Um compare uptime and reliability [terms of bandwidth] of a phone to your local ISP. I bet you 9/10 of the time the phone co will win by a long shot.
Not to say my ISP sucks [they have been quite decent lately] but telco's are mandated to be very good. I've never in my entire life [ever] picked up the phone and not got a dial tone. Ever. I can't say the same about dial up ISPs or cable [stupid DHCP...]
2-bit alpha? But why? That would be even worse than 8/8/8/8.
Second many standards [e.g. MPEG] don't allow 16-bits per channel. IIRC MPEG and JPEG both allow upto 10 or 12 bits per channel. So using extra bits is really kinda of meaningless unless you are going to be mixing thousands of images on one composite and want per shading level accuracy.
Third, what the heck is with this pot and kettle. I don't even get it. Wow.
Actually nope. Lately in big theaters chains policy has changed to prevent problems with discrimination etc. At the AMC for instance only a manager can throw a guest out. First an usher will catch the problem, then report it. In the meantime it may be 3 to 5 mins before a manager shows up to kick him out.
Personally I'd rather have public humiliation than anything. Just put the little sob in the stocks for a day and throw rotten cabage at his face....
speaking from personal experience I have seen one too many people swerve from one lane to another, go through stop lines etc, all while holding a phone to their ears.
I think its a coincidence more than anything but there probably is a statistical link to increased bad behaviour with cell phone usage.
One problem people jump at is the accidents. Just because you're a shitty driver doesn't mean you will always get in accidents. It just means you make life for the others around you less enjoyable [e.g. you cut them off, speed or don't go fast enough, etc...]
Also WTF is up with these stupid ringers? Can't a phone either just vibrate or go "beep beep". must it play the 1812 symphony at 300dB???
If you don't have a Ph.D then you should set out to develop small utils/libraries and such that are not only useful but well done. Make sure to do a decent job in the design/coding [e.g. modular, well organized, etc..] and write good documentation.
If you have a portfolio of software that shows off your talent people will take you more seriously. That and its a good icebreaker in interviews. When people ask "what interests you have" or related experience you can delineate your work.
So basically you walk away and I shut off your laptop right away. No chance for it to mess it up. Then I boot off a floppy or something and voila... read all your data.
The problems are many-fold starting with the software enforcement of the rules.
A real security conscious person would a) encrypt it all before hand and b) not leave his computer logged in while away.
That's like putting a 3000$ security system on your house but leaving the doors unlocked and running the system on a voluntary basis.
That's not the point. They treat everyone poorly [ignoring the lockup caused by the bad key] not just the pirates.
I mean had I spent 450$ on XP Pro and just found out later on that they want to, um, I dunno, install spyware with the latest WMP update then... well shouldn't I have the right to be upset?
Or you could just not use windows. I've recently done a "hard switch" to windows when my reg key [albeit pirated] stopped working and windows wouldn't boot. I've been using RH 7.3 for the last few weeks and haven't looked back.
See the problem is/. is full of "bad MS monkey" postings yet they still use MS crap. MS wants to push its customers around, its customers should just stop paying to be treated like theives and move onto a OSes that seem to work [like linux]
This is by far the lamest post I have ever seen. Many animals in fact do have customs and cultures. They may not be as elaborate as the fake business-suit song and dance you are used to but by your logic a tribesman in Africa is not human because their culture is not like your own?
I just tried 7.0 PR1 on my Linux box. Man does it suck. Not only does the mouse wheel not work but it has no support for themes and doesn't really handle some CSS right.
Wow... how Mozilla and Netscape are related is beyond me at this point.
Also the Radio@Netscape sucks too. I tried to find a realplayer plugin for linux. If you goto real.com and follow the download link it keeps trying to send you an EXE without even asking.
Man... the ad blocking removal aside, Netscape just plain sucks otherwise.
Or you could just not live in the U.S. Problem solved.
I dunno why people think the U.S is the land of the great since while for the most part they are nice people, they are also mostly self-serving and ego-centric as well.
You think you're the only country with levies, or who gets hurt by war, etc?
