Do you understand that? It has nothing to do with the Nazis. Invoking the Nazis in an argument and comparing your discussion partner to the people who let them do their thing is a sure way to end the discussion. It's called the 'Invoking Hitler' argument.
I am fully aware of the nature of the "Invoking Hitler" argument. But I do not think that means that every time one mentions the Third Reich, one is applying it - I think my original comparison is still valid (incidentally I think the AC who replied to your post stated this far more eloquently than I ever will be able to).
Or how about giving Northern Ireland back to the Republic of Ireland? Socio-geographical facts, old boy.
Bah, humbug. I have yet to find an American who fully grasps the situation in Northern Ireland. It is not simply a case of England having invaded it and being the ruling opressors against the will of the population. Did you know there is actually a Protestant majority in NI? And they'll be damned if they become part of the Republic of Ireland. Simply withdrawing out of NI just like that would cause a bloodbath. The sitation is incredibly complex, but given recent developments (and Labour's massive victory in last night's election - woo hoo!) I am confident that it will be sorted out, eventually.
Other than that, I think I follow your argument. Maybe I misread the intention of your original post somewhat, but I still feel there is a fine line to tread between trying to take a detached realistic view of the situation, and just not giving a damn. Would you have said, ten years ago, that Apartheid in South Africa was a socio-geographic fact? That is a good example where things did improve, because people cared, even though few really thought it would happen.
Eeeeasy there. Don't go throwing stuff like homeopathy and acupuncture in with rubbish like aromatherapy and numerology, just because they don't happen to be traditional "western" medicine. There is actually plenty of scientific evidence in favour of these two.
And about the notion of the peace-loving, religious, harmony-seeking Tibet being occupied by the evil Chinese - that's not total bunk, but a lot of it is nonsense. The Dalai Lama may be a nice guy, and a lot of atrocities did happen in Tibet, but Tibet is part of China and will forever be - it's a socio-geographical fact right now that we won't change. Complaining about that is a bit like complaining about Native Americans being murdered.
Excuse me, but what you are saying here is total bunk. Sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about concerning the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Tibet was an independent mountain nation for most of its history. I'm not claiming there were no "old-fashioned" feudalistic elements to the society but it was largely peaceful. The Chinese have introduced a reign of terror, ethnic cleansing, and total denial of the Tibetan culture. More than a million people have died as a result of this, out of a population of only a few million. And it's still going on now! So don't throw up your hands and say "well, it's happened, gee that's just too bad". It's never too late! It's people like you that let these things happen, because you always look away and claim there's nowt you can do about it. There were plenty of folk like you in Nazi Germany, which is why the Nazis were able to carry on with their atrocities without too much disturbance.
Unfortunately there is the small matter of the Geneva convention on copyright, which means national borders no longer represent an obstacle to copyright litigation (provided the country in question is a signitary of said convention).
Well, if you look at the parent page, you can see a whole list of Windows software they have ported to IPv6:
From Third-Parties:
Fnord! is a Windows web server we found on the net and ported to run on our stack.
In fact, they even ported Quake to IPv6! So I think you can't exactly read this as a reversal of M$'s intellectual property strategy... just a bunch of software engineers messing around with the IP stack.
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I have heard a lot of bad Scottish accents done by non-Scots - actually I think Mike Myers' isn't that bad (eg. Fat Bastard in Austin Powers 2).
But the worst Scottish accent in a movie has got to be Christopher Lambert's in Highlander: "Zere can be eunly wone!"
And the worst Scottish accent in a computer game, incidentally, is to be found in Age of Empires 2. Jesus, that one is appalling! I can't understand how that one passed the QA. Does anyone know what I am talking about? It sounds like it was done by some Yank who had never heard the real thing.
No, WMA is not "better" than MP3. It does tend to produce better results at low bitrates, but once you get to 128k and beyond, MP3 actually sounds better. Go to somewhere like r3mix.net if you don't believe me...
