That is a bit strange because if you rip your own WMVs (not like I do that, though) from a CD, the encoder will only encode them at a maximum of 56 kbps (I think).
Microsoft has more "power" than of Hewlett Packard and Phillips, therefore why would they stop you from going above 56 kbps when the codec is capable of doing so?
Then again, Microsoft is not _yet_ in the music industry.
(This starts off as a bit offtopic, but I felt like posting this)
Price.
Yes, you get that 1.2 second advantage in Photoshop if you have a Pentium III 900, but I could care less if I have a Celeron over Pentium III.
It also goes for games too, like I care if Quake III Arena runs 20 frames faster than on a Celeron, all the computer has to do is meet 30 frames per second. The human eye is not fast enough to see 100 frames per second. (Yes I know video cards play a factor, but the processor does do a fair bit of work).
All I care about is if the processor can run applications at a decent speed.
Also, is it just me or does the name "Duron" not sound very catchy? "Pentium," "Celeron," and "Athlon" all have catchy names. Yet for some reason, "Duron" doesn't sound all that great and sounds like a processor from the waste bucket.
I know of a few people who own them and actually don't have anything negative to say about them.
I could critise Microsoft over this (but this is probably just a few odd employees who did this), but then I'd be a hypocrite because I have participated in ballot stuffing before.
About two months ago, Entertainment Weekly did a poll on Entertainer of the year. It was soon posted on Fark and then slowly migrated itself to the Something Awful forums. Now, we decided to ballot stuff it with "Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka" due to the fact that they didn't have any sort of security method to stop people from doing multiple votes.
It soon became a battle when the Shack News forums and some other forum started a battle with us. So we then got cocky and wrote various scripts in langauges varying from Perl to JavaScript (I wrote a script in mIRC considering I wanted to write it in a small bit of time). From all of our efforts, Lowtax got over 500,000 votes.
Yes, Lowtax was on top, but then they took the site down and then reopened it with a security measure and a little comment in the webpage taunting us. A few weeks later the results came out and I am not sure who got into the Top 10, but Lowtax and Something Awful DID get a mention in an article they wrote later.
If I hadn't done that, I'd be saying things differently here.
Lets just hope the message is not "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" because either they will not respond, come attack us, respond with "YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE, MAKE YOUR TIME," or make another response with "Dude, we have known that quote for EONS."
...the x86 version of Solaris as well as the sourcecode.
Why?
Because they both have been availble for well over a year now (I have Solaris 8 x86 already burned on to a CDR) and taking them offline will not prevent it from being distributed even further.
I am currently on Telus.NET ADSL. This is what I get in my package.
1640 Kbps Down
640 Kbps Up
5 E-mail addresses
Two dynamic IP addresses
A VERY cool TOS/AUP
Guess how much I pay? $35.99/month CAD. That is $22.30/month USD. For Shaw High-speed Internet (Cable), it comes with a higher speed and costs about $5 more ($40.99 CAD which is $25.40 USD).
After seeing some people pay $49.99 ($79 CAD) for Cable Internet, and about 10 bucks less for dial-up, I am sure as hell not going to move to the Internet with Internet rates THAT high. Hell, you can get 56.6 Kbps Dial-up for $6.30 USD/m.
You Americans are getting ripped off or we're getting a pretty impressive deal.
It combines both beauty and brawn (courtesy of Mac OS X and the PowerPC G4). The machine would mix well in a common household or in a business as it doesn't look like a cube or a box.
The only thing I hope is that there is a smokey look (like the iMac DV) because I don't like any other colour other than beige (I want a Power Macintosh G3 in a beige case, damnit!) or black.
If you honestly don't think it looks great and think it should not exist, tell Steve Jobs that by not buying his product. He'll get the message that way. Telling him via methods of communication such as e-mail (or via Slashdot) will generally not work if he is making good or decent sales on his products.:)
As much as I DISLIKE Microsoft...
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...I can't say much against the X Box just yet. I do own a Playstation 2 and I wouldn't trade it in for a X Box, but if Microsoft dropped it in my hands I wouldn't be upset over getting free stuff.
What angers me is that even on launch, Dreamcast had some problems. Overheating is one thing that came to mind. Even NES, SNES, Gameboy, Gamecube, PSX, PS2, etc have had problems of such calibre. What I see here is direct biasism towards Microsoft and that is generally unfair (even though MS isn't quite the fair company).
Hell, there are defects in EVERYTHING. For instant, my video card does not like to sync properly unless I edit a few lines in my XF86 configuration file, but I don't go around saying XFree86 or my video card is crap because of that. It is just one of those flaws you have to deal with.
Now, I am not saying that flaws are something we should ignore. Microsoft (and any company or developer) should acknowledge it's problems and attempt to fix them for future releases. Flaws are mistakes, if we acknowledge them and fix them, we have learned from them; if we ignore them, then we have not learned anything at all.
As much as I dislike Microsoft, I am going against this article.
Use Morpheus. I have known about Kazaa and it's spyware built-in for quite some time now, yet Morpheus is better as it doesn't have spyware and it also allows you to download MP3s larger than 128 kbit.
