Ever veiw pages with heavy Chinese or Japanese? Win2k reports Mozilla will spike up to 99% CPU time on some Japanese pages, and essentially stay there until you get off the page. I think Mozilla 1.1 fixed all that, because I haven't had a problem with that for a while now. I still had to put up with that behavior for months.
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yes I'm serious. At times it's still the only application that can actually make Winamp skip. (That's with an athlon 1700)
Word tried to be "helpful" by automagically turning my page numbering into an ordered list.
I sort of chuckle every time some people say they like MS Word because it's "easy". Whether it is or not depends upon the person, but I have yet to find one person that hasn't wasted at least 15 minutes in a fight with Word to do something pathetically simple. One lady was screwing with Word trying to format something for seemingly endless amounts of time when I finally said, "Why don't you just make that list in notepad and use asterisks for bullets" (Not a very important document needless to say). She says, no because she would rather use word. I walked by 15 minutes later and she was still messing with it. It was a simple list of around 15 things and a paragraph....
2. The royalty is quite reasonable. If you had to pay $0.75 for your copy of WinAMP, would that really seem unfair to you? That's the price of a can of coke, for Pete's sake! It it really that unfair?
That would be fair. Just like it's fair for me to pay $10 before AOL bought them. But I was paying for WINAMP, not an audio format that someone waited to pull a patent out on. Paying so that I can listen to music I already own because I encoded mp3s strikes me as wrong. Guess I'm lucky since I've been encoding my CD's with Vorbis for a while now. Not because I want to sit on slashdot being smug when this happens, but because I think the high end treble sounds much better. I would pay for a good quality ogg encoder, or player, but I certainly would think it's stupid to pay for the format itself.
They are quite concerned with what the market wants, not what the best solution is.
Okay, extreme flamebait here, but maybe if Linux did more of what regular people (the market) wanted, instead of what seemed like a good solution to those who hack and program, Linux would be much more popular than it is today. Red Hat makes things more palatable and reasonable to the average business. To me this is important in that I want Linux to make gains in the market. As a FreeBSD user I could care less about whether Linux ever "takes over", but as long as the penguin continues to poke microsoft in the eye I feel that there is some hope of a reasonable future in computing, where we're all not assimilated.
I also purchase more now that I can get mp3s, but the funny thing is that it's more of a side effect of the music industry today. With mp3s I can find more music that I LIKE, yet radio/mtv today in my opinion has NOTHING to offer me. With the pile of garbage pushed off today as mainstream music, I probably wouldn't buy anything at all if I didn't have mp3s to sample new albums/artists.
Dude, if you really want support you just make a perl script to disable something minor every now and then within... say every 2-3 months.
Since you schedule it with cron, you can make sure it doesn't happen on your vacation. Some would say this is dishonest, but then again some would say "So is installing NT on purpose".
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Well you never know. Maybe we'll all end up reverting to the 1900's style of entertainment and play the piano with friends. Well untill the thought police bust down the door and imprison everyone for playing an unauthorized song that they probably heard without permission.
the music that is coming out today sucks. there is no good albums. the only great albums that came out so far this year have been from independent labels in my opinion
Um... you sort of contradicted yourself there. It is a good thing for smaller independent labels though. Generally they don't have the revenue for mass market hype, and I would imagine that music sharing is probably expanding their market since people are far more likely to hear their stuff.
I'd really like to know, are independant labels such as Metal Blade making more money now?
I think the quote you wanted from the article was: Perhaps the most important factor, however, is the major labels' very success in dominating the market, which has squelched musical innovation.
Innovation is still there if you know where to look for the music. But the music industry should realize they're in deep shit if the average sheep listener is getting tired of their garbage.
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My mistake. Most of the region 2 anime I have don't have subtitles. While it's true I could make a bunch of vob files to watch them, that takes a considerable amount of space in the long term. Which is why I convert files into divx and burn them onto a CD... Which is ridiculous considering I actually own legitimate copies of the DVD. Really I think I need to spend some money on a regionless DVD player already.
Anyway, I'm assuming that Disney would do an exceptional job with translations and such, and would at least correct the color balance problem I've heard about. If I knew an anime was going to be released in America, I'd definitely wait - just for the difference in price if nothing else.
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Your assuming the DVD's I get HAVE subtitles
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probably because all the region 2 DVD's I have are a pain in the ass. Basically I have to rip them into divx movie in order to watch them (with no subtitles). Not even considering the cost difference...
