music illegally is "kinda legal" as long as you don't like the music you download and thus would never have bought that piece of music? What a bunch of crap. You download music because you don't want to cough up the cash and know that you'll never get caught. If it's about "try before you buy" you should look for a better music store, one that allows you to listen to any record in the shop (except maybe that 1000 mint condition 1950s collector's vinyl they have on the wall) before buying purchasing it. Thinking like you makes software piracy, sneaking into the movies, not paying your bus tickets and other similar things "kinda legal" as long as you state that you would never have paid for it anyway, so what's the harm?
Of course you give your document a name, you just shouldn't have to bother about where the file can be saved, because the point is that if your disks are full you *never* choose not to save that document you just wrote (Oh my! The disk is full. Well I'll just throw away these ten pages of text and write it again some other day). You put it on another disk instead. When you want to retrieve it, the computer knows what documents are saved, but acts like a librarian. You don't have to find the actual (physical) book, just know its name and the computer will retrieve it for you. There are UI books which acknowledge document saving as a problem. Read one.
This has changed, since it is no longer more expensive to make a hybrid disc that a plain SACD disc. Thus most new SACD-discs are hybrid.
How come many small audiophile companies already have released SACD titles then? (opus3, chesky, telarc (which is not *that* small),...)
Several small audiophile record companies are also producing material for the SACD-format.
Here are some facts about Sony's SACD players. They don't have a digital output. So that $1500+ DAC that you have is going to do no good.
Not that they would do you any good anyway: DACs don't do DSD-encoded streams. You can use DACs with the digital PCM output on Sony players, however, but only with CDs. Since PCM is a late 1970s compromise anyway I'm not sure I care.
I'm not sure about the region coding on SACDs
There isn't any.
They are restricting content more and more
How? By forcing SACDs to have a watermark as proof that they are not copies? By making piracy harder (in contrast to video-DVD-style copy "protection" which does not hinder mass production of pirated DVDs but rather (kind of) hinders DVD playback on Linux.)?
Still, a good ui wouldn't bother the user with such trivial things as choosing where to save a file, other than "on my computer" or "on my website". It should look for a disk with available space, save the file there and remember what files are available where. Saving is not intuitive: "What do you mean it's not here!?! I typed it in yesterday and saw it on my screen and everything was just fine!
Hahaa! You lose! MY Mitsubishi is 13 years old and *still* works! My dad's stronger than yours too!
Your head?
Jazz? Blues? Soul? Country? Do any of these ring a bell?
Palestian! Northern Ireland! Abortion! Gay marriage! DRUGS! Tolerent...hah, good one.
I'll agree with this one. Just because other cultures aren't tolerant towards you, doesn't mean your intolerance toward them are excused. Not that this makes USA any less tolerant than other countries, just more on the same level, but about different things.
Your constitution doesn't mean dick
Even the bible doesn't mean dick if no-one follows it.
The thing I'm afraid of is that american companies and globalisation will normalize all cultures to death. The american (USA) culture is just the first to go. Video did kill the radio star (sorry 'bout that...). The rest of us are next, unless we fight back. Not by laws but by actively supporting our own cultures.
Why? People can kill with a screwdriver, but are tool manufacturers sued? Trying to stop crime by taking away the tools used is just plain stupid, since it won't solve the real problem.
I bought it and hated it. It was just too simple (not meaning easy).
Forcing someone into a new agreement is illegal.
Who is forcing you? There are other operatig systems available as well.
You can remove the Microsoft EULA
At the same time you remove your right to use the software since it's a shrinkwrap license. Useful, da?
OSDN Terms of Service [osdn.com] say
This is not a shrinkwrap license and if I have never seen it (I haven't until now) I can only assume that The Fine Print is the complete EULA and that I still own the copyright to my comment. Hmmm.. should I sue anyone who quotes me..?
From Arcanum: The Isle of Despair? Do you mean Black Isle?
If an NT server crashes, but no-one is there to see the blue screen, then has it really crashed?
How very generous of you. Thank you. May I breathe now?
American capital punishment.Actually when a country has so much crime as the USA (or at least so many heavy punishments per capita) something is wrong and the error is not neccesarily in the punishments themselves. If crime would drop, the "need" for capital punishment would eventually go away.
Most likely the real application will be service providers trying to rip off customers by offering expensive "animated 3d logos", made by summerworking students getting minimum salaries.
Neverwinter Nights includes a nice adveture editor, (the single-player game was written with it) so if you want to design an RPG look in to it.
And how again does this description NOT fit the modern digital world?
We can only blame ourselves, using planets whose licenses expire after some time. We should all be building an open source alternative to Earth, named for example FreeEarth or OpenEarth. Sure, if we have to move in less that fifty years, FreeEarth may still be unstable then, but I can stand the sky falling down once a week, if the planet if truly free. Also, I know that if the planet suddenly blows up, the maintainers will be hard at work to fix the bug that caused it. I mean, has God offered any bugfixes for Earth? We'd all be much better off.
Some people are unlucky I guess, I haven't had X crashing for any other reason than GLX through NVidia's driver for over six months. I use Gnome 1.4 on a daily basis.