Maybe that's what they tell the grunts. Congratulations, you managed to shoot down large mock targets that weren't shooting back.
Think you can shoot down supersonic missile flying below the horizon? No. They let the computer guided robots do that. You're not nearly good enough at it. Ok, maybe you get lucky and nail it. Now try thirty in five seconds all coming from different bearings. Didn't think so.
The OP's point is valid - the experience is not as good out of the box as that of OS X or Windows, with regards to music playing.
Only if you use what windows comes with to play MP3s, in which case your user experience may be worse due to WMP behavior. I use winamp exclusively, so for me this would be the same in terms of getting MP3 play up and running.
I wish they did things like this in the US. If they did they could arrest the board of MS and other such companies for monopolistic practices rather than wrist slapping them with fines that are simply written off as a cost of doing business.
Volkswagen Credit and ISM Education loans are just as bad. Every six months or so they send you a notice saying they're going to share/sell your personal information and give you the option of opting out. Sure they send you notice and the opportunity to opt out, but they make it as difficult as fucking possible to do so. How? The notice comes with your bill and a part of it is the opt out form. But you have to fill it out by hand (no online opt out) - name, account number, address check all the boxes. You have to cut it off of the notice; there are no perforations. You have to provide your own envelope (the bill comes with one to pay it, but not the opt out form) - so you also have to fill out their mailing address on it, which is lengthy. You have to provide your own stamp; no business reply mail here! You even have to write in your account number (which is on your bill) on the form. VW Credit and ISM both do all of these things.
Obviously they make it as difficult as possible so you won't do it. And you have to re-opt out every six months or so. It's sickening.
The GUI has to wait on things like the disk. This is unavoidable, the disk is slower. However, you can put the fetchMeSomeDataFromDisk() call in another thread separate from the GUI management thread and then at least the GUI would continue to be responsive while data is being retrieved to populate a portion of it.
Unfortunately this kind of threading is exceedingly rare because it's freaking hard.
I work with BEA products, namely Weblogic and JRockit. Neither impress me. Weblogic is constantly failing to hand out connections (which is it's primary job) and the stack traces JRockit produces are formatted differently from those of Sun's JVM (which prevents my IDE from turning them into clickable hotlinks that take me to the lines of offending code). FSM knows why they made them different. Oh and the line numbers in your stack trace will be wrong unless you turn off optimization - which is the the whole point of using JRockit. (It's supposed to be faster than Sun's JVM - I've never seen proof).
It boggles my mind that people still think that there should be some difference between different professions and their ethics. People behave the same no matter what work they do. That is, people will do anything they can get away with if it's advantageous to them in some way. That one sentence is all you need to explain most things humans do. And indeed most things living beings do. It's nature's code of conduct. The sooner you accept it the sooner you'll stop being surprised by the behavior of living things.
They're not selling audio equipment at all. What they're selling is - quite literally - perceived superiority. The people that buy this stuff don't want better audio. They want to feel superior to other people with perceived "lesser" equipment. That's the real motivation. The more it costs, the more superior you feel! It's a fucking brilliant business model.
Most of the terms "audiophiles" use to describe sound aren't quantifiable in any way whatsoever. And when you dissect it sound is nothing more than compressed air hitting your eardrums, then conducted through bone, liquid, and hairs. These compressed air waves have amplitude and frequency. Nothing else. There are no more attributes to them.
Sound waves are not "warmer", "cooler", "clearer", "danceable" or anything else. They can be louder, or they can have a different frequency. Period. The quality of sound equipment is completely measurable in a quantifiable way. Frequency response. And that's mostly for speakers. The conducting wires have almost nothing to do with it.
I've actually heard that CAT5 cables are the best stereo cables around for two reasons: 1) Absurdly cheap per foot 2) The twisting of the wires in the cable reduces crosstalk and interference. Something that's actually got a basis in science. But still, what do I use? Whatever came with my speakers or I got at Walmart for the lowest price.
I've been boycotting (I guess it's like "abstaining from" when it's just me) Sony products for years. At least retail. I'd buy used Sony stuff because they don't get a cut.
If everyone else joined me, Sony and their insanity would soon become an interesting footnote in history rather than a corporate juggernaut.
Technical Writing Geek A report on threats via the Internet released by a Georgia Tech research center indicates online video may be a new avenue of attack. As the popularity of flash media continues to explode, hackers may be targeting embedded video players and more traditional video downloads with worms and virii. 'One worm discovered in November 2006 launches a corrupt Web site without prompting after a user opens a media file in a player. Another program silently installs spyware when a video file is opened. Attackers have also tried to spread fake video links via postings on YouTube... Another soft spot involves social networking sites, blogs and wikis. These community-focused sites, which are driving the next generation of Web applications, are also becoming one of the juiciest targets for malicious hackers.'
