I heard that CmdrTaco has a deal with the Cartoon Network. He promotes their big push into Anime and they develop a coming of age anime-style cartoon about his pre-Slashdot years. I'm sure struggling with sexuality will be a large part of that show.
VideoCD isn't just for pirates..Especially outside of the USA (and particularly in Asia). You can buy original VCDs, that are full licensed by the movie companies and everything.
Also, even when you buy pirate VideoCDs in such places as China, they are almost always on 'real' CD media, as it is much cheaper to mass produce that way.
There's a lot more to distributed processing than knocking up a decent screensaver. The client side is the easy part, its the actual distribution part that is a huge amount of effort.
But you wouldn't know that, being a clueless Linux user.
This isn't seeing a black hole, it's seeing certain phenomena that might indicate the presence of a black hole. Until somebody actually sees one of these things, they're still purely speculation, and a somewhat dubious one at that, despite the amount of public attention they have managed to capture.
There's a ton of stuff that we can't see that we accept due to available evidence. Example: Gravity. Why do you need to "see" the black hole to know it exists?
To save you some time (if you decide to believe me), here is the basic information:
The site www.hotmail.com runs Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
Windows 2000 users include Halcyon Software, BigCharts and Dell
Microsoft-IIS is also being used by Intel, Halcyon Software and Rainbow Technologies
Besides, what are J. C. Watts and Jesse Jackson going to bitch about next election when our new state-of-the-art system leaves no question next time?
There will always be questions..I can see it now, in 2004 people will be complaining that the technically disadvantaged (people who use Linux and such) couldn't vote because they couldn't work the new fangled computer voting system.
A lot of the power problems in California can be directly traced back to the Java programming language.
Consider this: Java is such a slow, bloated virtual machine enviornment that it requires at least twice the CPU horsepower and memory to run the same applications written in a language such as C++.
Unfortunately many companys bought into Sun's lies about Java and implemented Java based systems, particularly on the server side. The result? Far too many servers eating up way more energy than they need.
DON'T USE JAVA!!!! People who use Java are contributing to the downfall of the California economy.
I realize there's a large group of people who have nostalgic feelings for pinball, but I just have to be the dissenting voice..
Pinball is not very fun. Even the 'expert' pinball machines are just way too easy. I can play them for hours on a single quarter.
Some pinball makers had the right idea by adding lots of lights and pseudo-video-game displays to the machines, but they never took it far enough, and the same boring slap-the-ball gameplay was the core of the game. Sorry, but I'm not a retard. I need something a bit more challenging than hitting a ball with some flippers. Even Whack-a-mole is more exciting.
If you want some real fun, try some original video games, like Sega's excellent Final Fantasy games for the NeoGeo.
'Is this really/. material' (if material were spelled right) is actually quite a clever pun, given the subject of the article. However, I'm not sure it was intended.
You may think this is funny now but it wont be so funny when talented artists like Eminem stop writing music because you communists think you are allowed to steal it for free.
But, then, if you paid for the final development work on the most popular compressed media format in the world, wouldn't you go looking for a little compensation?
That's a silly question to ask on Slashdot.
Most of the people on this site wave the banner of Freedom and Openness when in reality all they want is a free lunch. In my experience, the same people who support open source software are the ones who support the whole pirate warez scene.
They dont want more freedom, they just want more things for free. That's why any sane person can see that there is a huge degree of communist idealism in the open source movement. Don't kid yourself, Richard Stallman is redder than Stalin!!!
Actually, as the article states, they are playing catch up with Microsoft's Windows Media formats more than anything in the Open Source world. Ogg Vorbis is great, better than mp3. But have you heard the quality of Windows Media Format Audio version 8? Or seen the video of its video-counterpart? It blows away anything else currently available.
If you haven't seen it, there's a demo/beta version available on Microsoft's site. The quality (for the amount of data used) is simply amazing.
Heh why is this moderated as Interesting? I don't mean to sound flamish, but that WAS a stupid question, and all you need is half an ounce of common sense (not technical knowledge) to realize that if they can maintain the same quality with half the data they can have better quality in the same amount of data.
I think that in general its because the patented, closed technology comes first. With all due respect to the people who create wonderful patent free & Open Source alternatives (png, ogg vorbis, etc) they are always in reaction to an existing technology brought forth by a company who could afford the R&D costs on something more original.