Considering that the United States has more fat people than anywhere else in the world, that still makes us the richest country, even if you compact us all into diamonds (meaning quantity of diamond per person).
I don't care how cool it looks, wearing your family tree on your hand is just wrong.
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No wonder the government is so hesitant to adopt Linux. They could replace all the government workers with a couple Linux boxes occasionally running true.
They would have given us the lowdown except they all forgot their sunglasses and can't even look directly at the thing. Therefore it's all hearsay whether AMD actually has a new processor, or if it's just an Athlon underneath a flare.
Yeah, definitly the product should be the first consideration. Looking at the place I work (as an IT guy), I would say look for a stable nitch market for software. Big buisnesses survive making generic packages. One man operations generally can't do a whole lot. With around 5-10 coders, you could make some dedicated purpose software that one person couldn't do on their own, but be versitile enough to find your place. There are more than a few instances where the boss was talking to me about how he wanted some software package for something, but no one makes it (or it's still being worked on [for the last 3 years] by some company). The need is there if you know what questions to ask, and who to ask them to.
But being a generic consulting firm? I really don't think that would pan out.
"I'm not naive enough to believe that this will result in a permanent manned lunar base"
I bring this up every time people mention the manned mission to Mars. Why? I mean we haven't even been to the moon for more than a day. What are the chances that anyone would make it back from mars (with the chances of things going wrong, I'd say pretty low). It seems to me that a lunar base would be the way to go. You have solid ground to build off of, a slight ammount of gravity to keep things grounded, and you can still surf the web for porn in real time, and visit home for the holidays.
what ever happened to the gecko anyway? Although I admit I was sort of confused to what the bluish green thing was, for a windows icon, I eventually figured out it was supposed to be a gecko. I even got sort of attached to it. Then I upgrade to mozilla 1.1 and what do I get? This ugly red decapitated dinosaur head in a box. Can't they change it to like... a fat penguin or something?
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Ever veiw pages with heavy Chinese or Japanese? Win2k reports Mozilla will spike up to 99% CPU time on some Japanese pages, and essentially stay there until you get off the page. I think Mozilla 1.1 fixed all that, because I haven't had a problem with that for a while now. I still had to put up with that behavior for months.
Mozilla
yes I'm serious. At times it's still the only application that can actually make Winamp skip. (That's with an athlon 1700)
Word tried to be "helpful" by automagically turning my page numbering into an ordered list.
I sort of chuckle every time some people say they like MS Word because it's "easy". Whether it is or not depends upon the person, but I have yet to find one person that hasn't wasted at least 15 minutes in a fight with Word to do something pathetically simple. One lady was screwing with Word trying to format something for seemingly endless amounts of time when I finally said, "Why don't you just make that list in notepad and use asterisks for bullets" (Not a very important document needless to say). She says, no because she would rather use word. I walked by 15 minutes later and she was still messing with it. It was a simple list of around 15 things and a paragraph....
2. The royalty is quite reasonable. If you had to pay $0.75 for your copy of WinAMP, would that really seem unfair to you? That's the price of a can of coke, for Pete's sake! It it really that unfair?
That would be fair. Just like it's fair for me to pay $10 before AOL bought them. But I was paying for WINAMP, not an audio format that someone waited to pull a patent out on. Paying so that I can listen to music I already own because I encoded mp3s strikes me as wrong. Guess I'm lucky since I've been encoding my CD's with Vorbis for a while now. Not because I want to sit on slashdot being smug when this happens, but because I think the high end treble sounds much better. I would pay for a good quality ogg encoder, or player, but I certainly would think it's stupid to pay for the format itself.
They are quite concerned with what the market wants, not what the best solution is.
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Okay, extreme flamebait here, but maybe if Linux did more of what regular people (the market) wanted, instead of what seemed like a good solution to those who hack and program, Linux would be much more popular than it is today. Red Hat makes things more palatable and reasonable to the average business. To me this is important in that I want Linux to make gains in the market. As a FreeBSD user I could care less about whether Linux ever "takes over", but as long as the penguin continues to poke microsoft in the eye I feel that there is some hope of a reasonable future in computing, where we're all not assimilated.
Burn karma burn! ho ho ho!
I'd like to see what would happen with a call like that to Redmond!
strange things happen when you have competition...
Now I will have to send away for that tiger penis balm that is guaranteed to make me hung like a stallion and sexually attractive to women.
