My 450Mhz PIII with a Voodoo3 could do near-perfect N64 emulation with UltraHLE. My current dual Athlon 2200+ with a Radeon 9700 PRO is a pain in the ass to get working at all, and then it runs like shit. UltraHLE (the only decent emulator) was heavily optimized for Glide-supporting cards (the Voodoo series). Since UltraHLE is now closed-source abandonware, that's not ever going to change.
There isn't really such a thing as a 128kbps Vorbis file, because the encoder doesn't normally encode at constant bitrates. That means that the bitrate will vary during the song, and some easy-to-encode songs will come out below 128kbps and some more challenging ones will come out above 128kbps. If you went through the hoops to force the encoder to encode Vorbis files at a true constant 128kbps, they'd be the same size as the corresponding MP3s (give or take a few bytes).
Then why do I always use the USB mouse with my high school's Dell?
Because it's your school's laptop, and so (I assume) you don't have occasion to use it in an airplane, on a bus, on a bench outdoors, or elsewhere where an external mouse doesn't work very well.
It says Down: gluck (packages.d.o). I'd say that's pretty clear. Also, the cached page isn't really necessary, www.wiggy.net/debian/ has all the same info and was working fine at the time.
I'm not arguing that #debian shouldn't have been politer, because they should have. I just took issue with his claim that there was no information whatsoever available in the topic.
There's no way I'm going to let my seven year old upload pages to the public site
Why not? I'm serious, I can't think of a reason why it would be bad or dangerous for a kid to post their own content to the web. I'm not a parent, though, so maybe I'm missing something.
Compromised machine info: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200311/msg00012.html || Down: gluck (people, packages.d.o); || more info at http://www.wiggy.net/debian/
While lists.debian.org is down, a little bit of digging would have given you the Google cache. Also, it says right there that packages.debian.org is down. How much clearer can it get? I agree, it'd be better if someone had explained the situation instead of flaming, but the information was right there.
Stuffing it with features would, in Jobs' opinion, detract from its greatness as a music player.
So why does the iPod comes with a contact manager, alarm clock, calendar, games, and FireWire hard drive capability? That sounds like a lot of non-music-player features to me.
You're equating "sex offender" with "child molester". The two are not equal, and a sex offender is not necessarily a child molester. A serial rapist may not have much chance of recovery, but some guy who goes out drunk some night and does something stupid probably does.
Also, most pedophiles know that it's wrong to act out their desires in real life. Only a small minority can't resist that compulsion, and end up getting convicted. I think it's possible for even a convicted child molester, even if they still have the desire, to repent and resist that desire.
Does being a paedophile have a timeout? The answer to that is no.
It's quite possible to get on this list without being a pedophile. You could be an 18-year-old caught with your 16-year-old partner. You could have been wrongly convicted of rape (not statuatory rape, just rape). There are plenty of sex crimes not involving pedophilia.
Sex Offenders don't recover... ...The researchers report that 44.3% of their total sample of 106 child molesters were reconvicted
Looks to me like there's a good 55.7% that weren't reconvicted. While lack of reconviction doesn't necessarily imply recovery, I think that "sex offenders don't recover" is a bit off.
If the iPod adds a firmware upgrade which allows ogg decoding (I've heard mixed reports on the feasability of this wrt current iPods
It's definately possible. The iPod Linux project showed that the iPod can decode oggs in 80% realtime under Linux with an unoptimized Tremor decoder. The official firmware presumably has less overhead than Linux, and a little bit of decoder optimization would definately make it fast enough.
While I agree with your general point, the Apple website isn't too bad. All important content is plain text except for the nav bars, which are relatively small and all contain ALT tags. Try visiting apple.com in lynx sometime, it works quite well.
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My 450Mhz PIII with a Voodoo3 could do near-perfect N64 emulation with UltraHLE. My current dual Athlon 2200+ with a Radeon 9700 PRO is a pain in the ass to get working at all, and then it runs like shit. UltraHLE (the only decent emulator) was heavily optimized for Glide-supporting cards (the Voodoo series). Since UltraHLE is now closed-source abandonware, that's not ever going to change.
There isn't really such a thing as a 128kbps Vorbis file, because the encoder doesn't normally encode at constant bitrates. That means that the bitrate will vary during the song, and some easy-to-encode songs will come out below 128kbps and some more challenging ones will come out above 128kbps. If you went through the hoops to force the encoder to encode Vorbis files at a true constant 128kbps, they'd be the same size as the corresponding MP3s (give or take a few bytes).
They were, but the encryption has been broken. I assume they don't want to change it, because that would disable all current official clients too.
Because it's your school's laptop, and so (I assume) you don't have occasion to use it in an airplane, on a bus, on a bench outdoors, or elsewhere where an external mouse doesn't work very well.
I'm not arguing that #debian shouldn't have been politer, because they should have. I just took issue with his claim that there was no information whatsoever available in the topic.
That works great on a desktop. Not so well on a laptop.
Debian stable is newer than Windows XP.
Why not? I'm serious, I can't think of a reason why it would be bad or dangerous for a kid to post their own content to the web. I'm not a parent, though, so maybe I'm missing something.
I knew HTML as an 11-year-old. It's not that hard. Maybe she shouldn't be doing all of her writing in it, but she should at least know the basics.
A guy stretching his asshole really, really wide.
Yes.
Debian has backported it to its 2.4.18 stable kernel. Presumably other distros will follow suit.
Knoppix has supported a USB homedir for quite a while, Mandrake's may be more integrated, but it's not a new concept.
SCO wouldn't bother buying Mandrake, because they probably think they already own it.
Compromised machine info: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003 /debian-devel-announce-200311/msg00012.html || Down: gluck (people, packages.d.o); || more info at http://www.wiggy.net/debian/
While lists.debian.org is down, a little bit of digging would have given you the Google cache. Also, it says right there that packages.debian.org is down. How much clearer can it get? I agree, it'd be better if someone had explained the situation instead of flaming, but the information was right there.
I thought the Supreme Court struk down those laws. Or was that just in Texas?
I agree wth you, but the point I was trying to rebut was the Jobs is opposed on principle to any non-music-playing features.
So why does the iPod comes with a contact manager, alarm clock, calendar, games, and FireWire hard drive capability? That sounds like a lot of non-music-player features to me.
That's only relevent if you actually link to the strip. Really, if you're already putting <tt> tags around the URL, would an <a href> be that hard?
I doubt they'll give you a 40GB one as long as the new 3rd-generation 20GB ones are in production.
Also, most pedophiles know that it's wrong to act out their desires in real life. Only a small minority can't resist that compulsion, and end up getting convicted. I think it's possible for even a convicted child molester, even if they still have the desire, to repent and resist that desire.
It's quite possible to get on this list without being a pedophile. You could be an 18-year-old caught with your 16-year-old partner. You could have been wrongly convicted of rape (not statuatory rape, just rape). There are plenty of sex crimes not involving pedophilia.
Looks to me like there's a good 55.7% that weren't reconvicted. While lack of reconviction doesn't necessarily imply recovery, I think that "sex offenders don't recover" is a bit off.
It's definately possible. The iPod Linux project showed that the iPod can decode oggs in 80% realtime under Linux with an unoptimized Tremor decoder. The official firmware presumably has less overhead than Linux, and a little bit of decoder optimization would definately make it fast enough.
While I agree with your general point, the Apple website isn't too bad. All important content is plain text except for the nav bars, which are relatively small and all contain ALT tags. Try visiting apple.com in lynx sometime, it works quite well.