Well, as far as my knowledge goes (I.E.- watching "Pirates of Silicon Valley") that fat goon Balmer more or less roommates with a dork who had a hardon for computers and rode on his coat tails so he could bounce around like he was auditioning for planet of the apes.
Gates: "Hmmm... that developer... He doesn't look motivated enough. Release the chimp!" Balmer: "DEVELOPERS DEVERLOPS DEVELOPERS!" Developer: "Nooooooo!!!"
Those soaring gas prices are why I'm switching to a Diesel VW Passat. Turbo-charged 4-cyl. diesel.. 0-60 in 9 seconds (fairly respectable), 5 speed manual (I hate automatic) 50-60 hwy mpg, 1000 mile range on a full tank of gass and its a Passat, so it's a nice car. Nevermind the fact diesel is still hovering around $1.60 a gallon.:)
well, considering that BurnProof is more or less in every single drive, and that most of the older DVD Burners (going off memory) only have a 2MB buffer, a 4x larger buffer is not something I'm going to be complaining about. It helps HDs, why not DVD-RW drives?
Google also indexes images, newsgroups, has things like froogle, as well as the upcomming gmail. Not to mention all the research and other things they have going, on top of redundancy...
No, it's like parental controls on a DVD player. If one could want, they can say "No one can play anything with a rating higher than PG-13 unless they have this magic code." and I know the PS2 does this for movies, so what's so hard about reading the game and when the game says "Hey! I'm rated M!" PS2 goes: "Yeah, magic code or no dice."
I'm a sucker for things that fit into White Wolf's World of Darkness. I felt the Hunter games they made for X-Box (especially Redeemer) were good, and the new Vampire game looks incredible.
That and I would actually like to see a game based off Underworld. It shows potential for a good FPS game, some tactical elements, open story... Of course people would probably bork it up...
you make fun of my sig because you have nothing else to lash at me for. nice. And in regards to my sig... it's this thing called "tongue in cheek humor." I'm sure you're more familiar with "tongue between cheeks" what with your insatiable boyfriend.
I've only owned two things that had blue LEDs.
My Sony Ericcson T68i (it had a green/red LED showing service/charge/battery status and a blue one to indicate bluetooth status. It blinked every 2-3 seconds.
Now I have a set of Logitech Z-640 5.1 speakers and on the center speaker is a mass of controls, and in the middle is a blue LED with the intensity of a thousand suns. It can litterally light up my side of the dorm room.
not quite, because, as he said, the filesystem isn't really that keen on deletion of said chunks. Ok, and if you DO purge/overwrite it... the amount of reindexing and (I would imagine) cluster propogation would be highly counter-intuitive. Similar to Slashdot, as when there's a new story that drops you dont see ALL the comments ever made, just the ones that have propogated to the server you happen to be on.
well... maybe... juuuuuust maybe. Those new resource files will replace the standard ones, having them cached, and all will be well. If you think the default XP themes are hard-coded into the source... I have a bridge I'd like to sell you...
AAC is a standard format. Perhaps you've heard of the people that made it... Dolby? Ring a bell? Just about anything doing with excelence in audio comes from them. I can see four things in my shoebox of a dormroom that has their logo on it.
I also find that most of the people that are so violently against DRM (in any form) are the people who would be analy raped by the RIAA/MPAA if they raided your house. I find that the DRM used in the iTunes store is fair, and more or less barely noticeable. Don't have a player that can play AAC? Buy one or shut the fuck up. You bought a player that doesn't do what you want it to, thats no one's fault but your own. Thats like buying DVDs then bitching because your VCR won't play them.
Grow up.
This summer I was a coder for Rutgers University, doing various coding in Java and Perl. I can honestly say that between all the great editors and IDEs that the Mac has, along with OS X. It's a great development platform. I'd bring my 550Mhz G4 Powerbook in every day, hook it up to an additional monitor so I'd have coding on one screen and my iChat/API references on the large monitor, since I wasn't looking at that as much. Doing all the compiling and testing and everything, along with having iTunes blasting, and all the other sorts of stuff I would be running at the same time, it didn't skip a beat. I'm buying myself the top end 15 inch powerbook this week, as an upgrade, as my parents offered to buy my old one (after seeing how productive I was on it, as well as seeing the wonders of Wi-Fi they wanted it for themselves, and after almost three years of service, I could use a taste of some more speed. Not that my 550Mhz is SLOW by any means, but wanting to go faster isn't a crime:)
well, yes, you can fit three hours of footage on it, but I meant three hour final products worth of footage. IE all the footage shot that would end up getting cut down to the three hour total.
