When the linux developers start caring about interface design as much as they care about kernels.
Funny. However, I have found that Zina (http://www.pancake.org/zina.html) has the best interface I've ever used. It just so happens to be a web interface, but it's much better than any music player I've found.
Forcing customers to have to clean up the shit you're spewing everywhere is not a way to make friends.
It's even worse.. the iTunes installation kept hanging while it was trying to install quicktime. I had to assume that was because I already had quicktime installed. So after the installer crashed (cancel button caused the installer to lock up), I uninstalled quicktime and installed iTunes. Then iTunes would crash sporadically and cause explorer to crash as well.
As far as I can tell, the only reason iTunes requires QT6.4 is for the DRM shit from the music store.
but using ANY compression codec (including wav & aiff) with headphones can sound terrible.
wav and aiff don't use codecs, they're not compressed. Assuming you have the same DAC, the sound of the CD and the sound of the wav would be identical.
As far as I can see from a quick reading, the idea is not that you see what people are typing, but that you have an indicator which lets you know that they are typing.
You end up paying not just a little more, but CONSIDERABLY more, once you add up the dollar value of your time. Of course, if you have more time than money, then by all means, spend the weekend putting parts into a Fry's case.
This is a rediculous argument. Here's a little fact for you, your time is worth nothing. Unless building a computer somehow prevents you from doing work, you're not wasting "billable hours" building a computer on a saturday afternoon.
Do you hire a maid because she makes less money than you do and you "save" money by not doing it yourself?
Of course not, because your time is worth nothing outside of the 9-5 workday.
You're comparing an OEM solution (the G5) to your homebrew setup. Of course you can buy more in parts when you're designing, building, and supporting it yourself.
I think that was his point. His wallet is probably afraid of purchasing a Dell as well. I know mine certainly is.
I've never been physically injured from a PC crash.
And no one was physically injured from the Saturn flaw that allowed anyone to break into (not start, just unlock the doors) a saturn with a pair of scissors.. yet Saturn was still held accountable.
I'll tell you all something, if I'd be scared shitless about releasing an app on the web if it turned out I could be responsible for somebody else being a bastard with it.
Ah, but you can't be held responsible if you *gave* it away. It's the actual sale of software that brings responsibility.
I refuse to pay more than $30 for a game unless it is really really good. As a GameCube owner, I am now down to buying about one game every 6 months because of this.
Go to blockbuster. Blockbuster always has amazing deals for GameCube games. I picked up Metroid Prime brand new for $19.99.
Cleaner, more readable code is easier to audit. Cleaner, more readable code is easier to bugfix. Cleaner, more readable code is easier to add features to. Cleaner, more readable code is simply Good Stuff.
If your code is anything like your comments, it's neither cleaner nor more readable.
Cleaner, more readable code is easier to audit, bugfix, and add features to. It is simply Good Stuff.
Because the SI prefixes are base 10, not base 2. Now computers often use them to mean the nearest base 2 equivlant (like 1024 instead of 1000) however that doesn't mean the usage is correct.
1024 isn't base 2, it's base 10 (or at least base 5)
Wow, I haven't completed SMS yet(About 40%), although I'm not that dedicated, but getting every star is hardly an easy task. Don't these reviewers ever think that it's been 5 years since SM64 and they've played so many games that there's no more challenge left?
I have to agree with you on this. I'm getting sick of all these reviewers labelling every damn game as "too easy". I've beat every mario game in existence, except for SMS.
SMB3 is often called the best mario game ever, and yet it's a cakewalk compared to SMS. But these reviewers would never admit it because to call a game hard would insult their manhood or something.
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Burn the mp4's to a CD-RW and rip the CD as MP3's (of whatever quality you want). No DRM problems.
Until Apple decides to remove that ability from the software.
and you're dealing with a certain amount of compile time overhead on every page view.
That's why there's things like the Zend Accellerator, which caches the compiled scripts.
When the linux developers start caring about interface design as much as they care about kernels.
Funny. However, I have found that Zina (http://www.pancake.org/zina.html) has the best interface I've ever used. It just so happens to be a web interface, but it's much better than any music player I've found.
Forcing customers to have to clean up the shit you're spewing everywhere is not a way to make friends.
It's even worse.. the iTunes installation kept hanging while it was trying to install quicktime. I had to assume that was because I already had quicktime installed. So after the installer crashed (cancel button caused the installer to lock up), I uninstalled quicktime and installed iTunes. Then iTunes would crash sporadically and cause explorer to crash as well.
