You haven't heard that Apple has already written OS X for x86 architecture? I guess that would take out a few extra steps that would make it less fun, but oh well...
Yes, they do. Have you ever gone to the Macromedia site to look at the Dreamweaver site catalog? they list many of the sites that use Dreamweaver, as well as if you look you can find the same listing for Flash, Shockwaave, Director, Authorware, etc. Macromedia makes real tools that real successful companies use.
Not generally. It's called a Faraday Cage, so think about it a minute and you'll realize that it's an enclosed area. If you put it around the theater, but not in any interior walls, it will stop transmisisons between devices inside and outside the theater. Every device inside the theater will still be able to communicate with each other, up to the point where they pass through the cage. I hope that explains it, if not I'm sure someone gave a better explanation somewhere in this topic.
So, you're saying that when someone's taking bids from contractors for a building job, they shouldn't even be able to see the possible blueprints from each bidder until they pay a portion of the blueprint paper cost, cost for the computer he used to calculate most of the values, cost for his time thinking about the project, etc? Last time I checked that's not how any business works, and if it did, business would die as we know it. People wouldn't be able to bid for a better price, they'd have to deal with the first offer where they could pay the contractor's beginning costs, before any work is even agreed upon.
This is a great idea to get MS to behave. The question is, however, will it really work? the government isn't always known for doing what's best for the bulk of the people.
you *don't* need to use POT on Linux. Get an old (free) version of Staroffice and use it to convert the files. Granted you may need to make small adjustments, but in the end, the parent poster is right, in the end it will save time and money. If you don't want to ever move from your 98 machine with Word 98, so be it, but you have to at least notice that your argument is stupid and irrational.
I have a problem with people saying that the Matrix was revolutionary and thought provoking. The idea's been in books for years, and plenty of other movies have touched on the basics of the movie, that what we see may not be real. It also has a "messiah"-type character just like about 50% of all movies ever produced (that's an exaggeration, by the way). It's fine to say it was a good movie, I'll disagree with you, but you can say it. Just don't say that such a simple action movie with horrible acting for the most part was thought provoking or revolutionary.
Usually a review critiques the movie. This is not a review because it is just a rehash of the story with some sarcastic, and what the author hopes are intelligent, comments.
Hey, I wonder how much the other updates are being downloaded compared to the DRM update. I know that I and most of my friends aren't downloading that one.
How about an API to create another window manager? or use another file browser by default? Those are both things that Linux people bitch about in KDE and Gnome from time to time.
No, MS doesn't know what OS each of these machines are running. They count EVERY computer regardless of OS and charges the school a license for each Mac, sven though the license will never be used. MS doesn't actually know which licenses are for non-windows machines.
The only reason that minors can't buy music with a certain label is enforced totally by the vendors, it's not a law at all (except maybe in a backwater town). Porn is only regulated because enough people see it as an obscenity that it can all be lumped together. However, games are like movies, some may be porn while others are a different area. To lump them all in the same category should be seen as wrong by so many people, but the judge doesn't see that and his decision will be overturned in the coming years.
The main things in whether you can burn "on the fly" are the quality of the IDE controller, and the quality of the CD-ROM drive. I've seen 8x "on the fly" burns on the same IDE cable in many systems that are at least 450 MHz, but nothing faster than 12x, even on different IDE cables. Then again, I also know someone who has an AMD T-bird 1.4 GHz, with the reader and burner on different IDE cables, and he couldn't sustain greater than 4x "on the fly" burns. I have the feeling he just had a crap reader, since his installs were also at a snail's pace from the drive.
I personally have a SCSI burner, using a Lite-on 16x DVD drive as my reader. I've never gotten a buffer underrun in an on the fly situation, except once when I had a dirty, scratched CD that I was reading from. I had to make a second copy, so I tried cleaning it, and it didn't create that underrun again.
Just to make sure everyone understands and doesn't flame this guy for no reason, he meant the last sentence to say "You *aren't* going to get that level of service from a IDE manufacturer."
Exactly. Did you bother to read the blurb at the top of the page before posting? What you said is the WHOLE POINT of this article, desktops, not servers.