By the time the open source alternative is available for use by non-programmers it is generally too late...Even if the open source alternative has considerable benefits over the closed one (PNG compared to GIF for example) habits that have had time to form don't die easily, and the majority of people just stick with what they've already grown used to.
I really had high hopes for Helix Code making the Linux desktop as easy to use as Windows, but I'm not going to use it if the people behind the project pull this kind of crap.
You've lost at least one software sale from me, Ximian!!!
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I heard that CmdrTaco has a deal with the Cartoon Network. He promotes their big push into Anime and they develop a coming of age anime-style cartoon about his pre-Slashdot years. I'm sure struggling with sexuality will be a large part of that show.
VideoCD isn't just for pirates..Especially outside of the USA (and particularly in Asia). You can buy original VCDs, that are full licensed by the movie companies and everything.
Also, even when you buy pirate VideoCDs in such places as China, they are almost always on 'real' CD media, as it is much cheaper to mass produce that way.
But you wouldn't know that, being a clueless Linux user.
There's a ton of stuff that we can't see that we accept due to available evidence. Example: Gravity. Why do you need to "see" the black hole to know it exists?
That seems to be the prevailing attitude for SourceForge projects...All you need is a cool name. Actually producing any code is optional.
SourceForge is like one big lump of unfinished (never to be finished) projects started by starry-eyed 16 year olds looking for net-cred.
Look on netcraft for verification.
To save you some time (if you decide to believe me), here is the basic information:
The site www.hotmail.com runs Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000 Windows 2000 users include Halcyon Software, BigCharts and Dell Microsoft-IIS is also being used by Intel, Halcyon Software and Rainbow Technologies
There will always be questions..I can see it now, in 2004 people will be complaining that the technically disadvantaged (people who use Linux and such) couldn't vote because they couldn't work the new fangled computer voting system.
Consider this: Java is such a slow, bloated virtual machine enviornment that it requires at least twice the CPU horsepower and memory to run the same applications written in a language such as C++.
Unfortunately many companys bought into Sun's lies about Java and implemented Java based systems, particularly on the server side. The result? Far too many servers eating up way more energy than they need.
DON'T USE JAVA!!!! People who use Java are contributing to the downfall of the California economy.
Pinball is not very fun. Even the 'expert' pinball machines are just way too easy. I can play them for hours on a single quarter.
Some pinball makers had the right idea by adding lots of lights and pseudo-video-game displays to the machines, but they never took it far enough, and the same boring slap-the-ball gameplay was the core of the game. Sorry, but I'm not a retard. I need something a bit more challenging than hitting a ball with some flippers. Even Whack-a-mole is more exciting.
If you want some real fun, try some original video games, like Sega's excellent Final Fantasy games for the NeoGeo.
Yeah these guys are idiots. Everyone knows RedHat == Linux.
'Is this really /. material' (if material were spelled right) is actually quite a clever pun, given the subject of the article. However, I'm not sure it was intended.
You may think this is funny now but it wont be so funny when talented artists like Eminem stop writing music because you communists think you are allowed to steal it for free.
That's a silly question to ask on Slashdot.
Most of the people on this site wave the banner of Freedom and Openness when in reality all they want is a free lunch. In my experience, the same people who support open source software are the ones who support the whole pirate warez scene. They dont want more freedom, they just want more things for free. That's why any sane person can see that there is a huge degree of communist idealism in the open source movement. Don't kid yourself, Richard Stallman is redder than Stalin!!!
If you haven't seen it, there's a demo/beta version available on Microsoft's site. The quality (for the amount of data used) is simply amazing.
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Of course, if you're running a non-Windows machine, don't bother.
Clearly the post is a troll?
By the time the open source alternative is available for use by non-programmers it is generally too late...Even if the open source alternative has considerable benefits over the closed one (PNG compared to GIF for example) habits that have had time to form don't die easily, and the majority of people just stick with what they've already grown used to.
Now Dreamcast owners can experience, first hand, the joy of being told they '4r3 4ll p1ng, n0 skiLlz!!! FuX0ring LPB!@# Eye 0Wn j00 on L4N!!!"
I really had high hopes for Helix Code making the Linux desktop as easy to use as Windows, but I'm not going to use it if the people behind the project pull this kind of crap.
You've lost at least one software sale from me, Ximian!!!