Then you should hear MY fridge... It screams "Remove this all this fucking month-old food or I'll kill you!".. And I can tell you it's not kidding.. Everytime I open the fridge I almost die...
Why don't you vote your own representatives out? Is it really that simple? No, I didn't think so...
The thing is that the USA already havethe DMCA.. And I'm not happy about that even though I'm Swedish myself.. But now when you already have that stupid law, anything that can stop a similar law in Europe is a good thing.
The pornindustry shys away from it because it is proven ineffective! It makes people annoyed, remember their name and associate it with false advertising, and they will never sign up! The same thing with (mail/usenet) spam. Instead the pornindustry has started to spam the searchengines.. They register 200 domainnames and have 200 different frontpages to the same site.. And they have also found that the very most effective way to get people to sign up is to post high quality free pictures without fake links and popups on all of the 1000s "thumbnail gallery post"s, together with a link to their signup-page. That is why you don't see as much porn-banners/popups/spam as there used to be a few years ago...
Then why don't you use Vorbis -q3 audio instead? About 128 kbps and comparable quality to 192k MP3.. For a movie I think q3 might even go down to an average of less than 100kbps while keeping the same quality because many parts are almost silent and very easy to encode compared to music.. MP3 is outdated and sucks... You can also gain quite a few bits by using OGM instead of the bit-eating AVI and get faster and more accurate seeking at the same time..
Sure it would be cool with video-phones and all that, but I'm not going to pay 10x the price for something I can't use because none of my friends have it, and batteries will die after a few minutes..:P I prefer my cheap old Nokia 6150 which I use to make phonecalls (surprise!) and send SMS with. Batteries last for about a week with normal usage.
That's fine for servers and production-stuff, but this is my home-computer I mostly play with..;) I like to try out different OSes, just to play around with them... I once had Linux (debian), MSDOS 6.22, MSDOS 1.01, Win 3.11, Win 98, Win2k, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and BeOS on the same computer.. Now I also have gotten hold of CDs with OS/2 Warp 4, OpenStep 4.5 and QNX to add to that list..;)
I guess I have to get myself a cheap old computer to have as fileserver...
Only MSDOS 1.01 and OpenStep are "warezed".. I have proper licenses for the other OSes!
If I just could get those CP/M-disks to boot, but it doesn't seem to support IDE so I can't install it..:(
LOL! If I got anal beads from my company I would start to love my job!! Not that I'd use them, not on myself anyway, butt (pun intended) a company giving anal beads to its programmers is just the one thing that you'd expect the very least..;) And I'd love them forever for it!;)
I'd love to run BSD here, but I have a 400 GB Linux-LVM VG full of LVs formatted with either XFS or ReiserFS, so I'm pretty much stuck with Linux if I want to access them...:(
There is no silver bullet. There is no simple solution that will solve all problems. But it helps to not using overly complicated languages.. Before I tried out Eiffel I had been struggling with C++ for quite a long time.. C++ is extremly hard to learn! It's easy to learn the basics, but after a while everything just becomes a mess.. It's overfeatured and it's hard to debug.. Then I gave Eiffel a try, mostly just for fun, and everything became clear.. It just makes sense! It's simply a beautiful programminglanguage!
It's pure OO, just like smalltalk, not hybrid.
It's syntax is easy to learn, write and read.
It has assertions nicely integrated into the language, everything must meet the precontitions and postcondition you set up. It feels natural to add checks and tests pretty much everywhere instead of cluttering the code with assert()s and #ifdef DEBUG..
SmartEiffel (the GNU Eiffel compiler) compiles to ANSI-C or JVM so it's portable to every platform there is.. Some other compilers can also compile to.NET..
You can use existing C and C++ shared libraries without wrappers/bindings. (although making bindings are preferrable to make it follow standard Eiffel-style)
It manages memory for you and has a garbage collector. You never have to think about buffer overflows and malloc()/free() again!
Its runtime speed is as fast as C/C++, and sometimes even faster because the compiler compiles to C-code that is more optimized than most human beings can code..
I do. Gfx-card, soundcard, ATA-card, TV-card, two network-cards. Then only the PCI-bus next to the AGP-bus is free, because it is unusable for anything but something like this anyway...
I've used it to download Grim Fandango again, because CD2 of my original Grim Fandango broke when I accidentially dropped it on the floor and rolled my chair over it.:)
FWIF, Since 1995-1996 or so I've had linux people telling me about how wine is close to obsoleting my windows systems. Hence, my skepticism.
The problem is that Windows is a moving target. I'm sure you can run the apps from 1995-1996 pretty perfectly, but the problem is to always support the latest and greatest stuff from MS.
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Then you should hear MY fridge...
It screams "Remove this all this fucking month-old food or I'll kill you!".. And I can tell you it's not kidding.. Everytime I open the fridge I almost die...
Why don't you vote your own representatives out? Is it really that simple? No, I didn't think so...
The thing is that the USA already havethe DMCA.. And I'm not happy about that even though I'm Swedish myself.. But now when you already have that stupid law, anything that can stop a similar law in Europe is a good thing.
aren't you worried that people might be annoyed, remember your name, and associate it with false advertising?
