"I really wanted to put Jedi down on my Census, but the I had heard rumours that the UK government were going to fine people who put religion as Jedi so I chickened out"
You truly are the ultimate pussy. Do you buy sponges from door-to-door salesmen too?
When I used to work at Majestic Wine Warehouses, our company policy was to NOT accept Scottish banknotes due to risk of counterfeit (through unfamiliarity).
Bollywood babes are the best - better than those idiotic, silicone distorted frankensteins that Americans seem to love. I'm excepting Halle Berry from that.
you may not yet of heard of the twin phenomena of "Europe" and "Asia", I understand these mysterious forces can contribute to network traffic somewhat.
but why? QuickTime is Apple's architecture, it's NOT a bunch of CODECs - porting QuickTime's functionality to a different architecture would be a complete subversion of QT, and a complete waste of time.
"So how is this better than gigabit ethernet which is standard on most macs?"
It isn't, really. I tried it out when they first released IP over Firewire and found it about equalled my normal Gigabit E performance - the problem being that 1394 cabling costs the Earth. Mind you, my setup was using FW 400 - you may well be able to exceed Gig E's practicle bandwidth limitations when using Macs with FW 800 on the motherboard. Still, it's a great technology for Apple to implement - if nothing more it effectively offers a second high performance network port on each machine, and many older Macs have FW 400 onboard but only 10/100 Ethernet.
" I don't think it'd cost more than a few thousand for a few engineers at Apple or Microsoft to throw together a plug-in for Mplayer or Xine"
So you think the QuickTime team could knock out an acceptable player in a couple of minutes then? Unlike yours, real programmers' time is actually worth MONEY.
"in relation to the codec used in Sorenson Squeeze"
Not true. The legal action is over the CODEC used in Flash MX (Sorenson Spark), as Squeeze can use either SV 3.1 or Spark - Apple maintain that their agreement with Sorenson Media gives them exclusive rights to use A Sorenson CODEC, Sorenson says not ANY Sorenson CODEC.
Incidentally, Sorenson's MPEG4 CODEC is a beaut, and gives MUCH better encodes than Apple's.
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Britain's nukes are supplied by the USA these days, and therefore controlled by the USA, too.
you could hire a helicopter and drop them at random onto Redmond - they're quite dangerous from a good height
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I think you'll find they have their own nukes. That's why you can't bully them like you do most of the world. Who disagreed with the US policy on Iraq? France (nukes) China (nukes) Russia (many nukes). Can you see a trend?
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don't try THAT one on!
your stupid country just spent 300Bn destroying Iraq!
I must say that I agree, and I don't even use all the.Mac features - I DO use, Virex, Backup, email, homepage (for photos) and iDisk, but I've neglected iCal and iSync thus far...
cost me £33 for a year - I make that in about an hour and a half, it's about the same price as a tank of fuel for me!
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"I really wanted to put Jedi down on my Census, but the I had heard rumours that the UK government were going to fine people who put religion as Jedi so I chickened out"
You truly are the ultimate pussy. Do you buy sponges from door-to-door salesmen too?
When I used to work at Majestic Wine Warehouses, our company policy was to NOT accept Scottish banknotes due to risk of counterfeit (through unfamiliarity).
that's called a BOOK
I REALLY like the wet sari.
Bollywood babes are the best - better than those idiotic, silicone distorted frankensteins that Americans seem to love. I'm excepting Halle Berry from that.
so does the computer games industry, the oil business, the car industry etc etc etc
what was your point?
you may not yet of heard of the twin phenomena of "Europe" and "Asia", I understand these mysterious forces can contribute to network traffic somewhat.
but why? QuickTime is Apple's architecture, it's NOT a bunch of CODECs - porting QuickTime's functionality to a different architecture would be a complete subversion of QT, and a complete waste of time.
yep
It's a lot easier to initiate Target Disk Mode than to configure a second network connection. A LOT easier.
Not true. In practice (yes, we have a Gig E network) you RARELY get over 300Mbps from a Gig E link - FW 400 can hit these rates just fine.
Macs come with a nice, transparent 4pin to 6pin cable - how's that gonna help you?
that's practical, of course - I'm going back to Omniweb if fucking Safari won't spell as I type for me...
"So how is this better than gigabit ethernet which is standard on most macs?"
It isn't, really. I tried it out when they first released IP over Firewire and found it about equalled my normal Gigabit E performance - the problem being that 1394 cabling costs the Earth. Mind you, my setup was using FW 400 - you may well be able to exceed Gig E's practicle bandwidth limitations when using Macs with FW 800 on the motherboard. Still, it's a great technology for Apple to implement - if nothing more it effectively offers a second high performance network port on each machine, and many older Macs have FW 400 onboard but only 10/100 Ethernet.
"you talk shit about that guy in the office that nobody else likes, and you turn on the tube and watch mindless sitcoms."
You might, I really don't.
"So, quit lying to yourself and being embarrassed. Sit down with your kids and share the moment."
I don't have any kids, and I'm really not in denial.
"considering it something meaningless, stupid or pathetic"
But kids' cartoons ARE meaningless, stupid and pathetic - even most KIDS realise that.
I particularly enjoyed the Mysterious Cities of Gold when I was young, but you can't take this crap seriously.
" I don't think it'd cost more than a few thousand for a few engineers at Apple or Microsoft to throw together a plug-in for Mplayer or Xine"
So you think the QuickTime team could knock out an acceptable player in a couple of minutes then? Unlike yours, real programmers' time is actually worth MONEY.
so what you're saying is that you still need QuickTime installed to play QuickTime movies?
"in relation to the codec used in Sorenson Squeeze"
Not true. The legal action is over the CODEC used in Flash MX (Sorenson Spark), as Squeeze can use either SV 3.1 or Spark - Apple maintain that their agreement with Sorenson Media gives them exclusive rights to use A Sorenson CODEC, Sorenson says not ANY Sorenson CODEC.
Incidentally, Sorenson's MPEG4 CODEC is a beaut, and gives MUCH better encodes than Apple's.
Britain's nukes are supplied by the USA these days, and therefore controlled by the USA, too.
you could hire a helicopter and drop them at random onto Redmond - they're quite dangerous from a good height
I think you'll find they have their own nukes. That's why you can't bully them like you do most of the world. Who disagreed with the US policy on Iraq? France (nukes) China (nukes) Russia (many nukes). Can you see a trend?
don't try THAT one on!
your stupid country just spent 300Bn destroying Iraq!
I must say that I agree, and I don't even use all the .Mac features - I DO use, Virex, Backup, email, homepage (for photos) and iDisk, but I've neglected iCal and iSync thus far...
cost me £33 for a year - I make that in about an hour and a half, it's about the same price as a tank of fuel for me!
Very nearly??
I don't like Will Smith too much for sure, but Keanu Reeves is the worst fucking actor for just about ANY role, the guy's a fucking disaster area.
Still, the Matrix is a SHIT movie, about one tenth as entertaining as Ghost in the Shell, taking just one example.