Oh rubbish. AAC is used way more than Vorbis (which is what I assume you meant) is. Apple's target market was big enough to overtake Vorbis usage in a single day, I'd bet.
Windows XP supports IPv6 natively. Older versions support it with an add-on.
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It's easy to remove pages from archive.org. If your domain has a robots.txt file that blocks spiders, then archive.org will not allow people to view those pages either, even if they have been cached in the past.
Sadly, in the UK, there is a law specific to encrypted data that places the burden of proof on you. If you forget the key to some encrypted data that the government decides it wants to read, you can go to jail.
And yet 90% of the net is still using IE? Why? Because features like that don't matter to Joe User. IE is "good enough", and inertia wins. They can't be bothered to upgrade.
How can you say that? IE, at version 3, was way better than Netscape 3, at the time the only serious competition around. Hell, it was better than Netscape 4 too, but that wasn't difficult. IE got Microsoft the dominant position in the browser wars.
And WMP has allowed WMA to become the "standard" for DRM and encrypted audio. I think those two products have indeed done MS a lot of good.
2. Why bother installing seperate browser and mail components, both from the Mozilla project anyway, when I can simply install Mozilla and get both, integrated?
You're looking at the wrong spot. The dark spot is above the center, circled by the blue line. I presume the black mark in the middle of the picture is an artifact of the imaging process.
Slashdotted, here's the "Summary"
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Site is very slow, probably dead soon. Here is the text from the "Summary" page:
Summary
Croquet had the working name of Tea until recently. You will see many references to Tea in the system, in the code, and even in this document. Just assume that when you see Tea, we mean Croquet.
Croquet was built to answer a simple question. If we were to create a new operating system and user interface knowing what we know today, how far could we go. What kinds of decisions would we make that we might have been unable to even consider 20 or 30 years ago, when the current set of operating systems were first created.
The landscape of possibilities has evolved tremendously in the last few years. Without a doubt, we can consider Moore's law and the Internet as the two primary forces that are colliding like tectonic plates to create an enormous mountain range of possibilities. Since every existing OS was created when the world around it was still quite flat, they were not designed to truly take advantage of the heights that we are now able to scale.
What is perhaps most remarkable about this particular question is that in answering it, we find that we are revisiting much of the work that was done in the early sixties and seventies that ultimately led to the current successful architectures. One could say that that in reality, this question was asked long ago, and the strength of the answer has successfully carried us for a quarter century. On the other hand, the current environments are really just the thin veneer over what even long ago were seriously outmoded approaches to development and design. Most of the really good fundamental ideas that people had were left on the cutting room floor.
That isn't to say that they thought of everything either. A great deal has happened in the last few decades that allows for some fundamentally new approaches that could not have been considered at the time.
We are making a number of assumptions:
Hardware is fast - really fast, but other than for booting Windows or playing Quake no one cares - nor can they really use it. We want to take advantage of this power curve to enable a richer experience.
3D Graphics hardware is really, really fast and getting much faster. This is great for games, but we would like to unlock the potential of this technology to enhance the entire user experience.
Late bound languages have experienced a renaissance in both functionality and performance. Extreme late-bound systems like LISP and Smalltalk have often been criticized as being too slow for many applications, especially those with stringent real-time demands. This is simply no longer the case, and as Croquet demonstrates, world-class performance is quite achievable on these platforms.
Communication has become a central part of the computing experience, but it is still done through the narrowest of pipes, via email or letting someone know that they have just been converted into chunks in Quake. We want to create a true collaboration environment, where the computer is not just a world unto itself, but a meeting place for many people where ideas can be expressed, explored, and transferred.
Code is just another media type, and should be just as portable between systems. Late binding and component architectures allow for a valuable encapsulation of behaviors that can be dynamically shared and exchanged.
The system should act as a virtual machine on top of any platform. We are not creating just another application that runs on top of Windows, or the Macintosh - we are creating a Croquet Machine that is highly portable and happens to run bit-identical on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and ultimately on its own hardware... anywhere we have a CPU and a graphics processor. Once the virtual machine has been ported, everything else follows; even the bugs are the same. Most attempts at true multiplatform systems have turned out to be dangerous approximations (cf. Java) rather than the bit-identical "mathematically guaranteed" ports that are required.
There are no boundaries in the system. We are creating an environment where anything can be created; everything can be modified, all in the 3D world. There is no separate development environment, no user environment. It is all be the same thing. We can even change and author the worlds in collaboration with others inside them while they are operating.
The existing operating systems are like the castles that were owned by their respective Lords in the Middle Ages. They were the centers of power, a way to control the population and threaten the competition. Sometimes, a particular Lord would become overpowering, and he would get to declare himself as King. This was great for the King. And not to bad for the rest of the nobles, but in the end - technology progressed and people started blowing holes in the sides of the castles. The castles were abandoned. Technology does this.
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That would be because some countries use the Day month year format and slashes. Like Australia for example. 07/06/2003
And the UK.
AAC is not as universal a standard as [...] Ogg.
Oh rubbish. AAC is used way more than Vorbis (which is what I assume you meant) is. Apple's target market was big enough to overtake Vorbis usage in a single day, I'd bet.
Wouldn't they most likely use the best features from both?
That didn't happen when HP merged with Compaq. The Journada range was dropped, even though they had some nice features not found in iPAQs.
> I probably watch the DVD once or twice a month, including the bonus footage
Right...
Windows XP supports IPv6 natively. Older versions support it with an add-on.
It's easy to remove pages from archive.org. If your domain has a robots.txt file that blocks spiders, then archive.org will not allow people to view those pages either, even if they have been cached in the past.
