Traditionally, Linux's bug-count has always been much higher. You can check out the counts at Security Focus, if you want. Most people attribute this to the open-versus-closed nature of Linux and Microsoft, though it's impossible to say for certain why. Maybe Linux is buggier. Maybe Microsoft just hides their bugs.
That's retarded. Your argument proves nothing at all, because you're making certain assumptions that really can't be made at all.
You're assuming that a soul has to be created through 'coitus and traditional conception'.
You're assuming that the inability to create creatures of free will would HAVE to be because of a "soul".
If a being "receives" its soul independent of sexual conception (clearly this would have to be true, since sex is proven to not be required in the making of a child), then it is possible that these home-made creatures would receive their sould by the same process.
And the inability to create sentient creatures could be due to errors in the science, not due to a "soul" -- You couldn't take a failure here and say, "Well, it must be because of God." It proves nothing at all.
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Gnutella can switch ports, but you can hardly tell all the *other* users of Gnutella to share their files on a port that you can use. If the default sharing port on Gnutella machines is 7600, then I have to download from 7600. And if my University restricts that port, I'm out of luck unless everyone else switches up to a port that I can use unrestricted.
Which brings us to port 80, for HTTP. Sure, file-sharing services could use port 80 to download from, and that would be fine -- except that it's just as easy to block people from running services on port 80 as it is on any other port. A number of ISPs already block that port, so their users can't run webservers. On top of that, even if the port is unrestricted, you've now got a conflict if you try to run both your file-sharing program and a webserver.
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The University of Massachusetts in Amherst has done the same thing. The Office of Intormation Technology here has throttled the ports that are used by Napster, iMesh, FastTrack, and the default port for Gnutella. So we can still use the services, but off-campus downloads are restricted to about 1.5 kbytes/sec.
Um, you were willfully circumventing their network security. Clearly file-sharing over the network had been disabled, yet you decided that you knew better than the Network policy-makers.
Hey, maybe you did know better than them. But it doesn't change the facts, which are that you installed a program with the intention of getting around restrictions that were deliberately placed on the network.
It's not hard to think of reasons why Network Admins wouldn't want FTP daemons running on systems connected to the network.
Go into the "Options" area and turn off hardware acceleration completely. You'll now be able to get a screenshot, although regular viewing may not be as smooth, due to the complete use of software to do decoding.
It's not a conspiracy to prevent screenshots, it's just that to speed up decoding, the Media Player offloads processing to the videocard, which obscures the image from regular software.
No it wouldn't. Although you could stick this on your van, if you turned a corner it would stop working. The dish depends on being pointed due-south; it's pretty picky.
"We believe the compromise is simple and straightforward: restrict the blue-box link to out-of-print and collectible books and list all used book offerings after all new versions of a title are listed. Our members want nothing more than a fair opportunity to earn royalties for their book sales whatever the sales outlet. We hope that Amazon will respect this very reasonable professional goal.
We are encouraged by your publicly stated commitment not to hurt authors or publishers with your new Marketplace. We welcome the opportunity to discuss other ways to meet that commitment and would be happy to meet with you or your representatives regarding this matter."
The letter was nothing but polite, and could only be called an "appeal to Amazon". The very idea of legal action is out-of-line, and insulting to the people who wrote this. Disagree if you like (I think everyone agrees on that point) but don't blow this out of proportion.
Did anyone even mention legal action? Of course not. This was a request of Amazon to discontinue the practice of selling used books.
On top of that, even if they were suing, where would the danger of a lawsuit to themselves come from? And Anti-Trust? Do you have a clue what you're talking about?
I stand corrected: After checking out that site you pointed me to, I realize that DivX;-) is available on the Macintosh. Of course, that doesn't make it any more Open Source or even cross-platform. It uses the Macintosh version of the Windows Media Player, and the Macintosh version of the hacked binary that was originally stolen from Microsoft in the first place.
There is no open source DivX;-) codec. It was stolen from Microsoft in the alpha stage and remains a second-rate codec, due to this. The newer versions of Microsoft's MPEG4 scheme are *much* better. After all, why wouldn't MS use their own codec, if DivX;-) was really so good? I have tested each of these various MPEG4s and am quite satisfied that Microsoft's Windows Media Encoder does the best job of compression relative to loss in quality. And I've heard even better things about their upcoming version of Windows Media.
