Just fucking great, something is going to fall from the sky, we have no idea where. I have a date tommorrow night, I knew something was going to spoil it. My fuckin luck.
Yes, even a/. reader can get chicks, occasionally.
I agree. To my ear(with my cable connection), Ogg seems to have the best streaming quality. None of the tinny sound Real and Wmp have. It would also be nice if it was the World Service online rather than 4.
I would like some information of the costs involved. How effiecient is it, how cpu intensive. Streaming media on an enterprise level, requires powerful(expensive) hardware, and gobs of BW. If ogg is less cpu intensive and/or less of a BW pig than maybe it has a bright future.
Reverse engineering is perfectly legal as long as it is done correctly. In order to legally do it, a company must employ two sets of engineers. One to analyse the product and document every input and output of it, the other must have no contact with the product. The second team then takes the data collected by the first team and engineers another product that produces the same data.
I kinda of figured it is a fake. But it is important to seriously address such posts. Many people thinking about trying Linux research on Linux user sites such as/. It certainly is possible that Windows Nt can outperform Linux, in some (mis)configurations.
I'm sorry but Linux should and does perform at equal or better than NT in "almost" every situation. My instinct tells me either you configured your systems extradinarily poorly, or you used Linux in an application it is poorly suited for.
All you are doing is starting a flame war. Does it occur to you that desprite your confidence in your programming skills, you might not have any idea what you are actually doing.
Morons like him, maintain monopolies...
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I know that, but MP3's work better under linux. So I would like to go back.
I purchased a plugin of MP3pro for Nero a few months ago. It is backward capitable but they generally sound terrible on current MP3 players. CP is optional. Further the encoding speed was much much slower than lame or ogg, or even WMA.(insert M$ bash here) I hope that it doesn't catch on.
M$, first in innovation, wait no.. First at stealing innovations.
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Try muxicmatch jukebox for linux. Also wine with winamp can work... Just a pain to get working. I converted a whole bunch of files to WMA a while ago, not too bad, but it sometimes has a "speaker submerged in a fishtank" sound. I wish I could find an easy way to bring them back to MP3.
To listen to WMA's now I genally use my RIO anyway.
That's right. The disc's are non-complient to the format spelled out in the specification. The error correcting data on the CD allows CD's to be much more durable. This was a key selling point of the technology. Phillips does not want an inferior product to be attributed to them.
I agree Majestic had several problems, but economic ones were the biggest. Too expensive to develop, run, and produce, and too expensive for the subscriber.
As a first run at a product such as this it is not suprising. The plot would had to been truly intense and compelling to make it work. It wastn't, most people tried it for a chapter, said "this is cool" but didn't go on to subscribe.
I just bought a Netvista X-series. Intregrated flat seen tiny footprint neat system. Built great and actually upgradable. True IBM doesn't sell a lot of computers to regular joes, they do sell a few managed systems and thin clients.
I wounldn't be suprised if they discontinue the Netvista A-series, that is the consumer model. But there is no way the will discontinue the X, M, Intellistation or Thin-client models. IBM will continue to offer a total solution to a client's need, I can't see them stopping that.
Remember those numbers are 1999 numbers, before the managed PC craze took off, in 99 IBM was selling clunky huge 300GL's, built like tanks though, and uncompetitive aptiva's. IBM's current line is much nicer, beautiful black Netvistas.
This is great news, finally OpenGL will gain some ground and Linux will get better graphics.
"At first they are hitting the Radeon driver" This means they rewrite drivers (hopefully with manufacturer support) and take advantage of some of the hardware acceleration and features we've been missing.
I don't know how many new games this will bring. But I am sure the KDE and Gnome people are salivating at the possibilities. Animated translucent menus, anybody?
Yeah I aM an asshole to clients. But after dealing with a client for a few weeks, they cower in fear. Seriously it isn't that hard to get people to do this, I just ask nicely. The trick, "hey can you do me a favor" or "you might want to try outputting to PDF, everything you send out will look just the way you intend it and it can be encrypted" Most of the PPT is from sales-people and they will generally do whatever I ask.
Personally I ask all my clients to avoid Microsoft Apps. I either send simple documents in simple formats (ie. RTF, word 95) or print to a PDF file.
As for powerpoint. I send a reply, stating I don't like powerpoint presentatations, please send me plain text and annotated images. Funny when you ask for that, most people skip the stupid clip art they love to put in PP.
KOffice is perfect for me, but them I refuse mst MSO documents. Nonetheless judged on it merits it works great and does everything I ask of it.
