Something I haven't seen comment on is the claim that you need SACD or DVD-Audio to get 3 dimensional sound.
Complete bullshit.
The best way to get 3D sound is to record the source material in binaural, and use headphones.
In fact, given that most serious listening is done on headphones--not to mention all the people using iPods, MP3 players, Walkmans and so on--I'm surprised there aren't more binaurally-recorded albums released.
The other thing that annoyed Linus was that AST wouldn't make MINIX dependent on the 386 chip so it could feature protected memory and virtual memory. AST wanted MINIX to work on Atari STs, Amigas, 8086 machines, and whatever else students happened to have access to. Linus just wanted a UNIX he could hack on on his 386, and didn't care if it wouldn't work for the rest of us.
What's more, you can't remove Outlook Express from Windows. If you try, it copies it back from a secret cached copy. So Windoze worms can always count on a copy of Outlook Express being there...
I've had phantom bidders try to get me to pay more than I bid for an item. The seller contacted me after the auction and said "Oh, I just happen to have another of these items, would you like to buy it at the winning price?"
I told him I knew he'd been phantom bidding, and he could go eat the eBay fees. If fewer eBay users were gullible idiots, phantom bidders wouldn't be such a problem--they'd end up losing money.
Having said that, there's clearly a problem in that eBay makes more money the higher the final bid--so it's in their financial interest not to act on charges of (successful) phantom bidding.
Since I'm not going to pay $130 for a point upgrade to OS X that was announced a couple of months after I bought 10.1, it looks like I don't get a Cubase upgrade for another year or so.
(I'm planning to buy 10.3, which I expect to be another full-price upgrade announced at MacWorld next spring.)
Is using the same username and password for multiple (radically) different systems now considered good security policy? I must have been out of the sysadmin game too long... Sounds to me like a good way to reduce your UNIX system's security to the security of your Windows boxes.
To carry the analogy further, Macs are like niche cars that can't use the same fuels, oils, or tires as "normal" cars.
I don't know what kind of Macs you're using, but mine uses the same electricity (fuel) as all the PCs out there. Not to mention the same disks, modems, network hardware, CDs, DVDs, keyboards, mice...
On the other hand, good luck trying to repair a BMW using Chevy parts. I guess that means BMW is doomed.
I knew it was all over for academia when the University of Cambridge pimped out its reputation in return for dollars from Gates.
I'm still angry about it. Every time I get a fundraising letter, I rip it up and trash it. If Maurice Wilkes wants more money for the Computer Lab he can bend over and kiss Bill Gates' butt some more, 'cause he's not getting anything from me for the William Gates Laboratory for Computer Science.
I mean, what next? The Arthur Andersen Mathematics Building? The Rupert Murdoch School of Journalism? The Ken Lay MBA Program?
CSS can be cracked without the keys--I forget where the code is, but because the format of MPEG is well known, it's pretty simple to do a known-plaintext attack and compute a set of keys in under a second on a low-powered PC.
* Every time you write a comment, you introduce a potential headache for the maintainers. Ask yourself when the last time you updated a comment in production was, even when it contradicted the code.
All the freakin' time. Sheesh, what kind of half-assed slipshod work do you turn in?
If you really know where you can get a 1.x GHz Celeron system with digital flat panel display and DVD-R burner for $800, please let us all in on the secret.
My CDs have the mice talking about buying Arthur's brain. And yes, I heard the original radio broadcast, and I have the original radio scripts too...
The one bit cut on the CD release is "Did you know that robot can hum like Pink Floyd?", cut because Roger Waters wouldn't let them include a small sample of Pink Floyd on the CD release.
When I go in the store and see stuff like "American McGee's Alice", "Return to Castle Wolfenstein", "Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force", "Red Faction" etc etc, it seems to me that the glut of FPSs is very much alive and well.
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Something I haven't seen comment on is the claim that you need SACD or DVD-Audio to get 3 dimensional sound.
Complete bullshit.
The best way to get 3D sound is to record the source material in binaural, and use headphones.
In fact, given that most serious listening is done on headphones--not to mention all the people using iPods, MP3 players, Walkmans and so on--I'm surprised there aren't more binaurally-recorded albums released.
That was part of the problem.
The other thing that annoyed Linus was that AST wouldn't make MINIX dependent on the 386 chip so it could feature protected memory and virtual memory. AST wanted MINIX to work on Atari STs, Amigas, 8086 machines, and whatever else students happened to have access to. Linus just wanted a UNIX he could hack on on his 386, and didn't care if it wouldn't work for the rest of us.
