Downloading movies over the net if fscking silly. I've tried it on several occasions, and all you end up with is a full hard drive and a jerky video.
Sounds like you're from the MPAA or something=]. It only takes about 45 minutes for me to download a high quality (admittedly lower than most dvd's) movie, then I stick it on a cd and the collection grows.
Is that documented anywhere? Or a 'feature, not a bug'? I'd say any accessing of a private variable is inappropriate, i don't know why it wouldn't be, otherwise declaring it public would make more sense.
GST was introduced in place of another tax, whose name I forget. This tax was placed on raw materials, so the price of an item on the shelf included this supplier tax hidden. Whether the gst was a good idea is up in the air to me..
An 80 gig drive is 80 * one billion bytes, that's how they've always been measured, it's the standard. Of course 80*2^30 is how we'd do it, but once again, a standard. UltraDMA is CAPABLE reaching that speed, that's what the number quoted is, maximum capability. A 20" crt has a 20" long tube, that's how crt monitors have always been measured. I don't know shit about scanners and a 56k modem CAN do 56k, just maybe not in your backwater nation.
The numbers quoted are with regards to the hardware alone in the best possible environment. That is the standard way of measuring things. The argument is as weak as saying 'i bought this car engine that delivers 250 horsepower', and then i complaing and say that 'i don't get nearly 250 hp, I get 0. I don't have a car to install this engine in'. Does it make any sense for me to complain to the engine manufacturer about this? I don't think so.
Yes, thank you, you've now proven that xine's gui is far less intuitive than the shortcuts of mplayer. Anyone would obviously rather ctrl-f to go fullscreen than press some silly 'widget'.
Are you sure about that? Universities can still be government funded but withhold information from the public. I didn't see anything on their website addressing this. It's a noble cause but I won't help unless they explicitly state that results will be free to any and every nation.
Irregardless is not a word, the ir prefix and less suffix make no sense together. It's as if you're trying to say 'without with regard' or something equally absurd.
There is no inherent speed benefit to 64 bit computing (read: addressing). In fact there are some significant drawbacks when you are talking about applications that have complex data structures containing a lot of pointers (memory size increases).
Also, they have the exact same precision. You can do 64 bit integer math on a 32 bit CPU, it just takes a little longer if it doesn't have 64 bit registers.
So there's 'no inherit speed benefit' but it takes longer to do 64 bit math on a 32 bit processor? Sounds like that is a speed difference.
64-bit computing ( using 64 bit address registers ) does increase the addressing space by 2^32 times, I was not referring to the opteron which apparently limits that.
With regard to your comment regarding expanded pointer sizes, there's little reason I can see with why this can't be addressed using short addressing, obviously not every program will benefit or require the expanded address space, so it is feasible only to allow it 32 bit or less.
For example, you can use the law of gravitation to estimate where a planet will be, based on its mass, speed, and the mass of the sun. However, this calculation can never be completely accurate. Because you'd also need to take into account the other planets. And asteroids. And the galaxy. And you'd need the exact speed of the planet in relation to the sun. And you'd have to take into account the sun's mass changes second by second. As does the planet's. As does everything else. And then there's intersellar dust...
So, what you're saying is that if we gather all that information, then we CAN make a perfect model of planetary motion. Not saying what you say is false, you just have a weak argument for the case.
Some laws, like Maxwell's equations can be used in environments where all external mag/elec fields are dampened, so they perhaps could be perfect models ( perhaps not, IANA good physicist ).
Of course if you throw quantum analysis into the mix then we of course can't measure anything definately, but that's a whole different story.
I think a good issue is (re)raised here with regards to OpenGL having no one really looking after it now. OpenGL is the crux of porting games to non-ms platforms. He mentioned that it was a reasonable task to write rendering code that works across different graphics api's, and IANA graphics developer so I'd like to know what other people feel about this. And by extension, is it really that important for a game to use OpenGL to be easily portable?
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That will never work, companies make less money this way and then they lose.
I still leave the house for beer and work.