But they issue patents of ideas. Amazon's 1-click is a perfect example. I could write code that would enable 1-click purchases. And it certainly wouldn't be same code that they wrote. Yet, if I did I would be open to lawsuits because I implemented their idea - even if the actual implementation was totally different.
Why can't they reject it on the grounds that software shouldn't be patentable?
Patents were never intended to protect ideas but rather an idea + method of accomplishing it. The purpose being that it wouldn't stifle innovation because other people could come up with other - perhaps improved - methods to accomplish the same thing. Thus innovation continues forward, but the particular device that the original designer came up with is protected, not the goal he set out to accomplish. It's akin to patenting an octagonal wheel. Someone else is free to come along and patent a circle based wheel. But with software patents, even if you do it better, you can be sued for it. Thus obvious stifling of innovation. Sure you could do it on your own time, but you have to wait, what, 50 years before you can make money from it?
Look at the picture. If you walk into an airport with that thing on your chest you've just demonstrated that you completely lack any common sense and deserve what happens.
The only reason she was charged for having a "hoax device" is because there's no law against plain old stupidity.
I used to work on a lot of IBM laptops at my college and there was one model where one of the hinges was sitting directly on the CPU heatsink. This hinge failed at least once on almost every laptop the school had.
If linux isn't properly managing your CPU/heat it's possible that it would cause the hinge metal to soften and break when it otherwise wouldn't.
But realistically they're full of it and should repair your laptop.
The differences between the brains of liberals and conservatives is probably inconclusive. Why? The differences between the beliefs of liberals and conservatives aren't even consistent. Many people that consider themselves liberal hold some conservative beliefs and vice versa.
This study makes about as much sense as studying the difference between the brains of blonds (that bleach their hair) and brunettes.
Your comment title is almost exactly the name of a method I wrote called asciiAndYouShallReceive()
See below: /**
* Replaces ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕÖÙÚÛÜÝàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïñðòóôõö ùúûüý with ASCII lookalikes
* @param inString - String with inernational characters
* @return original string, except with only a-z/A-Z.
*/ public static String asciiAndYouShallReceive(String inString) {
Sadly I can't claim the name itself, one of my friends and coworkers came up with it. I've yet to see a better function/method name.
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We already have.
You think weapons systems defending large military ships at sea are operated by people?
Maybe that's what they tell the grunts. Congratulations, you managed to shoot down large mock targets that weren't shooting back.
Think you can shoot down supersonic missile flying below the horizon? No. They let the computer guided robots do that. You're not nearly good enough at it. Ok, maybe you get lucky and nail it. Now try thirty in five seconds all coming from different bearings. Didn't think so.
I want to fiddle with it.
Only if you use what windows comes with to play MP3s, in which case your user experience may be worse due to WMP behavior. I use winamp exclusively, so for me this would be the same in terms of getting MP3 play up and running.
I had the same problem.
Thanks Google, for not letting me obfuscate or otherwise modify my email when posting directly from Gmail!
Luckily the spam filtering is excellent and I've only seen one spam in my in box in months.
I wish they did things like this in the US. If they did they could arrest the board of MS and other such companies for monopolistic practices rather than wrist slapping them with fines that are simply written off as a cost of doing business.
For the love of FSM, it's "viruses". How many times do we have to point this out?
P.S. If you're going to mod me troll, you need to mod parent flamebait.
Volkswagen Credit and ISM Education loans are just as bad. Every six months or so they send you a notice saying they're going to share/sell your personal information and give you the option of opting out. Sure they send you notice and the opportunity to opt out, but they make it as difficult as fucking possible to do so. How? The notice comes with your bill and a part of it is the opt out form. But you have to fill it out by hand (no online opt out) - name, account number, address check all the boxes. You have to cut it off of the notice; there are no perforations. You have to provide your own envelope (the bill comes with one to pay it, but not the opt out form) - so you also have to fill out their mailing address on it, which is lengthy. You have to provide your own stamp; no business reply mail here! You even have to write in your account number (which is on your bill) on the form. VW Credit and ISM both do all of these things.
Obviously they make it as difficult as possible so you won't do it. And you have to re-opt out every six months or so. It's sickening.
Mostly it's a lack of proper threading.
The GUI has to wait on things like the disk. This is unavoidable, the disk is slower. However, you can put the fetchMeSomeDataFromDisk() call in another thread separate from the GUI management thread and then at least the GUI would continue to be responsive while data is being retrieved to populate a portion of it.
Unfortunately this kind of threading is exceedingly rare because it's freaking hard.
