That's it. I am suing Internet. Your refusal to listen to whatever I have to say as if it were spoken by God himself will get you removed from Internet.
I know what the University of California is. I know what the Greek letter mu is. But it will be a cold day in hell before I pronounce C-SIMM as anything but "U-C SIMM."
(Is it me, or is this whole karma freeze thing awesome? I could troll at Score 2 all day.)
Ever since I posted my resume on my web site a few years ago, I have received several e-mails from companies to the effect of "Thank you for submitting your resume to our web site!" even when I never visited their web site. I'm sure that many more have spidered the web, found my resume and thousands more like it, and charged businesses for the use of their list. All the while, I don't see a cent of this income. (I have received some interesting job offers, though.)
I can't completely blame them, though. I didn't put a robots.txt on my site, so all of this content is up for grabs. Sad, in a way.
The ever-popular Fucked Company awarded viewers 189 points for picking this company -- turns out that they have been accused previously of selling content they don't own. What a way to make a business: take stolen content and slap a horrible interface on it. Then bring on the venture capital.
I thought it was "you-see SIMM," much the same way as you might pronounce "UC-Irvine," "UC-Berkeley," etc. And you can use µ to produce the symbol, so no biggie there.
In short, please remove yourself from Slashdot before posting any further "fun jokes." You're ruining my Internet experience.
I'm running Winamp on a Windows NT machine (PIII-550) and I've noticed a significant increase in CPU utilization when playing OGG files. MP3 playing tends to run the CPU load to 1-2%, but I get around 10% or more when playing OGG files. It takes about half a second to start playing a file -- not terrible, but still a noticeable lag.
Also, I'm listening to Trio's quintessential "Da Da Da" song, which the encoder actually made _larger_ in OGG format. Quality's decent, but you have to wonder what causes some files to become larger. Most of the files I've encoded get smaller -- around 60-80% of the original size.
I remember hearing all this praise a couple of years ago about VQF files -- all the quality of MP3 files, in much less space. (Or something like that.) Without mainstream support, VQF files quietly went unnoticed. Microsoft now promotes its Windows Media codecs, which deliver very good performance in a very compact file, but suffer from the obvious platform dependence issues. Where does Vorbis stand in all of this? Right now, it looks like just another good idea that will be defeated by good marketing.
IRC is not as "unified" as AIM or ICQ because it is a protocol for many disjoint networks. Users on DALnet can't talk to users on EFnet, Undernet, or any other network.
But, now they've got a client out for Linux, and it displays ads.
You know, even if you don't run Linux, you could still visit the AIM web site to see screen shots of the Linux beta. And you will see, very clearly, that the client does not display ads. (Yet.)
The beef that AOL had with Yahoo, Microsoft, and Odigo wasn't just that they were allowing AIM customers in, but that other companies were slapping their OWN ads on these clients. Can you imagine how aggravating it would be if you built up a whole network for years at your own expense, and other people started making money off of it without your permission?
GAIM, Everybuddy, TiK, et al don't have ads in them, so AOL doesn't consider them threats. The fact that they don't run out of the box on Windows or MacOS, the OS's that most of their customers use, makes them that much less of a threat.
I'm sure Martin Luther King and Gandhi would be proud that you refuse to pay for music. Napster Inc. should expect its Nobel Peace Prize real soon now.
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Surprisingly, you can! I just tried this on my system (Windows NT 4.0 SP6) and it ran the.com executable just like the.exe one. The only downside is that the icon is reset to a simple generic program icon. (Not like that'll stop someone sufficiently dumb.)
Bear in mind that iPaq is also the name for a legacy-free desktop that Compaq made, with no floppy drive and only USB connectors. It didn't include a monitor, unlike Gateway and Dell's half-assed attempts to clone the iMac.
A search on Google turned up only two hits to Sharezilla. One was the site mentioned in the article; the other was this comment from a/. article posted last month. Could be helpful.
But what if every housepainter and landscaper in town suddenly banded together and set a minimum price for their services? That defeats the purpose of competition, when companies decide to set uniform prices across the industry. It's happened in the airline business, it's happened in the telephone business, and now it's happening in the recording business.
Mandating that you must charge X dollars for a CD, or you won't be able to sell any more of their CD's, is flatly anti-competitive. It means that all stores have to charge more, and that consumers always lose. We have laws against that, you know.