Coming from a research University, I would say which. (But we use to have a Fusion Reactor) Anyway research is often conducted only with the purpose of immediate commercial application. Ie. corporate partners or patent holdings.
It is sad, but Nasa and the NSF are no longer the great institutions we pride.
Oh well ouch. Afaik Microsoft only had that piece of crap "IMHO" Money. I stand corrected, but I was thinking this question refered to desktop small-biz stuff. On the "enterprise" level, in my experience, customization is important. Therefore microsoft is competing custom programmed or custom tailored solutions.
Microsoft Business Plan, Verticle Integration. Though aquisition and intimidation.
I do hate the way these things turn into flame-wars. But I must say OS-X is a much nicer desktop OS than WinXP. It is a great way to get people in to a Nix, when they are intimidated by Linux, or are tied to an app than is unavailable on it. The bonus of having a mainsteam "desktop" OS with a decent market share that is Nix based will hopefully bring more Linux ports of popular programs.
Besides that dancing taskbar at bottom of screen is really cool.
I have always used Quickbooks. Since I sure they are already doing a OS-X port maybe a Linux port can be wrangled out of them.
There is an online quickbooks, god only knows how it works on browsers other than IE and I think there is a hefty monthly fee.
Accounting programs are certainly killer-apps for computers, like office suites. Thankfully Microsoft doesn't own this segment so maybe there is hope for Linux inroads.
OS-X is the best new operating system to come in a long a while. Visually it is unmatched. But Apple is convinced that selling only to Mac loyalists is the best business practices. Hence three thousand dollars on a G4 is an easy feat.
Instead of catering to the same 5% of the market, they could capture a much bigger share if they lowered prices. Perhaps as high as 20-30%.
Apple is in a unique position to complete with Microsoft. They are not dependent on on OS revenue, rather they sell hardware. This means that MS can't compete on price. MS most also continue to produce Office and IE for Apple as there is too much share to ignore the market.
Come on Jobs, sell use Mac's at prices we can afford. Imac toys don't count. We will buy them. Alot of them.
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Just fucking great, something is going to fall from the sky, we have no idea where. I have a date tommorrow night, I knew something was going to spoil it. My fuckin luck.
/. reader can get chicks, occasionally.
Yes, even a
I agree. To my ear(with my cable connection), Ogg seems to have the best streaming quality. None of the tinny sound Real and Wmp have. It would also be nice if it was the World Service online rather than 4.
I would like some information of the costs involved. How effiecient is it, how cpu intensive. Streaming media on an enterprise level, requires powerful(expensive) hardware, and gobs of BW. If ogg is less cpu intensive and/or less of a BW pig than maybe it has a bright future.
Reverse engineering is perfectly legal as long as it is done correctly. In order to legally do it, a company must employ two sets of engineers. One to analyse the product and document every input and output of it, the other must have no contact with the product. The second team then takes the data collected by the first team and engineers another product that produces the same data.
Patents must be honored however.
I kinda of figured it is a fake. But it is important to seriously address such posts. Many people thinking about trying Linux research on Linux user sites such as /. It certainly is possible that Windows Nt can outperform Linux, in some (mis)configurations.
I'm sorry but Linux should and does perform at equal or better than NT in "almost" every situation. My instinct tells me either you configured your systems extradinarily poorly, or you used Linux in an application it is poorly suited for.
All you are doing is starting a flame war. Does it occur to you that desprite your confidence in your programming skills, you might not have any idea what you are actually doing.
Morons like him, maintain monopolies...
I know that, but MP3's work better under linux. So I would like to go back.
I purchased a plugin of MP3pro for Nero a few months ago. It is backward capitable but they generally sound terrible on current MP3 players. CP is optional. Further the encoding speed was much much slower than lame or ogg, or even WMA.(insert M$ bash here) I hope that it doesn't catch on.
M$, first in innovation, wait no.. First at stealing innovations.
Try muxicmatch jukebox for linux. Also wine with winamp can work... Just a pain to get working. I converted a whole bunch of files to WMA a while ago, not too bad, but it sometimes has a "speaker submerged in a fishtank" sound. I wish I could find an easy way to bring them back to MP3.
To listen to WMA's now I genally use my RIO anyway.
That's right. The disc's are non-complient to the format spelled out in the specification. The error correcting data on the CD allows CD's to be much more durable. This was a key selling point of the technology. Phillips does not want an inferior product to be attributed to them.
Rightly so.
I agree Majestic had several problems, but economic ones were the biggest. Too expensive to develop, run, and produce, and too expensive for the subscriber.
