Furthermore if you'd say I get the CD and rip it myself in 192kb, to get better audio quality, you might not necessarily be successful, because the CD itself is quite a step down from the digital master.
Are you aware that Apple is compressing all the Music from their digital masters which have a much wider frequency and dynamic range than a shitty Audio CD? I bet some of those 128 AACs actually sound even better than their CD counterparts, compressed or not.
Common-sense standards....of which MS is part of? What do you mean with "common-sense" standards? The non-open pseudo standards that have been pushed down our throat, just because mister Monopoly says so? I do have a problem with "standardizing" on the complete mess that MS Windows and MS Office actually is. There's no consistency in file formats, even MS' own products more often than not bungle when it comes to opening an older version of their file formats.
But if you take it that far you might as well make MPEG-4 illegal, because any hardware vendor who wants to enable their devices to playback or encode MPEG-4 have to pay royalties to the MPEG-4 consortium or whatever that bunch of bureaucrats is called.
I mean isn't that the idea of inventing certain things and selling them, to make money off of it?
You're so spot-on. I always have to find that only very few Americans, even abroad, do speak a second language, whereas in Europe having command of less than three languages is pretty sub-par.
The extreme case in India -- sometimes referred to as the 4th world (depending on your caste I presume) -- most people speak 5 languages due to the fact that there are so many languages in the country and many are not even related to each other. I guess learning languages is mainly a factor of how many cultures you stumble across (and your will to get involved in these cultures).
you don't need root, you just need sudo, and you don't need the root password for that, but just the admin's password. So if you have the admin user's password, you own the box.
It's just that trying to run anything as root (or trying to run any app the first time for that matter) will bring up some kind of dialogue to reconfirm you just want to do that, allowing your brains to switch on. After klicking the OK button it's all your fault;-)
Apache has 60% of the Webserver market IIS is at a measly 20%, who's 0wnd (or however the script kiddies spell that) more often? which of the two has got the bigger gaping security holes?
Fuck market share.
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The BSD part converning OS X (or NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP for that matter) is pretty much irrelevant to the actual OS, even if in sole application size it might appear huge. Remember OPENSTEP could be run on pretty much any OS and hardware, OpenStep, WinNT, Solaris, you name it.
The biggest and main part of OS X is the great integration of the hardware and the OS and the applications with the OS and the interoperability of the applications with each other. This is all thanks to OS X (or NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP) which concerning the user experience and usability can be reduced to Cocoa and its core foundation, all made by Apple resp. NeXT. So in fact the vast majority of the OS (where it really matters) was developed by Apple/NeXT.
Also again the point of the iPod is not it being an MP3 player. The reason for its success lies in the integration of the iPod with iTunes and the overall ease of use of the iPod itself. This "usability" has been developed and designed by Apple.
1) their product is the one that put the virus on the product in the first place 2) their product made it possible for such viruses to infect other machines so easily 3) I say so 4) ??? 5) profit!
damn.. now I somehow forgot what I was about to say.
Extensions are the sole reason Firefox is still on my HD, for speed and looks Camino on OS X has a slight edge on Firefox while still using the same rendering eninge. I'm using OmniWeb 5.5 as my main browser though.
Is pretty clear to me. Although apparently it wasn't to Christianity. Then again this wasn't an issue of not being clear rather than the people this is and was addressed to, putting their fingers in their ears and singing "LA LA LA LA LA LA I can't hear you LA LA LA!!"...
Sometimes they're a bit picky about where you plug your joystick in, and some insist that you prevent your buffer overflow with a condom, but we can't complain. After all, men tend to crash after running BeerParty far too often...
Before the IBM PC really caught on in people's homes, I guess the Amiga was the one computer with the most exisiting viruses written for. And you know, the Internet while being in existence at the time was nothing mere mortals could use back then.
The fact that many viruses spread through emails nowadays is just a sign of the time, and an effective way of increasing the potential to do damage, but computer viruses spread very nicely ages before everyone got an email address, simply by copying themselves on storage media and infecting all kinds of files there.
That's what I thought. OK, Debian wants to be all GPL and free (speech) and be completely religious about those issues, fine. But then they also say, we want to use Firefox with the Firefox name (we want to profit from Firefox' name value), but we also want to change it in ways that was not provided by the license (while using the Firefox name & logo).
DUDES! If you want to use Firefox in the "Firefox" brandend incarnation, you abide to their rules. You're so anal about your own licensing being free only and GPL throughout, but when it comes to other licenses you suddenly want them all to bend over?
Well fuck you Debian. If you want others to respect your licensing scheme and your decision to be all free and free only, then DO respect other license terms as well... geez.
Tibetan buddhism described as theocracy. You just blew my mind. I always thought that at least theoretically Buddhism doesn't have the concept of a personalized god or deity, so how can you speak of a theocracy there?
Yes, I know in many buddhist countries, older and local beliefs are somehow mixed in and there's a wealth of gods those "buddhists" are worshipping (I btw. live in Japan, where 70% of the people are buddhist and 80% of them are Shinto... do the math).
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Furthermore if you'd say I get the CD and rip it myself in 192kb, to get better audio quality, you might not necessarily be successful, because the CD itself is quite a step down from the digital master.
Are you aware that Apple is compressing all the Music from their digital masters which have a much wider frequency and dynamic range than a shitty Audio CD? I bet some of those 128 AACs actually sound even better than their CD counterparts, compressed or not.