Far be it from me to voice an opinion that doesn't boil down to "RECORD COMPANIES SUCK!" but have you considered the price change in real dollars? Considering the inflation rate, as well as the fact that the U.S. economy is very strong, CD prices have gone up roughly at the rate of inflation. While I still believe they're high, they haven't been _rising_ all that much.
After the untimely and unsightly death of my Palm III, I decided to invest in a decent case for my replacement. At auction, I got a PalmGlove case for $10. It retails for $20. It's a zippered case made of Neoprene, the same material they make wetsuits out of. I've batted it around a little bit, and the organizer inside doesn't have a scratch on it. The only nice thing it doesn't have is a belt loop, but I can just toss it in my bookbag's front pocket. It's available in a few different colors.
It's much more secure than carrying it in one's pants pocket (I tried that) and I like the stylings of it, even though there are laws passed to ensure I'm never seen wearing a wetsuit. More info available here. I would link to the Palm store, but it's down at the moment.
Sorry about that. Earlier today, Palm's details sheet on the m100 indicated that the unit had Flash ROM, although it also said that the box included a "HotSync cadle." Fortunately, the m100 ships with Palm OS 3.5, the most current version.
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I hate to sound like an Apple apologist here, but Palm is just buying itself time before unveiling its new handhelds next year. They plan to move from the 68000-based Motorola processors to ARM processors at the same time they upgrade to Palm OS 4. They also plan on introducing yet ANOTHER expansion standard, the SD card, to go with new devices. Details are sketchy at this time.
They haven't made any official announcements of specific handhelds or even the OS, yet. I wouldn't call this vaporware. FUD? Maybe.
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That's it. I am suing Internet. Your refusal to listen to whatever I have to say as if it were spoken by God himself will get you removed from Internet.
I know what the University of California is. I know what the Greek letter mu is. But it will be a cold day in hell before I pronounce C-SIMM as anything but "U-C SIMM."
(Is it me, or is this whole karma freeze thing awesome? I could troll at Score 2 all day.)
Ever since I posted my resume on my web site a few years ago, I have received several e-mails from companies to the effect of "Thank you for submitting your resume to our web site!" even when I never visited their web site. I'm sure that many more have spidered the web, found my resume and thousands more like it, and charged businesses for the use of their list. All the while, I don't see a cent of this income. (I have received some interesting job offers, though.)
I can't completely blame them, though. I didn't put a robots.txt on my site, so all of this content is up for grabs. Sad, in a way.
The ever-popular Fucked Company awarded viewers 189 points for picking this company -- turns out that they have been accused previously of selling content they don't own. What a way to make a business: take stolen content and slap a horrible interface on it. Then bring on the venture capital.
I thought it was "you-see SIMM," much the same way as you might pronounce "UC-Irvine," "UC-Berkeley," etc. And you can use µ to produce the symbol, so no biggie there.
In short, please remove yourself from Slashdot before posting any further "fun jokes." You're ruining my Internet experience.
I'm running Winamp on a Windows NT machine (PIII-550) and I've noticed a significant increase in CPU utilization when playing OGG files. MP3 playing tends to run the CPU load to 1-2%, but I get around 10% or more when playing OGG files. It takes about half a second to start playing a file -- not terrible, but still a noticeable lag.
Also, I'm listening to Trio's quintessential "Da Da Da" song, which the encoder actually made _larger_ in OGG format. Quality's decent, but you have to wonder what causes some files to become larger. Most of the files I've encoded get smaller -- around 60-80% of the original size.
Download one of the converters and see. Available for Win32, Linux, and BeOS.
I remember hearing all this praise a couple of years ago about VQF files -- all the quality of MP3 files, in much less space. (Or something like that.) Without mainstream support, VQF files quietly went unnoticed. Microsoft now promotes its Windows Media codecs, which deliver very good performance in a very compact file, but suffer from the obvious platform dependence issues. Where does Vorbis stand in all of this? Right now, it looks like just another good idea that will be defeated by good marketing.
IRC is not as "unified" as AIM or ICQ because it is a protocol for many disjoint networks. Users on DALnet can't talk to users on EFnet, Undernet, or any other network.
But, now they've got a client out for Linux, and it displays ads.
