Fuck you to hell, yeah.:) If in two-years time there are WinCEMobile PPC's with these polarized stylii and they, PPC users mock us true Palm believers because we can't rear-click the shit I know who to blame...
The cost of the product to the consumer has very low correlation to the cost of producing the same product. That's how modern business works. Don't know about where you live, but here a 2L Cola bottle costs a tad less than 2x0.5L bottles (= 1L). With products where the cost of making a copy is negligible when compared to the cost of producing a "master/first copy" the rule works much more so.
Fuck no, you are not the only one. _UNLESS_ they stop their crusade against people using torrents for what they use it (getting medium quality video/audio content for... uhm, evaluation purposes), then we could call it quits.
"it will lower the price of DL media into something more affordable"
Hardly. I read somewhere that the problems are not in the market but instead they are pretty fundamental to technology. It is apparently quite a tricky thing to do a second layer that will have the same response levels as a first one but being not just a layer of plastic away but two layers of plastic and the first reflective layer. So the cost of producing a two layer disk is much much more that producing two single-layer disks. Normal bluray disks would OTOH be hopefully ok with a single layer.
"That doesn't negate the fact that if Japan wants the movies to be accepted in America, they are going to have to come up with better names..."
Good thing they don't give a crap about "America". If you don't think that "All-Purpose Cultural Cat-Girl Nuku-Nuku" is a normal name... Well, better for the rest of us then.
IME, Quality = Knowledgeable_Staff_On_Good_Salary + No_Deadlines. Unfortunately, this formula larglely is not compatible with business world. So, in the mean time, customers should be grateful if software has been _somehow_ tested and mostly works.
I guess we could have a little "Cold-war of Independence" when there are enough men living on the Moon. US used to belong to Brits and other Europeans, you know. Could be the same thing with Selenia.
Beware though that at least for Windows it's pretty hard to tell what you can turn off safely and what will happen if you do turn it off. Examples: turning off "Task Scheduler" turns off prefetching mechanisms. Did you know? Turning off "Windows Management Instrumentation" reliably leads to GPFs when you go to "Firewall" tab of a Dial-Up connection (pre-SP2 anyway). Did you know? Etc.
You are kidding but I bet that AV software led to more moneys spend/wasted on "customer" side than all the viruses combined. Still it does not protect you (I mean - your average PC user) from majority of threats.
Thank you, but no thanks. You know - we've been using "normal" greek prefixes with meaning of 2^n long before you toddlers:) came up with this silly mixing of greek and latin prefixes. If you can't stand that 1GByte = 1024MBytes, but 1GWatt = 1000MWatts, it's kinda your own problem, but don't try and force others to be silly too. Otherwise someone will come up and will claim that it is inconsistent that the basic unit of mass is _kilo_gram and hence we should rename it to "boo". Will anyone be happy then or will it lead to less messing-up? (Remember, if you accept KiB heresy you are obliged to accept that 1KByte = 1000bytes!)
Anyone else finds that this year's top nominees are utter shitte? Aviator - so shallow and, for once, with no passion to aviation whatsoever. Story lines jump without any development. Dropping the fact that it's based on real story I'd say it's 4/10 at best. Started watching "Ray", but it's the same story IMO. I guess last great Hollywood movie I watched was "Master and Commander" (2003). What was the best US movie of 2004 in your opinion?
Oh, and of course the google's front page is so overjammed that "Google.com in English" link taking you back to www.google.com is totally unnoticeable.
What's the difference between PC users and a newborn baby? PC users don't smile when you spoon-feed them. WTF is wrong with the governments today? Do they need to have "we know better" written on everything they do? Matter of fact I'm pretty sure they don't. Or do they think I'd be happy to see Bamby rabbits when searching for "Hitlerjugend"? BTW - does searching for such a thing automatically make me a pro-nazi?
There must've been some similar reasoning when ICs first came out. "What do they offer compared to the soldered circuits we know and love?". Well, for once, integration.