Common-sense standards. ...of which MS is part of? What do you mean with "common-sense" standards? The non-open pseudo standards that have been pushed down our throat, just because mister Monopoly says so? I do have a problem with "standardizing" on the complete mess that MS Windows and MS Office actually is. There's no consistency in file formats, even MS' own products more often than not bungle when it comes to opening an older version of their file formats.
But if you take it that far you might as well make MPEG-4 illegal, because any hardware vendor who wants to enable their devices to playback or encode MPEG-4 have to pay royalties to the MPEG-4 consortium or whatever that bunch of bureaucrats is called.
I mean isn't that the idea of inventing certain things and selling them, to make money off of it?
Don't buy that crap, check out http://music.podshow.com/ or http://cdbaby.com/ or other places where you get non DRMed music you can buy from all around the world.
You're so spot-on. I always have to find that only very few Americans, even abroad, do speak a second language, whereas in Europe having command of less than three languages is pretty sub-par.
The extreme case in India -- sometimes referred to as the 4th world (depending on your caste I presume) -- most people speak 5 languages due to the fact that there are so many languages in the country and many are not even related to each other. I guess learning languages is mainly a factor of how many cultures you stumble across (and your will to get involved in these cultures).
And in another Universe (not the one YOU are in) the Apple Logo has moved from rainbow colours to monochrome about 50 years ago...
you don't need root, you just need sudo, and you don't need the root password for that, but just the admin's password. So if you have the admin user's password, you own the box.
;-)
It's just that trying to run anything as root (or trying to run any app the first time for that matter) will bring up some kind of dialogue to reconfirm you just want to do that, allowing your brains to switch on. After klicking the OK button it's all your fault
Apache has 60% of the Webserver market IIS is at a measly 20%, who's 0wnd (or however the script kiddies spell that) more often? which of the two has got the bigger gaping security holes?
Fuck market share.
The BSD part converning OS X (or NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP for that matter) is pretty much irrelevant to the actual OS, even if in sole application size it might appear huge. Remember OPENSTEP could be run on pretty much any OS and hardware, OpenStep, WinNT, Solaris, you name it.
The biggest and main part of OS X is the great integration of the hardware and the OS and the applications with the OS and the interoperability of the applications with each other. This is all thanks to OS X (or NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP) which concerning the user experience and usability can be reduced to Cocoa and its core foundation, all made by Apple resp. NeXT. So in fact the vast majority of the OS (where it really matters) was developed by Apple/NeXT.
Also again the point of the iPod is not it being an MP3 player. The reason for its success lies in the integration of the iPod with iTunes and the overall ease of use of the iPod itself. This "usability" has been developed and designed by Apple.
Maybe it's because this could turn into "Job's news"...
1. Yes
2. No
3. It depends
4. Maybe
5. Profit!
errr, forget it.
No, Microsoft is partly to blame, because
1) their product is the one that put the virus on the product in the first place
2) their product made it possible for such viruses to infect other machines so easily
3) I say so
4) ???
5) profit!
damn.. now I somehow forgot what I was about to say.
Extensions are the sole reason Firefox is still on my HD, for speed and looks Camino on OS X has a slight edge on Firefox while still using the same rendering eninge. I'm using OmniWeb 5.5 as my main browser though.
Let's see:
Ten commandments?
I'm not religious, but...
"Thou shalt not murder"
Is pretty clear to me. Although apparently it wasn't to Christianity. Then again this wasn't an issue of not being clear rather than the people this is and was addressed to, putting their fingers in their ears and singing "LA LA LA LA LA LA I can't hear you LA LA LA!!"...
Sometimes they're a bit picky about where you plug your joystick in, and some insist that you prevent your buffer overflow with a condom, but we can't complain. After all, men tend to crash after running BeerParty far too often...
It's retro postmodern and re-entrant. Really advanced stuff y'know
Nah, I think whoever sent this article to Slashdot did it, so he could finally have HIS STORY (in the double sense) posted on Slashdot.
2006... It's Windows... "My God, it's full of holes!"
Before the IBM PC really caught on in people's homes, I guess the Amiga was the one computer with the most exisiting viruses written for. And you know, the Internet while being in existence at the time was nothing mere mortals could use back then.
The fact that many viruses spread through emails nowadays is just a sign of the time, and an effective way of increasing the potential to do damage, but computer viruses spread very nicely ages before everyone got an email address, simply by copying themselves on storage media and infecting all kinds of files there.
Hmmm how much cheaper than $599 do you really think would do the trick?
That's what I thought. OK, Debian wants to be all GPL and free (speech) and be completely religious about those issues, fine. But then they also say, we want to use Firefox with the Firefox name (we want to profit from Firefox' name value), but we also want to change it in ways that was not provided by the license (while using the Firefox name & logo).
DUDES! If you want to use Firefox in the "Firefox" brandend incarnation, you abide to their rules. You're so anal about your own licensing being free only and GPL throughout, but when it comes to other licenses you suddenly want them all to bend over?
Well fuck you Debian. If you want others to respect your licensing scheme and your decision to be all free and free only, then DO respect other license terms as well... geez.
You just can't have the cake and eat it.
The Wal-Mart managers?
Al Gore is on the board at Apple?
Since quite a while. He actually was one of the people demonstrating the then new video-chat capability of iChat AV together with Steve Jobs.
Tibetan buddhism described as theocracy. You just blew my mind. I always thought that at least theoretically Buddhism doesn't have the concept of a personalized god or deity, so how can you speak of a theocracy there?
Yes, I know in many buddhist countries, older and local beliefs are somehow mixed in and there's a wealth of gods those "buddhists" are worshipping (I btw. live in Japan, where 70% of the people are buddhist and 80% of them are Shinto... do the math).