So, it's not surprising Dell would offer to sell hardware. It would be surprising to see Apple take the offer.
If that happened, what would be next... iPods with a Hewlett-Packard logo on them?
Bah.
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this release's best new feature is the MP3 surround sound support
Why does DivX have any relevance to sound? I thought it was a VIDEO codec.
Or maybe it's a container format now?
Or is it a media player application?
I swear, DivX seems to be getting as bad as Apple is with "QuickTime", or Microsoft with ".NET". Nobody can tell what the hell it is anymore unless an excessive amount of context is provided.
If there aren't drivers for my OS, I won't buy their hardware. Period. They just lost a sale from me.
If your OS isn't Windows, they don't give a crap whether or not you buy their hardware. You're statistically insignificant to their bottom line.
I'm not saying they should release it out to the general public, but allow developers to read the docs and write the code for it.
How does one determine the difference between "a developer" and anybody else from the general public? It's not like the IEEE gives out certificates for that.
the fact that intelligent people do not need to go to school to get ahead.
By extension, your "fact" says that dumb people DO need to go to school, and therefore people who go to school are dumb. Do you see why many educated people would find such statements objectionable?
School isn't a REQUIREMENT for success, no. But the more schooling you have, the better your CHANCES of success are. For every Steve Jobs or Kanye West who got ahead in spite of dropping out, there's ten thousand people who never could have gotten a foot on the door without having a degree.
Longtime watchers of the series love to make this claim, but is it true? Several of the episodes from the most recent season hold up well against many from the "golden era" of the show.
It's not as fresh as it was back when it was new an its potential unexplored, no. But it's still capable of making me ell-oh-ell.
While backup processes are related to data retention policy, and such polieces are related to security, it's a gross oversimplification to assert that "NO BACKUPS = NO SECURITY" as Submitter has done.
I really hope that you will stop this madness from within -- otherwise the next 911 is just waiting to happen.. And I hate to say it but that one will be your own goddamn fault.
Fuck you.
No, seriously, fuck you.
There is NO JUSTIFICATION for the slaughter of thousands of innocent people like the one that happened on 9/11. There is NO JUSTIFICATION for blowing up skyscrapers with airplanes. NONE.
Even if the lies about the US that they feed to recruits at the terrorist training camps WERE all true, even if America really were the Great Satan, that does not justify murder.
You think it can't happen to you? The next terrorist act could take place in your backyard. And god forbid that happens, I guaran-fucking-tee you that you won't see America saying "It's your fault."
why shouldn't he get a law passed allowing more than two terms of office?
Because that would require a Constitutional Amendment, and both the Democrats and moderate Republicans in Congress know that the likelihood of such an admendment passing is less than nil?
Furthermore, not everyone is even INTERESTED in reasonable compromise.
Indeed. For the most part, terrorists don't blow themselves up because they have legitimate gripes with the target group's behavior towards them. Terrorists are terrorists because they have been INDOCTRINATED to believe that we are EVIL, regardless of any actions taken in our name.
Not to say that it wouldn't be prudent to make sure we're not intentionally doing anything to further fan the flames of their hatred (oh, like spilling urine on holy books, or detaining people without charges for years on end), but it's offensive to suggest that it's OUR FAULT that people want to KILL US.
The only way to win the "War on Terrorism" is with EDUCATION. Not only educating ourselves better, but better education for them as well.
For the sake of argument, let's say that modern America's strategies are working, that by eroding people's rights the threat of terrorism is actually being diminished. Under this strategy, people still go about their daily routines practically unchanged--they have to get to the airport a little earlier, but their days are filled with working, shopping, watching TV, same as always.
Now let's look at modern Iraq as a counterexample. The nascent government has next to no control over the populace, and terrorism is rampant. Many people's daily routine is uneventful--but for some, the routine involves machine gun fire and bombings of innocent people.
Do you still pick freedom from the government over freedom from terrorism?
Unless you can turn enough people to flip the state majority from one party to another, then you have made NO difference.
Your argument is only relevant to one part of the government -- the Presidency (and by extension, his appointed staff and his influence in the nomination of federal judges).
US Senators and Representatives, Governors, State Senators and Assemblymen, Mayors, City Councilmen. Even judges in some areas. These are all elected directly and each vote is significant.
They can't afford to send "gifts" to senators, so they don't matter to them.
