Wow, and I thought Johnny Cockring could twist the facts. Your whole argument is based on your preconception that they are not "evil".
I'll grant you that they're not Adolf Hitler, but they are guilty of misdeeds which have not and cannot be corrected. Millions of people are victims of the Gates juggernaut. Some lost $50 by being forced to buy Dos or Windows. Others lost their livelihoods by daring to compete on a rigged playing field.
Gates' philanthropy shouldn't even be considered partial penance because all he's doing is handing out ill-gotten booty.
My parents just bought an inexpensive Sylvania/Funai 42" plasma for their bedroom. It looks fantastic, but I was shocked to see persistent pillarboxes "burnt-in" after less than ten hours of use. After a couple weeks, my dad tells me that they are barely noticeable. My guess is that the phosphors are most vulnerable when they are brand new (like an infant in the sun). If I ever buy a new PDP, I'll break it in with a few days of solid grey or white. This is the best looking display I've seen for less than $1000.
Anyway, the week after they bought the plasma, their 35" CRT in the family room died. The only reason they didn't replace it with plasma (they got an lcd) was that almost all plasma displays have highly reflective screens and it would have been blinding in this particular room. Even though the LCD has 30% more resolution, the plasma looks better. LCDs just don't produce the colors as well. That seems to be changing though. I'd give the one they bought an 8/10, but I saw some more expensive Samsungs and Sony's that I'd give 9/10.
As good as rear projection has gotten, they don't look as good as plasma, and even LCDs have surpassed them... IMHO.
Meanwhile, at my house, MythTV does such a nice job deinterlacing NTSC and scaling it to 1024x768, my 35" CRT looks real good. I'll probably wait a couple more years before I consider upgrading it, hopefully with a high-res plasma for a reasonable price.
If MS really cared about interoperability, they would not have been playing dirty tricks with APIs, protocols and file formats for the last twenty years. MS wants no part of Open Systems. Their talk about intellectual property rights is just a veiled threat, "buy from us or we'll pay some SCO-like operation to sue you."
The question that was missing from that survey is "do you trust Microsoft to keep their promises and not attempt to lock you into proprietary products?"
"Buuuutt.... I guess you would need to compile two versions of the same thing and put it on the same game disk, or figure out some kind of neat system so that translations are done in real time with hardware (much faster than the soft approach)."
I don't think so. The application can be linked against a single graphics library. The GL just swaps some function pointers when special hardware is available.
It sounds like you are the MS shill. The acrimony against MS is well deserved and MS has been guilty of most of the things you are trying to fluff off as/. rants.
"It's my understanding that the first step of compressing a wav to mp3 is to seperate out all the sound tracks. This being an imprecise process, wouldn't you get better results if the sound tracks were already seperated?"
I'd say no because each compression thread (i.e. track) would be unaware of the others and would miss opportunities to optimize harmonics. I think each track would sound good by itself, but there might be some strange effects produced when they're mixed.
Why should anyone have STFU about it? The quotation has been contradicted by the very man who said it.
Sure, it was Armstrong who changed the gameplan and stepped out before Aldrin and became the first human to step foot on the moon. I wish it had been Aldrin, but it wasn't. Armstrong's words are what counts. Let's fix a 40 year error and let it stand correctly for the duration of mankind.
"and surely the communications glitch was a part of history too, so it should be remembered that way IMHO."
I remember it as a quote that didn't make sense. In context, "man" == "mankind". It would have been silly to say "That's one small step for mankind, one giant leap for mankind".
Ever since I learned that Armstrong contended that the "a" was lost, the quotation made sense and IMHO it's one of the most profound statements ever uttered... unless you drop the "a". Let's try to correct the error and remember what he REALLY said.
The fact that the record was incorrect for 40 years should be a footnote.
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Wow, and I thought Johnny Cockring could twist the facts. Your whole argument is based on your preconception that they are not "evil".
I'll grant you that they're not Adolf Hitler, but they are guilty of misdeeds which have not and cannot be corrected. Millions of people are victims of the Gates juggernaut. Some lost $50 by being forced to buy Dos or Windows. Others lost their livelihoods by daring to compete on a rigged playing field.
Gates' philanthropy shouldn't even be considered partial penance because all he's doing is handing out ill-gotten booty.
Yeah, I did. But cats don't like water, so he scratched my eyes out. Now I'm blind. Any more suggestions?
Does a company the size of Dell really lack the expertise to port this "unformatted disk" technology to the entire line?