Save the tigers. It's your duty to the enviornment to get a penis pump instead.
I also purchase more now that I can get mp3s, but the funny thing is that it's more of a side effect of the music industry today. With mp3s I can find more music that I LIKE, yet radio/mtv today in my opinion has NOTHING to offer me. With the pile of garbage pushed off today as mainstream music, I probably wouldn't buy anything at all if I didn't have mp3s to sample new albums/artists.
Dude, if you really want support you just make a perl script to disable something minor every now and then within... say every 2-3 months.
Since you schedule it with cron, you can make sure it doesn't happen on your vacation. Some would say this is dishonest, but then again some would say "So is installing NT on purpose".
Well you never know. Maybe we'll all end up reverting to the 1900's style of entertainment and play the piano with friends. Well untill the thought police bust down the door and imprison everyone for playing an unauthorized song that they probably heard without permission.
the music that is coming out today sucks. there is no good albums. the only great albums that came out so far this year have been from independent labels in my opinion
Um... you sort of contradicted yourself there. It is a good thing for smaller independent labels though. Generally they don't have the revenue for mass market hype, and I would imagine that music sharing is probably expanding their market since people are far more likely to hear their stuff.
I'd really like to know, are independant labels such as Metal Blade making more money now?
I think the quote you wanted from the article was:
Perhaps the most important factor, however, is the major labels' very success in dominating the market, which has squelched musical innovation.
Innovation is still there if you know where to look for the music. But the music industry should realize they're in deep shit if the average sheep listener is getting tired of their garbage.
My mistake. Most of the region 2 anime I have don't have subtitles. While it's true I could make a bunch of vob files to watch them, that takes a considerable amount of space in the long term. Which is why I convert files into divx and burn them onto a CD... Which is ridiculous considering I actually own legitimate copies of the DVD. Really I think I need to spend some money on a regionless DVD player already.
Anyway, I'm assuming that Disney would do an exceptional job with translations and such, and would at least correct the color balance problem I've heard about. If I knew an anime was going to be released in America, I'd definitely wait - just for the difference in price if nothing else.
Your assuming the DVD's I get HAVE subtitles
probably because all the region 2 DVD's I have are a pain in the ass. Basically I have to rip them into divx movie in order to watch them (with no subtitles). Not even considering the cost difference...
Considering that the United States has more fat people than anywhere else in the world, that still makes us the richest country, even if you compact us all into diamonds (meaning quantity of diamond per person).
I don't care how cool it looks, wearing your family tree on your hand is just wrong.
No wonder the government is so hesitant to adopt Linux. They could replace all the government workers with a couple Linux boxes occasionally running true.
They would have given us the lowdown except they all forgot their sunglasses and can't even look directly at the thing. Therefore it's all hearsay whether AMD actually has a new processor, or if it's just an Athlon underneath a flare.
With this removed I can finally import DVD's with no problem. Now if they removed macrovision I might actually watch DVD's from the U.S too.
Yeah, definitly the product should be the first consideration. Looking at the place I work (as an IT guy), I would say look for a stable nitch market for software. Big buisnesses survive making generic packages. One man operations generally can't do a whole lot. With around 5-10 coders, you could make some dedicated purpose software that one person couldn't do on their own, but be versitile enough to find your place. There are more than a few instances where the boss was talking to me about how he wanted some software package for something, but no one makes it (or it's still being worked on [for the last 3 years] by some company). The need is there if you know what questions to ask, and who to ask them to.
But being a generic consulting firm? I really don't think that would pan out.
However, people don't associate a browser with standards. How many people know that IE isn't standards compliant?
I'm sure they can write of the 5 copies they sell in China
"I'm not naive enough to believe that this will result in a permanent manned lunar base"
I bring this up every time people mention the manned mission to Mars. Why? I mean we haven't even been to the moon for more than a day. What are the chances that anyone would make it back from mars (with the chances of things going wrong, I'd say pretty low). It seems to me that a lunar base would be the way to go. You have solid ground to build off of, a slight ammount of gravity to keep things grounded, and you can still surf the web for porn in real time, and visit home for the holidays.
what ever happened to the gecko anyway? Although I admit I was sort of confused to what the bluish green thing was, for a windows icon, I eventually figured out it was supposed to be a gecko. I even got sort of attached to it. Then I upgrade to mozilla 1.1 and what do I get? This ugly red decapitated dinosaur head in a box. Can't they change it to like... a fat penguin or something?