If the patent was filed in 1986, then it will expire in 2003, 17 years later. Please remember that the underlying problem with patents is bad legislation.
I completely agree. Anime and Star Wars. Who gives a rats ass. This crap keeps cropping up and takes the place of what could have been something interesting. If I wanted to hear about movies I'd go to movienews.org or grab a newspaper.
I'm trying hard not to sound condescending, but you do realize the fact that your playlist often syncs up with what's on TV at the time means that your playlist is pretty limited, right?
What on earth are you talking about? I never said they were the same songs. Just that some parts of them synchronise with the TV. And I'm sure you have better tastes in music than anyone else does.
I like to watch music videos on MTV, VH1 and the country music channel with the TV sound muted while Winamp is playing. It's kind of funny when the music and videos sync up, actually, which is more often than not.
Learn how and why we ought to be exploring the educational potential of this new media.
Here's some educational potential. Lesson One: A VCD is a medium. Multiple VCDs are media. Lesson Two: New \New\, a. 1. Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately. I.e., not VCD.
At my college, all computer science labs have recently installed safety showers, like in the chem labs.
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Don't drink Mountiain Dew! Mountain Dew is a highly addictive substance that has adverse health consequences. Mountain Dew is designed to be addicting and dehydrating. Mountain Dew's ingredients include caffeine, a highly addictive substance which also inhibits development, and sodium, which causes the drinker to become thirstier proportionally to the amount of soda consumed. Additionally, the beverage is lubracated so that it can be consumed more rapidly, and, recently, the can's aperture has been enlarged for the same reason (wide mouth can). Someone should start a Target Market for big soda!
Note: this is not offtopic, troll, flamebait. This is important information and certainly is "news for nerds" and even "stuff that matters".
Yes. Debian pretends to be stable by not upgrading its software. That's just an illusion, though; you end up with the old, unfixed bugs still being in the software. Does that make it more stable? I don't think so. Additionally, those who express this or a similar viewpoint are marked as trolls on Slashdot since some Debian fanatics can't accept reality.
I simply don't buy it. It's not like the Debian people are writing the programs. All they are doing is compiling them and packaging them, which doesn't take much time in the grand scheme of things. So this "dropping everything mid-release" sounds like a bunch of nonsense. If you want to see progress check out Gentoo.
Please don't moderate this troll up further. None of those programs is only buildable on x86. None of those programs needs a "golden" compiler (whatever that is). The parent is simply lying.
Who cares because Vorbis 1.0 has gone gold!!! Whoo hoo. Here is a windows binary. Try encoding at the lowest quality value...about 64kbps second and be AMAZED! Otherwise get the source from CVS
Reading that I thought I was reading a SCSI specification! Seeing phrashes like commmand queuing, out-of-order execution/delivery, and scatter/gather! Topology support for multi-inititaor networks sounds a lot like what SCSI can do, with having two SCSI cards on a bus accessing the same drives. Cool
I second that. Mandrake has a ton of cool features no one else does, like a boot progress bar, using GCC 3.1.1 to build their packages; DevFS has been in use since 8.0. They let you use ext3, ext2, reiserfs, and xfs. There is no "you must use ext3" like some distros....Quality
Can someone tell me the advantage of FireWire over Ethernet? FireWire is 200-800 Mbps (soon to be 1.2 Gbps) and up to 64 devices connected. Ethernet is 10Mbps to 10Gbps and supports over 4 billion devices connected with much longer cables. And there's no Apple licensing fees.
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Actually it will expire in 2006, 20 years later, as per US title 35 sec 154, which took effect June 8, 1995.
If the patent was filed in 1986, then it will expire in 2003, 17 years later. Please remember that the underlying problem with patents is bad legislation.
I completely agree. Anime and Star Wars. Who gives a rats ass. This crap keeps cropping up and takes the place of what could have been something interesting. If I wanted to hear about movies I'd go to movienews.org or grab a newspaper.
I like to watch music videos on MTV, VH1 and the country music channel with the TV sound muted while Winamp is playing. It's kind of funny when the music and videos sync up, actually, which is more often than not.
Lesson One: A VCD is a medium. Multiple VCDs are media.
Lesson Two: New \New\, a. 1. Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately. I.e., not VCD.
At my college, all computer science labs have recently installed safety showers, like in the chem labs.
Don't drink Mountiain Dew! Mountain Dew is a highly addictive substance that has adverse health consequences. Mountain Dew is designed to be addicting and dehydrating. Mountain Dew's ingredients include caffeine, a highly addictive substance which also inhibits development, and sodium, which causes the drinker to become thirstier proportionally to the amount of soda consumed. Additionally, the beverage is lubracated so that it can be consumed more rapidly, and, recently, the can's aperture has been enlarged for the same reason (wide mouth can). Someone should start a Target Market for big soda!
Note: this is not offtopic, troll, flamebait. This is important information and certainly is "news for nerds" and even "stuff that matters".
Same reason why we don't use cent signs.
If you're truly serious about bugging the neighbors, may I recommend www.spyworld.com?
Hey dumbass, It's not the softwares' fault that it needs a correct compiler. Also gnome2 rules. You are stupid.
Yes. Debian pretends to be stable by not upgrading its software. That's just an illusion, though; you end up with the old, unfixed bugs still being in the software. Does that make it more stable? I don't think so. Additionally, those who express this or a similar viewpoint are marked as trolls on Slashdot since some Debian fanatics can't accept reality.
I simply don't buy it. It's not like the Debian people are writing the programs. All they are doing is compiling them and packaging them, which doesn't take much time in the grand scheme of things. So this "dropping everything mid-release" sounds like a bunch of nonsense. If you want to see progress check out Gentoo.
Please don't moderate this troll up further. None of those programs is only buildable on x86. None of those programs needs a "golden" compiler (whatever that is). The parent is simply lying.
I agree. It's amazing!
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I'm sorry to hear that.
if they had used vorbis 1.0, which just came out, they'd have had better audio compression. and i'd still be on topic. ha.
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It'd be funny if a car ran Windows 98 as it's operating system. Man, wouldn't that be hilarious?
Who cares because Vorbis 1.0 has gone gold!!! Whoo hoo. Here is a windows binary. Try encoding at the lowest quality value...about 64kbps second and be AMAZED! Otherwise get the source from CVS
Xine (with decss plugin), Mplayer, Ogle, Videolan
Reading that I thought I was reading a SCSI specification! Seeing phrashes like commmand queuing, out-of-order execution/delivery, and scatter/gather! Topology support for multi-inititaor networks sounds a lot like what SCSI can do, with having two SCSI cards on a bus accessing the same drives. Cool
I second that. Mandrake has a ton of cool features no one else does, like a boot progress bar, using GCC 3.1.1 to build their packages; DevFS has been in use since 8.0. They let you use ext3, ext2, reiserfs, and xfs. There is no "you must use ext3" like some distros....Quality
Can someone tell me the advantage of FireWire over Ethernet? FireWire is 200-800 Mbps (soon to be 1.2 Gbps) and up to 64 devices connected. Ethernet is 10Mbps to 10Gbps and supports over 4 billion devices connected with much longer cables. And there's no Apple licensing fees.