If this format succeeds, the music industry will have killed the greatest reason people still buy CD's even if they can download them - the non-compressed CD audio. The audio on DataPlay discs is compressed, and downloaded 192 kbps MP3's are likely to sound at least as good.
As do Sharp, and probably most other large home electronics manufacturers you can name. The discs themselves are also being made by several manufacturers, myself I use TDK.
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I presume you mean MS-DOS. MS-DOS was not in the LEAST consistent. For example, look at the arguments, the output and error messages of move, copy and xcopy.
Thank you, Mr. Obvious. Now, why don't you go and help out instead of sitting around whining?
("Oh, he doesn't need any more features than those in Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark! Well, piece of cake! Let me just run my/usr/bin/autoclonewindowsapp > photoshopclone and we'll be done!")
He said that he was "not willing to give up my freedom for the small benefit to me personally that the totally closed Mac GUI brings." That means it doesn't matter whether the kernel is free (the *BSD or Linux kernels are more mature anyways, it's not like you'll see many people using Darwin without OSX on top any time soon); what sets OSX apart from all other unices is the GUI, and that's proprietary, non-free, commercial, closed and all sorts of evil things.
Hello! This is Junis from South-Eastern China! I am writing this on a rusted PDP-11/34 with 8" disk drives and Linux I found in the river, which I hooked up to the Internet using barbed wire and a 300 bps modem I found under a chicken coop. I write to thank you, USA, for all the computers! It is really helping my country to progress in IT!
I also love American culture like martial arts movies, anything to do with Star Wars, and rap! I believe "Temptation Island" and "Baywatch" will be number one shows in China soon!
Or just make sure the systems work, load them with Free software, then give them to schools in third-world countries instead of just dumping them there.
And how often, exactly, does the average GNU/Linux web server compile C(++) programs? Probably not often enough to make the performance of GCC become a problem, and probably not often enough to justify the price (whatever it is, except if it's free beer) of the Intel compiler. Then there's that bit about having the source code...
And furthermore, you're forgetting that servers is the area where other platforms than Intel are most prevalent.
let's be honest here, if it doesn't work as a regular user you're only viable option is to run as root
Actually _LOGGING_IN_ as root is questionable, though.
$ man sudo
$ man chown; man chmod...and since it's all Free(tm), noone stops them from hacking the relevant source to make sure some of the less-dangerous root operations can be done as a normal users.
Yes, probably, to some extent. If I pay for their products, I, as a Microsoft consumer, would want them to listen to what I have to say about what's wrong with the software. People have been complaining about Microsoft Windows security for ages, and not much has really been done. Microsoft was too busy integrating Internet Explorer into Windows and such, they did not really care about fixing the security.
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Why does problem.com lead to php.net?
Why are you posting with a sig like that anyway?
If this format succeeds, the music industry will have killed the greatest reason people still buy CD's even if they can download them - the non-compressed CD audio. The audio on DataPlay discs is compressed, and downloaded 192 kbps MP3's are likely to sound at least as good.
So you've got a 5 1/4 floppy drive in your XP-capable computer?
True, and how will the cover art look like for a 1 by 1 inch disc? Hell, a big reason for buying vinyls is because of the large and pretty cover art.
As do Sharp, and probably most other large home electronics manufacturers you can name. The discs themselves are also being made by several manufacturers, myself I use TDK.
Commcdore C16 and Plus/4 are black also. So is the Amiga CDTV.
Why not send them to No more AOL CD's instead?
I presume you mean MS-DOS. MS-DOS was not in the LEAST consistent. For example, look at the arguments, the output and error messages of move, copy and xcopy.
Ooh, and I won't get an OS that boots into a ready-to-use desktop in 10 seconds on my PII-266 either... That was one of the cutest things about BeOS.
Thank you, Mr. Obvious. Now, why don't you go and help out instead of sitting around whining? ("Oh, he doesn't need any more features than those in Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark! Well, piece of cake! Let me just run my /usr/bin/autoclonewindowsapp > photoshopclone and we'll be done!")
He said that he was "not willing to give up my freedom for the small benefit to me personally that the totally closed Mac GUI brings." That means it doesn't matter whether the kernel is free (the *BSD or Linux kernels are more mature anyways, it's not like you'll see many people using Darwin without OSX on top any time soon); what sets OSX apart from all other unices is the GUI, and that's proprietary, non-free, commercial, closed and all sorts of evil things.
If a person uses a gun to kill a president, I'd say that's pretty newsworthy.
Hello! This is Junis from South-Eastern China! I am writing this on a rusted PDP-11/34 with 8" disk drives and Linux I found in the river, which I hooked up to the Internet using barbed wire and a 300 bps modem I found under a chicken coop. I write to thank you, USA, for all the computers! It is really helping my country to progress in IT! I also love American culture like martial arts movies, anything to do with Star Wars, and rap! I believe "Temptation Island" and "Baywatch" will be number one shows in China soon!
Yours,
Junis
Or just make sure the systems work, load them with Free software, then give them to schools in third-world countries instead of just dumping them there.
Shouldn't that be "TWOT"?
Are you saying they're not useless and/or unobtainable in the US?
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People would REALLY wonder when they see "This user was registered 14 days ago" and then 6000 positive feedback ratings.
Oh, come on. You just spent 178 characters on a Slashdot comment.
Is the remaining 33,000 bytes big enough to contain full key-stroke logging, back-orifice-style, screenshot-capturing, cdrom-drive-opening code?
In short; yes.
And how often, exactly, does the average GNU/Linux web server compile C(++) programs? Probably not often enough to make the performance of GCC become a problem, and probably not often enough to justify the price (whatever it is, except if it's free beer) of the Intel compiler. Then there's that bit about having the source code...
And furthermore, you're forgetting that servers is the area where other platforms than Intel are most prevalent.
let's be honest here, if it doesn't work as a regular user you're only viable option is to run as root
...and since it's all Free(tm), noone stops them from hacking the relevant source to make sure some of the less-dangerous root operations can be done as a normal users.
Actually _LOGGING_IN_ as root is questionable, though. $ man sudo $ man chown; man chmod
Yes, probably, to some extent. If I pay for their products, I, as a Microsoft consumer, would want them to listen to what I have to say about what's wrong with the software. People have been complaining about Microsoft Windows security for ages, and not much has really been done. Microsoft was too busy integrating Internet Explorer into Windows and such, they did not really care about fixing the security.