Getting older versions of Limewire also allows you to defeat the spyware.
I live in Canada, I am not lucky enough to get the Cartoon Network due to the CRTC (Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission) "looking out for us."
I think I might have gotten this off YTV, but I am not 100% sure as my memory on this is a bit hazy.
If I remember a while back, I could have sworn I saw some sort of launch system in either a computer animation demonstration or in a game itself.
This idea would be interesting to apply into space as there is very little friction in space to slow things down. Why not make an addon on to the IIS to launch vehicles to Mars or Venus via this launch method? If the track was long enough it could go faster than convention rocketry. And in fact, less fuel would be needed on the vehicle since the mag-lev was the device that launched it.
Possible meta-moderation of rejected stories. Let a certain amount of users (controlled in the same fashion as moderators) decide if a certain story is worthy of a second look. If it gets accepted and rejected for a second time, it will not get meta-moderated again.
Let those who end up getting their story rejected moved to their journal if they're a registered user. Make that an option in their preferences or in the submit story submission page.
Allow users to ignore posts made by Anonymous Cowards. In some cases, these people are just idiotic trolls who just waste time posting their crap here, but there are the odd times that the Anon. Coward is actually posting something useful or something not moronic. If that coward gets moderated up, then that ignore feature can be defeated.
Fuck that, lets use the United States Interstate as ethernet. The nice thing about it is that you don't have to worry about it breaking since they only take a small portion out when they do any sort of upgrade. And it even interconnects with existing streets and state highways so there is no need to worry over people who don't have access to this ethernet. All they need is asphalt or concrete going through their cities/towns/villages and they're already set.
If I am not incorrect, that has already been done by the Patent office themselves.;)
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Actually, Microsoft has introduced a patch to incorporate the Euro into Windows 3.1, NT 3.x, 95, and (I beleive) 98. Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Windows ME, and 98 SE had it already incorporated.
Linux (and other Unices) probably have them already built-in.
I think it also has to do with the font, yet I am not sure what character the Euro has replaced as the Pound is still there.
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That is a bit strange because if you rip your own WMVs (not like I do that, though) from a CD, the encoder will only encode them at a maximum of 56 kbps (I think).
Microsoft has more "power" than of Hewlett Packard and Phillips, therefore why would they stop you from going above 56 kbps when the codec is capable of doing so?
Then again, Microsoft is not _yet_ in the music industry.
I amazed that organisations like the RIAA don't go after the companies that create CDR/RW drives.
This is a nice blow to those record companies trying to stop us from "stealing" music.
I guess when I get an illegal operation on my computer I must go to Cybercourt to attend a hearing on it.
All we need now is Cyberjails and Cyberbaliffs.
(This starts off as a bit offtopic, but I felt like posting this)
Price.
Yes, you get that 1.2 second advantage in Photoshop if you have a Pentium III 900, but I could care less if I have a Celeron over Pentium III.
It also goes for games too, like I care if Quake III Arena runs 20 frames faster than on a Celeron, all the computer has to do is meet 30 frames per second. The human eye is not fast enough to see 100 frames per second. (Yes I know video cards play a factor, but the processor does do a fair bit of work).
All I care about is if the processor can run applications at a decent speed.
Also, is it just me or does the name "Duron" not sound very catchy? "Pentium," "Celeron," and "Athlon" all have catchy names. Yet for some reason, "Duron" doesn't sound all that great and sounds like a processor from the waste bucket.
I know of a few people who own them and actually don't have anything negative to say about them.
I could critise Microsoft over this (but this is probably just a few odd employees who did this), but then I'd be a hypocrite because I have participated in ballot stuffing before.
About two months ago, Entertainment Weekly did a poll on Entertainer of the year. It was soon posted on Fark and then slowly migrated itself to the Something Awful forums. Now, we decided to ballot stuff it with "Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka" due to the fact that they didn't have any sort of security method to stop people from doing multiple votes.
It soon became a battle when the Shack News forums and some other forum started a battle with us. So we then got cocky and wrote various scripts in langauges varying from Perl to JavaScript (I wrote a script in mIRC considering I wanted to write it in a small bit of time). From all of our efforts, Lowtax got over 500,000 votes.
Yes, Lowtax was on top, but then they took the site down and then reopened it with a security measure and a little comment in the webpage taunting us. A few weeks later the results came out and I am not sure who got into the Top 10, but Lowtax and Something Awful DID get a mention in an article they wrote later.
If I hadn't done that, I'd be saying things differently here.
Lets just hope the message is not "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" because either they will not respond, come attack us, respond with "YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE, MAKE YOUR TIME," or make another response with "Dude, we have known that quote for EONS."
...the x86 version of Solaris as well as the sourcecode.
Why?
Because they both have been availble for well over a year now (I have Solaris 8 x86 already burned on to a CDR) and taking them offline will not prevent it from being distributed even further.
