On re-reading his comment, I can see that he essentially makes only one statement. Nevertheless, his statement is a clarification of your own statements, which are somewhat confusing or contadictory.
You state " H.264, however, is not the MPEG-4, as least not as you know it", which only implies to the casual reader that there is a similarity between H.264 and MPEG-4 but your next statement " H.264 is different, and far more complex than MPEG-4 " contradicts the idea of a similarity and then suggests they might be completely different standards.
His statement indicates that MPEG-4 encompasses more than one encoding standard within a single spec. That was not obvious from your original post.
Samsung Contact was formerly known as HP OpenMail. I don't know who's to blame for its failure but it was just another great thing that HP had ( or made ) that they just couldn't promote well.
Jeez, Mr. Troll, if anyone is washing in Hog water, it's you. Unix machines ARE the army of the Internet and have been since its inception. So, for the sake of efficient distribution of malware, Unix machines should have been the logical target. Of course, it would be double duty to write viruses for Windows but find a way to distribute them by way of Unix, but, oh wait, this has been done by E-MAIL!!
Currently, malicious code for Windows is more common than for UNIX because Windows is the most widely used operating system. However, if UNIX starts to gain popularity, then the situation will naturally change; new rootkits for UNIX will be written, and new methods of combating them will be developed.
This has been refuted time and again yet the various Windows-friendly analyst continually trot this one out as a rationale for the ( admittedly much improved but still ) relatively weak security design of M$ Windows.
Newsflash for those who didn't get the memo:
Windows leads by a huge margin ON THE DESKTOP. On the server side the disparity, if one exists is a completely different story.
Also, since there are many open source versions of Unix, such as Linux, *BSD, and Solaris, some of which have been available for more than a decade, it should have been relatively easy for Windows-loving, Unix-hating programmers to have designed the Unix-slaying, self-propagating daemon years ago.
To date, the only thing that has come close was the Morris worm way back in the late '80s.
So guys, nice try - your explanation ( or rationale ) is leaking badly. If Windows represent a bigger target, it SUPPOSEDLY has the "advantage" of being closed-source but the open source Unices, which are fewer in number SHOULD be an easier target.
It's time to focus on what the true flaws of each platform are - their relative prevalence is no longer relevant to the discussion ( aka flamefest ).
After all, they launched their much-touted Secure Computing almost 4 years ago. I guess that a complete redesign would be needed but that might break backward compatibility. Of course, some of this might be addressed in Vista but that will leave a lot of older computers out in the cold.
Maybe I don't pay enough attention to their various projects but it seems to me that Google has been churning out complex projects at, for a large development company, breakneck speed.
Even if most of those projects are still in Beta, all the ones I've tried are very functional and stable. While there are other companies who have similar products or projects that are more functional or establised, Google's ability and flexibility should have them all scrambling to innovate or to defend their market share. Funny thing is, I've only become aware of a lot of these established competitors BECAUSE of Google's projects. If it weren't for Google Desktop search, I may never have heard of Copernic - which is a pretty darned good program.
All too true. I've made many of my friends older computer feel slick and fast again under XP but dumping Norton or Symantec and replacing them with Antivir or AVG Free
Hmmm, after some searching, I'm unable to find either a company or a program called Anonymous Coward. It may well be that nothing in the OSS world can touch what your company makes but we can't know that if you don't tell us, O Inscrutable One.
Let's not forget that OSS drives much of the Net and that a lot of great software was written by people who just wanted to get something done when there were no proprietary apps were available or affordable. No matter what each side says, there is enough room on Earth for both software models.
I've been using the freeware ICEOWS since it was known as ARJfolder. Does everything I want although I don't think it makes self-extracting executables.
So, the Slashdot faithful have particular reason to dislike him - see . Considering the type of nominee put forward to replace Justice O'Connor, I can only imagine the kind of rabid right-winger that'll chosen to replace him.
Oh Jesus! What are you on? The vicious piranha aka small telcos mercilessly tearing into the soft, sweet flesh of the gentle, plankton-eating, giant whales aka big telcos? C'mon, the big guys were soaking the consumers as much as they could, and not offering much in the way of innovative services unless forced. All the while they were sitting on an infrastructure largely paid for with public money and pocketing big bucks with shady accounting. I recall a story about falsified depreciation of telco equipment that went back decades and was in the tens of billons $US.
Problem is, Ethanol and Methanol both have much lower energy densities than gasoline which, in turn, has a slightly lower energy content than petro/bio diesel. IMO, low-sulphur petrodiesel mixed with biodiesel is the way to go for automobiles. Diesel engines are more efficient and longer-lived so you get greater fuel efficiency, more miles out of your vehicle and kickass torque, to boot.
Check your facts: Alteration of weather by wind farms is not significant, it will be decades before the number of birds dying by windmills comes within an order of magnitude of the ones that collide with buildings and biofuels essentially cause zero greenhouse gas output since they absorb carbon dioxide when growing not all of which is returned when they are made into fuel.