As others, and yourself, have pointed out, the DLL method does work. It's hardly open source, nor is it portable beyond x86 architechture. As for the Macintosh port, I have heard nothing about this, and you aren't offering any compelling evidence that it actually exists. And as for the Matrix screenshot, I was unable to find it, although I don't doubt that it was once there.
It's not quite as high as he was saying, but it's high enough:
Almost every video game.
A large number of pieces of hardware.
A decent, stable office suite.
Fonts that don't look like complete ass.
Professional-quality graphics programs (Photoshop and Illustrator).
DVD players.
There are probably others, as well, but that's all I can think of right now. And for each item on that list there is limited support under Linux. For example, I won't deny that KOffice has serious potential... If it didn't crash every two minutes. I'm sorry, but I'm sticking with Win2k. It's at least as stable as Linux and, unlike Linux, the applications are there.
The encoder is free. Unfortunately, it doesn't encode to AVI's, but to WMV's, which are not readable by every application. Regardless, if you don't mind using Windows Media Player (which I don't), you can download the Encoder for free and convert your existing AVIs. The quality is exceptional.
DivX, with or without the smiley face, is not an open standard, nor has it been successfully reverse-engineered. XMPS has plans for DivX support, and it's listed on their website, but I'm fairly certain that it's non-existant. I don't know if they've implemented this yet, but XMPS was planning a Win32 codec-wrapper. Sounds sketchy to me, but it would (theoretically) allow you to use DivX videos.
However, the only confirmed way to watch DivX encoded videos (to my knowledge) is through any number of windows applications that are using the DivX;-) codec. This codec is simply a binary hack of a stolen alpha-release of Microsoft's MPEG4 codec.
I've been waiting for the final release of this codec to do any actual work with it, but I'm really looking forward to this. Even if Windows Media 8 is only marginally better than Windows Media 7, it will still be the best codec around, hand down, in terms of quality and compression. Right now RealVideo and Quicktime are only holding on by their name-recognition... Microsoft has really created a formidable video system, and you don't have to pay ridiculous amounts of money, like with some other companies.
I've had mixed results from using the various binary hack MPEG4 codecs available. The best MPEG4 I've found so far (and I've tried a number) has been Microsoft's official Windows Media 7 MPEG4 format. It's truly excellent. The ISO standard implementation doesn't hold a candle to it... I hope these guy's have done some serious optimizations.
I'd like to see some sources for that? I find it hard to believe that computer/console game sales are higher than that of the movie industry. When you take into consideration the multiple venues that a movie makes money in, I don't think your statement could possibly be accurate.
Oh he can start one... He just can't keep it going. What's the limit? 20 days, or something like that. Look to what his father did, during the Persian Gulf War, for an example of executive war powers.
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Traditionally, Linux's bug-count has always been much higher. You can check out the counts at Security Focus, if you want. Most people attribute this to the open-versus-closed nature of Linux and Microsoft, though it's impossible to say for certain why. Maybe Linux is buggier. Maybe Microsoft just hides their bugs.
How would you compile it? You don't have the original source to login.
You're crazy. I'd take that bet any day.
Uh, der. He was making fun of the fact that most posters here are total losers, and can barely interact socially, let alone 'engineer'.
If a being "receives" its soul independent of sexual conception (clearly this would have to be true, since sex is proven to not be required in the making of a child), then it is possible that these home-made creatures would receive their sould by the same process.
And the inability to create sentient creatures could be due to errors in the science, not due to a "soul" -- You couldn't take a failure here and say, "Well, it must be because of God." It proves nothing at all.
Which brings us to port 80, for HTTP. Sure, file-sharing services could use port 80 to download from, and that would be fine -- except that it's just as easy to block people from running services on port 80 as it is on any other port. A number of ISPs already block that port, so their users can't run webservers. On top of that, even if the port is unrestricted, you've now got a conflict if you try to run both your file-sharing program and a webserver.
