QuickTime® 6, the first complete solution for industry standard MPEG-4 video and AAC audio streaming
They must have solved the MPEG-4 licensing problems, or anticipate solving them by the time QT6 is released (maybe as part of MacOS X 10.2?). I wonder who won.:)
There were supposedly some low-level changes in 8.0, but I can't for the life of me remember what they were.
Neither can I, but I do remember them saying that they'd ported those low-level Copland elements that were possible to port without breaking the OS. This could have been things like improving the thread handling, etc. More glossing around the edges than removing the cruft:/
I adopt a related approach; I blacklist companies that sponsor shows I find especially annoying. (assuming I would ever have bought anything from that company anyway).
For example, I live in Australia, and the 2nd series of localised Big Brother has just started here; now I see enough annoying advertising for this series that I've decided to punish those people paying for the media blitz. (and the only program I watch on that channel is The Simpsons, maybe a couple of hours a week).
I know my actions alone won't affect them at all, but if enough other people acted like this, maybe companies will stop spending their money on idiotic media 'events' and saturation advertising like this.
It pictured a couple enjoying married congress on the sofa with the TV on in the background and said "accorting to audience statistics these people are watching your advert - who's really being screwed?".
Who's paying for the adverts in the first place? The customers of the company that bought the advertising. They're the ones being screwed.
The only way to stop companies advertising so much is fo everyone to buy the products that are not advertised very much, if at all. Ain't gonna happen, though... otherwise companies wouldn't be spending the billions of dollars that they do on advertising.
I think that this has a much wider application than business alone. Most people's lives are pessimistic not optimistic (usually not without good reason, but maybe it's a vicious circle).:/
However, the thinking as I understand it is that the bonuses for executives are supposed to be incentive for them to stay on through the rough times.
*Don't drink the Kool-Aid!*
Pay them well when they succeed... then pay them well when they fail. What's their incentive to do good things for the company?
Christ, the people with the money really have won the propaganda war, haven't they -- now people believe they acually deserve it no matter what ludicrous levels of performance they sink to.
Just means they'd go broke two weeks or a month sooner.:)
And if you're in the same country I am (Australia), the Government will stump up enough money to pay back all the rich creditors, but strangely enough will stop funnelling taxpayers' money towards the corporate corpse when it comes to meeting that company's obligations to its workers (long service leave pay, etc.) -- money the companies are supposed to be setting aside from Day 1.
I run Linux. What can I do about receiving bounced mails which have my email address in the From: field? Or about people I work with who think I'm sending them penis enlargement spam? Why should I, a non-MS user, have to suffer because of Microsoft's wilful disregard of secure programming? And I'm still getting Code Red hammering away on port 80...
I must confess here to an irrational dislike of some of Pynchon's work -- I'm fine with Joyce's literary games in 'Ulysses', but some of Pynchon's stuff just works at right angles to my brain:/ It's good, but not always for me.
I think that's one of the common threads of the better literature of the last century; the ur-Novel, incorporating threads from many of the great traditions (and that's all that most literary genres are these days, conventions and traditions). The author takes any event, person, mode of writing, etc. as just another tool in the toolbox... might sound a bit pomo but it's produced some great works:) Pynchon definitely falls into that category, and although I haven't heard the term metafiction used for a while (it's been years since I studied this stuff) I think it fits pretty well into that. Pynchon's work, however, can't really be contained by any one genre description -- although if any one genre could be said to fit, SF would be it, but only because SF is so wide-ranging in its ambit:)
Lisa: We _are_ insured, aren't we, Mom? Marge: Homer, tell your child what you bought when I sent you to town to get some insurance. Homer: Curse you, magic beans! Marge: Oh, stop blaming the beans. -- "Homer the Vigilante"
Yes, but I have always appreciated the 'speculative fiction' attitude that the best SF has. In that vein, once speculation becomes mainstream, SF is obliged to go further afield, looking at more outlandish possibilities or literary forms... SF defines itself by its difference from 'normal' work (as a field, anyway, even if individual authors write stuff that could be classed as, e.g., neo-noir detective fiction (much of cyberpunk)).
Authors like Disch and Vonnegut managed to cross over quite successfully (and others tried and failed, e.g. PKD, although I quite like his 'mainstream' novels -- as if anything he wrote could ever be considered normal:)
(It's too early and pre-coffee in the morning for me to take these ideas any further, or back up any of my assertions, but I would at least try to if I weren't feeling this misanthropic at the moment. Sorry.:)
Only coming back into style among people who can't communicate clearly, and need to make their sentences longer and more verbose in order to confuse people.:)
Still, I guess it is a matter of taste; if people want to use archaic and clunky verb constructions, it's no skin off my nose:) Sorry to trouble you (and the original poster).
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QuickTime® 6, the first complete solution for industry standard MPEG-4 video and AAC audio streaming
:)
They must have solved the MPEG-4 licensing problems, or anticipate solving them by the time QT6 is released (maybe as part of MacOS X 10.2?). I wonder who won.
There were supposedly some low-level changes in 8.0, but I can't for the life of me remember what they were.
:/
Neither can I, but I do remember them saying that they'd ported those low-level Copland elements that were possible to port without breaking the OS. This could have been things like improving the thread handling, etc. More glossing around the edges than removing the cruft
Children, if you *are* going to Pluto to explore, remember to rug up nice and warm. It gets mighty cold out there. :)
I adopt a related approach; I blacklist companies that sponsor shows I find especially annoying. (assuming I would ever have bought anything from that company anyway).