I work with BEA products, namely Weblogic and JRockit. Neither impress me. Weblogic is constantly failing to hand out connections (which is it's primary job) and the stack traces JRockit produces are formatted differently from those of Sun's JVM (which prevents my IDE from turning them into clickable hotlinks that take me to the lines of offending code). FSM knows why they made them different. Oh and the line numbers in your stack trace will be wrong unless you turn off optimization - which is the the whole point of using JRockit. (It's supposed to be faster than Sun's JVM - I've never seen proof).
There, fixed that for ya.
It boggles my mind that people still think that there should be some difference between different professions and their ethics. People behave the same no matter what work they do. That is, people will do anything they can get away with if it's advantageous to them in some way. That one sentence is all you need to explain most things humans do. And indeed most things living beings do. It's nature's code of conduct. The sooner you accept it the sooner you'll stop being surprised by the behavior of living things.
They're not selling audio equipment at all. What they're selling is - quite literally - perceived superiority. The people that buy this stuff don't want better audio. They want to feel superior to other people with perceived "lesser" equipment. That's the real motivation. The more it costs, the more superior you feel! It's a fucking brilliant business model.
Most of the terms "audiophiles" use to describe sound aren't quantifiable in any way whatsoever. And when you dissect it sound is nothing more than compressed air hitting your eardrums, then conducted through bone, liquid, and hairs. These compressed air waves have amplitude and frequency. Nothing else. There are no more attributes to them.
Sound waves are not "warmer", "cooler", "clearer", "danceable" or anything else. They can be louder, or they can have a different frequency. Period. The quality of sound equipment is completely measurable in a quantifiable way. Frequency response. And that's mostly for speakers. The conducting wires have almost nothing to do with it.
I've actually heard that CAT5 cables are the best stereo cables around for two reasons: 1) Absurdly cheap per foot 2) The twisting of the wires in the cable reduces crosstalk and interference. Something that's actually got a basis in science. But still, what do I use? Whatever came with my speakers or I got at Walmart for the lowest price.
The term you're looking for is weaponized stupidity. Remember it. Use it. Enjoy it.
I've been boycotting (I guess it's like "abstaining from" when it's just me) Sony products for years. At least retail. I'd buy used Sony stuff because they don't get a cut.
If everyone else joined me, Sony and their insanity would soon become an interesting footnote in history rather than a corporate juggernaut.
But they issue patents of ideas. Amazon's 1-click is a perfect example. I could write code that would enable 1-click purchases. And it certainly wouldn't be same code that they wrote. Yet, if I did I would be open to lawsuits because I implemented their idea - even if the actual implementation was totally different.
Why can't they reject it on the grounds that software shouldn't be patentable?
Patents were never intended to protect ideas but rather an idea + method of accomplishing it. The purpose being that it wouldn't stifle innovation because other people could come up with other - perhaps improved - methods to accomplish the same thing. Thus innovation continues forward, but the particular device that the original designer came up with is protected, not the goal he set out to accomplish. It's akin to patenting an octagonal wheel. Someone else is free to come along and patent a circle based wheel. But with software patents, even if you do it better, you can be sued for it. Thus obvious stifling of innovation. Sure you could do it on your own time, but you have to wait, what, 50 years before you can make money from it?
Those who can't, teach.
Look at the picture. If you walk into an airport with that thing on your chest you've just demonstrated that you completely lack any common sense and deserve what happens.
The only reason she was charged for having a "hoax device" is because there's no law against plain old stupidity.
Odds of being sued in the US by the 0.000099621456066736971299261070800414 in 1.
Rough approximation based on 30k (they sued 20k by July 2006 and haven't stopped..) people sued and the population of the US.
I used to work on a lot of IBM laptops at my college and there was one model where one of the hinges was sitting directly on the CPU heatsink. This hinge failed at least once on almost every laptop the school had.
If linux isn't properly managing your CPU/heat it's possible that it would cause the hinge metal to soften and break when it otherwise wouldn't.
But realistically they're full of it and should repair your laptop.
As if he knew he'd be the first post!
Look how many keystrokes are in that baby!
You'd have to be a ninja to say all that and still be first.
The differences between the brains of liberals and conservatives is probably inconclusive. Why? The differences between the beliefs of liberals and conservatives aren't even consistent. Many people that consider themselves liberal hold some conservative beliefs and vice versa.
This study makes about as much sense as studying the difference between the brains of blonds (that bleach their hair) and brunettes.
Holy crap!
/**ö ùúûüý with ASCII lookalikes
Your comment title is almost exactly the name of a method I wrote called asciiAndYouShallReceive()
See below:
* Replaces ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕÖÙÚÛÜÝàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïñðòóôõ
* @param inString - String with inernational characters
* @return original string, except with only a-z/A-Z.
*/
public static String asciiAndYouShallReceive(String inString) {
Sadly I can't claim the name itself, one of my friends and coworkers came up with it. I've yet to see a better function/method name.