Well, here is another relevant quote from the article:
Existing versions of Microsoft's audio software don't allow consumers to record music as MP3 files of any quality
Precisely! Right now nobody uses M$'s Media Player for MP3 encoding, do they? They use third-party apps like MusicMatch Jukebox etc. So the lack of support in Windows XP is a shame, but it won't change anything. People will just carry on using their third-party apps for anything MP3 related. Hell, I don't even use Media Player to listen to my MP3s...
1)Get DirectX support. I'm sorry, but the whole of the gaming worl uses it. If you don't support it, you are stuffed. Even consoles are getting it, like the XBox. Games that don't use it, such as WuakeIII, are very dificult to install.
Eh? What are you talking about, man? Quake III is no harder to install than your run of the mill DirectX game. Besides, what has the graphics API got to do with the installation process? You troll.
Oh and by the way, systems like the PS2 seem to be doing pretty well even though they don't use DirectX...
Furthermore, just as communism doesn't encourage people to work harder or innovate (which results in stagnation), so it is with open source.
What absolute rubbish. For an example, as mentioned in the interview, just look at KDE and Gnome. No innovation?? The two of them have certainly progressed far further than Windows over the past few years.
Oh and by the way, please keep your "Capitalism is perfect - Commies are bad" philosophy out of this; it is totally irrelevant here.
Check out PlanetXbox for Micro$oft's reply.... something about those pictures being "concept art mis-labeled as screenshots". Yeah, just an accident... sure.;)
I couldn't agree with you more. BUT maybe the reason Transmeta are harping on about low power consumption the way they are is because it is the one feature that could make them money? Joe Average User won't care about the exact details of how the chip works, will he - he wants fast computing, and long battery life.
The code morphing layer is indeed revolutionary, but what practical - profit-making - applications does it have right now? If people want x86 compatibility they buy an Intel or AMD CPU. One possibility I can think of is running native PowerPC (or even SPARC?) stuff - like a PC and a Mac in one - but surely that would require significantly more work on their code morphing.
While this is still vapourware, it looks bad for Transmeta. Has anyone actually brought out a notebook using their Crusoe processor yet, as in: can you buy one down the store right now?
My prediction: despite their technical innovation Transmeta will founder and eventually get bought out by... AMD.
Well, as far as I'm concerned this is Vapourware at its very best:
"We haven't got anything to show you at the moment, but we are the creators of MP3, so be afraid, WMA and free MP3 codecs, be very afraid... Resistance is futile. There's no point in developing your crappy codecs any further. mp3PRO might not be more than a pipe dream at the moment, but it WILL become the standard for digital audio.... someday."
Not quite like Netscape. When M$ took on Netscape by releasing IE (for free), they were facing the leader in the market, and by a huge margin (I think back then the next most common browser would have been Mosaic). So for once they started as the underdog, although of course they used their usual underhand tactics to make sure they'd win the browser wars in the end.
Hence, the ignoring and laughing stages never happened in this case... well not by M$ anyway.
I'm willing to bet those weren't in fact FIF files, but FITS files. FITS (flexible image transport system) is the de facto standard for astronomical images these days.
God, I really hate Thresh's Firingsquad and their moronic articles. I've never seen so much padding, so much pointless waffle, so spread out over so many pages so that they can get more hits on their banners. Plus, because they use bloody tables all over the place, the pages load extremely slowly on my Solaris Netscape. Argh. Avoid like the plague!
Was that too off-topic? Sorry, but I just had to get this off my chest.
Well said, especially the bit about the different waves of netizens. First come the scientists, then the geeks, then the.comers... and these days I get the feeling it's everyone and their grandmother.
Reminds me of what Roberta Williams once said about why Sierra's King's Quest games weren't selling too well anymore - computers used to be prohibitively expensive so only higher-earning (and hence, somewhat above average intelligence) people could get one. More recently just about everyone can afford one, which is why games have become less subtle and more geared towards the lowest common denominator (viz the demise of Infocom-style text adventures and the abundance of 3D shooters).
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Do you understand that? It has nothing to do with the Nazis. Invoking the Nazis in an argument and comparing your discussion partner to the people who let them do their thing is a sure way to end the discussion. It's called the 'Invoking Hitler' argument.