Seriously. Stop the soap opera self-dramatic crap and get on with life. Not every moment in the US is a crisis.
And how about you realize something else. Who gave you permission to broadcast the music anyways? Sure you should have the right to rip it for your own purposes but to send it to others?
I think the RIAA is *perfectly* justified in demanding fees for something that would cost anyways.
Doubt it. Think about it this way, a bunch of bits [e.g. vorbis/mp3/pcm data] is not sound either. So really all you are doing is sending a random assortment of bits than when decoded properly and sent through a DAC and amplifier to some speakers just happens to sound like music [thanks FoxTrot...]
I think the law [whatever it is] will hold regardless of how you package the audio as long as the message you are conveying is audio [or intended to be audio]
It could also be that the staff here are just being polite and not openly bashing anything not uber-geek-cool. Quite frankly real people work for microsoft and while some of their software drives me up a wall its not like all of their employees are idiots with two week certification courses
you need twice the clock rate [much like with sound bandwidth].
If you can sample pictures at 30hz then you need 60hz of bandwidth [e.g. 60fps] to prevent frequency aliasing. Much like how you can't hear >22khz but you need to sample at atleast 44khz to get the nice 20khz of bandwidth.
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Maybe you were joking but 50% of 50% is not 50%....
its actually 75% off...
Tom
Um compare uptime and reliability [terms of bandwidth] of a phone to your local ISP. I bet you 9/10 of the time the phone co will win by a long shot.
Not to say my ISP sucks [they have been quite decent lately] but telco's are mandated to be very good. I've never in my entire life [ever] picked up the phone and not got a dial tone. Ever. I can't say the same about dial up ISPs or cable [stupid DHCP...]
Tom
2-bit alpha? But why? That would be even worse than 8/8/8/8.
Second many standards [e.g. MPEG] don't allow 16-bits per channel. IIRC MPEG and JPEG both allow upto 10 or 12 bits per channel. So using extra bits is really kinda of meaningless unless you are going to be mixing thousands of images on one composite and want per shading level accuracy.
Third, what the heck is with this pot and kettle. I don't even get it. Wow.
Tom
flaimbait much?
First off there is no such thing as 32-bit color. Its 24-bit color with either a padding octet or an alpha channel.
Second, 256 levels is enough that provided a good monitor you can make due quite well.
Third, flamebait much?
Tom
Actually nope. Lately in big theaters chains policy has changed to prevent problems with discrimination etc. At the AMC for instance only a manager can throw a guest out. First an usher will catch the problem, then report it. In the meantime it may be 3 to 5 mins before a manager shows up to kick him out.
Personally I'd rather have public humiliation than anything. Just put the little sob in the stocks for a day and throw rotten cabage at his face....
Tom
speaking from personal experience I have seen one too many people swerve from one lane to another, go through stop lines etc, all while holding a phone to their ears.
I think its a coincidence more than anything but there probably is a statistical link to increased bad behaviour with cell phone usage.
One problem people jump at is the accidents. Just because you're a shitty driver doesn't mean you will always get in accidents. It just means you make life for the others around you less enjoyable [e.g. you cut them off, speed or don't go fast enough, etc...]
Also WTF is up with these stupid ringers? Can't a phone either just vibrate or go "beep beep". must it play the 1812 symphony at 300dB???
Tom
meeting people in a fake 3d RPG world is exciting....
Tom
-- "Some day they will make a game with the DOOM III engine..."
Tom
If you don't have a Ph.D then you should set out to develop small utils/libraries and such that are not only useful but well done. Make sure to do a decent job in the design/coding [e.g. modular, well organized, etc..] and write good documentation.
If you have a portfolio of software that shows off your talent people will take you more seriously. That and its a good icebreaker in interviews. When people ask "what interests you have" or related experience you can delineate your work.
Tom
So basically you walk away and I shut off your laptop right away. No chance for it to mess it up. Then I boot off a floppy or something and voila... read all your data.
The problems are many-fold starting with the software enforcement of the rules.
A real security conscious person would a) encrypt it all before hand and b) not leave his computer logged in while away.