Sadly, in the UK, there is a law specific to encrypted data that places the burden of proof on you. If you forget the key to some encrypted data that the government decides it wants to read, you can go to jail.
Fun huh?
Where on earth am I going to find an S/390?
Right here
The new two-cent coins are easy to lose, so be careful.
What's so difficult to lose about a crescent moon shape? ;)
And where is IE today?
Lets have a look....
And yet 90% of the net is still using IE? Why? Because features like that don't matter to Joe User. IE is "good enough", and inertia wins. They can't be bothered to upgrade.
IE, WMP etc haven't done MS any good
How can you say that? IE, at version 3, was way better than Netscape 3, at the time the only serious competition around. Hell, it was better than Netscape 4 too, but that wasn't difficult. IE got Microsoft the dominant position in the browser wars.
And WMP has allowed WMA to become the "standard" for DRM and encrypted audio. I think those two products have indeed done MS a lot of good.
1. How on earth is my previous comment Redundant?
2. Why bother installing seperate browser and mail components, both from the Mozilla project anyway, when I can simply install Mozilla and get both, integrated?
A mail reader?
But I have zero confidence in Creative's drivers. Anyone who owns a SoundBlaster card and runs Windows can attest to how crap they are.
The wrist-phone has a speakerphone and also support for bluetooth wireless headsets.
Holding it up to your ear would only deafen you.
The blurry tracers are an option. In the settings, turn off "trails".
The world looks much nicer if you do.
Not only was it in the "Entertainment News & Gossip" section , it was also credited to that well-trusted news source, the Weekly World News.
Perhaps only five of them are simple questions? ;)
You're looking at the wrong spot. The dark spot is above the center, circled by the blue line. I presume the black mark in the middle of the picture is an artifact of the imaging process.
Site is very slow, probably dead soon. Here is the text from the "Summary" page:
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Summary
Croquet had the working name of Tea until recently. You will see many references to Tea in the system, in the code, and even in this document. Just assume that when you see Tea, we mean Croquet.
Croquet was built to answer a simple question. If we were to create a new operating system and user interface knowing what we know today, how far could we go. What kinds of decisions would we make that we might have been unable to even consider 20 or 30 years ago, when the current set of operating systems were first created.
The landscape of possibilities has evolved tremendously in the last few years. Without a doubt, we can consider Moore's law and the Internet as the two primary forces that are colliding like tectonic plates to create an enormous mountain range of possibilities. Since every existing OS was created when the world around it was still quite flat, they were not designed to truly take advantage of the heights that we are now able to scale.
What is perhaps most remarkable about this particular question is that in answering it, we find that we are revisiting much of the work that was done in the early sixties and seventies that ultimately led to the current successful architectures. One could say that that in reality, this question was asked long ago, and the strength of the answer has successfully carried us for a quarter century. On the other hand, the current environments are really just the thin veneer over what even long ago were seriously outmoded approaches to development and design. Most of the really good fundamental ideas that people had were left on the cutting room floor.
That isn't to say that they thought of everything either. A great deal has happened in the last few decades that allows for some fundamentally new approaches that could not have been considered at the time.
We are making a number of assumptions:
Hardware is fast - really fast, but other than for booting Windows or playing Quake no one cares - nor can they really use it. We want to take advantage of this power curve to enable a richer experience.
3D Graphics hardware is really, really fast and getting much faster. This is great for games, but we would like to unlock the potential of this technology to enhance the entire user experience.
Late bound languages have experienced a renaissance in both functionality and performance. Extreme late-bound systems like LISP and Smalltalk have often been criticized as being too slow for many applications, especially those with stringent real-time demands. This is simply no longer the case, and as Croquet demonstrates, world-class performance is quite achievable on these platforms.
Communication has become a central part of the computing experience, but it is still done through the narrowest of pipes, via email or letting someone know that they have just been converted into chunks in Quake. We want to create a true collaboration environment, where the computer is not just a world unto itself, but a meeting place for many people where ideas can be expressed, explored, and transferred.
Code is just another media type, and should be just as portable between systems. Late binding and component architectures allow for a valuable encapsulation of behaviors that can be dynamically shared and exchanged.
The system should act as a virtual machine on top of any platform. We are not creating just another application that runs on top of Windows, or the Macintosh - we are creating a Croquet Machine that is highly portable and happens to run bit-identical on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and ultimately on its own hardware... anywhere we have a CPU and a graphics processor. Once the virtual machine has been ported, everything else follows; even the bugs are the same. Most attempts at true multiplatform systems have turned out to be dangerous approximations (cf. Java) rather than the bit-identical "mathematically guaranteed" ports that are required.
There are no boundaries in the system. We are creating an environment where anything can be created; everything can be modified, all in the 3D world. There is no separate development environment, no user environment. It is all be the same thing. We can even change and author the worlds in collaboration with others inside them while they are operating
The existing operating systems are like the castles that were owned by their respective Lords in the Middle Ages. They were the centers of power, a way to control the population and threaten the competition. Sometimes, a particular Lord would become overpowering, and he would get to declare himself as King. This was great for the King. And not to bad for the rest of the nobles, but in the end - technology progressed and people started blowing holes in the sides of the castles. The castles were abandoned. Technology does this.
Gee, I hope the people at Apple Music don't mind too much.
Not true. You cannot run Virtual PC for Windows on, for example, a Crusoe CPU. It doesn't work. Some commands are bounced straight off the metal.
Google has translation tools too.
Slashdot requires you to wait 20 seconds between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment.
The UK had a Netscape branded ISP for several years, but it has since closed.