For example, I live in Australia, and the 2nd series of localised Big Brother has just started here; now I see enough annoying advertising for this series that I've decided to punish those people paying for the media blitz. (and the only program I watch on that channel is The Simpsons, maybe a couple of hours a week).
I know my actions alone won't affect them at all, but if enough other people acted like this, maybe companies will stop spending their money on idiotic media 'events' and saturation advertising like this.
It pictured a couple enjoying married congress on the sofa with the TV on in the background and said "accorting to audience statistics these people are watching your advert - who's really being screwed?".
Who's paying for the adverts in the first place? The customers of the company that bought the advertising. They're the ones being screwed.
The only way to stop companies advertising so much is fo everyone to buy the products that are not advertised very much, if at all. Ain't gonna happen, though... otherwise companies wouldn't be spending the billions of dollars that they do on advertising.
The Atari Lynx was better (I still own 3 :) It also had the same drawbacks, though...
most policy is driven by fear, not success
:/
I think that this has a much wider application than business alone. Most people's lives are pessimistic not optimistic (usually not without good reason, but maybe it's a vicious circle).
All the good psychics keep quiet about it and make a killing on the stock market. :)
Accounting ... Ok, we have enough to pay the rest now.
:)
Or at least we think we do.
However, the thinking as I understand it is that the bonuses for executives are supposed to be incentive for them to stay on through the rough times.
*Don't drink the Kool-Aid!*
Pay them well when they succeed... then pay them well when they fail. What's their incentive to do good things for the company?
Christ, the people with the money really have won the propaganda war, haven't they -- now people believe they acually deserve it no matter what ludicrous levels of performance they sink to.
Just means they'd go broke two weeks or a month sooner. :)
And if you're in the same country I am (Australia), the Government will stump up enough money to pay back all the rich creditors, but strangely enough will stop funnelling taxpayers' money towards the corporate corpse when it comes to meeting that company's obligations to its workers (long service leave pay, etc.) -- money the companies are supposed to be setting aside from Day 1.
Oh, shut up, Big Nose!
Oh my God...the dead have risen and they're posting to Slashdot!
I run Linux. What can I do about receiving bounced mails which have my email address in the From: field? Or about people I work with who think I'm sending them penis enlargement spam? Why should I, a non-MS user, have to suffer because of Microsoft's wilful disregard of secure programming? And I'm still getting Code Red hammering away on port 80...
Grrrr.
As I work for an AV firm that deals with email protection
...
These email viruses are as pervasive as we are being led to believe
Well, you would say that, wouldn't you? If it weren't true you'd be out of a job!
I'm still partial to the conspiracy theory that has a large number of these viruses being written inside the walls of the antivirus houses anyway...
I must confess here to an irrational dislike of some of Pynchon's work -- I'm fine with Joyce's literary games in 'Ulysses', but some of Pynchon's stuff just works at right angles to my brain :/ It's good, but not always for me.
:) Pynchon definitely falls into that category, and although I haven't heard the term metafiction used for a while (it's been years since I studied this stuff) I think it fits pretty well into that. Pynchon's work, however, can't really be contained by any one genre description -- although if any one genre could be said to fit, SF would be it, but only because SF is so wide-ranging in its ambit :)
I think that's one of the common threads of the better literature of the last century; the ur-Novel, incorporating threads from many of the great traditions (and that's all that most literary genres are these days, conventions and traditions). The author takes any event, person, mode of writing, etc. as just another tool in the toolbox... might sound a bit pomo but it's produced some great works
Lisa: We _are_ insured, aren't we, Mom?
:)
Marge: Homer, tell your child what you bought when I sent you to town to get some insurance.
Homer: Curse you, magic beans!
Marge: Oh, stop blaming the beans.
-- "Homer the Vigilante"
(all thanks to snpp.com
Ummm... AOL hates MS. Sun hates MS. Sun took the Netscape server business during the AOL takeover.
:)
There was a Sun/Netscape Alliance formed at the time of the AOL takeover, which seems to have ended according to iplanet.com.
Sorry I can't be any more help.
Obviously anyone who has read this 'conspracy theory to end all conspiracy theories' will realize why Edison Carter works for 'Network 23'. :)
Funny, last time I heard about Plan 9, it involved turning humans into zombies to take over the world.
:/
What, the audience? That film is truly *TERRIBLE*. Not even "so bad it's good" -- it's worse than that.
heart-shaped face
A large, red, vaguely cone-shaped lump of flesh?
Yes, but I have always appreciated the 'speculative fiction' attitude that the best SF has. In that vein, once speculation becomes mainstream, SF is obliged to go further afield, looking at more outlandish possibilities or literary forms... SF defines itself by its difference from 'normal' work (as a field, anyway, even if individual authors write stuff that could be classed as, e.g., neo-noir detective fiction (much of cyberpunk)).
:)
:)
Authors like Disch and Vonnegut managed to cross over quite successfully (and others tried and failed, e.g. PKD, although I quite like his 'mainstream' novels -- as if anything he wrote could ever be considered normal
(It's too early and pre-coffee in the morning for me to take these ideas any further, or back up any of my assertions, but I would at least try to if I weren't feeling this misanthropic at the moment. Sorry.
Only coming back into style among people who can't communicate clearly, and need to make their sentences longer and more verbose in order to confuse people. :)
:) Sorry to trouble you (and the original poster).
Still, I guess it is a matter of taste; if people want to use archaic and clunky verb constructions, it's no skin off my nose
Also, enhanced competition? This in an industry in which the major play for any new company is 'get bought by Microsoft'?