And the thought that "this operating system should allow me to patch all my users easily without major effort" never ran through your head?
I swear, MS appologists annoy me like no other. I was having a problem with Excel being abysmally broken the other day, and the solution offered by a co-worker was "request an upgrade" (which would require a single license purchase). It amazes me that anyone would be dissatisfied with a product, so their solution is to buy more of it...
The bit rate I encode in is extremely relevant, mp3 will discard much less information at 320kb/s than it will at 196kb/s. In fact it chooses to discard data in a way that the files sound identical to my untrained ear at 320kb/s (I was able to hear some quality loss in the bass at 196kb/s).
And as soon as they sound identical, they are. There is no way you can possibly define audio quality as anything other than how it sounds.
Well, I'm again willing to bet you/can't/ burn a audio cd with the new service, given the MS track record on this.
And you don't loose an awful lot of quality. I encode in 320bit rate vbr, and the aac is identical to the mp3 on my speakers (which aren't shitty, but not audophile quality either).
If I can't hear the difference, it doesn't exist to me. Always keep that in mind.
Well really, the only one who would be commiting IP theft is IBM (assuming any of this bullshit is true). Upon IBM claiming they are making a contribution to the kernel, of their own code, we can in good faith assume that IBM produced it.
The only one responsible for the redistribution of that code would be IBM, even if it was distributed a few billion times, by people other than IBM. This is because by releasing it GPL IBM granted the right to copy it. The redistributors are just exercising their rights granted by IBM...
The only recourse SCO could hope to get from the courts is a few billion from IBM, and an injunction for everyone who was mislead about IBM's ownership of the code promptly delete it. To request any further action would be instantly shot down on a few dozen technical points.
So yeah, it is just as absurd as it sounds to attempt to sue the users of linux.
ctrl+esc brings up the start menu. R runs the first program starting with R in the start menu.
If you want to launch explorer, I think the easiest way is to right-click the start menu and select explore. Alternatively you could create a link in your start menu that was the only one starting with E, and use the above shortcut s/r/e/i.
I dislike your characture, I've bought 215 songs from iTMS. I buy them because they are convenient, cheap, and I switch them over to unregulated MP3 format soon after purchase.
If any of those things were false, I probably wouldn't buy anything from them. It has nothing to do with the fact Apple made it happen (though honestly I think they are the only company right now that can make it happen).
At least at APAC (one of the larger ones) the "sell rates" (how many you have to sell per hour) are so high only the people who scam old folks make commision. I used to work there briefly in college since it was the only job in the small town I was at, sad eh?
In a real-world production environment, we found that SuSE Linux Desktop worked surprisingly well, and supplied all the software needed in a typical office. In fact, some of the software was better than its Windows equivalents, such as the XMMS media player, which imitates WinAmp but is somewhat easier to use. In general, we did not find using Linux in a Windows-centric environment to be a handicap, which is saying a lot.
Most of those problems would never make it out to the end user. But, I might add in windows we still can't use numlock through citrix. So I guess that makes the copy-paste problem nulled.
There is a reason end users don't install windows, it applies to linux as well.
I can't make my CRT and LCD match, the brightness just won't go right, no matter what. Not to mention whenever I got it close, moving 15 degrees would mess it up again.
Color synch is great, but there is a limit to making non-similar displays look the same.
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Damn, this problem is more difficult than I thought. There's mass stupidity on *both* sides.
Yes, yes there is.
And the thought that "this operating system should allow me to patch all my users easily without major effort" never ran through your head?
I swear, MS appologists annoy me like no other. I was having a problem with Excel being abysmally broken the other day, and the solution offered by a co-worker was "request an upgrade" (which would require a single license purchase). It amazes me that anyone would be dissatisfied with a product, so their solution is to buy more of it...
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I'm sorry, you appear to have accidently added a "s" to "game". Halo is not plural.
You should mod his rebuttal up, since you modded mine up.
His is much better than my off-the-cuff rebuttal on definition.
Mods please mod parent up.
I'm sorry, how much does your $500 MSO every two years + $200 os every 2 years cost?
I don't really see the difference..
Refusing in this sense probably means:
Arguing against building a power plant in the face of information that would lead one to think they were required.
If there was no information to say they were required, no one ever refused to build one, they just never saw the need and it never made debate.
I have to agree with the left wing poster.
The bit rate I encode in is extremely relevant, mp3 will discard much less information at 320kb/s than it will at 196kb/s. In fact it chooses to discard data in a way that the files sound identical to my untrained ear at 320kb/s (I was able to hear some quality loss in the bass at 196kb/s).