I think this is absolutely amazing. Yes, we all knew you could do stuff like this, but you'd never think of it until you read stuff like this. Not only is it a great MP3 player (I've owned three as well as MiniDisc players, it's hands down the best I've used), it's an amazingly fast firewire drive (although I find that formated for windows it's not as fast, perhaps HFS+ is a better file system then most think?) and I've noticed that while I use my iPod for storing papers, projects and movies to watch at friends houses, it screams.
I think after hearing this those 40GB iPods are going to be the new pro-video clip bin. Sure, you won't fit an entire three hour epic movie's worth of footage in DV format on it, but it's good for fleshing out whole scenes. Plus it's widely supported for Windows and Mac so no worries (and Linux can mount them as a simple firewire drive if I stand correct...)
Neat stuff. Hopefully we'll get video iPods this year, to combat those foreboding MS portable media players...
Just like walls and other cars are a major threat to drivers, porn sites to computer geeks, and a job in the real world for all those heavily pierced freaks. I don't consider this THAT newsworthy...:)
(Not Trolling, just burning some midnight karma.:))
ok, so you're right. The man wasn't first in many things. BUT he's definately good at taking something that's a "first attempt" and raising it to a great implementation. I've been using Winamp for almost EIGHT years. Name a third party program (i.e.: not companies like MS) that's remained free for eight years, is still around and has the penetration that Winamp has. There are many other player softwares around, but none as good as Winamp. Gnutella... well, it's still around. Is Napster? (It's original form) hell even Kazaa's going to shit.. the point is the man has done a lot of good things for us.
Hell, my freshman year in high school, just as MP3s were starting their climb to popularity a large question was "What player do we use for em?" and the ONLY answer you would EVER get is "Winamp." Hell, I know some people who thought MP3s were exclusive to Winamp, because no one would even TALK about an alternative to Winamp. Still till this day it works fantasticly, and with Winamp 5 it's even a better VIDEO player than WMP, which I had used for my video needs. It's now the only media player I have on my computer short of PowerDVD.
You could say simlar things about John Carmack. Sure, the guy wasn't the first with 3d engines, but he sure as hell is the best at em.
Actually, if I recall, Apple didn't pay them for exlusivity, they bought the company outright. I'd say thats plenty of a reason to release exlusive for a company who signs your paychecks:P
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it's 7AM and I haven't had caffiene yet. All appologies :)
Well, as far as my knowledge goes (I.E.- watching "Pirates of Silicon Valley") that fat goon Balmer more or less roommates with a dork who had a hardon for computers and rode on his coat tails so he could bounce around like he was auditioning for planet of the apes.
Gates: "Hmmm... that developer... He doesn't look motivated enough. Release the chimp!"
Balmer: "DEVELOPERS DEVERLOPS DEVELOPERS!"
Developer: "Nooooooo!!!"
Personally I wouldn't think so, being that Firefox isn't as nuzzled closely in the OS code as IE is...
yeah, but would you rather look at the three of them or a fractal? :)
and how much do you get for each sucker that clicks that link?
Those soaring gas prices are why I'm switching to a Diesel VW Passat. Turbo-charged 4-cyl. diesel.. 0-60 in 9 seconds (fairly respectable), 5 speed manual (I hate automatic) 50-60 hwy mpg, 1000 mile range on a full tank of gass and its a Passat, so it's a nice car. Nevermind the fact diesel is still hovering around $1.60 a gallon. :)
well, considering that BurnProof is more or less in every single drive, and that most of the older DVD Burners (going off memory) only have a 2MB buffer, a 4x larger buffer is not something I'm going to be complaining about. It helps HDs, why not DVD-RW drives?
the mappings already been done. Hold down the option key and start hitting keys. Done.
Google also indexes images, newsgroups, has things like froogle, as well as the upcomming gmail. Not to mention all the research and other things they have going, on top of redundancy...
No, it's like parental controls on a DVD player. If one could want, they can say "No one can play anything with a rating higher than PG-13 unless they have this magic code." and I know the PS2 does this for movies, so what's so hard about reading the game and when the game says "Hey! I'm rated M!" PS2 goes: "Yeah, magic code or no dice."
I dunno what iTunes *YOU* were using, but I never had to give my credit card # and I'm on free song #9 and counting...
so what are your feelings on distilled water, then? And liquid nitrogen?
I'm a sucker for things that fit into White Wolf's World of Darkness. I felt the Hunter games they made for X-Box (especially Redeemer) were good, and the new Vampire game looks incredible.
That and I would actually like to see a game based off Underworld. It shows potential for a good FPS game, some tactical elements, open story... Of course people would probably bork it up...
you make fun of my sig because you have nothing else to lash at me for. nice. And in regards to my sig... it's this thing called "tongue in cheek humor." I'm sure you're more familiar with "tongue between cheeks" what with your insatiable boyfriend.
