Who the heck is Joni coder? Is that what they call coders down under?
Here in the US their all Johns. (On the rare occurance of a female, she may be called a Jane. However, it's so rare, she could probably be called by her real name)
...When I was an undergraduate in CS at Columbia University (graduated in '93), the graphics guys were working on this.
It's nice that it's finally coming down the pipeline 10 years later. Makes me wish I was still on the inside instead of looking at all this stuff as an outsider.:-(
The difference is I can still play my Atari 2600 games 20 years after I buy them, without paying a dime to anyone except the electric company to power my system (few cents an hour?).
Who on earth thinks that I'll be able to play games on this machine a couple decades after the company goes belly up?
This was not a mandatory update. It was a security patch for those that you the particular service in question. This means that most people wouldn't bother installing it.
In that case, 600,000 people does seem like a lot, especially if they can't get on the internet afterwards to get the fix for the update, as the article implies.:-)
I bought a 120gb 3.5 inch drive ($100) a couple months ago, and put it in an external firewire drive case ($50) and hooked it up to my computer. It's portable, has massive storage (relatve to most other removable storage, at least), has fast transfer speeds, comparable to other removable media, at least.
The plus is that I can always remove the drive and put a different one in if 120gb ever becomes "small".
...is that they assume that they *aren't* increasing their user base much, and that it's the same people always upgrading their version of linux. As their user base increases, there will be demand to keep supporting releases for longer periods. Hopefully the EOL commitment is not etched in stone.
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Who the heck is Joni coder? Is that what they call coders down under?
Here in the US their all Johns. (On the rare occurance of a female, she may be called a Jane. However, it's so rare, she could probably be called by her real name)
...When I was an undergraduate in CS at Columbia University (graduated in '93), the graphics guys were working on this.
:-(
It's nice that it's finally coming down the pipeline 10 years later. Makes me wish I was still on the inside instead of looking at all this stuff as an outsider.
The difference is I can still play my Atari 2600 games 20 years after I buy them, without paying a dime to anyone except the electric company to power my system (few cents an hour?).
Who on earth thinks that I'll be able to play games on this machine a couple decades after the company goes belly up?
I'll call.
I've got
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Only works if everyone else follows your guideline, though.
...What, like three years ago? Oh, you mean the *previous* century...
This was not a mandatory update. It was a security patch for those that you the particular service in question. This means that most people wouldn't bother installing it.
:-)
In that case, 600,000 people does seem like a lot, especially if they can't get on the internet afterwards to get the fix for the update, as the article implies.
...This is what the future releases of DirectX is supposed to address: The use of 3D renderers to render non-graphical elements and other work.
:-)
Good for the end user, but going to be a pain in the ass for software developers to take advantage of, is my guess.
I bought a 120gb 3.5 inch drive ($100) a couple months ago, and put it in an external firewire drive case ($50) and hooked it up to my computer. It's portable, has massive storage (relatve to most other removable storage, at least), has fast transfer speeds, comparable to other removable media, at least.
The plus is that I can always remove the drive and put a different one in if 120gb ever becomes "small".
...Lisa Simpson?
...slashdotted 0.2 seconds after the contest starts.
...is approaching parity with Linux.
I knew I should have set up that cron job to check for the new episode...
...at least using the build I downloaded a few hours ago (Build 2003022108 on WinXP)
Most DVD players have an optical output. That's digital.
Yeah. And in a couple years they'll push it back because there's not enough adoption of the technology or it's still too expensive...
...DMCA?
It's nice that the government can ignore it at will, at least till someone in Hollywood notices...
I'm surprised that the home page hasn't been slashdotted. Sure, there's nothing on it of substance, but that hasn't stopped us before...
...what's in a name?
:-)
(OK, someone had to say it.
What other technology do you need? Save the wave file in real time, and burn at 20x, a 1 hour CD takes three minutes, right?
When is the next Microsoft product being released?
...is those pesky .mp3 sound files will be replaced by remastered .ogg files. :-)
...is that they assume that they *aren't* increasing their user base much, and that it's the same people always upgrading their version of linux. As their user base increases, there will be demand to keep supporting releases for longer periods. Hopefully the EOL commitment is not etched in stone.
Only reason I watch the superbowl (with my wife, no less) is for the ads. The game is just like any other game.
Region-free DVDs. They do exist. Why don't they make more in Europe & Asia?