And as soon as they sound identical, they are. There is no way you can possibly define audio quality as anything other than how it sounds.
Yea, let's waste time, and double the file size!
Waste time? Three clicks in the morning while I'm in meetings isn't wasting any time.
Double file size? I really could care less about file size.
I get the advantage of a track that can play in my car cd player. That seems fairly significant to me.
And no, I wouldn't be able to play windows media 9 tracks in my player, so don't counter with that.
Well, I'm again willing to bet you /can't/ burn a audio cd with the new service, given the MS track record on this.
And you don't loose an awful lot of quality. I encode in 320bit rate vbr, and the aac is identical to the mp3 on my speakers (which aren't shitty, but not audophile quality either).
If I can't hear the difference, it doesn't exist to me. Always keep that in mind.
I'm willing to bet it's extremely more restrictive than all the DRM-free mp3's I've made from iTMS -- at the cost of a single CDR.
Well really, the only one who would be commiting IP theft is IBM (assuming any of this bullshit is true). Upon IBM claiming they are making a contribution to the kernel, of their own code, we can in good faith assume that IBM produced it.
The only one responsible for the redistribution of that code would be IBM, even if it was distributed a few billion times, by people other than IBM. This is because by releasing it GPL IBM granted the right to copy it. The redistributors are just exercising their rights granted by IBM...
The only recourse SCO could hope to get from the courts is a few billion from IBM, and an injunction for everyone who was mislead about IBM's ownership of the code promptly delete it. To request any further action would be instantly shot down on a few dozen technical points.
So yeah, it is just as absurd as it sounds to attempt to sue the users of linux.
I don't know how many times I've heard geeks go off about their intellectual superiority when they are just plain idiots.
As a general rule, anyone who has to tell me they are intelligent is not all that bright.
ctrl+esc brings up the start menu. R runs the first program starting with R in the start menu.
If you want to launch explorer, I think the easiest way is to right-click the start menu and select explore. Alternatively you could create a link in your start menu that was the only one starting with E, and use the above shortcut s/r/e/i.
Whats so hard about ctrl+esc r?
I have never understood the point of the windows key, at most it saves one keystroke. It provides no extra functionality.
It is my opinion that if the SEC doesn't bankrupt all of those execs by a few million dollars in personal liability, the SEC needs reformed.
This whole scam is disgusting.
Thats the point.
I dislike your characture, I've bought 215 songs from iTMS. I buy them because they are convenient, cheap, and I switch them over to unregulated MP3 format soon after purchase.
If any of those things were false, I probably wouldn't buy anything from them. It has nothing to do with the fact Apple made it happen (though honestly I think they are the only company right now that can make it happen).
What they shouldn't do, and what bystanders especially shouldn't do, is sarcastically slag those users because they got what they paid for.
Wait, isn't that what we do to Windows users all day long?
At least at APAC (one of the larger ones) the "sell rates" (how many you have to sell per hour) are so high only the people who scam old folks make commision. I used to work there briefly in college since it was the only job in the small town I was at, sad eh?
It's remarkably disturbing.
Just to point out, it ceases to be liberal as soon as it's the norm.
A lot of people in America have forgoten the definitions of liberal/conservative over the past 100 years.
In a real-world production environment, we found that SuSE Linux Desktop worked surprisingly well, and supplied all the software needed in a typical office. In fact, some of the software was better than its Windows equivalents, such as the XMMS media player, which imitates WinAmp but is somewhat easier to use. In general, we did not find using Linux in a Windows-centric environment to be a handicap, which is saying a lot.
Most of those problems would never make it out to the end user. But, I might add in windows we still can't use numlock through citrix. So I guess that makes the copy-paste problem nulled.
There is a reason end users don't install windows, it applies to linux as well.
They are using a heatsink?
Um... yeah.
I'm going back to bed, wake me if anything worth knowing happens.
Proper security is:
Something you know
Something you have
Something you are
Only one of those pillars are information.
From America here, I see the end of our empire aproaching.
I unfortunatly don't really have time to post lengthy, but I expect it to happen in the next 100 to 150 years, if not sooner.
We are so full of ourselves, our innate superiority. Most people here think we're the only democratic nation in the world. The list goes on.
It reminds me of Rome.
I can't make my CRT and LCD match, the brightness just won't go right, no matter what. Not to mention whenever I got it close, moving 15 degrees would mess it up again.
Color synch is great, but there is a limit to making non-similar displays look the same.