You don't need a new video card. You'll see most improvement from a new CPU, believe it or not, despite all of the work that hardware t&l etc should be taking off your processor's workload.
I'm sorry, do you think that Mac hardware allows scripting? No, then it must be the Mac's kernel. No, not there - it must be the shell. But hold on, what's to stop you using a powerful shell on a PC/Linux or PC/Windows? Nothing. It works fine.
Sometimes I use Windows batch files to do tasks, or I use bash under cygwin for more complex operations. Inside applications I use macros or the oft-built-in VBA if still more complex things need doing. Now sorry, what was your point again?
If you read my comment you will see that I acknowledge the fact he mentioned it in the interview. But all he actually said was that he uses a multi-region player to watch (amongst others) British shows.
What you did was focus on this single throwaway comment, and extrapolate it to a rant about the ??AA et al. Normally this may be acceptable, except that virtually every slashdot article ends up with this sort of rant in; what's the point of different articles if the same arguments come up in all of them?
So, any comment that isn't about the major point of the article (in this case online cartoons) is offtopic. Save this reference up for an article about the MPAA, and say "Look, even MG uses multi-region!" but it ain't on-topic here.
How about because the story is about online cartoons, whereas you talked some tedious crap about multi-region players and MPAA etc? Just because he says he has a multi-region player does not mean that a tired old rant about DMCA/MPAA/RIAA etc is on topic.
Do you remember the original Halloween memos? How they exposed dirty tricks and unethical practices? How they really exposed a dark and dirty side of Microsoft straight from the horse's mouth?
Now look at the last couple of documents. They are totally different beasts of virtually no importance or interest; ESR simply calls them Halloween documents in order that they will garner interest on the back of the original docs. Look at the seventh one - it is the result of a market research project. Why is this grouped under the same umbrella as MS talking about unethical monopolistic practices?
Eric: When you get some interesting, shocking documents leaked from Microsoft, please feel free to publicise your Halloween documents. If all you get is this boring tripe, feel free to publish it, but just call it "leaked MS email" or something.
In short, I agree with the parent - get a fucking life ESR.
Well, naturally he is welcome to put his own blabberings in, but it would have been more tolerable had he not felt the need to comment on fucking everything. When a perfectly reasonable and otherwise uninteresting bullet point is presented, there is no need for Eric "please believe I'm important" Raymond to try and debunk it for the sake of completeness.
I'm going to have to stop writing now before I smash my keyboard with rage at how much I hate ESR.
FYI, the 10% figure has been debunked as crap. The person who came up with the figure had used atrociously bad statistical techniques and was entirely biased. Although there is no 'official' figure, it is thought that the number is closer to 1%.
Note that this only makes the link to Mac users even stronger.
Well maybe the proposed protocol just wasn't very good? When the companies saw this presentation they will have looked at it with a critical eye and may have found flaws that mean it is hardly better than the current protocol and yet would cost much developer time to implement.
Remember that these are businesses, so just because He Is Your Brother is no reason to blindly follow his lead. They may well have a totally reasonable, above-board justification.
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Can't be arsed to register.
Yet more quality acts from the UK.
You don't need a new video card. You'll see most improvement from a new CPU, believe it or not, despite all of the work that hardware t&l etc should be taking off your processor's workload.
The "too good to be true" icon must be Rachel Stevens' fine ass.
En Tea.
Sometimes I use Windows batch files to do tasks, or I use bash under cygwin for more complex operations. Inside applications I use macros or the oft-built-in VBA if still more complex things need doing. Now sorry, what was your point again?
What you did was focus on this single throwaway comment, and extrapolate it to a rant about the ??AA et al. Normally this may be acceptable, except that virtually every slashdot article ends up with this sort of rant in; what's the point of different articles if the same arguments come up in all of them?
So, any comment that isn't about the major point of the article (in this case online cartoons) is offtopic. Save this reference up for an article about the MPAA, and say "Look, even MG uses multi-region!" but it ain't on-topic here.
"an" hilarious, please.
How about because the story is about online cartoons, whereas you talked some tedious crap about multi-region players and MPAA etc? Just because he says he has a multi-region player does not mean that a tired old rant about DMCA/MPAA/RIAA etc is on topic.
By which, of course, I mean I get all of my Futurama from KaZaA, rather than paying for them in any way.
It seems that such strange grammar structure is generally accepted within headlines.
OS/2 has a strategy? I didn't even think IBM used OS/2, let alone marketed it to others.
Sounds like a retard talking about the adventures of Captain Kirk.
No, they have to backspace through all of the server logs one character at a time.
Sir, I appreciate you tried your hardest, but yuo != a mtach 4 m3: Ph34r!
I'd recommend sitting there most of the day imagining them.
"fucking"
Now look at the last couple of documents. They are totally different beasts of virtually no importance or interest; ESR simply calls them Halloween documents in order that they will garner interest on the back of the original docs. Look at the seventh one - it is the result of a market research project. Why is this grouped under the same umbrella as MS talking about unethical monopolistic practices?
Eric: When you get some interesting, shocking documents leaked from Microsoft, please feel free to publicise your Halloween documents. If all you get is this boring tripe, feel free to publish it, but just call it "leaked MS email" or something.
In short, I agree with the parent - get a fucking life ESR.
I'm going to have to stop writing now before I smash my keyboard with rage at how much I hate ESR.
He also has Down's Syndrome. I know which one is most significant to me.
SIR, I suggest you make use of the racial slurs database. I will not do your homework for you.
Microsoft couldn't have come up with this idea: the submission explicitly states that it wouldn't be possible outside the free software model. QED.
You fucking idiot. Of course it was 10% of the population that likes the same sex, but it was that figure that was widely debunked. Kindly die, thx!
Note that this only makes the link to Mac users even stronger.
Remember that these are businesses, so just because He Is Your Brother is no reason to blindly follow his lead. They may well have a totally reasonable, above-board justification.