The Bush Administration has taken this to an extreme. The repeated attempts to push through controversial or resubmit rejected candidates seems to be significantly higher than past presidents ( at least going back to Carter ). As for him not being liked, well, since most presidents are elected by slim margins and Bush had a wider gap in the number of votes than has ever been seen before, you could say he's the most liked President ever;-) Considering what's at stake with the sweeping changes that have been made so far and what's likely to come, it's foolish to dismiss this as "ridiculous crap". Much worse is in store if the Republicans succeed in banning filibustering although I bet they'll fight like mad to reinstate it if, at some time in the future, they lose control of the House.
This site http://www.thetruthaboutgeorge.com/appointments/ has some press clippings about Bush appointees, and the controversy surrounding them. I trust that you are not being disingenuous - you don't have to replace every employee of an agency / company to provoke change - just ones in key positions. It's quite obvious that the Bush Administration has been quite vigorous in this regard.
They should have instant rebates, just like grocery stores do. It's not about dictating the selling price, it's about a discount, whether it's a percentage or a dollar value. Put a nice, really-hard-to-remove sticker with a peel-off tab on the packaging and let the store submit the rebate forms. The whole mail-in rebate deal reminds me something I saw about the insurance industry - a company had a.45 reject policy, which means that 45 percent of submitted claims HAD to be refused, for whatever reason. So, if someone decided to put up a fight, the company had the option to pay up, stonewall them, or let the client go through the headache of legal action. The company really has nothing to lose by delaying - they don't have to pay interest so the longer they hold onto your money, the better for them. If merchants are really in a position to dictate to the manufacturers, then the consumer-friendly ones should be telling the companies that mail-in rebates are unacceptable.
Can't speak for Australia or New Zealand but Canada's appeal for a long time was its proximity, its similarity of culture and language ( up to a point) and, most importantly, the relatively weak Canadian dollar. I've lived in Toronto for going on 10 years and the movie industry here was doing just dandy until SARS came along - and then, when the US dollar started to nosedive, it just went into a tailspin. I don't think that unionization is/was as big a factor as you might think.
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Won't those same bacteria greatly increase the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere?
That's a good point - money spent on better hardware is better than on a single piece of software - unless you don't have an alternative, of course.
On re-reading his comment, I can see that he essentially makes only one statement. Nevertheless, his statement is a clarification of your own statements, which are somewhat confusing or contadictory.
You state " H.264, however, is not the MPEG-4, as least not as you know it", which only implies to the casual reader that there is a similarity between H.264 and MPEG-4 but your next statement " H.264 is different, and far more complex than MPEG-4 " contradicts the idea of a similarity and then suggests they might be completely different standards.
His statement indicates that MPEG-4 encompasses more than one encoding standard within a single spec. That was not obvious from your original post.
What was so obvious about either of those statements?
I hope this was an error.
Samsung Contact was formerly known as HP OpenMail. I don't know who's to blame for its failure but it was just another great thing that HP had ( or made ) that they just couldn't promote well.
Well, since you can't spell G-O-O-G-L-E, try this:
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/188
Jeez, Mr. Troll, if anyone is washing in Hog water, it's you. Unix machines ARE the army of the Internet and have been since its inception. So, for the sake of efficient distribution of malware, Unix machines should have been the logical target.
Of course, it would be double duty to write viruses for Windows but find a way to distribute them by way of Unix, but, oh wait, this has been done by E-MAIL!!
From http://www.viruslist.com/en/analysis?pubid=1687408 59
Currently, malicious code for Windows is more common than for UNIX because Windows is the most widely used operating system. However, if UNIX starts to gain popularity, then the situation will naturally change; new rootkits for UNIX will be written, and new methods of combating them will be developed.
This has been refuted time and again yet the various Windows-friendly analyst continually trot this one out as a rationale for the ( admittedly much improved but still ) relatively weak security design of M$ Windows.
Newsflash for those who didn't get the memo: Windows leads by a huge margin ON THE DESKTOP. On the server side the disparity, if one exists is a completely different story. Also, since there are many open source versions of Unix, such as Linux, *BSD, and Solaris, some of which have been available for more than a decade, it should have been relatively easy for Windows-loving, Unix-hating programmers to have designed the Unix-slaying, self-propagating daemon years ago. To date, the only thing that has come close was the Morris worm way back in the late '80s.
So guys, nice try - your explanation ( or rationale ) is leaking badly. If Windows represent a bigger target, it SUPPOSEDLY has the "advantage" of being closed-source but the open source Unices, which are fewer in number SHOULD be an easier target.
It's time to focus on what the true flaws of each platform are - their relative prevalence is no longer relevant to the discussion ( aka flamefest ).
After all, they launched their much-touted Secure Computing almost 4 years ago.
I guess that a complete redesign would be needed but that might break backward compatibility.
Of course, some of this might be addressed in Vista but that will leave a lot of older computers out in the cold.
Maybe I don't pay enough attention to their various projects but it seems to me that Google has been churning out complex projects at, for a large development company, breakneck speed.
