What the hell? And all this time I thought the mp3 format was a free-for-anyone standard like HTML. Shame on Fraunhofer.:)
Now, since there is no patent on the.ogg format, that doesn't leave them open to someone patenting their technology, right? Like with the Amazon one-click fiasco. Oh brother!
Well, I used to watch Bugs Bunny when I was a kid and I guess I turned out alright (IMO, of course).;)
I see your point, but still, hasn't that issue been done to death yet? (no pun intended, really!)
We all know that cartoons can be needlessly violent. I just hope nobody takes the Itchy & Scratchy parody more seriously and thinks it's okay to hit someone over the head with [whatever]. Kids like to mimic what they see. I remember having to be disciplined quite a few times for mimicing what I saw on TV - remember on the Dukes of Hazzard or Knight Rider when they'd hit someone over the back of the base of the neck with a gun to knock them out? Enter my water pistol - shaped like a gun. Of course now I get it, but then I just thought it was okay until I was told otherwise.
I can't be certain what the effect, if any, is, because I'm not a kid anymore and I bet kids today are somewhat different than what they were when I was a kid.
Kids also seem to have this idea that they can't die. Anyone remember thinking that when they were small?
Obviously all "old people" don't think like you do. I've seen range in energy and enthusiasm rangin from one foot in the grave to happy and young inside to busy all the time, to grumpy as hell. Also some older people are interested in learning the Internet. Others don't give a crap.
Square watermelon? Good idea, but I mean... "DUHHHH!!" Of course they will grow to be square in a square container. Try and make them grow square on their own - now THAT would be a little more respectable (and a little scary, I'd say - can you spell the fifth food group?) LOL
Anyway, what's with the price tag. "Well, we pay basically SQUAT to this guy over here to put the little watermelon into this box, see... and then we don't touch it until it is big and fat and, well, SQUARE. Yup, that should justify the markup."
Pffft.
I would pay $100 for all (best) the Seinfeld episodes on one or two DVDs.
IMO, The Simpsons has been going down the tubes for quite some time now. Get rid of Itchy and Scratchy - what uselessly violent nonsense. And get rid of some of the tasteless jokes about handicapped people, etc... Isn't this show meant for all ages? I think some people let too much slide when it comes to watching TV.
Another useful and simple trick I do for more annoying ad banners is copy the image location, check it out, and add the host name to my Windows hosts file so it points to 127.0.0.1 (loopback). This only applies for banners which link to a specific site like ads.something.net.
Dude, it's 5:30 in the morning here and I'm so overtired, I almost fell off my chair from laughing at your name calling. Friggen hilarious as I read it on my Hell Attitude.
You're probably right, in a sense, but would you rather Linux stayed as a minority operating system with no "Windows lusers" trying to learn it? I'm trying very quickly to learn all I can about Linux and develop applications on it. Would you rather I just didn't bother and stuck to Windows? Have you known everything about Linux since birth? Or were you a newbie once, too? Waaaaahhh..:)
Imagine if disk space and memory were free and available in unlimited commodities. Also imagine you had infinite processing power. Now, you have built a game that has DirectX 5 statically linked (huge, so what). Ok, DirectX 6 comes out and it has optimizations for the new GeeWhiz 3d card you bought. Because your game has DX5 statically linked, you must provide an update with DX6 statically linked. Now you have to keep up on the new video cards out there in addition to making the game. Isn't it easier and more cost-effective for Microsoft to work on the graphics API separately and for you to stick to making the game?
Also, consider this is a simple example with only one required library. There is also joystick support, sound card support, tcp/ip, cpu optimizations, etc.. etc.. This is why the operating system itself provides dll's, so you can independently upgrade subsystems. Heh, what if win.com was a 250 meg single executable?
When IE5 came out, I stumbled across a page in the microsoft.com domain that didn't support it. Pretty hilarious, actually.
It just goes to show how tightly sites do their browser check, when a new version of a browser isn't even supported. How many site designers really care about Netscape 6? Probably not the majority.
What *should* have been done is that you could send the browser's capabilities through, such as "I support CSS-1", or "I support cookies", etc... as an array of features. Who cares who the manufacturer of the browser is! It's the implemented features that matter.
1) Can you please post a list of "all the other browsers", and beside that put the approximate % usage on the net for each?