I've only owned two things that had blue LEDs. My Sony Ericcson T68i (it had a green/red LED showing service/charge/battery status and a blue one to indicate bluetooth status. It blinked every 2-3 seconds. Now I have a set of Logitech Z-640 5.1 speakers and on the center speaker is a mass of controls, and in the middle is a blue LED with the intensity of a thousand suns. It can litterally light up my side of the dorm room.
not quite, because, as he said, the filesystem isn't really that keen on deletion of said chunks. Ok, and if you DO purge/overwrite it... the amount of reindexing and (I would imagine) cluster propogation would be highly counter-intuitive. Similar to Slashdot, as when there's a new story that drops you dont see ALL the comments ever made, just the ones that have propogated to the server you happen to be on.
well... maybe... juuuuuust maybe. Those new resource files will replace the standard ones, having them cached, and all will be well. If you think the default XP themes are hard-coded into the source... I have a bridge I'd like to sell you...
AAC is a standard format. Perhaps you've heard of the people that made it... Dolby? Ring a bell? Just about anything doing with excelence in audio comes from them. I can see four things in my shoebox of a dormroom that has their logo on it. I also find that most of the people that are so violently against DRM (in any form) are the people who would be analy raped by the RIAA/MPAA if they raided your house. I find that the DRM used in the iTunes store is fair, and more or less barely noticeable. Don't have a player that can play AAC? Buy one or shut the fuck up. You bought a player that doesn't do what you want it to, thats no one's fault but your own. Thats like buying DVDs then bitching because your VCR won't play them. Grow up.
This summer I was a coder for Rutgers University, doing various coding in Java and Perl. I can honestly say that between all the great editors and IDEs that the Mac has, along with OS X. It's a great development platform. I'd bring my 550Mhz G4 Powerbook in every day, hook it up to an additional monitor so I'd have coding on one screen and my iChat/API references on the large monitor, since I wasn't looking at that as much. Doing all the compiling and testing and everything, along with having iTunes blasting, and all the other sorts of stuff I would be running at the same time, it didn't skip a beat. I'm buying myself the top end 15 inch powerbook this week, as an upgrade, as my parents offered to buy my old one (after seeing how productive I was on it, as well as seeing the wonders of Wi-Fi they wanted it for themselves, and after almost three years of service, I could use a taste of some more speed. Not that my 550Mhz is SLOW by any means, but wanting to go faster isn't a crime :)
well, yes, you can fit three hours of footage on it, but I meant three hour final products worth of footage. IE all the footage shot that would end up getting cut down to the three hour total.
I think this is absolutely amazing. Yes, we all knew you could do stuff like this, but you'd never think of it until you read stuff like this. Not only is it a great MP3 player (I've owned three as well as MiniDisc players, it's hands down the best I've used), it's an amazingly fast firewire drive (although I find that formated for windows it's not as fast, perhaps HFS+ is a better file system then most think?) and I've noticed that while I use my iPod for storing papers, projects and movies to watch at friends houses, it screams. I think after hearing this those 40GB iPods are going to be the new pro-video clip bin. Sure, you won't fit an entire three hour epic movie's worth of footage in DV format on it, but it's good for fleshing out whole scenes. Plus it's widely supported for Windows and Mac so no worries (and Linux can mount them as a simple firewire drive if I stand correct...) Neat stuff. Hopefully we'll get video iPods this year, to combat those foreboding MS portable media players...
Just like walls and other cars are a major threat to drivers, porn sites to computer geeks, and a job in the real world for all those heavily pierced freaks. I don't consider this THAT newsworthy... :)
(Not Trolling, just burning some midnight karma. :))
anyone else find it slightly ironic that everything on that list is almost DOUBLE what it would cost here in the U.S. EXCEPT the movie ticket? :P
ok, so you're right. The man wasn't first in many things. BUT he's definately good at taking something that's a "first attempt" and raising it to a great implementation. I've been using Winamp for almost EIGHT years. Name a third party program (i.e.: not companies like MS) that's remained free for eight years, is still around and has the penetration that Winamp has. There are many other player softwares around, but none as good as Winamp. Gnutella... well, it's still around. Is Napster? (It's original form) hell even Kazaa's going to shit.. the point is the man has done a lot of good things for us.
Hell, my freshman year in high school, just as MP3s were starting their climb to popularity a large question was "What player do we use for em?" and the ONLY answer you would EVER get is "Winamp." Hell, I know some people who thought MP3s were exclusive to Winamp, because no one would even TALK about an alternative to Winamp. Still till this day it works fantasticly, and with Winamp 5 it's even a better VIDEO player than WMP, which I had used for my video needs. It's now the only media player I have on my computer short of PowerDVD.
You could say simlar things about John Carmack. Sure, the guy wasn't the first with 3d engines, but he sure as hell is the best at em.
Actually, if I recall, Apple didn't pay them for exlusivity, they bought the company outright. I'd say thats plenty of a reason to release exlusive for a company who signs your paychecks :P