But they CAN afford to send letters to their senators, and if there's one thing senators care more about than money, it's getting re-elected so they can continue making money.
If a senator sees popular opinion on an issue among his or her constituents is split 50/50, he or she will most likely be swayed by how much money lobbyists donate. But if the opinion is split 80/20, you better believe his or her vote is going to side with the 80%.
RAW files were never intended for archival or interchange. The only reason they exist is to take the time and expense associated with "developing" the CCD output to a real image file format, and move it off of the camera and onto the workstation. A 2GHz desktop CPU is going to be much better at converting the data than whatever embedded microprocessor can fit into a camera form factor.
I'm sure the AP's photographers take their shots in a raw format, but the images don't go out on the wire until they've been converted to JPEG (and had a good chunk of metadata embedded in them). Do as they do.
Umm... just because it'll run on x86 doesn't mean it'll run on average PC hardware.
I wonder what it's been running on for the past five years? Apple must have either built a few expensive and delicate IntApple motherboard prototypes, or gone down to the computer store and bought a few off-the shelf PC mobos...
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So, it's not surprising Dell would offer to sell hardware. It would be surprising to see Apple take the offer.
If that happened, what would be next... iPods with a Hewlett-Packard logo on them?
Bah.
this release's best new feature is the MP3 surround sound support
Why does DivX have any relevance to sound? I thought it was a VIDEO codec.
Or maybe it's a container format now?
Or is it a media player application?
I swear, DivX seems to be getting as bad as Apple is with "QuickTime", or Microsoft with ".NET". Nobody can tell what the hell it is anymore unless an excessive amount of context is provided.
Buffer overflow is an amateur mistake. Check your god damn code.
But they used the "Check god damn code" menu option in MS Visual C Studio, and it didn't return any critical errors!
(Mere "warnings" don't count)
I know of a couple companies that would rather not bother with product activation.
I may be wrong, but don't corporate site licenses for WinXP have the product activation misfeatures disabled?
If there aren't drivers for my OS, I won't buy their hardware. Period. They just lost a sale from me.
If your OS isn't Windows, they don't give a crap whether or not you buy their hardware. You're statistically insignificant to their bottom line.
I'm not saying they should release it out to the general public, but allow developers to read the docs and write the code for it.
How does one determine the difference between "a developer" and anybody else from the general public? It's not like the IEEE gives out certificates for that.
Now, everyone thinks their inane self-indulgent ramblings are important, or worse yet, "journalism".
The opposite is also true -- when actual journalism appears on blogs, some people mistake it for "inane self-indulgent ramblings".
A blog is format, not content.
... that the dollar is more important than freedom or principles.
It is sad that you haven't yet realized that this behavior is not new, nor limited to American companies.
The grand-parent clearly just threw out his/her post to get some reactions and some karma.
No, more likely the grandparent wrote what he/she did because he/she actually subscribes to the views expressed.
How presumptuous are you to assume that anyone who doesn't have the same opinions as you must be trolling or karma-whoring?
In part because you can't run a company where everyone is seriously about to jump ship to set up their own shop.
Like Jobs himself did when he jumped off the Appleship to found NeXT? And then Pixar?
Anybody who expects any loyalty between employer and employee these days is deluded.
the fact that intelligent people do not need to go to school to get ahead.
By extension, your "fact" says that dumb people DO need to go to school, and therefore people who go to school are dumb. Do you see why many educated people would find such statements objectionable?
School isn't a REQUIREMENT for success, no. But the more schooling you have, the better your CHANCES of success are. For every Steve Jobs or Kanye West who got ahead in spite of dropping out, there's ten thousand people who never could have gotten a foot on the door without having a degree.
If the first two letters of "FINAL" are too closely spaced, they could appear to be a boxy-looking "A".
"FINAL FANTASY" ~= s/FI/A/
Your example would also have "wrong" results if it were written in Perl or C.
The "==" operator is a numerical, not stringwise, comparator. An understanding of datatypes is crucial for any programmer, beginner or otherwise.
Even the TRS-80 BASIC I first programmed in 20+ years ago distinguished between numbers and text data...
the problem of decreasing quality of episodes.
Longtime watchers of the series love to make this claim, but is it true? Several of the episodes from the most recent season hold up well against many from the "golden era" of the show.
It's not as fresh as it was back when it was new an its potential unexplored, no. But it's still capable of making me ell-oh-ell.