;-)))
No, that would just make me proud!
The pornindustry shys away from it because it is proven ineffective! It makes people annoyed, remember their name and associate it with false advertising, and they will never sign up! The same thing with (mail/usenet) spam. Instead the pornindustry has started to spam the searchengines.. They register 200 domainnames and have 200 different frontpages to the same site..
And they have also found that the very most effective way to get people to sign up is to post high quality free pictures without fake links and popups on all of the 1000s "thumbnail gallery post"s, together with a link to their signup-page.
That is why you don't see as much porn-banners/popups/spam as there used to be a few years ago...
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Is that a threat?
Masochists find Microsoft Ruling Appealing
These are ripped for high quality, not trading.
Then why don't you use Vorbis -q3 audio instead? About 128 kbps and comparable quality to 192k MP3.. For a movie I think q3 might even go down to an average of less than 100kbps while keeping the same quality because many parts are almost silent and very easy to encode compared to music.. MP3 is outdated and sucks... You can also gain quite a few bits by using OGM instead of the bit-eating AVI and get faster and more accurate seeking at the same time..
Isn't that a weird place to put the on/off switch?
Or is it supposed that Hello Kitty is the part you put inside?
Sure it would be cool with video-phones and all that, but I'm not going to pay 10x the price for something I can't use because none of my friends have it, and batteries will die after a few minutes.. :P
I prefer my cheap old Nokia 6150 which I use to make phonecalls (surprise!) and send SMS with. Batteries last for about a week with normal usage.
Well, I for one am married, so I only use that resource once a month at most. ;-)
You mean when you are cheating?
"Love, Peace and Linux!" // IBM
That's fine for servers and production-stuff, but this is my home-computer I mostly play with.. ;) ;)
:(
I like to try out different OSes, just to play around with them... I once had Linux (debian), MSDOS 6.22, MSDOS 1.01, Win 3.11, Win 98, Win2k, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and BeOS on the same computer.. Now I also have gotten hold of CDs with OS/2 Warp 4, OpenStep 4.5 and QNX to add to that list..
I guess I have to get myself a cheap old computer to have as fileserver...
Only MSDOS 1.01 and OpenStep are "warezed".. I have proper licenses for the other OSes!
If I just could get those CP/M-disks to boot, but it doesn't seem to support IDE so I can't install it..
LOL! If I got anal beads from my company I would start to love my job!! Not that I'd use them, not on myself anyway, butt (pun intended) a company giving anal beads to its programmers is just the one thing that you'd expect the very least.. ;) And I'd love them forever for it! ;)
I'd love to run BSD here, but I have a 400 GB Linux-LVM VG full of LVs formatted with either XFS or ReiserFS, so I'm pretty much stuck with Linux if I want to access them... :(
It's pure OO, just like smalltalk, not hybrid.
It's syntax is easy to learn, write and read.
It has assertions nicely integrated into the language, everything must meet the precontitions and postcondition you set up. It feels natural to add checks and tests pretty much everywhere instead of cluttering the code with assert()s and #ifdef DEBUG..
SmartEiffel (the GNU Eiffel compiler) compiles to ANSI-C or JVM so it's portable to every platform there is.. Some other compilers can also compile to .NET..
You can use existing C and C++ shared libraries without wrappers/bindings. (although making bindings are preferrable to make it follow standard Eiffel-style)
It manages memory for you and has a garbage collector. You never have to think about buffer overflows and malloc()/free() again!
Its runtime speed is as fast as C/C++, and sometimes even faster because the compiler compiles to C-code that is more optimized than most human beings can code..
;-)
I could rant about it forever, but I won't.. Instead you should read one of these great tutorials!
Eiffel for beginners
Eiffel: An advanced introduction
Eiffel Object-Oriented Programming
And of course, the GNU Eiffel compiler: SmartEiffel
Move to Sweden. Get 10 megabit full duplex, uncapped, for $35/month.
How much faster will it be on AMD processors then?
That's just like the "if we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat?"-argument.. ;)
;)
Yes, I'm a vegetarian....
Yes, it works now, after media put some pressure on them...
Just like Microsoft made msn.com only work with Internet Explorer...
Considering how much the average person thinks about sex, it won't take much more than a 2.5Ghz P4 to emulate the rest!
;)
With that in mind, a P2/266 will probably do it for my brain..
And who uses all their slots anyway?
I do. Gfx-card, soundcard, ATA-card, TV-card, two network-cards. Then only the PCI-bus next to the AGP-bus is free, because it is unusable for anything but something like this anyway...
Yet again I will be able to get "backup" copies of all the music and videos I soon plan to buy!
And I will be able to get previews of the movies I plan to rent, using the TV-out on my graphicscard!
I've used it to download Grim Fandango again, because CD2 of my original Grim Fandango broke when I accidentially dropped it on the floor and rolled my chair over it. :)
FWIF, Since 1995-1996 or so I've had linux people telling me about how wine is close to obsoleting my windows systems. Hence, my skepticism.
The problem is that Windows is a moving target. I'm sure you can run the apps from 1995-1996 pretty perfectly, but the problem is to always support the latest and greatest stuff from MS.