Not quite. The top-selling albums list says that the Eagles, Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd, and Led Zepplin are on top. Not perfect, but two out of four ain't bad.
Obviously, sales don't mean everything, but do give the public some credit for taste. N'Sync was only briefly popular. Shrek 2 has made more in a week than N'Sync did in their entire existance.
With statically generated pages, the CPU/OS has almost nothing to do with how much traffic a box can handle. Bandwidth is almost always the bottleneck. All this shows is that he's got a fairly decent pipe.
if you know exactly how a physical object appears, you can duplicate it
I challenge anyone to duplicate my retina.
Security by obscurity, as usually defined, is reliance on a method of security that, if an attacker knew which method (generally one of a rather limited set of possibilities) you were using, would not be secure.
That's true. But, even if an attacker knew you were using a CVCVCVCV system (and how would they?), the system is still quite secure. Not as secure as a completely random password maybe, but more so than 98% of passwords out there.
I *really* get a kick out of it when people buy an MP3 player and a pair of high-end earbuds. It's just plain inane. They just purchased a low-quality audio playback device and then spent a huge amount of money on an expensive pair of earbuds that don't let them hear the now missing nuances of the audio.
Low-quality audio playback device? The iPod (and most other players can play lossless audio, if you really want to be snobby. 99% of people can't distinguish between the original and 192kbps AAC or VBR MP3, on any equipment. However, just about anyone can hear the difference between the iPod's $10 earbuds (not what they're sold for, but about what they're worth) and a decent $40-$50 pair.
It's not fully compatible, and it doesn't supply the same featureset. While OO.org is great, it's generally speaking not as good as MS Office. Sure, it could meet the needs of 95% of people, but it's still glitchy opening some Office documents - pretty much a show-stopper.
I know, there are times when it will open corrupted documents that Office won't, but the fact is that it doesn't open everything that Office does 100% perfectly - and that's what's needed for it to work in a heterogenous environment.
Any password system is inherently "security through obscurity". It only works if the cracker doesn't know the password. Security through obscurity is bad only if the obscurity is weak.
Compatibility. I could bring out a new format infinitely superior to VHS/DVD, and it would fail miserably if it didn't have the support of the content producers. If no movies were released in my format, then no one would want it regardless of how good it was.
The same applies to OSs. No matter how good Linux is, if it doesn't have the apps, then people don't want it.
If the frequency data matches the original, then it would sound like the original.
Only if it exactly matches, which it doesn't in this case (these are lossy codecs). It's possible for codec A to be match almost perfectly, but in such a way that the difference is easily audible. It's also possible for codec B to produce a markedly different spectrum that still sounds very close to the human ear.
People, not computers, listen to these compressed files. So the only sensible way to judge compression is by using people.
Evolution also uses Berkley DB as a back-end store. Slashcode uses MySQL. That doesn't make them databases. They are an email client and a CMS, respectively. CVs and SVN are both version control systems, not databases, whether or not the use databases on the back end.
A 'PC games = best' type of person probably shouldn't whine that some kind of console gaming requirement is too expensive. A thousand dollars for a decent HDTV doesn't seem too crazy to me compared to how much money you save just by going the console route.
I already own a computer and a nice monitor, for non-gaming purposes. I don't have any other reason to own a console and HDTV, so their costs are extra, while my PC costs are already paid (except possibly the vid card, but that's still cheaper than console + TV).
No PC upgrades in five years more than compensates for a measly thousand dollars.
What you mean is "no improvements in technology for five years". You don't have to upgrade a PC constantly, you just get nicer results if you do. With consoles, you don't have that option, so you're stuck with outdated tech, except for the year or so after each new generation is released.
The connotation of a stereotype is that it's untrue. If the majority of black people are big-mouthed fucktards, then that's a statistical reality. If someone held that belief, but it wasn't true, then they would be stereotyping.
Who says you have to be groudbreaking every time? Vice City wasn't revolutionary, but it was a great game. As long as Rockstar keeps making great games, I'm not going to complain.