Oh, dear goodness. What have they done to you? I imagine in 2020 they would be saying - "if 4GB for a full-featured browser and mail client is bloat...". Dang. I remember playing games on my speccy (only 15-17 years ago?!) that were 40kB in size that contained 800+ rooms map, quite a bit of animated graphics, sound, and still bytes enough left for code to make it work. That is 1/100 of your "browser and mail client" heavily _packed_! Don't get me wrong - I liked and still kinda like Opera (though its email client is not at all fully-featured) but let's see things in perspective. And, oh!, when you say that RAM/HDD/etc are cheap I totally agree, but that's not even _a_ reason here. What matters that every most seemingly trivial piece of software today is an abomination from the "man/hours behind it" point of view. It's too complicated to understand it, it's too complicated to continue development, it's too complicated to be used comfortably after all. To be a reasonably good all-around programmer these days means having your life ruined by the shear volume of what you have to master. That's not a reason though to pile on options to your software. I hope that we soon have some real "open source" software - not compiled (in a classical sense of it anyway) but run as some _easily_ editable, understandable, and just plain short and sweet code. Maybe Python, Ruby, etc show the way. I don't believe that something like word processor, spreadsheet, DB program, or a web browser cannot be done in high-level languages. Sorry for the mumbling.
Whassat? Firefox as an operating system? You mean a program that was cut off from the "bigger" mozilla to be "just a browser"? Hm.... When a new Firefox's Firefox is due to fork out?:-)
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> "Well, I'll buy it only if it says those things in that cool HAL 9000 voice..."
<voice type=5-yr-old-girl pitch=High> Sorry, HAL 9000 voice files are not authorized for this PC </voice>
Fuck you to hell, yeah. :) If in two-years time there are WinCEMobile PPC's with these polarized stylii and they, PPC users mock us true Palm believers because we can't rear-click the shit I know who to blame...
Then you would need to master the powerful heel&toe mouse clicking technique. I'm not sure where is the heel of the finger, though.
If you find out let me know too. I would cosine.
The cost of the product to the consumer has very low correlation to the cost of producing the same product. That's how modern business works. Don't know about where you live, but here a 2L Cola bottle costs a tad less than 2x0.5L bottles (= 1L). With products where the cost of making a copy is negligible when compared to the cost of producing a "master/first copy" the rule works much more so.
Or they can form GNAA - GNU is Not Association of America, huh? [...] WAIT A MINUTE! What is that acronym doing here?!
Fuck no, you are not the only one. _UNLESS_ they stop their crusade against people using torrents for what they use it (getting medium quality video/audio content for... uhm, evaluation purposes), then we could call it quits.
"While we're at it, why don't we just make everyone look and think the same too."
Here, on Slashdot, we are making good progress towards it.
"it will lower the price of DL media into something more affordable"
Hardly. I read somewhere that the problems are not in the market but instead they are pretty fundamental to technology. It is apparently quite a tricky thing to do a second layer that will have the same response levels as a first one but being not just a layer of plastic away but two layers of plastic and the first reflective layer. So the cost of producing a two layer disk is much much more that producing two single-layer disks. Normal bluray disks would OTOH be hopefully ok with a single layer.
Thanks for providing an example of difference between "scientist" and "computer scientist". ;)
With a pear?! Now that would've been nasty. But I doubt his ass is pleural.
"That doesn't negate the fact that if Japan wants the movies to be accepted in America, they are going to have to come up with better names..."
Good thing they don't give a crap about "America". If you don't think that "All-Purpose Cultural Cat-Girl Nuku-Nuku" is a normal name... Well, better for the rest of us then.
IME, Quality = Knowledgeable_Staff_On_Good_Salary + No_Deadlines. Unfortunately, this formula larglely is not compatible with business world. So, in the mean time, customers should be grateful if software has been _somehow_ tested and mostly works.
I want Mac Mini. I do not want iPod. As far as I am concerned Apple made a right decision.