- 1640 Kbps Down
- 640 Kbps Up
- 5 E-mail addresses
- Two dynamic IP addresses
- A VERY cool TOS/AUP
Guess how much I pay? $35.99/month CAD. That is $22.30/month USD. For Shaw High-speed Internet (Cable), it comes with a higher speed and costs about $5 more ($40.99 CAD which is $25.40 USD).After seeing some people pay $49.99 ($79 CAD) for Cable Internet, and about 10 bucks less for dial-up, I am sure as hell not going to move to the Internet with Internet rates THAT high. Hell, you can get 56.6 Kbps Dial-up for $6.30 USD/m.
You Americans are getting ripped off or we're getting a pretty impressive deal.
Oh no... that is just the chocolate pudding. I think that dot is a earing or something, possibly a sprinkle from Bob's donut.
So I guess the next version of Duke Nukem won't be out until next year? ;)
That is "Aqua," it is a hell of a way different than CDE.
I like how the Aqua bar "inflates" the icons on the bar whenever you put your mouse over it.
It combines both beauty and brawn (courtesy of Mac OS X and the PowerPC G4). The machine would mix well in a common household or in a business as it doesn't look like a cube or a box.
:)
The only thing I hope is that there is a smokey look (like the iMac DV) because I don't like any other colour other than beige (I want a Power Macintosh G3 in a beige case, damnit!) or black.
If you honestly don't think it looks great and think it should not exist, tell Steve Jobs that by not buying his product. He'll get the message that way. Telling him via methods of communication such as e-mail (or via Slashdot) will generally not work if he is making good or decent sales on his products.
...I can't say much against the X Box just yet. I do own a Playstation 2 and I wouldn't trade it in for a X Box, but if Microsoft dropped it in my hands I wouldn't be upset over getting free stuff.
What angers me is that even on launch, Dreamcast had some problems. Overheating is one thing that came to mind. Even NES, SNES, Gameboy, Gamecube, PSX, PS2, etc have had problems of such calibre. What I see here is direct biasism towards Microsoft and that is generally unfair (even though MS isn't quite the fair company).
Hell, there are defects in EVERYTHING. For instant, my video card does not like to sync properly unless I edit a few lines in my XF86 configuration file, but I don't go around saying XFree86 or my video card is crap because of that. It is just one of those flaws you have to deal with.
Now, I am not saying that flaws are something we should ignore. Microsoft (and any company or developer) should acknowledge it's problems and attempt to fix them for future releases. Flaws are mistakes, if we acknowledge them and fix them, we have learned from them; if we ignore them, then we have not learned anything at all.
As much as I dislike Microsoft, I am going against this article.
Use Morpheus. I have known about Kazaa and it's spyware built-in for quite some time now, yet Morpheus is better as it doesn't have spyware and it also allows you to download MP3s larger than 128 kbit.
Getting older versions of Limewire also allows you to defeat the spyware.
Internet Explorer 6.0
Looks a bit misplaced.Mozilla 0.9.2
I live in Canada, I am not lucky enough to get the Cartoon Network due to the CRTC (Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission) "looking out for us."
I think I might have gotten this off YTV, but I am not 100% sure as my memory on this is a bit hazy.
If I remember a while back, I could have sworn I saw some sort of launch system in either a computer animation demonstration or in a game itself.
This idea would be interesting to apply into space as there is very little friction in space to slow things down. Why not make an addon on to the IIS to launch vehicles to Mars or Venus via this launch method? If the track was long enough it could go faster than convention rocketry. And in fact, less fuel would be needed on the vehicle since the mag-lev was the device that launched it.
I came up with these a while back...
- Possible meta-moderation of rejected stories. Let a certain amount of users (controlled in the same fashion as moderators) decide if a certain story is worthy of a second look. If it gets accepted and rejected for a second time, it will not get meta-moderated again.
- Let those who end up getting their story rejected moved to their journal if they're a registered user. Make that an option in their preferences or in the submit story submission page.
- Allow users to ignore posts made by Anonymous Cowards. In some cases, these people are just idiotic trolls who just waste time posting their crap here, but there are the odd times that the Anon. Coward is actually posting something useful or something not moronic. If that coward gets moderated up, then that ignore feature can be defeated.
That is all I got to say.How about something where I can report trolls? That would be a great feature to add into Slashdot.
Also, how about a place for dumped stories where people can see what has been rejected.
Fuck that, lets use the United States Interstate as ethernet. The nice thing about it is that you don't have to worry about it breaking since they only take a small portion out when they do any sort of upgrade. And it even interconnects with existing streets and state highways so there is no need to worry over people who don't have access to this ethernet. All they need is asphalt or concrete going through their cities/towns/villages and they're already set.
If I am not incorrect, that has already been done by the Patent office themselves. ;)
Actually, Microsoft has introduced a patch to incorporate the Euro into Windows 3.1, NT 3.x, 95, and (I beleive) 98. Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Windows ME, and 98 SE had it already incorporated.
Linux (and other Unices) probably have them already built-in.
I think it also has to do with the font, yet I am not sure what character the Euro has replaced as the Pound is still there.
Computers are getting smarter while Humans are getting dumber (or is it just me?).
PRAISE ALMIGHTY CELERON 600 WORKSTATION UNDER MY DESK, I AM NOT WORTHY.
How about hacking Microsoft Flight Simulator to take over the cockpit entirely?
Or X-Wing in that matter.