What's more, you can't remove Outlook Express from Windows. If you try, it copies it back from a secret cached copy. So Windoze worms can always count on a copy of Outlook Express being there...
I've had phantom bidders try to get me to pay more than I bid for an item. The seller contacted me after the auction and said "Oh, I just happen to have another of these items, would you like to buy it at the winning price?"
I told him I knew he'd been phantom bidding, and he could go eat the eBay fees. If fewer eBay users were gullible idiots, phantom bidders wouldn't be such a problem--they'd end up losing money.
Having said that, there's clearly a problem in that eBay makes more money the higher the final bid--so it's in their financial interest not to act on charges of (successful) phantom bidding.
Since I'm not going to pay $130 for a point upgrade to OS X that was announced a couple of months after I bought 10.1, it looks like I don't get a Cubase upgrade for another year or so.
(I'm planning to buy 10.3, which I expect to be another full-price upgrade announced at MacWorld next spring.)
Is using the same username and password for multiple (radically) different systems now considered good security policy? I must have been out of the sysadmin game too long... Sounds to me like a good way to reduce your UNIX system's security to the security of your Windows boxes.
I don't know what kind of Macs you're using, but mine uses the same electricity (fuel) as all the PCs out there. Not to mention the same disks, modems, network hardware, CDs, DVDs, keyboards, mice...
On the other hand, good luck trying to repair a BMW using Chevy parts. I guess that means BMW is doomed.
You know what? Fsck the Windows users. They're the ones who prop up the monopoly and allow crap like Palladium to happen.
But TRS-80s DO kick ass!
Tum te tum te tum.
Tum te tum.
Think that's 20 seconds yet? Perhaps I should learn to type more slowly.
I knew it was all over for academia when the University of Cambridge pimped out its reputation in return for dollars from Gates.
I'm still angry about it. Every time I get a fundraising letter, I rip it up and trash it. If Maurice Wilkes wants more money for the Computer Lab he can bend over and kiss Bill Gates' butt some more, 'cause he's not getting anything from me for the William Gates Laboratory for Computer Science.
I mean, what next? The Arthur Andersen Mathematics Building? The Rupert Murdoch School of Journalism? The Ken Lay MBA Program?
What you seem to be ignoring is that Americans work longer hours than any other country in the world, including Japan.
CSS can be cracked without the keys--I forget where the code is, but because the format of MPEG is well known, it's pretty simple to do a known-plaintext attack and compute a set of keys in under a second on a low-powered PC.
All the freakin' time. Sheesh, what kind of half-assed slipshod work do you turn in?
You have a laptop that's smaller than a Sony VAIO PictureBook? Where did you get it?
Or are you just a troll?
My thought when I read that Compaq were supportive of Linux was "Great, I wonder how much an iPaq with Linux costs?"
So I went and looked, and discovered that you can't actually buy an iPaq with Linux. Supportive my ass.
If you really know where you can get a 1.x GHz Celeron system with digital flat panel display and DVD-R burner for $800, please let us all in on the secret.
My CDs have the mice talking about buying Arthur's brain. And yes, I heard the original radio broadcast, and I have the original radio scripts too...
The one bit cut on the CD release is "Did you know that robot can hum like Pink Floyd?", cut because Roger Waters wouldn't let them include a small sample of Pink Floyd on the CD release.
Oooh, advanced stuff. Pity you can do it using CSS, ECMAScript and HTML, without needing Flash.
Don't forget that Xbox sales have sucked in Europe too.
I think a more sensible question is to ask why Americans have bought Xboxen when nobody else has.
So instead of supporting Sony, you'll be a fully paid-up Micro$oft whore? And that makes you less supportive of evil how, exactly?
You mean exactly like Lotus Notes?
Bwahaha.
Well, my web site is #1 on the list when you search for "mathew", so it's as good as Google in that respect.
When I go in the store and see stuff like "American McGee's Alice", "Return to Castle Wolfenstein", "Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force", "Red Faction" etc etc, it seems to me that the glut of FPSs is very much alive and well.
Someone must be buying them.
The point of the article is to fill space and get people to look at ads.
And from the author's point of view, the point of the article is to get paid.
I own a console because I refuse to buy Microsoft software and become another Microsoft whore. How about you?