The University of Massachusetts in Amherst has done the same thing. The Office of Intormation Technology here has throttled the ports that are used by Napster, iMesh, FastTrack, and the default port for Gnutella. So we can still use the services, but off-campus downloads are restricted to about 1.5 kbytes/sec.
Hey, maybe you did know better than them. But it doesn't change the facts, which are that you installed a program with the intention of getting around restrictions that were deliberately placed on the network.
It's not hard to think of reasons why Network Admins wouldn't want FTP daemons running on systems connected to the network.
You have been trolled. Have a nice day.
It's not a conspiracy to prevent screenshots, it's just that to speed up decoding, the Media Player offloads processing to the videocard, which obscures the image from regular software.
No it wouldn't. Although you could stick this on your van, if you turned a corner it would stop working. The dish depends on being pointed due-south; it's pretty picky.
We are encouraged by your publicly stated commitment not to hurt authors or publishers with your new Marketplace. We welcome the opportunity to discuss other ways to meet that commitment and would be happy to meet with you or your representatives regarding this matter."
The letter was nothing but polite, and could only be called an "appeal to Amazon". The very idea of legal action is out-of-line, and insulting to the people who wrote this. Disagree if you like (I think everyone agrees on that point) but don't blow this out of proportion.
On top of that, even if they were suing, where would the danger of a lawsuit to themselves come from? And Anti-Trust? Do you have a clue what you're talking about?
There is no open source DivX ;-) codec. It was stolen from Microsoft in the alpha stage and remains a second-rate codec, due to this. The newer versions of Microsoft's MPEG4 scheme are *much* better. After all, why wouldn't MS use their own codec, if DivX ;-) was really so good? I have tested each of these various MPEG4s and am quite satisfied that Microsoft's Windows Media Encoder does the best job of compression relative to loss in quality. And I've heard even better things about their upcoming version of Windows Media.
As others, and yourself, have pointed out, the DLL method does work. It's hardly open source, nor is it portable beyond x86 architechture. As for the Macintosh port, I have heard nothing about this, and you aren't offering any compelling evidence that it actually exists. And as for the Matrix screenshot, I was unable to find it, although I don't doubt that it was once there.
There are probably others, as well, but that's all I can think of right now. And for each item on that list there is limited support under Linux. For example, I won't deny that KOffice has serious potential... If it didn't crash every two minutes. I'm sorry, but I'm sticking with Win2k. It's at least as stable as Linux and, unlike Linux, the applications are there.
The encoder is free. Unfortunately, it doesn't encode to AVI's, but to WMV's, which are not readable by every application. Regardless, if you don't mind using Windows Media Player (which I don't), you can download the Encoder for free and convert your existing AVIs. The quality is exceptional.
However, the only confirmed way to watch DivX encoded videos (to my knowledge) is through any number of windows applications that are using the DivX ;-) codec. This codec is simply a binary hack of a stolen alpha-release of Microsoft's MPEG4 codec.
I've been waiting for the final release of this codec to do any actual work with it, but I'm really looking forward to this. Even if Windows Media 8 is only marginally better than Windows Media 7, it will still be the best codec around, hand down, in terms of quality and compression. Right now RealVideo and Quicktime are only holding on by their name-recognition... Microsoft has really created a formidable video system, and you don't have to pay ridiculous amounts of money, like with some other companies.
Well DivX ;-) is hardly cross-platform. It's also only available as a Windows Codec, since it's just a binary-hack of an older Microsoft version.
I've had mixed results from using the various binary hack MPEG4 codecs available. The best MPEG4 I've found so far (and I've tried a number) has been Microsoft's official Windows Media 7 MPEG4 format. It's truly excellent. The ISO standard implementation doesn't hold a candle to it... I hope these guy's have done some serious optimizations.
I'd like to see some sources for that? I find it hard to believe that computer/console game sales are higher than that of the movie industry. When you take into consideration the multiple venues that a movie makes money in, I don't think your statement could possibly be accurate.
Oh he can start one... He just can't keep it going. What's the limit? 20 days, or something like that. Look to what his father did, during the Persian Gulf War, for an example of executive war powers.
Yeah, well have you seen RedHat's lately? Not exactly a hot commodity.