Exactly.
While backup processes are related to data retention policy, and such polieces are related to security, it's a gross oversimplification to assert that "NO BACKUPS = NO SECURITY" as Submitter has done.
I really hope that you will stop this madness from within -- otherwise the next 911 is just waiting to happen.. And I hate to say it but that one will be your own goddamn fault.
Fuck you.
No, seriously, fuck you.
There is NO JUSTIFICATION for the slaughter of thousands of innocent people like the one that happened on 9/11. There is NO JUSTIFICATION for blowing up skyscrapers with airplanes. NONE.
Even if the lies about the US that they feed to recruits at the terrorist training camps WERE all true, even if America really were the Great Satan, that does not justify murder.
You think it can't happen to you? The next terrorist act could take place in your backyard. And god forbid that happens, I guaran-fucking-tee you that you won't see America saying "It's your fault."
also, we dropped two thirds of our national anthem because, well, we really couldn't be bothered singing the entire thing
Only two thirds?
The Star-Spangled Banner has (I believe) six stanzas. Nobody's ever heard the latter five performed.
why shouldn't he get a law passed allowing more than two terms of office?
Because that would require a Constitutional Amendment, and both the Democrats and moderate Republicans in Congress know that the likelihood of such an admendment passing is less than nil?
Furthermore, not everyone is even INTERESTED in reasonable compromise.
Indeed. For the most part, terrorists don't blow themselves up because they have legitimate gripes with the target group's behavior towards them. Terrorists are terrorists because they have been INDOCTRINATED to believe that we are EVIL, regardless of any actions taken in our name.
Not to say that it wouldn't be prudent to make sure we're not intentionally doing anything to further fan the flames of their hatred (oh, like spilling urine on holy books, or detaining people without charges for years on end), but it's offensive to suggest that it's OUR FAULT that people want to KILL US.
The only way to win the "War on Terrorism" is with EDUCATION. Not only educating ourselves better, but better education for them as well.
False dichotomy.
For the sake of argument, let's say that modern America's strategies are working, that by eroding people's rights the threat of terrorism is actually being diminished. Under this strategy, people still go about their daily routines practically unchanged--they have to get to the airport a little earlier, but their days are filled with working, shopping, watching TV, same as always.
Now let's look at modern Iraq as a counterexample. The nascent government has next to no control over the populace, and terrorism is rampant. Many people's daily routine is uneventful--but for some, the routine involves machine gun fire and bombings of innocent people.
Do you still pick freedom from the government over freedom from terrorism?
Unless you can turn enough people to flip the state majority from one party to another, then you have made NO difference.
Your argument is only relevant to one part of the government -- the Presidency (and by extension, his appointed staff and his influence in the nomination of federal judges).
US Senators and Representatives, Governors, State Senators and Assemblymen, Mayors, City Councilmen. Even judges in some areas. These are all elected directly and each vote is significant.
They can't afford to send "gifts" to senators, so they don't matter to them.
But they CAN afford to send letters to their senators, and if there's one thing senators care more about than money, it's getting re-elected so they can continue making money.
If a senator sees popular opinion on an issue among his or her constituents is split 50/50, he or she will most likely be swayed by how much money lobbyists donate. But if the opinion is split 80/20, you better believe his or her vote is going to side with the 80%.
I believe Fox News was founded in 1980.
Well that's your opinion. It's not fact.
Everybody I know who's a linux user but wants a useable desktop they don't have to mess with has already bought a Mac and "switched" to OS X.
Which demonstrates that among that type of user, Apple's switch to x86 isn't the threat to Linux; OS X itself is, regardless of the CPU it runs on.
RAW files were never intended for archival or interchange. The only reason they exist is to take the time and expense associated with "developing" the CCD output to a real image file format, and move it off of the camera and onto the workstation. A 2GHz desktop CPU is going to be much better at converting the data than whatever embedded microprocessor can fit into a camera form factor.
I'm sure the AP's photographers take their shots in a raw format, but the images don't go out on the wire until they've been converted to JPEG (and had a good chunk of metadata embedded in them). Do as they do.
Umm... just because it'll run on x86 doesn't mean it'll run on average PC hardware.
I wonder what it's been running on for the past five years? Apple must have either built a few expensive and delicate IntApple motherboard prototypes, or gone down to the computer store and bought a few off-the shelf PC mobos...