As if gigantic movies and games along with lots of music files utilize more bandwidth than the 100kb of text and pictures per webpage.
Is that documented anywhere? Or a 'feature, not a bug'? I'd say any accessing of a private variable is inappropriate, i don't know why it wouldn't be, otherwise declaring it public would make more sense.
GST was introduced in place of another tax, whose name I forget. This tax was placed on raw materials, so the price of an item on the shelf included this supplier tax hidden. Whether the gst was a good idea is up in the air to me..
Good god, that is the most amazing idea ever! Don't mention it to Amazon, they might patent it!
It's unfortunate that debit cards are expensive to use in Canada, and are also needlessly slow.
The (Ontario) beer store does it, that's all I need!
If you can't fill in a bubble with a radius of 2mm, barring some sort of disability which could be taken account for, then it's your own damn fault.
An 80 gig drive is 80 * one billion bytes, that's how they've always been measured, it's the standard. Of course 80*2^30 is how we'd do it, but once again, a standard. UltraDMA is CAPABLE reaching that speed, that's what the number quoted is, maximum capability. A 20" crt has a 20" long tube, that's how crt monitors have always been measured. I don't know shit about scanners and a 56k modem CAN do 56k, just maybe not in your backwater nation.
The numbers quoted are with regards to the hardware alone in the best possible environment. That is the standard way of measuring things. The argument is as weak as saying 'i bought this car engine that delivers 250 horsepower', and then i complaing and say that 'i don't get nearly 250 hp, I get 0. I don't have a car to install this engine in'. Does it make any sense for me to complain to the engine manufacturer about this? I don't think so.
Whadda ya know, 'f' does full screen xine.
Yes, thank you, you've now proven that xine's gui is far less intuitive than the shortcuts of mplayer. Anyone would obviously rather ctrl-f to go fullscreen than press some silly 'widget'.
Actually an infinite amount of planets just like earth exist in your example.
I suppose by 'windows machines' you meant to say, 'machines with less ram', idiot.
And yes, I hate microsoft too.
Are you sure about that? Universities can still be government funded but withhold information from the public. I didn't see anything on their website addressing this. It's a noble cause but I won't help unless they explicitly state that results will be free to any and every nation.
Irregardless is not a word, the ir prefix and less suffix make no sense together. It's as if you're trying to say 'without with regard' or something equally absurd.
So there's 'no inherit speed benefit' but it takes longer to do 64 bit math on a 32 bit processor? Sounds like that is a speed difference.
64-bit computing ( using 64 bit address registers ) does increase the addressing space by 2^32 times, I was not referring to the opteron which apparently limits that.
With regard to your comment regarding expanded pointer sizes, there's little reason I can see with why this can't be addressed using short addressing, obviously not every program will benefit or require the expanded address space, so it is feasible only to allow it 32 bit or less.
2^32 times the addressing space of 32 bit, so goodbye 4 gig limit. And greater speed / precision ratio. Those are the two biggest points.
Do you leave your door open when you're not there? When you're asleep? Having sex?
You could try uninstalling the flash player.
So, what you're saying is that if we gather all that information, then we CAN make a perfect model of planetary motion. Not saying what you say is false, you just have a weak argument for the case.
Some laws, like Maxwell's equations can be used in environments where all external mag/elec fields are dampened, so they perhaps could be perfect models ( perhaps not, IANA good physicist ).
Of course if you throw quantum analysis into the mix then we of course can't measure anything definately, but that's a whole different story.
I think a good issue is (re)raised here with regards to OpenGL having no one really looking after it now. OpenGL is the crux of porting games to non-ms platforms. He mentioned that it was a reasonable task to write rendering code that works across different graphics api's, and IANA graphics developer so I'd like to know what other people feel about this. And by extension, is it really that important for a game to use OpenGL to be easily portable?
The environment? What? Explain how the environment is better off if the US controls the oil?
Man, you're an idiot. nuf said.
Which is why they bomb hospitals, and tylenol factories, and other such civilian targets right?
I hope you're not implying slack doesn't use packages, that's just lunacy.