Even if most of those projects are still in Beta, all the ones I've tried are very functional and stable. While there are other companies who have similar products or projects that are more functional or establised, Google's ability and flexibility should have them all scrambling to innovate or to defend their market share.
Funny thing is, I've only become aware of a lot of these established competitors BECAUSE of Google's projects. If it weren't for Google Desktop search, I may never have heard of Copernic - which is a pretty darned good program.
C'mon people. If you don't agree with an opinion, write a rebuttal.
All too true. I've made many of my friends older computer feel slick and fast again under XP but dumping Norton or Symantec and replacing them with Antivir or AVG Free
Hmmm, after some searching, I'm unable to find either a company or a program called Anonymous Coward.
It may well be that nothing in the OSS world can touch what your company makes but we can't know that if you don't tell us, O Inscrutable One.
Let's not forget that OSS drives much of the Net and that a lot of great software was written by people who just wanted to get something done when there were no proprietary apps were available or affordable.
No matter what each side says, there is enough room on Earth for both software models.
I've been using the freeware ICEOWS since it was known as ARJfolder. Does everything I want although
I don't think it makes self-extracting executables.
So, the Slashdot faithful have particular reason to dislike him - see . Considering the type of nominee put forward to replace Justice O'Connor, I can only imagine the kind of rabid right-winger that'll chosen to replace him.
Oh Jesus! What are you on? The vicious piranha aka small telcos mercilessly tearing into the soft, sweet flesh of the gentle, plankton-eating, giant whales aka big telcos?
C'mon, the big guys were soaking the consumers as much as they could, and not offering much in the way of innovative services unless forced. All the while they were sitting on an infrastructure largely paid for with public money and pocketing big bucks with shady accounting.
I recall a story about falsified depreciation of telco equipment that went back decades and was in the tens of billons $US.
Some whales aren't worth saving.
Problem is, Ethanol and Methanol both have much lower energy densities than gasoline which, in turn, has a slightly lower energy content than petro/bio diesel.
IMO, low-sulphur petrodiesel mixed with biodiesel is
the way to go for automobiles. Diesel engines are more efficient and longer-lived so you get greater fuel efficiency, more miles out of your vehicle and kickass torque, to boot.
Check your facts: Alteration of weather by wind farms is not significant, it will be decades before the number of birds dying by windmills comes within an order of magnitude of the ones that collide with buildings and biofuels essentially cause zero greenhouse gas output since they absorb carbon dioxide when growing not all of which is returned when they are made into fuel.
And shoot the bugger who modded it down!!
Perhaps you should look into glyconutrients. It's not a cure but it has greatly enhanced the quality of life of a significant number of diabetics.
Go here : http://www.glycoinformation.com/
and, if you're interested in learning more about obtaining them, e-mail me at bannorNineNineATgmaild0tc0m
Replace the nines with digits, the zeroes with o's, etc for correct address.
Best of luck.
The Bush Administration has taken this to an extreme. The repeated attempts to push through controversial or resubmit rejected candidates seems to be significantly higher than past presidents ( at least going back to Carter ). ;-)
As for him not being liked, well, since most presidents are elected by slim margins and Bush had a wider gap in the number of votes than has ever been seen before, you could say he's the most liked President ever
Considering what's at stake with the sweeping changes that have been made so far and what's likely to come, it's foolish to dismiss this as "ridiculous crap".
Much worse is in store if the Republicans succeed in banning filibustering although I bet they'll fight like mad to reinstate it if, at some time in the future, they lose control of the House.
This site http://www.thetruthaboutgeorge.com/appointments/
has some press clippings about Bush appointees, and the controversy surrounding them.
I trust that you are not being disingenuous - you don't have to replace every employee of an agency / company to provoke change - just ones in key positions.
It's quite obvious that the Bush Administration has been quite vigorous in this regard.
They should have instant rebates, just like grocery stores do. It's not about dictating the selling price, it's about a discount, whether it's a percentage or a dollar value. .45 reject policy, which means that 45 percent of submitted claims HAD to be refused, for whatever reason.
Put a nice, really-hard-to-remove sticker with a peel-off tab on the packaging and let the store submit the rebate forms.
The whole mail-in rebate deal reminds me something I saw about the insurance industry - a company had a
So, if someone decided to put up a fight, the company had the option to pay up, stonewall them, or let the client go through the headache of legal action.
The company really has nothing to lose by delaying
- they don't have to pay interest so the longer they hold onto your money, the better for them.
If merchants are really in a position to dictate to the manufacturers, then the consumer-friendly ones should be telling the companies that mail-in rebates are unacceptable.
Make that : REAL beer
Riddle: Why is American beer like making love in a canoe?
Because they're both fucking close to water!!
Can't speak for Australia or New Zealand but Canada's appeal for a long time was its proximity, its similarity of culture and language ( up to a point) and, most importantly, the relatively weak Canadian dollar.
I've lived in Toronto for going on 10 years and the movie industry here was doing just dandy until SARS came along - and then, when the US dollar started to nosedive, it just went into a tailspin.
I don't think that unionization is/was as big a factor as you might think.