I agree, the parent of your comment is trying to justify his SCSI habit. I use a SCSI CD burner, but that's mainly because when I first got a burner, my computer was so slow I was worried about buffer underruns at the new (then, at least) 4x speed. Now I'm not really worried, but my controller card is still compatible with my computer and new SCSI CD-RW drives, so I'm not worried. It allows me to be less concerned about speed and also frees up an IDE spot for something else. When I get a motherboard with a RAID controller, or maybe if there is a price difference of more than 5% in the SCSI drives, then I will probably go to IDE.
Also, isn't most pirated software Windows software? I have yet to find a pirated version of pretty much anything for linux. Granted I haven't looked, but I have seen PSX, DC, and PC piracy I wasn't looking for.
I've seen pirate tools for linux to copy windows games, but they've always been real hard to use.
Try and remember that indentured servitude is NOT slavery. At the end of the servant's working enough to pay off the person they were in servitude to, they are free. Now, the difference is that there is no set amount of wrok/dollar value/etc. that says when a slave becomes free. If there is, they aren't a slave, they are an indentured servant.
I'm sorry, I was misinformed. I should have checked before saying that. It's just that I haven't heard anything new about IRIX since I heard the statement a while ago that they were phasing it out. Rest assured, however, that my foot has firmly been placed in my mouth.
this is NOT bait& switch. That's where a company says, here's this great thing for say $100, when you come in to get it, they say, we're all out of that, but how about you buy this instead, it costs 10 times as much, and isn't as good, but you want it anyways. This is just a typo in the system, including the billing system. It wasn't done on purpose and nobody was forced to buy the card at $400, they had a choice to either take the refund and go away or order it at the higher price. I personally agree with Best Buy on the "We don't have to honor this price." The part I don't agree with is them giving it to some people and not others. Other than that they're totally in their right, even if it does give them a little bad PR.
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You haven't heard that Apple has already written OS X for x86 architecture? I guess that would take out a few extra steps that would make it less fun, but oh well...
Yes, they do. Have you ever gone to the Macromedia site to look at the Dreamweaver site catalog? they list many of the sites that use Dreamweaver, as well as if you look you can find the same listing for Flash, Shockwaave, Director, Authorware, etc. Macromedia makes real tools that real successful companies use.
You had me going there since I didn't read about RoadRunner .... until I thought about the fact that you spelled MEEP.
Not generally. It's called a Faraday Cage, so think about it a minute and you'll realize that it's an enclosed area. If you put it around the theater, but not in any interior walls, it will stop transmisisons between devices inside and outside the theater. Every device inside the theater will still be able to communicate with each other, up to the point where they pass through the cage. I hope that explains it, if not I'm sure someone gave a better explanation somewhere in this topic.
So, you're saying that when someone's taking bids from contractors for a building job, they shouldn't even be able to see the possible blueprints from each bidder until they pay a portion of the blueprint paper cost, cost for the computer he used to calculate most of the values, cost for his time thinking about the project, etc? Last time I checked that's not how any business works, and if it did, business would die as we know it. People wouldn't be able to bid for a better price, they'd have to deal with the first offer where they could pay the contractor's beginning costs, before any work is even agreed upon.
Remember how much time he's putting into these things. It's not like he's not doing anything for the money.
This is a great idea to get MS to behave. The question is, however, will it really work? the government isn't always known for doing what's best for the bulk of the people.
you *don't* need to use POT on Linux. Get an old (free) version of Staroffice and use it to convert the files. Granted you may need to make small adjustments, but in the end, the parent poster is right, in the end it will save time and money. If you don't want to ever move from your 98 machine with Word 98, so be it, but you have to at least notice that your argument is stupid and irrational.
I have a problem with people saying that the Matrix was revolutionary and thought provoking. The idea's been in books for years, and plenty of other movies have touched on the basics of the movie, that what we see may not be real. It also has a "messiah"-type character just like about 50% of all movies ever produced (that's an exaggeration, by the way). It's fine to say it was a good movie, I'll disagree with you, but you can say it. Just don't say that such a simple action movie with horrible acting for the most part was thought provoking or revolutionary.