As far as I can tell, the only reason iTunes requires QT6.4 is for the DRM shit from the music store.
Click on 'Share Music' on computer A.
Click on shared music on computer B.
Press 'Play'
Brilliant Idea!
Yes it is, but it's not apple's idea. ZeroConf is an open standard invented by the IETF.
ah paying for bug fixes... apple must have taken a page from microsoft's Exploiting Your Users playbook.
which will be called the Masterbaceon, which is to be followed by the Ejaculaceon.
but using ANY compression codec (including wav & aiff) with headphones can sound terrible.
wav and aiff don't use codecs, they're not compressed. Assuming you have the same DAC, the sound of the CD and the sound of the wav would be identical.
As far as I can see from a quick reading, the idea is not that you see what people are typing, but that you have an indicator which lets you know that they are typing.
You mean just like in GAIM and iChat?
You end up paying not just a little more, but CONSIDERABLY more, once you add up the dollar value of your time. Of course, if you have more time than money, then by all means, spend the weekend putting parts into a Fry's case.
This is a rediculous argument. Here's a little fact for you, your time is worth nothing. Unless building a computer somehow prevents you from doing work, you're not wasting "billable hours" building a computer on a saturday afternoon.
Do you hire a maid because she makes less money than you do and you "save" money by not doing it yourself?
Of course not, because your time is worth nothing outside of the 9-5 workday.
You're comparing an OEM solution (the G5) to your homebrew setup. Of course you can buy more in parts when you're designing, building, and supporting it yourself.
I think that was his point. His wallet is probably afraid of purchasing a Dell as well. I know mine certainly is.
I've never been physically injured from a PC crash.
And no one was physically injured from the Saturn flaw that allowed anyone to break into (not start, just unlock the doors) a saturn with a pair of scissors.. yet Saturn was still held accountable.
I'll tell you all something, if I'd be scared shitless about releasing an app on the web if it turned out I could be responsible for somebody else being a bastard with it.
Ah, but you can't be held responsible if you *gave* it away. It's the actual sale of software that brings responsibility.
but he specifically mentioned Mario Kart... so he'd have to spend $150+$49 for mario kart since it's not likely to be part of the bundle.
"We always consider security to be our absolute top priority," - Microsoft spokesman Sean Sundwall
You mean their proclivity to collect the worlds cash is a secondary mission?
He was talking about Financial security.
I refuse to pay more than $30 for a game unless it is really really good. As a GameCube owner, I am now down to buying about one game every 6 months because of this.
Go to blockbuster. Blockbuster always has amazing deals for GameCube games. I picked up Metroid Prime brand new for $19.99.
Who can forget the first NES game to include speech? Skate or Die!
I agree, I'm really starting to like games that don't have boss fights.
A boss fight is like killing off the entire US Marine Corp and then having trouble finishing off George W Bush.
Cleaner, more readable code is easier to audit.
Cleaner, more readable code is easier to bugfix.
Cleaner, more readable code is easier to add features to.
Cleaner, more readable code is simply Good Stuff.
If your code is anything like your comments, it's neither cleaner nor more readable.
Cleaner, more readable code is easier to audit, bugfix, and add features to. It is simply Good Stuff.
Well, you could bitch and moan about it, or you could just use Google News and find your own damn references
Well shit, then why even bother visiting slashdot at all?
Because the SI prefixes are base 10, not base 2. Now computers often use them to mean the nearest base 2 equivlant (like 1024 instead of 1000) however that doesn't mean the usage is correct.
1024 isn't base 2, it's base 10 (or at least base 5)
I'm assuming you meant 0000010000000000.
I just want a roadmap on an SSH patch for OSX.
no one is going to read this because it's so old but back in college we created a way of spelling that was a lot like yours.
We called it Umaarikun. (American). The double vowel for hard, and single vowel for short worked out pretty well.
I'm disappointed that Guantlet wasn't in anyone's list.
Blue Wizard needs food!
To this day I can play Guantlet and Choplifter for hours on end.
Wow, I haven't completed SMS yet(About 40%), although I'm not that dedicated, but getting every star is hardly an easy task. Don't these reviewers ever think that it's been 5 years since SM64 and they've played so many games that there's no more challenge left?
I have to agree with you on this. I'm getting sick of all these reviewers labelling every damn game as "too easy". I've beat every mario game in existence, except for SMS.
SMB3 is often called the best mario game ever, and yet it's a cakewalk compared to SMS. But these reviewers would never admit it because to call a game hard would insult their manhood or something.