I am fully aware of the nature of the "Invoking Hitler" argument. But I do not think that means that every time one mentions the Third Reich, one is applying it - I think my original comparison is still valid (incidentally I think the AC who replied to your post stated this far more eloquently than I ever will be able to).
Or how about giving Northern Ireland back to the Republic of Ireland? Socio-geographical facts, old boy.
Bah, humbug. I have yet to find an American who fully grasps the situation in Northern Ireland. It is not simply a case of England having invaded it and being the ruling opressors against the will of the population. Did you know there is actually a Protestant majority in NI? And they'll be damned if they become part of the Republic of Ireland. Simply withdrawing out of NI just like that would cause a bloodbath. The sitation is incredibly complex, but given recent developments (and Labour's massive victory in last night's election - woo hoo!) I am confident that it will be sorted out, eventually.Other than that, I think I follow your argument. Maybe I misread the intention of your original post somewhat, but I still feel there is a fine line to tread between trying to take a detached realistic view of the situation, and just not giving a damn. Would you have said, ten years ago, that Apartheid in South Africa was a socio-geographic fact? That is a good example where things did improve, because people cared, even though few really thought it would happen.
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Eeeeasy there. Don't go throwing stuff like homeopathy and acupuncture in with rubbish like aromatherapy and numerology, just because they don't happen to be traditional "western" medicine. There is actually plenty of scientific evidence in favour of these two.
And about the notion of the peace-loving, religious, harmony-seeking Tibet being occupied by the evil Chinese - that's not total bunk, but a lot of it is nonsense. The Dalai Lama may be a nice guy, and a lot of atrocities did happen in Tibet, but Tibet is part of China and will forever be - it's a socio-geographical fact right now that we won't change. Complaining about that is a bit like complaining about Native Americans being murdered.
Excuse me, but what you are saying here is total bunk. Sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about concerning the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Tibet was an independent mountain nation for most of its history. I'm not claiming there were no "old-fashioned" feudalistic elements to the society but it was largely peaceful. The Chinese have introduced a reign of terror, ethnic cleansing, and total denial of the Tibetan culture. More than a million people have died as a result of this, out of a population of only a few million. And it's still going on now! So don't throw up your hands and say "well, it's happened, gee that's just too bad". It's never too late! It's people like you that let these things happen, because you always look away and claim there's nowt you can do about it. There were plenty of folk like you in Nazi Germany, which is why the Nazis were able to carry on with their atrocities without too much disturbance.
OK, rant over...
Renders just fine here on Netscape 4.76 (Solaris), albeit quite slowly.
Unfortunately there is the small matter of the Geneva convention on copyright, which means national borders no longer represent an obstacle to copyright litigation (provided the country in question is a signitary of said convention).
Well, if you look at the parent page, you can see a whole list of Windows software they have ported to IPv6:
From Third-Parties:
In fact, they even ported Quake to IPv6! So I think you can't exactly read this as a reversal of M$'s intellectual property strategy... just a bunch of software engineers messing around with the IP stack.Fnord! is a Windows web server we found on the net and ported to run on our stack.
I have heard a lot of bad Scottish accents done by non-Scots - actually I think Mike Myers' isn't that bad (eg. Fat Bastard in Austin Powers 2).
But the worst Scottish accent in a movie has got to be Christopher Lambert's in Highlander: "Zere can be eunly wone!"
And the worst Scottish accent in a computer game, incidentally, is to be found in Age of Empires 2. Jesus, that one is appalling! I can't understand how that one passed the QA. Does anyone know what I am talking about? It sounds like it was done by some Yank who had never heard the real thing.
No, WMA is not "better" than MP3. It does tend to produce better results at low bitrates, but once you get to 128k and beyond, MP3 actually sounds better. Go to somewhere like r3mix.net if you don't believe me...