2) Netscape 4.7 gets me into all sites that use SSL with no problem. Netscape 6 doesn't, or at least didn't when last I tried.
3) The new user interface in Netscape 6 stinks, IMO. Not everyone will like it, so you can't expect everyone to switch versions. I'm waiting until I hear some major news from them before upgrading.
I use Netscape almost exclusively now that I have a powerful enough CPU to render most pages at a decent rate, mostly for the fact that Internet Explorer has terrible cookie management and keeps that damn.dat file in the cookies directory which can't be deleted. Oh yeah, and their default options are geared for doubleclick.net's benefit, not the user's.
I agree with your statements. About the code of ethics, I believe in being ethical (what I also might call professional and responsible). I remember a project I was almost involved in which rang of unethical practices. I talked over the project with my boss and asked him whether he thought what the client was proposing was ethical. He said "what?" I restated. He said "oh, I don't know. Why?" I sighed because he didn't give a rats ass about ethics. Good thing is we didn't end up doing the project, and I'm not sure I would have stuck around to do it anyway.
How spammers and information thieves can sleep at night, I'll never know. I guess in any profession, country, and race there's good people and bad people.
Why not just pick each hard drive up with a crane magnet, then low-level format the thing. I seriously don't know if that would work, but I'd like to see how tiny magnetic particles could stay aligned in any certain way after being subject to that kind of magnetic force.
I helped field test Delphi 6 and have used Kylix. As an avid Delphi for Windows fan, I think this Kylix/Delphi combination is going to be an extremely cool and productive combination for developers.
For example, it is easy to create a project on either Windows or Linux, FTP the code over, and recompile on the other platform. Most of the hard work has been done underneath for you, or by the component developers. As an application developer or web developer, you can create apps for both platforms easily, quickly, and with the power of Object Pascal.
Just my two cents.. put it this way, it kicks the a-s out of VB.
I tried Forte within the last year and it was VERY slow and clunky.
If you want free Java development in an effective IDE, I would recommend getting the free JBuilder Foundation download from http://www.borland.com.
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What the hell? And all this time I thought the mp3 format was a free-for-anyone standard like HTML. Shame on Fraunhofer. :)
.ogg format, that doesn't leave them open to someone patenting their technology, right? Like with the Amazon one-click fiasco. Oh brother!
Now, since there is no patent on the
Excellent point, penguinboy.
I say stick with mp3, the quality is great, contrary to what some people say. So it doesn't support secure transferal to the user - who cares?
Change your pricing strategy (see the micropayments article).
Well, I used to watch Bugs Bunny when I was a kid and I guess I turned out alright (IMO, of course). ;)
I see your point, but still, hasn't that issue been done to death yet? (no pun intended, really!)
We all know that cartoons can be needlessly violent. I just hope nobody takes the Itchy & Scratchy parody more seriously and thinks it's okay to hit someone over the head with [whatever]. Kids like to mimic what they see. I remember having to be disciplined quite a few times for mimicing what I saw on TV - remember on the Dukes of Hazzard or Knight Rider when they'd hit someone over the back of the base of the neck with a gun to knock them out? Enter my water pistol - shaped like a gun. Of course now I get it, but then I just thought it was okay until I was told otherwise.
I can't be certain what the effect, if any, is, because I'm not a kid anymore and I bet kids today are somewhat different than what they were when I was a kid.
Kids also seem to have this idea that they can't die. Anyone remember thinking that when they were small?
Obviously all "old people" don't think like you do. I've seen range in energy and enthusiasm rangin from one foot in the grave to happy and young inside to busy all the time, to grumpy as hell. Also some older people are interested in learning the Internet. Others don't give a crap.
Square watermelon? Good idea, but I mean... "DUHHHH!!" Of course they will grow to be square in a square container. Try and make them grow square on their own - now THAT would be a little more respectable (and a little scary, I'd say - can you spell the fifth food group?) LOL
Anyway, what's with the price tag. "Well, we pay basically SQUAT to this guy over here to put the little watermelon into this box, see... and then we don't touch it until it is big and fat and, well, SQUARE. Yup, that should justify the markup."
Pffft.
I would pay $100 for all (best) the Seinfeld episodes on one or two DVDs.
IMO, The Simpsons has been going down the tubes for quite some time now. Get rid of Itchy and Scratchy - what uselessly violent nonsense. And get rid of some of the tasteless jokes about handicapped people, etc... Isn't this show meant for all ages? I think some people let too much slide when it comes to watching TV.