Yeah, but they'll deduct a transmission charge leaving you a net of almost zero, or so i've read.
No, it just means the Reps didn't cheat hard enough.
That's because they know what's behind door #2.
Bush == Nixon
Cheney == Agnew
Iraq == Vietnam
2007 == 1974
Oil == Oil
"...to all of its developers"
No, MS has sent the FU to its customers and partners. I'm happy to see it.
It's "Durham". Jesus, Slashdot editors can't even copy and paste now? Is that a Linux problem?
You are a dickhead.
If Burger King can hold the cheese, then so can Dell. Go back to your PS3 and don't worry about people who are engaging in more worthwhile activities.
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
My parents just bought an inexpensive Sylvania/Funai 42" plasma for their bedroom. It looks fantastic, but I was shocked to see persistent pillarboxes "burnt-in" after less than ten hours of use. After a couple weeks, my dad tells me that they are barely noticeable. My guess is that the phosphors are most vulnerable when they are brand new (like an infant in the sun). If I ever buy a new PDP, I'll break it in with a few days of solid grey or white. This is the best looking display I've seen for less than $1000.
Anyway, the week after they bought the plasma, their 35" CRT in the family room died. The only reason they didn't replace it with plasma (they got an lcd) was that almost all plasma displays have highly reflective screens and it would have been blinding in this particular room. Even though the LCD has 30% more resolution, the plasma looks better. LCDs just don't produce the colors as well. That seems to be changing though. I'd give the one they bought an 8/10, but I saw some more expensive Samsungs and Sony's that I'd give 9/10.
As good as rear projection has gotten, they don't look as good as plasma, and even LCDs have surpassed them... IMHO.
Meanwhile, at my house, MythTV does such a nice job deinterlacing NTSC and scaling it to 1024x768, my 35" CRT looks real good. I'll probably wait a couple more years before I consider upgrading it, hopefully with a high-res plasma for a reasonable price.
They ran the full gambit of writing errors.
If MS really cared about interoperability, they would not have been playing dirty tricks with APIs, protocols and file formats for the last twenty years. MS wants no part of Open Systems. Their talk about intellectual property rights is just a veiled threat, "buy from us or we'll pay some SCO-like operation to sue you."
The question that was missing from that survey is "do you trust Microsoft to keep their promises and not attempt to lock you into proprietary products?"
"How long..."
Longer than it took someone to imply that he is unfairly judged as a walking disaster.
"Most of the time these "facts" turn out to be opinions."
In this case, a federal court that ruled that it was a fact that MS abused its monopoly position.
"they stopped making tires out of rubber"
Tires (almost all) are made of synthetic rubber and have been for many decades.
"Buuuutt.... I guess you would need to compile two versions of the same thing and put it on the same game disk, or figure out some kind of neat system so that translations are done in real time with hardware (much faster than the soft approach)."
I don't think so. The application can be linked against a single graphics library. The GL just swaps some function pointers when special hardware is available.
It sounds like you are the MS shill. The acrimony against MS is well deserved and MS has been guilty of most of the things you are trying to fluff off as /. rants.
"It's my understanding that the first step of compressing a wav to mp3 is to seperate out all the sound tracks. This being an imprecise process, wouldn't you get better results if the sound tracks were already seperated?"
I'd say no because each compression thread (i.e. track) would be unaware of the others and would miss opportunities to optimize harmonics. I think each track would sound good by itself, but there might be some strange effects produced when they're mixed.
In other words, it's a cheesy solution with a bunch of holes in it.
William Shatner is free, but there's a $3,000,000 fee if^h^hwhen you return him.
In 25 years, they've never built an OS worthy of running a five and dime store. Who cares WTF they call them?
Why should anyone have STFU about it? The quotation has been contradicted by the very man who said it.
Sure, it was Armstrong who changed the gameplan and stepped out before Aldrin and became the first human to step foot on the moon. I wish it had been Aldrin, but it wasn't. Armstrong's words are what counts. Let's fix a 40 year error and let it stand correctly for the duration of mankind.
"and surely the communications glitch was a part of history too, so it should be remembered that way IMHO."
I remember it as a quote that didn't make sense. In context, "man" == "mankind". It would have been silly to say "That's one small step for mankind, one giant leap for mankind".
Ever since I learned that Armstrong contended that the "a" was lost, the quotation made sense and IMHO it's one of the most profound statements ever uttered... unless you drop the "a". Let's try to correct the error and remember what he REALLY said.
The fact that the record was incorrect for 40 years should be a footnote.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel