I used to listen to my music on my best headset, but as the collection morphed into MP3's at 128kB the quality decreased to the point that I could no longer enjoy it. Now I listen to my ripped collection on crappy computer speakers, and the uncompressed audio with my headphones. Life is much sweeter.
I've already uninstalled Messenger 6 after getting a popup on the very first time using it. I have no use for adware, even if it offers to pay me a thousand dollars - as if I haven't been fraudulently offered thousands by other advertisers in little javascript ads before.
I wouldn't call any of the features you mention "features" as such, as they are simply pieces added to complete a rather unfinished operating system. IPSec included in the kernel? Should have been worked out in beta. X11? Ditto. Microsoft does the same thing, like upgrading IE for free, but they don't charge for it.. Off topic: anybody know why Apple's working so hard to alienate their (already meager) developer community? First they rip off Watson) and now they're kicking Adobe Premiere in the nuts. Wonder if they're trying to fulfill all the prophecies..
the article tells us that the G5 does more work per cycle than an equivalent P4. However, considering that the 2GHz (top of the line) G5 does less work than the 2.66GHz (yesterday's news) P4, in terms of raw MFLOPS, (according to the article) your argument is invalid and misleading. The fastest P4 is over 3GHz. The fastest G5 doesn't do as much work per second. The G5 does more work per cycle, which is completely different. The P4 is the faster chip, and the greater efficiency of the G5 has nothing to do with this argument because the P4 ends up doing MORE WORK per second. So, in this case, megahertz actually *do* matter, since the only difference between the 2.66-P4 and the 3.2-P4 is clock speed. The factor that kills the G5 in the real world competition actually *is* clock speed. The analogy would be better stated by saying that increasing the MHz is like boring out the engine; it increases max output up to a point.
yes, but the article tells us that the G5 does more work per cycle than an equivalent P4. However, considering that the 2GHz (top of the line) G5 does less work than the 2.66GHz (yesterday's news) P4, in terms of raw MFLOPS (according to the article) your point is completely invalid. The fastest P4 is over 3GHz. The fastest G5 costs more and doesn't do as much work per second. Obviously the P4 is the faster chip, and the greater efficiency of the G5 has nothing to do with this argument. So, in this case, megahertz actually *do* matter, since the only difference between the 2.66-P4 and the 3.2-P4 is clock speed. The factor that kills the G5 in the real world competition actually *is* clock speed.
Is there any way to enable IE-like wheel-button click-to-scroll behaviour?? Mozilla would be OK if I could simply click my wheel button and zoom down a page. I've searched for an extension but no joy so far.
the point that EVERYbody is missing is that biometric authentication is inherently flawed - it's like a password that cannot be changed. Obviously there are innumerable flaws. How is this news?
It's communism, basically. Luckily for you, the Open Source movement is largely composed of masses of unwashed GNU hippies, if I remember correctly from WIPO Troll's earlier postings..
Personally, I believe a more effective levelling of the playing field would occur if everybody who owns a Mercedes had to pay me (and other disadvantaged individuals) a tax of 10% of the vehicle's value annually until we can all own a Mercedes. Software is nice, but you can't pick up babes in it.
Obviously the seats are too small and close together; this expensive waste of technology is not actually designed to prevent hijacking. If they really cared to prevent hijackers, they'd have bullet-proof lockable doors between pilot and passengers, and armed undercover guards onboard every flight. In other words, they'd do exactly what El-Al does. Notice that no El-Al planes have been hijacked since 1968.
masterful job done on FotR Extended??! They didn't cut out that unfortunately memorable line of Mortensen's (since he was completely out of character, I couldn't possibly think of him as Aragorn) wherein he declaimed "Let's go hunt some Orc!" at the riverside. That, if nothing else, prevented me from purchasing FotR Extended.
You will note that my superb DivX rip, coming soon to a newsgroup near you, does _not_ contain such Americanisms as "Let's go hunt some Orc." Thank you very much.
How is BeOS cleaner than KDE or GNOME? That's an easy one.
A) EVERYthing is multi-threaded, so the BeOS GUI remains responsive at ALL times. Xfree, on the other hand, runs in a single process, and all X apps running must share a timeslice with X, which is neither guaranteed nor, in my experience, acceptable - hence the nasty GUI latencies of X. This is one of the biggest things keeping me away from Linux right now. Of course, unless you've used BeOS, you're probably not even aware that you're being killed with the death of a thousand cuts.
B) There's no X server!! Bonuses here include low latency, low overhead (yes, X is a pig) and no window manager process running on top of X running on top of the kernel. In my experience Linux is like a chain of dominoes - just about anything can crash X, so all the programs vanish too, and I've lost my work. Whoops. BeOS isn't so fragile.
C)BeOS boots in less time than KDE or GNOME take to load. On my laptop, it takes less than half that time.
I think everybody here has totally missed the point - rental stores WON'T be handing these things out, because A) they make 80% of their money from overdue rentals - what will they do to get that lost income back, push more chips/chocolate into fat Americans? Not possible. B) current rentals are $3 for a new release, so the new disc will have to be cheaper than that to make a dent, which means that C) they are more expensive to rent out, since each disc can only be used once and stock must be maintained.
What idiot rental store owner will want these things? It's a dead end.
Where can I download a demo version of this encoder to test for myself the truth of On2 claims? Online samples provide a basis of little strength for proper codec comparison. These samples are tailored for perfect compatibility with the encoder, not for proper benchmarking.
The fact is, every kid wants to be a swashbuckling sea-dog at some point; it's exciting, adventurous, and thoroughly enjoyable. I think that's the point the RIAA was trying to make when they co-opted the term. Maybe. Hm?
I'm a musician too, and I expect that anything I produce will provide publicity for my act. Artists should be paid for any CD's sold, merchandise, etc. but _not_ for every MP3 downloaded. Why should people pay for every MP3 they download? When did altruism vanish from the face of the planet? I suspect you Americans think that you can patent ideas too:D You think that "intellectual property" is equivalent to tangible property, and that information should not be free. Some things are for everybody to enjoy.
A) the guy's not guilty of any crime B) my money will NEVER be sent to the RIAA C) Piracy is fun! Hooray for piracy!
PS for the inattentive: piracy is *not* the same as theft.Theft is depriving somebody of their property, whereas piracy is merely copyright infringement.
capture it to disk encoded with something lossless (huffyuv springs to mind) then archive using DivX 5 Pro CBR encoding. Set DivX to 1-pass, quality-based encoding; set the quantizer to 2 or 3. You should definitely be able to fit a video on a DVD this way. I've found VirtualDub to be nice for DivX compression, but VegasVideo has a vastly better interface for 95% of users.. also, the standard compression profiles in VV are OK for non-space-critical applications (eg. burning to DVD) and should replicate your VHS source with no noticeable degradation.
If you want to take a bit more time and care with your tapes, you might want to create some SVCD sets by running the huffyuv-encoded source through TMPGenc.
it may very well be that fragmentation of the user base is necessary to keep the virus epidemic away from the Linux platform. Unfortunately, that's also what keeps users from Linux. Too much choice, too little information, and too much inaccurate or overly biased information (eg. "KDE is better than GNOME") also further divides the potential Linux converts into two camps: those who look further, and eventually find out what they want to know, and subsequently replace Windows (ie, about.01% of people who "check Linux out") and the people who give up after trying to decide which distro to use - after all, there are more Linux distros than users now.
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I used to listen to my music on my best headset, but as the collection morphed into MP3's at 128kB the quality decreased to the point that I could no longer enjoy it. Now I listen to my ripped collection on crappy computer speakers, and the uncompressed audio with my headphones. Life is much sweeter.
I think they lick your balls. At least, that's what my boss said..
I've already uninstalled Messenger 6 after getting a popup on the very first time using it.
I have no use for adware, even if it offers to pay me a thousand dollars - as if I haven't been fraudulently offered thousands by other advertisers in little javascript ads before.
I wouldn't call any of the features you mention "features" as such, as they are simply pieces added to complete a rather unfinished operating system. IPSec included in the kernel? Should have been worked out in beta. X11? Ditto. Microsoft does the same thing, like upgrading IE for free, but they don't charge for it..
Off topic: anybody know why Apple's working so hard to alienate their (already meager) developer community? First they rip off Watson) and now they're kicking Adobe Premiere in the nuts. Wonder if they're trying to fulfill all the prophecies..
the article tells us that the G5 does more work per cycle than an equivalent P4. However, considering that the 2GHz (top of the line) G5 does less work than the 2.66GHz (yesterday's news) P4, in terms of raw MFLOPS, (according to the article) your argument is invalid and misleading. The fastest P4 is over 3GHz. The fastest G5 doesn't do as much work per second. The G5 does more work per cycle, which is completely different. The P4 is the faster chip, and the greater efficiency of the G5 has nothing to do with this argument because the P4 ends up doing MORE WORK per second.
So, in this case, megahertz actually *do* matter, since the only difference between the 2.66-P4 and the 3.2-P4 is clock speed. The factor that kills the G5 in the real world competition actually *is* clock speed. The analogy would be better stated by saying that increasing the MHz is like boring out the engine; it increases max output up to a point.
Oh, and RTFA.
yes, but the article tells us that the G5 does more work per cycle than an equivalent P4. However, considering that the 2GHz (top of the line) G5 does less work than the 2.66GHz (yesterday's news) P4, in terms of raw MFLOPS (according to the article) your point is completely invalid. The fastest P4 is over 3GHz. The fastest G5 costs more and doesn't do as much work per second. Obviously the P4 is the faster chip, and the greater efficiency of the G5 has nothing to do with this argument.
So, in this case, megahertz actually *do* matter, since the only difference between the 2.66-P4 and the 3.2-P4 is clock speed. The factor that kills the G5 in the real world competition actually *is* clock speed.
Oh, and RTFA.
dude you can scroll with the wheel, but you can't CLICK on the wheel and then move the mouse down or up to scroll nicely. That's totally different.
NB: Autoscroll is for Firebird.
Is there any way to enable IE-like wheel-button click-to-scroll behaviour?? Mozilla would be OK if I could simply click my wheel button and zoom down a page. I've searched for an extension but no joy so far.
the point that EVERYbody is missing is that biometric authentication is inherently flawed - it's like a password that cannot be changed. Obviously there are innumerable flaws. How is this news?
I've already got a girlfriend, what do i need this thing for?
It's communism, basically. Luckily for you, the Open Source movement is largely composed of masses of unwashed GNU hippies, if I remember correctly from WIPO Troll's earlier postings..
Personally, I believe a more effective levelling of the playing field would occur if everybody who owns a Mercedes had to pay me (and other disadvantaged individuals) a tax of 10% of the vehicle's value annually until we can all own a Mercedes. Software is nice, but you can't pick up babes in it.
Obviously the seats are too small and close together; this expensive waste of technology is not actually designed to prevent hijacking. If they really cared to prevent hijackers, they'd have bullet-proof lockable doors between pilot and passengers, and armed undercover guards onboard every flight. In other words, they'd do exactly what El-Al does. Notice that no El-Al planes have been hijacked since 1968.
if WonderBread won't decay after years and years untouched in my fridge, I don't see why this stuff should fade any quicker.
update: the Wonderbread looks a little mildewy around the bottom. Still edible though, as much as it ever was. Thanks for asking.
masterful job done on FotR Extended??! They didn't cut out that unfortunately memorable line of Mortensen's (since he was completely out of character, I couldn't possibly think of him as Aragorn) wherein he declaimed "Let's go hunt some Orc!" at the riverside. That, if nothing else, prevented me from purchasing FotR Extended.
