I approached the guy after the sales associate left and said "listen, that guy has no clue what he's talking about. I is interlaced, P is progressive. On an "i" it's drawing 540 lines every frame, on a "p" it's drawing all 1080. Go with the "P" if you can afford the difference. It's worth it"
I think having songs with DRM and without DRM in the iTunes Store would be a PR disaster for Apple. 95% of all customers don't take much notice of DRM. If some songs come without it, 100% of customers will notice it.
there was a watch repair booth at the grocery store and an old man (as I remember him) sat there all day with his loupe repairing watches. My mom would drop me at his booth and I would just stand there, fascinated.
Not far from where I lived as a child (in the nineties) there was this little TV/stereo repair shop. Usually it was just the owner himself. I used to hang out there a lot after school. On display in the windows there was this REALLY old equipment for sale. No-one would buy anything from him. Ever. But many people (including other businesses) in town would use his service to repair their old equipment.
I think that he has had many near-death experiences. As the years passed by, I began to see stacks-upon-stacks of boxes with Laserdisc-players in the backroom. I was curious as to why these were there. It turns out that this little one-man-shop were PAL-modifying NTSC players for the whole country!
The years passed on and I grew older and stopped hanging around. Then some years ago I needed to by some antenna-plugs. I saw the same stack-upon-stacks, this time of DVD-players. Now he was removing region-protection from DVD-players!
Some month ago the shop finally closed business. I was pretty sad to see it go, it was one of the last shops in town that actually knew anything about electronics.
I have actually done a patch for the Gimp (Rewrote the Hue-saturation tool for more speed and correctness). I use it daily and a few of my friends do. But it's not in Gimp, why?
When i first developed it, i joined the developers irc-channel. That was a rude awakening.
I presented my patch with an example webpage demonstrating the differences. The following happened:
- Some people saw interest and was generally pleased with the speed and result (that includes you i believe). - Some people helped me place my helper functions in the right places. - Many people told me: "Stop doing that, it's useless, we're moving to GEGL". - Some people complained that a hadn't talked to anyone beforehand.
I received a LOT of stop-energy. It was a really bad experience aften i had used 50+ hours making the patch. I simply gave up. Sorry.
Microsoft's new security initiative announced that a 100% secure Operating System Platform (tm) is possible. And it's very simple too: Don't trust Microsoft. Don't buy Microsoft Products. Don't talk about Microsoft. Don't look in any direction.
This reminds me of an idea that i've had for som etime.. spamnewsreportingforthemasses.com - A news site reporting news from spam-sources - sort of like a satirical view on spam. "New indian health care enables you to have more lovers" "New solution for your economical problems found"
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there was a watch repair booth at the grocery store and an old man (as I remember him) sat there all day with his loupe repairing watches. My mom would drop me at his booth and I would just stand there, fascinated.
Not far from where I lived as a child (in the nineties) there was this little TV/stereo repair shop. Usually it was just the owner himself. I used to hang out there a lot after school. On display in the windows there was this REALLY old equipment for sale. No-one would buy anything from him. Ever. But many people (including other businesses) in town would use his service to repair their old equipment.
I think that he has had many near-death experiences. As the years passed by, I began to see stacks-upon-stacks of boxes with Laserdisc-players in the backroom. I was curious as to why these were there. It turns out that this little one-man-shop were PAL-modifying NTSC players for the whole country!
The years passed on and I grew older and stopped hanging around. Then some years ago I needed to by some antenna-plugs. I saw the same stack-upon-stacks, this time of DVD-players. Now he was removing region-protection from DVD-players!
Some month ago the shop finally closed business. I was pretty sad to see it go, it was one of the last shops in town that actually knew anything about electronics.
Maybe you're also interested in another title by the very same author: "Mastering Line Noise" ...
To avoid accidents like that I always use old Quantum Fireballs connected with firewire.
"George Bush is an alien"
How can you even say something like that?! Everyone knows he's a machine. Ignorant.
So why do people seek help from IRC? I'd like to know.
You said it best yourself: "I want an answer now!" - I think it really boils down to exactly that.
He said a lot of interesting things. But apparently it got mixed up with some noisy talk about Windows. Nasty. Here is the original text:
I too FIND SEXY GIRLS IN YOUR AREA and BUY CHEAP V1AGRA or GET A BIGGER PEN1S NOW!! I understand FREE PORN.
(i didn't post the original, but i'll respond)
I have actually done a patch for the Gimp (Rewrote the Hue-saturation tool for more speed and correctness). I use it daily and a few of my friends do. But it's not in Gimp, why?
When i first developed it, i joined the developers irc-channel. That was a rude awakening.
I presented my patch with an example webpage demonstrating the differences. The following happened:
- Some people saw interest and was generally pleased with the speed and result (that includes you i believe).
- Some people helped me place my helper functions in the right places.
- Many people told me: "Stop doing that, it's useless, we're moving to GEGL".
- Some people complained that a hadn't talked to anyone beforehand.
I received a LOT of stop-energy. It was a really bad experience aften i had used 50+ hours making the patch. I simply gave up. Sorry.
Everybody knows that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random is the only true homepage.
It's always fun to beat up smart kids...
So does someone have the answer? What the hell do these terms mean, and are they useful any more?
Yep!
Alpha: Doesn't work, full of bugs.
Beta: Still doesn't work, still full of bugs.
Release: Still doesn't work, but it's not a bug - it's a feature.
Pardon my ignorance, by why would you consider a switch to be less desirable than a hub?
A hub is perfect for sniffing and debugging networks.
Another idea could be two NICs in a laptop and do bridging...
Of course, we must remember, "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
You misspelled "future".
FreeBSD 5.3: Resurrection
When will they learn? It's 'cracking', not 'hacking'!
iThink i have Inough Idiocity from my I-neighbor with my iMac and iPod downloading from my I-neighbor's Insecure iPass AP.
Lets give them a Slashdot traffic jam!
Bwaha! In a short moment:
There are 0 registered and 0 anonymous users currently online. Current bandwidth usage: 9501.01 kbit/s
argh...
Microsoft's new security initiative announced that a 100% secure Operating System Platform (tm) is possible. And it's very simple too: Don't trust Microsoft. Don't buy Microsoft Products. Don't talk about Microsoft. Don't look in any direction.
We knew that already...
This reminds me of an idea that i've had for som etime.. spamnewsreportingforthemasses.com - A news site reporting news from spam-sources - sort of like a satirical view on spam.
"New indian health care enables you to have more lovers"
"New solution for your economical problems found"
- and throw in a hoax section too...
#define FREE(p) do { free(p); p=NULL} while(0)
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Or do i still get it wrong ?