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No! You mean: "Pine Is Not Elm"
Existing versions of Microsoft's audio software don't allow consumers to record music as MP3 files of any quality
Precisely! Right now nobody uses M$'s Media Player for MP3 encoding, do they? They use third-party apps like MusicMatch Jukebox etc. So the lack of support in Windows XP is a shame, but it won't change anything. People will just carry on using their third-party apps for anything MP3 related. Hell, I don't even use Media Player to listen to my MP3s...
1)Get DirectX support. I'm sorry, but the whole of the gaming worl uses it. If you don't support it, you are stuffed. Even consoles are getting it, like the XBox. Games that don't use it, such as WuakeIII, are very dificult to install.
Eh? What are you talking about, man? Quake III is no harder to install than your run of the mill DirectX game. Besides, what has the graphics API got to do with the installation process? You troll.
Oh and by the way, systems like the PS2 seem to be doing pretty well even though they don't use DirectX...
Furthermore, just as communism doesn't encourage people to work harder or innovate (which results in stagnation), so it is with open source.
What absolute rubbish. For an example, as mentioned in the interview, just look at KDE and Gnome. No innovation?? The two of them have certainly progressed far further than Windows over the past few years.
Oh and by the way, please keep your "Capitalism is perfect - Commies are bad" philosophy out of this; it is totally irrelevant here.
Check out PlanetXbox for Micro$oft's reply.... something about those pictures being "concept art mis-labeled as screenshots". Yeah, just an accident... sure. ;)
I couldn't agree with you more. BUT maybe the reason Transmeta are harping on about low power consumption the way they are is because it is the one feature that could make them money? Joe Average User won't care about the exact details of how the chip works, will he - he wants fast computing, and long battery life.
The code morphing layer is indeed revolutionary, but what practical - profit-making - applications does it have right now? If people want x86 compatibility they buy an Intel or AMD CPU. One possibility I can think of is running native PowerPC (or even SPARC?) stuff - like a PC and a Mac in one - but surely that would require significantly more work on their code morphing.
While this is still vapourware, it looks bad for Transmeta. Has anyone actually brought out a notebook using their Crusoe processor yet, as in: can you buy one down the store right now?
My prediction: despite their technical innovation Transmeta will founder and eventually get bought out by... AMD.
Well, as far as I'm concerned this is Vapourware at its very best:
"We haven't got anything to show you at the moment, but we are the creators of MP3, so be afraid, WMA and free MP3 codecs, be very afraid... Resistance is futile. There's no point in developing your crappy codecs any further. mp3PRO might not be more than a pipe dream at the moment, but it WILL become the standard for digital audio.... someday."
Not quite like Netscape. When M$ took on Netscape by releasing IE (for free), they were facing the leader in the market, and by a huge margin (I think back then the next most common browser would have been Mosaic). So for once they started as the underdog, although of course they used their usual underhand tactics to make sure they'd win the browser wars in the end.
Hence, the ignoring and laughing stages never happened in this case... well not by M$ anyway.
I'm willing to bet those weren't in fact FIF files, but FITS files. FITS (flexible image transport system) is the de facto standard for astronomical images these days.
God, I really hate Thresh's Firingsquad and their moronic articles. I've never seen so much padding, so much pointless waffle, so spread out over so many pages so that they can get more hits on their banners. Plus, because they use bloody tables all over the place, the pages load extremely slowly on my Solaris Netscape. Argh. Avoid like the plague!
Was that too off-topic? Sorry, but I just had to get this off my chest.
Hmm. I am writing this with Netscape 4, on a Sun Ultra. Would be a bit hard if, like you said, the software wasn't available for SPARC...
Well said, especially the bit about the different waves of netizens. First come the scientists, then the geeks, then the .comers... and these days I get the feeling it's everyone and their grandmother.
Reminds me of what Roberta Williams once said about why Sierra's King's Quest games weren't selling too well anymore - computers used to be prohibitively expensive so only higher-earning (and hence, somewhat above average intelligence) people could get one. More recently just about everyone can afford one, which is why games have become less subtle and more geared towards the lowest common denominator (viz the demise of Infocom-style text adventures and the abundance of 3D shooters).