You know, even if you don't run Linux, you could still visit the AIM web site to see screen shots of the Linux beta. And you will see, very clearly, that the client does not display ads. (Yet.)
As far as i can tell, the only difference between the two is that one has adds, and the other doesn't.
Did you look at the page? The AIM Linux client currently does not show ads.
The beef that AOL had with Yahoo, Microsoft, and Odigo wasn't just that they were allowing AIM customers in, but that other companies were slapping their OWN ads on these clients. Can you imagine how aggravating it would be if you built up a whole network for years at your own expense, and other people started making money off of it without your permission?
GAIM, Everybuddy, TiK, et al don't have ads in them, so AOL doesn't consider them threats. The fact that they don't run out of the box on Windows or MacOS, the OS's that most of their customers use, makes them that much less of a threat.
Don't forget Everybuddy. Make sure to get the latest CVS source -- it's a bit crash-prone but more feature-rich than the stable release.
...crippled aim client IMMEDIATLEY. Why would I want to use gaim with logging, smily fces, spell checking, gtk interfae.
Somhow i tink u need a spel cheker for ur web browzer to.
(picture of smily fces -- add your choice of vowels)
I'm sure Martin Luther King and Gandhi would be proud that you refuse to pay for music. Napster Inc. should expect its Nobel Peace Prize real soon now.
Surprisingly, you can! I just tried this on my system (Windows NT 4.0 SP6) and it ran the .com executable just like the .exe one. The only downside is that the icon is reset to a simple generic program icon. (Not like that'll stop someone sufficiently dumb.)
Bear in mind that iPaq is also the name for a legacy-free desktop that Compaq made, with no floppy drive and only USB connectors. It didn't include a monitor, unlike Gateway and Dell's half-assed attempts to clone the iMac.
A search on Google turned up only two hits to Sharezilla. One was the site mentioned in the article; the other was this comment from a /. article posted last month. Could be helpful.
(time for some good old fashioned flip flopping)
But what if every housepainter and landscaper in town suddenly banded together and set a minimum price for their services? That defeats the purpose of competition, when companies decide to set uniform prices across the industry. It's happened in the airline business, it's happened in the telephone business, and now it's happening in the recording business.
Mandating that you must charge X dollars for a CD, or you won't be able to sell any more of their CD's, is flatly anti-competitive. It means that all stores have to charge more, and that consumers always lose. We have laws against that, you know.
(raises flame shield)
Far be it from me to voice an opinion that doesn't boil down to "RECORD COMPANIES SUCK!" but have you considered the price change in real dollars? Considering the inflation rate, as well as the fact that the U.S. economy is very strong, CD prices have gone up roughly at the rate of inflation. While I still believe they're high, they haven't been _rising_ all that much.
That's funny... I clicked your link in IE 5.5, and all I got was a blue page. (Blue screen, anyone?)
Almost as good as the IE easter egg showing the IE 'e' logo smashing Godzilla.
After the untimely and unsightly death of my Palm III, I decided to invest in a decent case for my replacement. At auction, I got a PalmGlove case for $10. It retails for $20. It's a zippered case made of Neoprene, the same material they make wetsuits out of. I've batted it around a little bit, and the organizer inside doesn't have a scratch on it. The only nice thing it doesn't have is a belt loop, but I can just toss it in my bookbag's front pocket. It's available in a few different colors.
It's much more secure than carrying it in one's pants pocket (I tried that) and I like the stylings of it, even though there are laws passed to ensure I'm never seen wearing a wetsuit. More info available here. I would link to the Palm store, but it's down at the moment.
A wise man one said that 640k would be enough for anyone :-)
No, he didn't. Sorry.
Sorry about that. Earlier today, Palm's details sheet on the m100 indicated that the unit had Flash ROM, although it also said that the box included a "HotSync cadle." Fortunately, the m100 ships with Palm OS 3.5, the most current version.
I hate to sound like an Apple apologist here, but Palm is just buying itself time before unveiling its new handhelds next year. They plan to move from the 68000-based Motorola processors to ARM processors at the same time they upgrade to Palm OS 4. They also plan on introducing yet ANOTHER expansion standard, the SD card, to go with new devices. Details are sketchy at this time.
They haven't made any official announcements of specific handhelds or even the OS, yet. I wouldn't call this vaporware. FUD? Maybe.