You will note that my superb DivX rip, coming soon to a newsgroup near you, does _not_ contain such Americanisms as "Let's go hunt some Orc." Thank you very much.
How is BeOS cleaner than KDE or GNOME? That's an easy one.
A) EVERYthing is multi-threaded, so the BeOS GUI remains responsive at ALL times. Xfree, on the other hand, runs in a single process, and all X apps running must share a timeslice with X, which is neither guaranteed nor, in my experience, acceptable - hence the nasty GUI latencies of X. This is one of the biggest things keeping me away from Linux right now. Of course, unless you've used BeOS, you're probably not even aware that you're being killed with the death of a thousand cuts.
B) There's no X server!! Bonuses here include low latency, low overhead (yes, X is a pig) and no window manager process running on top of X running on top of the kernel. In my experience Linux is like a chain of dominoes - just about anything can crash X, so all the programs vanish too, and I've lost my work. Whoops. BeOS isn't so fragile.
C)BeOS boots in less time than KDE or GNOME take to load. On my laptop, it takes less than half that time.
asses and horses can mate, you bet! just look at George W. Bush. Definitely belongs to the Homo crowd if anybody does.
This is not a troll, merely an obective observation.
I think everybody here has totally missed the point - rental stores WON'T be handing these things out, because
A) they make 80% of their money from overdue rentals - what will they do to get that lost income back, push more chips/chocolate into fat Americans? Not possible.
B) current rentals are $3 for a new release, so the new disc will have to be cheaper than that to make a dent, which means that
C) they are more expensive to rent out, since each disc can only be used once and stock must be maintained.
What idiot rental store owner will want these things? It's a dead end.
Where can I download a demo version of this encoder to test for myself the truth of On2 claims? Online samples provide a basis of little strength for proper codec comparison.
These samples are tailored for perfect compatibility with the encoder, not for proper benchmarking.
Hmm.. this is true. Do I have the right to wear an eyepatch and parrot then? Methinks not, after all..
The fact is, every kid wants to be a swashbuckling sea-dog at some point; it's exciting, adventurous, and thoroughly enjoyable. I think that's the point the RIAA was trying to make when they co-opted the term. Maybe. Hm?
I'm a musician too, and I expect that anything I produce will provide publicity for my act. Artists should be paid for any CD's sold, merchandise, etc. but _not_ for every MP3 downloaded. :D You think that "intellectual property" is equivalent to tangible property, and that information should not be free. Some things are for everybody to enjoy.
Why should people pay for every MP3 they download? When did altruism vanish from the face of the planet? I suspect you Americans think that you can patent ideas too
A) the guy's not guilty of any crime
B) my money will NEVER be sent to the RIAA
C) Piracy is fun! Hooray for piracy!
PS for the inattentive: piracy is *not* the same as theft.Theft is depriving somebody of their property, whereas piracy is merely copyright infringement.
capture it to disk encoded with something lossless (huffyuv springs to mind) then archive using DivX 5 Pro CBR encoding. Set DivX to 1-pass, quality-based encoding; set the quantizer to 2 or 3. You should definitely be able to fit a video on a DVD this way.
I've found VirtualDub to be nice for DivX compression, but VegasVideo has a vastly better interface for 95% of users.. also, the standard compression profiles in VV are OK for non-space-critical applications (eg. burning to DVD) and should replicate your VHS source with no noticeable degradation.
If you want to take a bit more time and care with your tapes, you might want to create some SVCD sets by running the huffyuv-encoded source through TMPGenc.
it may very well be that fragmentation of the user base is necessary to keep the virus epidemic away from the Linux platform. Unfortunately, that's also what keeps users from Linux. Too much choice, too little information, and too much inaccurate or overly biased information (eg. "KDE is better than GNOME") also further divides the potential Linux converts into two camps: those who look further, and eventually find out what they want to know, and subsequently replace Windows (ie, about .01% of people who "check Linux out") and the people who give up after trying to decide which distro to use - after all, there are more Linux distros than users now.