As a first run at a product such as this it is not suprising. The plot would had to been truly intense and compelling to make it work. It wastn't, most people tried it for a chapter, said "this is cool" but didn't go on to subscribe.
Open-source business model? Making that work is akin to achieving cold fusion.
That would entail the Catholic Church actually helping people.
I just bought a Netvista X-series. Intregrated flat seen tiny footprint neat system. Built great and actually upgradable. True IBM doesn't sell a lot of computers to regular joes, they do sell a few managed systems and thin clients.
I wounldn't be suprised if they discontinue the Netvista A-series, that is the consumer model. But there is no way the will discontinue the X, M, Intellistation or Thin-client models. IBM will continue to offer a total solution to a client's need, I can't see them stopping that.
Remember those numbers are 1999 numbers, before the managed PC craze took off, in 99 IBM was selling clunky huge 300GL's, built like tanks though, and uncompetitive aptiva's. IBM's current line is much nicer, beautiful black Netvistas.
Lets give a hand to Matrox, for not being involved. And they actually write drivers for linux....
This is great news, finally OpenGL will gain some ground and Linux will get better graphics.
"At first they are hitting the Radeon driver" This means they rewrite drivers (hopefully with manufacturer support) and take advantage of some of the hardware acceleration and features we've been missing.
I don't know how many new games this will bring. But I am sure the KDE and Gnome people are salivating at the possibilities. Animated translucent menus, anybody?
Yeah I aM an asshole to clients. But after dealing with a client for a few weeks, they cower in fear. Seriously it isn't that hard to get people to do this, I just ask nicely. The trick, "hey can you do me a favor" or "you might want to try outputting to PDF, everything you send out will look just the way you intend it and it can be encrypted" Most of the PPT is from sales-people and they will generally do whatever I ask.
This is doable.
Just another visual stimulant to add to Pink Floyd...
Personally I ask all my clients to avoid Microsoft Apps. I either send simple documents in simple formats (ie. RTF, word 95) or print to a PDF file.
As for powerpoint. I send a reply, stating I don't like powerpoint presentatations, please send me plain text and annotated images. Funny when you ask for that, most people skip the stupid clip art they love to put in PP.
KOffice is perfect for me, but them I refuse mst MSO documents. Nonetheless judged on it merits it works great and does everything I ask of it.
Coming from a research University, I would say which. (But we use to have a Fusion Reactor) Anyway research is often conducted only with the purpose of immediate commercial application. Ie. corporate partners or patent holdings.
It is sad, but Nasa and the NSF are no longer the great institutions we pride.
Probably stops at your meter. If anyone really wants I could ask an electric-contracter buddy.
Sorry if somebody said it already, had these page open a while.
Oh well ouch. Afaik Microsoft only had that piece of crap "IMHO" Money. I stand corrected, but I was thinking this question refered to desktop small-biz stuff. On the "enterprise" level, in my experience, customization is important. Therefore microsoft is competing custom programmed or custom tailored solutions.
Microsoft Business Plan, Verticle Integration. Though aquisition and intimidation.
I do hate the way these things turn into flame-wars. But I must say OS-X is a much nicer desktop OS than WinXP. It is a great way to get people in to a Nix, when they are intimidated by Linux, or are tied to an app than is unavailable on it. The bonus of having a mainsteam "desktop" OS with a decent market share that is Nix based will hopefully bring more Linux ports of popular programs.
Besides that dancing taskbar at bottom of screen is really cool.
I have always used Quickbooks. Since I sure they are already doing a OS-X port maybe a Linux port can be wrangled out of them.
There is an online quickbooks, god only knows how it works on browsers other than IE and I think there is a hefty monthly fee.
Accounting programs are certainly killer-apps for computers, like office suites. Thankfully Microsoft doesn't own this segment so maybe there is hope for Linux inroads.
I didn't say it was the best, I said it was the best "new" operating system to come in a while. I wouldn't run a webserver on it either.
Why the hell does everyone want to start a flame war.
OS-X is the best new operating system to come in a long a while. Visually it is unmatched. But Apple is convinced that selling only to Mac loyalists is the best business practices. Hence three thousand dollars on a G4 is an easy feat.
Instead of catering to the same 5% of the market, they could capture a much bigger share if they lowered prices. Perhaps as high as 20-30%.
Apple is in a unique position to complete with Microsoft. They are not dependent on on OS revenue, rather they sell hardware. This means that MS can't compete on price. MS most also continue to produce Office and IE for Apple as there is too much share to ignore the market.
Come on Jobs, sell use Mac's at prices we can afford. Imac toys don't count. We will buy them. Alot of them.