That's like putting a 3000$ security system on your house but leaving the doors unlocked and running the system on a voluntary basis.
Tom
That's not the point. They treat everyone poorly [ignoring the lockup caused by the bad key] not just the pirates.
I mean had I spent 450$ on XP Pro and just found out later on that they want to, um, I dunno, install spyware with the latest WMP update then... well shouldn't I have the right to be upset?
Tom
Or you could just not use windows. I've recently done a "hard switch" to windows when my reg key [albeit pirated] stopped working and windows wouldn't boot. I've been using RH 7.3 for the last few weeks and haven't looked back.
/. is full of "bad MS monkey" postings yet they still use MS crap. MS wants to push its customers around, its customers should just stop paying to be treated like theives and move onto a OSes that seem to work [like linux]
See the problem is
Tom
You could just use a better ripping program such as CDex which can rip into cool formats like MP3 and ogg-vorbis.
Tom
asshat? Man what are you? 10 years old?
Next you're gonna call me a poopy-head too right?
You put the Coward in Anonymous Coward.
Tom
Um ok. Thats right all other animals are just lame mindless creatures and us, the gift of god are the only ones capable of thought or organization.
How silly of me to forget how omnipotent we are.
All hail Jesus, for he is our saviour or some jazz like that.
People like you make me ashamed to be human.
imagine a beowolf of genes? whoa..
g overnment-that-we-elected-anyways-doh-we-should-fe el-stupid post?
geez, does there have to be the pseudo-requisit-stupid-boilerplate-take-down-the-
Tom
This is by far the lamest post I have ever seen. Many animals in fact do have customs and cultures. They may not be as elaborate as the fake business-suit song and dance you are used to but by your logic a tribesman in Africa is not human because their culture is not like your own?
Tom
I just tried 7.0 PR1 on my Linux box. Man does it suck. Not only does the mouse wheel not work but it has no support for themes and doesn't really handle some CSS right.
Wow... how Mozilla and Netscape are related is beyond me at this point.
Also the Radio@Netscape sucks too. I tried to find a realplayer plugin for linux. If you goto real.com and follow the download link it keeps trying to send you an EXE without even asking.
Man... the ad blocking removal aside, Netscape just plain sucks otherwise.
Tom
Or you could just not live in the U.S. Problem solved.
I dunno why people think the U.S is the land of the great since while for the most part they are nice people, they are also mostly self-serving and ego-centric as well.
You think you're the only country with levies, or who gets hurt by war, etc?
Seriously. Stop the soap opera self-dramatic crap and get on with life. Not every moment in the US is a crisis.
And how about you realize something else. Who gave you permission to broadcast the music anyways? Sure you should have the right to rip it for your own purposes but to send it to others?
I think the RIAA is *perfectly* justified in demanding fees for something that would cost anyways.
Tom
Doubt it. Think about it this way, a bunch of bits [e.g. vorbis/mp3/pcm data] is not sound either. So really all you are doing is sending a random assortment of bits than when decoded properly and sent through a DAC and amplifier to some speakers just happens to sound like music [thanks FoxTrot...]
I think the law [whatever it is] will hold regardless of how you package the audio as long as the message you are conveying is audio [or intended to be audio]
Tom
It could also be that the staff here are just being polite and not openly bashing anything not uber-geek-cool. Quite frankly real people work for microsoft and while some of their software drives me up a wall its not like all of their employees are idiots with two week certification courses
Tom
Whoa you missed a strong distinction /. *posters* bash MS not /. *staff* [well they probably have but I don't think its their official stance]
/. not to have MS ads?
Also, talking reality here, you wanna pay
Tom
you need twice the clock rate [much like with sound bandwidth].
If you can sample pictures at 30hz then you need 60hz of bandwidth [e.g. 60fps] to prevent frequency aliasing. Much like how you can't hear >22khz but you need to sample at atleast 44khz to get the nice 20khz of bandwidth.
Tux-ho!
Tom
So its smarter to ignore JS because it offends your geek-pride instead of using it to spiffy up your site and save on the # of connections made?
Tom