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True, but it'd take a shitload of hardware, programmers, and animators to do a good realistic CG film. Plus, you still need actors to do the voices.
Obviously, sales don't mean everything, but do give the public some credit for taste. N'Sync was only briefly popular. Shrek 2 has made more in a week than N'Sync did in their entire existance.
With statically generated pages, the CPU/OS has almost nothing to do with how much traffic a box can handle. Bandwidth is almost always the bottleneck. All this shows is that he's got a fairly decent pipe.
I challenge anyone to duplicate my retina.
Security by obscurity, as usually defined, is reliance on a method of security that, if an attacker knew which method (generally one of a rather limited set of possibilities) you were using, would not be secure.
That's true. But, even if an attacker knew you were using a CVCVCVCV system (and how would they?), the system is still quite secure. Not as secure as a completely random password maybe, but more so than 98% of passwords out there.
Low-quality audio playback device? The iPod (and most other players can play lossless audio, if you really want to be snobby. 99% of people can't distinguish between the original and 192kbps AAC or VBR MP3, on any equipment. However, just about anyone can hear the difference between the iPod's $10 earbuds (not what they're sold for, but about what they're worth) and a decent $40-$50 pair.
I know, there are times when it will open corrupted documents that Office won't, but the fact is that it doesn't open everything that Office does 100% perfectly - and that's what's needed for it to work in a heterogenous environment.
Any password system is inherently "security through obscurity". It only works if the cracker doesn't know the password. Security through obscurity is bad only if the obscurity is weak.
The same applies to OSs. No matter how good Linux is, if it doesn't have the apps, then people don't want it.
Only if it exactly matches, which it doesn't in this case (these are lossy codecs). It's possible for codec A to be match almost perfectly, but in such a way that the difference is easily audible. It's also possible for codec B to produce a markedly different spectrum that still sounds very close to the human ear.
People, not computers, listen to these compressed files. So the only sensible way to judge compression is by using people.
Did anyone say it was a bad thing?
If you want successful microkernels, look at NT and Darwin.
Evolution also uses Berkley DB as a back-end store. Slashcode uses MySQL. That doesn't make them databases. They are an email client and a CMS, respectively. CVs and SVN are both version control systems, not databases, whether or not the use databases on the back end.
I already own a computer and a nice monitor, for non-gaming purposes. I don't have any other reason to own a console and HDTV, so their costs are extra, while my PC costs are already paid (except possibly the vid card, but that's still cheaper than console + TV).
No PC upgrades in five years more than compensates for a measly thousand dollars.
What you mean is "no improvements in technology for five years". You don't have to upgrade a PC constantly, you just get nicer results if you do. With consoles, you don't have that option, so you're stuck with outdated tech, except for the year or so after each new generation is released.
HDTVs generally cost more than an (already outrageously expensive) 23" Cinema Display, and have nowhere near the resolution or utility.
Playing a CD over the radio is distribution.
/offtopic I'm not a Mac user. But your joke wasn't funny, just stupid.
1/40 = 2.5%, not 40%. And Macs work fine with two or more buttons.
VMWare doesn't run on non-x86 systems. You'd need a full-fledged emulator like Bochs, which is much slower than VMWare and other virtualizers.
I've never felt the need to buy a huge screen that operates at less than VGA resolution.
The connotation of a stereotype is that it's untrue. If the majority of black people are big-mouthed fucktards, then that's a statistical reality. If someone held that belief, but it wasn't true, then they would be stereotyping.
Never played Deus Ex or Half Life, have you?
Any MPEG4-compliant decoder can decode Xvid streams.
Who says you have to be groudbreaking every time? Vice City wasn't revolutionary, but it was a great game. As long as Rockstar keeps making great games, I'm not going to complain.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Itanium isn't x86.
Nothing. You probably have "reparent highly rated comments" turned on. The above comment was replying to this.