I guess we could have a little "Cold-war of Independence" when there are enough men living on the Moon. US used to belong to Brits and other Europeans, you know. Could be the same thing with Selenia.
Beware though that at least for Windows it's pretty hard to tell what you can turn off safely and what will happen if you do turn it off. Examples: turning off "Task Scheduler" turns off prefetching mechanisms. Did you know? Turning off "Windows Management Instrumentation" reliably leads to GPFs when you go to "Firewall" tab of a Dial-Up connection (pre-SP2 anyway). Did you know? Etc.
You are kidding but I bet that AV software led to more moneys spend/wasted on "customer" side than all the viruses combined. Still it does not protect you (I mean - your average PC user) from majority of threats.
Thank you, but no thanks. You know - we've been using "normal" greek prefixes with meaning of 2^n long before you toddlers :) came up with this silly mixing of greek and latin prefixes. If you can't stand that 1GByte = 1024MBytes, but 1GWatt = 1000MWatts, it's kinda your own problem, but don't try and force others to be silly too. Otherwise someone will come up and will claim that it is inconsistent that the basic unit of mass is _kilo_gram and hence we should rename it to "boo". Will anyone be happy then or will it lead to less messing-up? (Remember, if you accept KiB heresy you are obliged to accept that 1KByte = 1000bytes!)
Anyone else finds that this year's top nominees are utter shitte? Aviator - so shallow and, for once, with no passion to aviation whatsoever. Story lines jump without any development. Dropping the fact that it's based on real story I'd say it's 4/10 at best. Started watching "Ray", but it's the same story IMO. I guess last great Hollywood movie I watched was "Master and Commander" (2003). What was the best US movie of 2004 in your opinion?
Oh, and of course the google's front page is so overjammed that "Google.com in English" link taking you back to www.google.com is totally unnoticeable.
What's the difference between PC users and a newborn baby? PC users don't smile when you spoon-feed them. WTF is wrong with the governments today? Do they need to have "we know better" written on everything they do? Matter of fact I'm pretty sure they don't. Or do they think I'd be happy to see Bamby rabbits when searching for "Hitlerjugend"? BTW - does searching for such a thing automatically make me a pro-nazi?
Opera (sans "Profile" and "Plugins") = 3.6MB zipped.
FF = 6.1MB zipped.
I'd say that feature-per-MB is roughly comparable. Don't forget BTW, that Opera's binaries are all ASPack'ed.
There must've been some similar reasoning when ICs first came out. "What do they offer compared to the soldered circuits we know and love?". Well, for once, integration.
Oh, dear goodness. What have they done to you? I imagine in 2020 they would be saying - "if 4GB for a full-featured browser and mail client is bloat...". Dang. I remember playing games on my speccy (only 15-17 years ago?!) that were 40kB in size that contained 800+ rooms map, quite a bit of animated graphics, sound, and still bytes enough left for code to make it work. That is 1/100 of your "browser and mail client" heavily _packed_! Don't get me wrong - I liked and still kinda like Opera (though its email client is not at all fully-featured) but let's see things in perspective. And, oh!, when you say that RAM/HDD/etc are cheap I totally agree, but that's not even _a_ reason here. What matters that every most seemingly trivial piece of software today is an abomination from the "man/hours behind it" point of view. It's too complicated to understand it, it's too complicated to continue development, it's too complicated to be used comfortably after all. To be a reasonably good all-around programmer these days means having your life ruined by the shear volume of what you have to master. That's not a reason though to pile on options to your software. I hope that we soon have some real "open source" software - not compiled (in a classical sense of it anyway) but run as some _easily_ editable, understandable, and just plain short and sweet code. Maybe Python, Ruby, etc show the way. I don't believe that something like word processor, spreadsheet, DB program, or a web browser cannot be done in high-level languages. Sorry for the mumbling.
Whassat? Firefox as an operating system? You mean a program that was cut off from the "bigger" mozilla to be "just a browser"? Hm.... When a new Firefox's Firefox is due to fork out? :-)