Another useful and simple trick I do for more annoying ad banners is copy the image location, check it out, and add the host name to my Windows hosts file so it points to 127.0.0.1 (loopback). This only applies for banners which link to a specific site like ads.something.net.
Dude, it's 5:30 in the morning here and I'm so overtired, I almost fell off my chair from laughing at your name calling. Friggen hilarious as I read it on my Hell Attitude.
You're probably right, in a sense, but would you rather Linux stayed as a minority operating system with no "Windows lusers" trying to learn it? I'm trying very quickly to learn all I can about Linux and develop applications on it. Would you rather I just didn't bother and stuck to Windows? Have you known everything about Linux since birth? Or were you a newbie once, too? Waaaaahhh.. :)
I wholeheartedly agree with your reasoning here.
I would also like to add this thought:
Imagine if disk space and memory were free and available in unlimited commodities. Also imagine you had infinite processing power. Now, you have built a game that has DirectX 5 statically linked (huge, so what). Ok, DirectX 6 comes out and it has optimizations for the new GeeWhiz 3d card you bought. Because your game has DX5 statically linked, you must provide an update with DX6 statically linked. Now you have to keep up on the new video cards out there in addition to making the game. Isn't it easier and more cost-effective for Microsoft to work on the graphics API separately and for you to stick to making the game?
Also, consider this is a simple example with only one required library. There is also joystick support, sound card support, tcp/ip, cpu optimizations, etc.. etc.. This is why the operating system itself provides dll's, so you can independently upgrade subsystems. Heh, what if win.com was a 250 meg single executable?
When IE5 came out, I stumbled across a page in the microsoft.com domain that didn't support it. Pretty hilarious, actually.
It just goes to show how tightly sites do their browser check, when a new version of a browser isn't even supported. How many site designers really care about Netscape 6? Probably not the majority.
What *should* have been done is that you could send the browser's capabilities through, such as "I support CSS-1", or "I support cookies", etc... as an array of features. Who cares who the manufacturer of the browser is! It's the implemented features that matter.
1) Can you please post a list of "all the other browsers", and beside that put the approximate % usage on the net for each? .dat file in the cookies directory which can't be deleted. Oh yeah, and their default options are geared for doubleclick.net's benefit, not the user's.
2) Netscape 4.7 gets me into all sites that use SSL with no problem. Netscape 6 doesn't, or at least didn't when last I tried.
3) The new user interface in Netscape 6 stinks, IMO. Not everyone will like it, so you can't expect everyone to switch versions. I'm waiting until I hear some major news from them before upgrading.
I use Netscape almost exclusively now that I have a powerful enough CPU to render most pages at a decent rate, mostly for the fact that Internet Explorer has terrible cookie management and keeps that damn
I agree with your statements. About the code of ethics, I believe in being ethical (what I also might call professional and responsible). I remember a project I was almost involved in which rang of unethical practices. I talked over the project with my boss and asked him whether he thought what the client was proposing was ethical. He said "what?" I restated. He said "oh, I don't know. Why?" I sighed because he didn't give a rats ass about ethics. Good thing is we didn't end up doing the project, and I'm not sure I would have stuck around to do it anyway. How spammers and information thieves can sleep at night, I'll never know. I guess in any profession, country, and race there's good people and bad people.
Why not just pick each hard drive up with a crane magnet, then low-level format the thing. I seriously don't know if that would work, but I'd like to see how tiny magnetic particles could stay aligned in any certain way after being subject to that kind of magnetic force.
Ouch! Nice roast, dude. Hehe..
I helped field test Delphi 6 and have used Kylix. As an avid Delphi for Windows fan, I think this Kylix/Delphi combination is going to be an extremely cool and productive combination for developers. For example, it is easy to create a project on either Windows or Linux, FTP the code over, and recompile on the other platform. Most of the hard work has been done underneath for you, or by the component developers. As an application developer or web developer, you can create apps for both platforms easily, quickly, and with the power of Object Pascal. Just my two cents.. put it this way, it kicks the a-s out of VB.
I tried Forte within the last year and it was VERY slow and clunky. If you want free Java development in an effective IDE, I would recommend getting the free JBuilder Foundation download from http://www.borland.com.