Usually a review critiques the movie. This is not a review because it is just a rehash of the story with some sarcastic, and what the author hopes are intelligent, comments.
Hey, I wonder how much the other updates are being downloaded compared to the DRM update. I know that I and most of my friends aren't downloading that one.
How about an API to create another window manager? or use another file browser by default? Those are both things that Linux people bitch about in KDE and Gnome from time to time.
No, MS doesn't know what OS each of these machines are running. They count EVERY computer regardless of OS and charges the school a license for each Mac, sven though the license will never be used. MS doesn't actually know which licenses are for non-windows machines.
I've never had Sun's JVM crash on me, except for the one time I tried to use pointers . . .
The only reason that minors can't buy music with a certain label is enforced totally by the vendors, it's not a law at all (except maybe in a backwater town). Porn is only regulated because enough people see it as an obscenity that it can all be lumped together. However, games are like movies, some may be porn while others are a different area. To lump them all in the same category should be seen as wrong by so many people, but the judge doesn't see that and his decision will be overturned in the coming years.
The main things in whether you can burn "on the fly" are the quality of the IDE controller, and the quality of the CD-ROM drive. I've seen 8x "on the fly" burns on the same IDE cable in many systems that are at least 450 MHz, but nothing faster than 12x, even on different IDE cables. Then again, I also know someone who has an AMD T-bird 1.4 GHz, with the reader and burner on different IDE cables, and he couldn't sustain greater than 4x "on the fly" burns. I have the feeling he just had a crap reader, since his installs were also at a snail's pace from the drive.
I personally have a SCSI burner, using a Lite-on 16x DVD drive as my reader. I've never gotten a buffer underrun in an on the fly situation, except once when I had a dirty, scratched CD that I was reading from. I had to make a second copy, so I tried cleaning it, and it didn't create that underrun again.
Just to make sure everyone understands and doesn't flame this guy for no reason, he meant the last sentence to say "You *aren't* going to get that level of service from a IDE manufacturer."
Exactly. Did you bother to read the blurb at the top of the page before posting? What you said is the WHOLE POINT of this article, desktops, not servers.
I agree, the parent of your comment is trying to justify his SCSI habit. I use a SCSI CD burner, but that's mainly because when I first got a burner, my computer was so slow I was worried about buffer underruns at the new (then, at least) 4x speed. Now I'm not really worried, but my controller card is still compatible with my computer and new SCSI CD-RW drives, so I'm not worried. It allows me to be less concerned about speed and also frees up an IDE spot for something else. When I get a motherboard with a RAID controller, or maybe if there is a price difference of more than 5% in the SCSI drives, then I will probably go to IDE.
Even if I mainly use a windows box, I still think your sig is one of the more intelligent ones.
Yes, yes, offtopic, but also deeply nested, so I'm not too worried.
shouldn't that be "I'll BeOS you" ?
Also, isn't most pirated software Windows software? I have yet to find a pirated version of pretty much anything for linux. Granted I haven't looked, but I have seen PSX, DC, and PC piracy I wasn't looking for.
I've seen pirate tools for linux to copy windows games, but they've always been real hard to use.
Try and remember that indentured servitude is NOT slavery. At the end of the servant's working enough to pay off the person they were in servitude to, they are free. Now, the difference is that there is no set amount of wrok/dollar value/etc. that says when a slave becomes free. If there is, they aren't a slave, they are an indentured servant.
I'm sorry, I was misinformed. I should have checked before saying that. It's just that I haven't heard anything new about IRIX since I heard the statement a while ago that they were phasing it out. Rest assured, however, that my foot has firmly been placed in my mouth.
this is NOT bait& switch. That's where a company says, here's this great thing for say $100, when you come in to get it, they say, we're all out of that, but how about you buy this instead, it costs 10 times as much, and isn't as good, but you want it anyways. This is just a typo in the system, including the billing system. It wasn't done on purpose and nobody was forced to buy the card at $400, they had a choice to either take the refund and go away or order it at the higher price. I personally agree with Best Buy on the "We don't have to honor this price." The part I don't agree with is them giving it to some people and not others. Other than that they're totally in their right, even if it does give them a little bad PR.